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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



March 1, 1913, 



Parliamentary life by the " Member for 

 the Chiltern Hundreds," that determined 

 his career. The writer of those articles 

 that made an American President is still 

 in the gallery of the House of Com- 

 mons. He is a small man, with white 

 hair that stands on end, as if in per- 

 petual astonishment at an incredible 

 world. In fact, he is Sir Henry Lucy 

 in private life and " Toby, M.P.," to all 

 the world. 



RUNNING NEW JERSEY. 



Starting from these pictures of West- 

 minster, Woodrow Wilson saturated 

 himself in English political history. 

 He wrote on Burke and Cobden and 

 Bright. He went out into the woods to 

 declaim the great music of Burke. He 

 lost no opportunity of debating and 

 directed all his college life to the mas- 

 tery of politics. One of the numerous 

 debating clubs he formed was fashioned 

 on the lines of the British Parliament, 

 for he had come to the conclusion that 

 the swiftly responsive English system 

 was right and that the divorce of the 

 United .States Executive from the 

 people's Chamber was a grave mistake. 

 From all this it followed that when 

 once in the saddle Woodrow Wilson 

 swept through the lists like a tornado. 

 Never had New Jersey or any other 

 State seen such a Governor. Ele passed 

 the Geran Bill and other measures, 

 which broke the power of the bosses, re- 

 stored election to the people, stopped 

 corrupt practices, betting on elections, 

 and treating by candidates, set up a 

 public utilities commission to control all 

 monopolies, provided automatic com- 

 pensation to injured workmen, reorgan- 

 ised the school system, the penal sys- 

 tem, and the control of the food supply. 



The bosses were awed ; the Legisla- 

 ture stampeded. On the eve of the pass- 

 ing of the Geran Bill, James Nugent, 

 ex-Senator Smith's lieutenant, made one 

 more attempt at parley. He called to 

 talk things over with the terrible 

 Governor, and, findmg Wilson adam- 

 ant, lost his temper. " I know you think 

 you've got the votes," he exclaimed ; " I 

 don't know how you got them." " What 

 do you mean?" "I mean it's the talk 

 of the State House that you got them 



by patronage." " Good afternoon, Mr. 

 Nugent," and the Governor pointed tc> 

 the door. " You're no gentleman," cried 

 Nugent. "You're no judge," replied Dr. 

 Wilson, still pointing to the door. 



THE FUTURE. 



And now, having fleshed his sword 

 on the field of New Jersey politics, 

 Woodrow Wilson faces the greatest pro- 

 blem of statesmanship that the world 

 has to offer — the problem of how to 

 rescue government from the tyranny of 

 the machine, which is controlled by the 

 Trusts which in turn express ultimately 

 the will of Pierpont Morgan, Rocke- 

 feller, J. J. Hill, and a few other gigan- 

 tic financiers, who are the "invisible 

 power " that controls America. That 

 power is an incident of an outgrown 

 Constitution — one of those Constitu- 

 tions that, as Woodrow Wilson says, 

 " H you button them over the belly they 

 split up the back." Or rather, it doesn't 

 split : it strangles and suffocates. That 

 Constitution has placed the legislature 

 at the mercy of the Courts and both 

 at the mercy of wealth — hence high 

 tariffs and the triumphant rule of the 

 millionaire. Can Woodrow Wilson 

 break the giants as he broke ex-Senator 

 Smith ^ Ts he the Perseus of this Wes- 

 tern Andromedia ? He knows the pro- 

 blem and has stated it with that lucidity 

 which he shares with Mr. Chamberlain. 



" We have been calling our Govern- 

 ment a Republic, and we have been liv- 

 ing under the delusion that it is a re- 

 presentative Government. That is the 

 theory. But the fact is that we are not 

 living under a representative Govern- 

 ment : we are living under a Govern- 

 ment of party bosses, who in secret con- 

 ference determine what we shall have 

 and what we shall not have. The first, 

 the immediate, thing is to restore repre- 

 sentative government." 



In a word, he starts to break the 

 machine, to secure the direct representa- 

 tion of the people as the first step to re- 

 form. It is an heroic declaration of war 

 against the greatest money power on 

 earth. 



A PRACTICAL VISIONARY. 



It is not an idle declaration, for he is 

 no demagogue. Mr. Roosevelt raises 



