The Progress of the World. 



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The Emigration 



of 



Youngsters. 



fwtagrapk ^/l [ Tt}/iical Press. 



Herr Schjedemann. 

 The Socialist who for one sitting presided over the Reichstag. 



party reunion. If cither Taft or Roosevelt stands they 

 will infallibly be beaten. Unless, of course, the 

 Bryanite nemocrats were to rally round Mr. Roosevelt. 

 They ought to do so. They would do so were party 

 feeling not so strong in America that a Democrat 

 would vote against the Apostle Paul if he were 

 nominated hy the Republicans, and vice veraa. 



The Socialists, who are now the 

 The Socialists strongest single group in the 

 the Reichstaff. Reichstag, had the rare satisfaction 



of seeing one of their number sit- 

 ting for one session as president. The president 

 originally elected had resigned, and Herr .Scheidemann, 

 one of the vice-presidents, took the chair until his 

 successor was elected. All he had to do was to move 

 that the House do adjourn, but the moment was 

 enough. Mr. Gidbury is reported to have told a 

 German .Socialist that the German Socialists had killed 

 Jingoism in Germany. H Mr. Cadbury c\cr said this, 

 he must be very ill-informed as to how things stand in 

 Germany. Without going so far a.s Dr. Dillon does, 

 who maintains lli.it the return of no Socialists will 

 make no difference in the naval and military policy 

 of Germany, one finds him much nearer the mark 

 than .Mr. Cadbury. 



' Dear Old Charlie ' 

 Triumphant. 



Mr. Hawkes, Canadian Emigration 

 Commissioner, paid a hurried visit 

 to this country last month for the 

 purpose of inspecting what may 

 be called the seedling crop of the future citizens of 

 the Empire. Mr. Hawkes is a shrewd observer, and 

 he has got the right idea in his head. Immigration 

 is far more important to Canada than emigration is 

 to Britain. An emigration agency in this country 

 ships a boy across the Atlantic and is done with him. 

 An immigration agency has to look after that boy in 

 his new home and see that he grows up a worthy, 

 self-supporting citizen. New Zealand and Australia 

 are both on the look-out for likely seedlings to trans- 

 plant to the dominions across the seas. It will be 

 well if our local educational authorities take more 

 pains in familiarising the boys and girls under their 

 care with the opportunities and duties which lie before 

 the emigrant to the Colonics. 



Lord Spencer, who appointed his 

 ■ college friend, Jlr. Charles Brook- 

 field, to be E.xaminer of Plays and 

 virtual censor of the morals of the 

 London stage, has resigned. He has been succeeded 

 by Lord Sandhurst, whose mother was one of the first 

 women who sat on the London County Council. " Dear 

 Old Chariie " has been revived by Mr. Hawtrey, and 

 is nightly delighting London audiences, who chuckle 

 sympathetic- 

 ally at the 

 glorification 

 of a double 

 adultery with- 

 out passion, 

 and rub their 

 hands with 

 delight at the 

 spectacle of 

 trusting hu.s- 

 bands being 

 betrayed by 

 their"friend." 

 " Dear Old 

 C h a r 1 i c," 

 meantime, 

 continues to 

 exercise his 

 duties. A 

 promising at- 

 tempt was 

 made to call 



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The New Lord Chamberlain : 

 Lord Sandhurat 



