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Here at home, the most remarkable presidential campaign since our civil war has been approaching its culmination. In England, the people have been aroused to an almost unprecedented state of national excitement over the Turkish question. Across the channel, the citizens of France have been lifted to a seventh heaven of ecstacy by the visit of the Czar, and by the immense access of international prestige which has come to France in consequence of the evidence, now made plain to the whole world, that the arrangement between the Russian Empire and the French Republic is not merely a vague entente, Spain, with the but is a firm and solid alliance. Cuban situation growing daily more hopeless, and the revolt in the Philippines becoming more formidable constantly,-has also in her distraught and semi-bankrupt condition had to consider the startling imminence of revolutionary outbreaks at home. The changing phases of the Eastern question have engrossed much of the attention of continental Europe, particularly of Austria and Italy. South Africa has been making history with steady strides. President Kruger has not ceased to import enormous quantities of arms, while Mr. Cecil Rhodes having restored peace in Matabeleland is preparing for some new moves that will keep the British Colonial Office and the various local authorities of half the African continent anxious and intent. Australians are working again with greater interest than ever upon plans of colonial federation, while the Japanese have been changing leaders and putting bolder and more aggressive spirits at the helm. It is believed in some quarters that the Japanese are secretly fomenting the disturbances in the Philippine Islands with the hope of securing that group when the inevitable Spanish collapse takes place. Venezuela is awaiting with high expectancy the decision of the American Boundary Commission that is believed to be almost ready. Italy is thankful to be able to buy the release of her soldiers held in bondage by Menelek, ruler of the Abyssinians, and there is prospect of permanent peace in that portion of Africa, while the ease with which Dongola was taken by the combined expedi The No. 5. tion of the English and Egyptian troops has prepared every one for the news that an advance upon Khartoum is to take place before long, and that the whole of the Soudan is to be recovered and placed under a civilized and orderly administration. The student of national and international politics is entirely justified in concluding from the main drift of contemporary affairs throughout the whole world, that the cause of justice, peace, and true civilization is making steady gains, and that the human race is by no means in process of decadence. Our The progress of our own presidential cam paign has been marked by the wail of many pessimists whose voices have been heard along the outer fringes of the general conflict. In the East these pessimists are practically all in one political camp. while in the West they are all on the other side. The Eastern pessimists have been bemoaning the fearful decline in the moral character of the nation as indicated by the desperate wickedness of the Chicago platform and the shocking depravity of the millions of citizens who are supportThe Western pessimists, ing William J. Bryan. 66 with precisely the same degree of self-righteous cen- |