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Show MAKES CRITICISMS OF AMERICAN REFORMERS WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. With James Bryce. British embassador, presiding, tho American . Political Science society met here today In its first annual meeting. The general toplo for consideration was "Tho Increase of Federal Forco and Power In the United Stotos." One of the principal papers was by Stephen Loacock. Maglll university, Canada, on "The Limitations of the Federal Government." Gov-ernment." In the course- of tho discussion Prof, floury Jones Ford of Princeton university univer-sity declared that neither the power nor the responsibility essential to duomcratlc rule was embodied In tho American state. "Tho resemblances." hu said, "that historians his-torians are now noting between anelent .'nd modern bossen, grafters and spoilsmen, spoils-men, root upon substantial Identifies, affording af-fording ii tine demonstration of the unl-'vorsnl unl-'vorsnl principle that liko causes produce like, effects. Irrecipoctlvo of the emotions j and Intentions with which the causes are : so put In operation." I lie asserted that tho efforts of reformers reform-ers were directed to the condltlc-'nn under which power wns gained, rather than to the conditions under which power wis exercised. |