Urn- smiling reference to the "minor" Declaration of Independence at Philadelphia, one pleasant mention of the Mocklenburg proclamation as a "historical episode," and he was done with the controversy. For the rest, he contented himself and satisfied his hearers with a discussion of contemporaneous events and their tendencies. A stirring speech it was, filled with lofty thought and inspired by high purpose, and it made no attempt to settle the petty question of the Mocklenburg Declaration.

The provision in the army reorganization authorizing a committee to inquire into the advisability of establishing a government munitions plant will probably throw the same sort of scare into the manufacturers that Secretary Daniels gave the armor plate magnates. Industrial Preparedness Necessary.

That immediate danger of a break in the Mexican war has been averted, and the trouble in Mexico apparently has assumed a strong hold, but without the threatened threats with the do facto government, though, the ground for fear lest this country deludes itself into the belief that its difficulties are forever removed, and that only ever-increasing prosperity lies before it.

Leaving aside the strong probability, if not now, it is at a standstill of 11 nations forced to part with a considerable portion of their colonial possessions at.  The conclusion of the war, and will naturally aim for the rich fields of South Carolina thus compelled. Of the war, the right of the Monroe Doctrine with the might of arms, there are more prosaic troubles, though none the less vital, almost at hand. 