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powers of the Act, and started in to 

 treat the railways as a business pro- 

 position and make them pa\'. His 

 worst enemies would not deny that he 

 has grappled with a great problem in 

 a statesmanlike way, and has achieved 

 great results. That he has not done 

 even greater things has been due to 

 the limitations of his power, which 

 places him at the mercy of whatever 

 Government is in office, either to re- 

 fuse reasonable demands for money or 

 to exploit his defeat in the matter of 

 new works for political purposes. Mr. 

 Johnson has had a most difficult and 

 unenviable task, and few men would 

 have stood the strain of unfair tactics 

 emplo}'ed against him, or have won out 

 against such odds. For some time a 

 campaign of misrepresentation and 



mud-throwing has been waged against 

 him for pohtical and even baser pur- 

 poses, but Mr. Johnson pursues his 

 policy apparently undismayed, and 

 most certainly deaf to all threats and 

 dumb to all his accusers. Mr. John- 

 son's term of office is fast running out. 

 If the present Government remain in 

 office he is not likely to be asked to 

 accept a second term. If the next elec- 

 tions bring about a change of Govern- 

 ment he most certainly will. In any 

 case, he has served the State to the 

 best of his outstanding abihties, and, 

 above all, has shown himself to be a 

 strong man. The great majority of 

 the people of the State sympathise 

 with Mr. Johnson against all his ene- 

 mies, and chiefly because they admire 

 his strength of character. 



THK WORLD'S TEMPLK OF PEACE AND ARBITRATION, AT THE HAGUE. 



(Soon after the International Court of Arliitration, known as The Hague Tribunal, was estalj- 

 lished, in 1899, a number of the world's public-spirited men, among them Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 

 conceived the idea of erecting a building as the seat of the august tribunal, to mark for ever at 

 the Dutch capital the establishment of the world's court of fraternal goodwill. Mr. Carnegie 

 contributed .£300.000 towards its cost.) 



