(1) To answer with any fulness would require more space than we can now
spare. The Code Napoleon follows, in a general way, the Roman Civil Law,
while most State Codes in the United States are founded upon the Common
Law of England.
(2) The war between Russia and Japan; the separation of Norway and
Sweden; the defeat of Clericalism in France; the quasi-alliance between
Great Britain and France; the overthrow of the Tory ministry in England
and the appointment of a Labor Agitator as a member of the Cabinet; the
“butting in” of the German Emperor in Moroccan affairs; the labor and
peasant revolutionary movements in Russia.
(3) The Hearst campaign in New York City; the Roosevelt peace; the Life
Insurance revelations; the Lawson articles on Frenzied Finance; the
President’s declaration for Federal regulation of railways; the set-back
to political Bossism in the State and City elections last Fall; the
establishment of this Magazine.
(4) Zebulon Vance of North Carolina; George G. Vest of Missouri; L. Q. C.
Lamar of Miss., John. T. Morgan of Ala., Benj. H. Hill of Ga.; James Z.
George of Miss.; Roger Q. Mills of Tex.; James B. Beck of Ky.
(5) The War Period is a distinct epoch; the Reconstruction Period is
another, and this period may be said to have ended when President Hayes
withdrew the troops from the South.
The election of a so-called Democrat (Cleveland) over a Republican
(Blaine) may also be said to have marked the advent of another epoch.
The McKinley-Mark Hanna dispensation was also an epoch and will take
its place in history as the high-water mark of class-legislation, Trust
making and rotten politics.
Yes; Roosevelt seems to be making himself an epoch—just what sort of one
neither he nor anybody else seems to know.
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_Hon. Thomas E. Watson_,
DEAR SIR: Would you kindly inform me through your Educational
Department:
Whether there has been adopted by any nation the 8 hour law?
And what change would have to be made in our Constitution to
put such a law into effect in this country?
Thanking you in advance for the desired information.
Respectfully,
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