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Show FOREIGN. Severe British Criticism. London, 27, 5 a.m. The Standard, commenting on the projects of reform re-form submitted to the meeting of the American Social Science association, in Detroit, says: Thinking Americans Amer-icans are compelled to acknowledge that waste, corruption and inefficiency ineffi-ciency prevail in every branch of the administration; ignorance and personal per-sonal worthiness predominate in legislation. They begin to admit, sadly, that the grand experiment : which began a century ago is a fail-ure. fail-ure. Remedies must be devised ! quickly if revolution and disaster are to be averted. It is conceded on all sides that universal suffrage which, however, it is now impossible to abolish, is the root of the evil. |