Tin: Progress or the World. 



mcndoiii demonstrations of cntluisiasm 

 from the transport workers in Hyde 

 Park assembled when they heard that 

 the King was willin" to receive an 

 address from the strikers. The deep 

 interest wliich His Majesty takes in all 

 industrial disputes, and his sympathv 

 with the lowest grades of labour uhieh 

 was so feelingly expressed in his \\s\r 

 to Cardirt' last month, do more to 

 |)reserve the stability and unity of t lu- 

 nation than the victory of any party 

 t hanipion in a national plebiscite. 



The moral of the 

 Personal 



GovernnienfAdmitted Presidential wrangle 



'" this year is thus [)ut 



the U.S.A. 1 ,-i .11 ^ ui 



by Dr. .-Vlbert bhaw 



in tile ./mi'riicni Ri-ric/r (if Rericirs for 



July: 



Whatever may have been the exact outcome of tlic 

 Chicago and ISaltimorc Conventions there will be per- 

 manent t;aiM to the people of the United States by reason 

 of the struggles of 1912. In some of the .States the new 

 primary laws have been imperfectly drafted. They can 

 be greatly improved. It costs a good deal of money to 

 operate these primary systems, and there are still some 

 people will) prefer to have our political arrangements 

 made for ns (|uiclly by little groups of interested gentle- 

 men, coii-piring in secret. But the people of the country 

 will not be induced to return to .iny such methods. Tlie 

 I'residint of the United .States is no longer a modest 

 fxccutive official, ol«:ying the Constitution and seeing 

 that the laws are enforced. He has become an arrogant 

 ruler, exercising power in a more personal w.iy and with 

 more profound effects than any other ruler on earth, whether 

 czar, enijKjror, sultan, king, president, or prime minister. 

 The people will no longer be content merely to choose in 

 Novcml>er lictwecn two candidates, one called " Kepublican " 

 and the <ilher called "Democratic," — selected for them by 

 hidde.i forces having interests of their own to be served. The 

 people will insist uinjn having a part in the earlier selection of 



Tonnagt of tVunliipi and Large Cruisen, «'tr 5,000 



lf2.WU 



mo 



S umber of Heavy Cunt 





1911 



1900 



330 



Htyrtepoue* a) ICng'ttes 



/• Thi h-n 



lOUiMil- 



the Citrman /Vo-'^i (. reiffs 

 1911 «» 5/-.i3J 



.'3.326 "• .jS3^ 



^ Pi 



-» -«> jJ"-^- 



The Growth of the German Navy, 1900- 191 1. 



The Question 



of 



Naval Pay. 



When the shortage or 

 men in the British Navy 

 causes the Admiralty to 

 coquet with the idea of 

 ai-)andoning the Mediterranean we may 

 conclude that it is a serious question. We 



thc'candid.itc», as well as in Ihe later an.l final election of build Dreadnoughts, We mUSt build mofe 

 the I'rc-sident himself. \Vc have gra.lually come under .n Dreadnoughts, and Vet there Would Secm 

 IH;ison,il government ; and smce this means much to the people, ,1 1 . ii- 1 1 



' ' ' to be no adequate eitort made to man these 



they will insist upon selecting their ruler. 



Rarely has tlie autocracy in which the 

 .American Republic culminates been so 

 frankly confessed or so forcibiv describetl 

 by an American citizen — or ■^liall we now 

 say, subject .- 



Dreadnoughts, and so much of the national 

 etibrt goes for nothing. At Chatham lie 

 scores of vessels which cannot be manneil, 

 anil in the coming naval mananivres many 

 effective vessels will be unmanned, includ- 

 ing one Jiattle Squadron and li\e Cruiser 



