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Show w A Canadian Criticism of the United States. The triumph of democracy as rfpre-resented rfpre-resented in the republic is not yet complete; com-plete; in fact, little more has yet been done than to fix attention upon the more serious problems of democracy. You if I may presume an American audience have the stagnant south to direct into channels of industry and prosperity. You have the labor giant awaking fitfully fit-fully from his drugged slumber and muttering socialism. He will be the life of the nation when once awake, but it will tax the keenest faculties of your government to steady his waking movements. move-ments. Then there is a Catholic school problem prob-lem in Massachusetts, a Mormon problem prob-lem in Utah, a "foreign element" bugbear bug-bear in New York and Chicago, a tariff conflict between the differing interests of separated states and many other knots at whose corded complexity your politicians politi-cians must tug. These snarls in the skein of the future are not merely disadvantages, disadvan-tages, as political problems often are to other peoples; they entangle the life line of the nation. You can bear great pressure pres-sure at almost any other point. A war, an invasion, a commercial crisis would not unsettle your foundations, but the political chess board canuot be more deeply complicated without serious dan-ger.A. dan-ger.A. R. Carman in Forum. |