DEMOCRACY AND THE AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
Sie,—I am surprised to see in the Spectator of January 24th a letter from Mr. Moreton Frewen in which he says:-
" It is imposible to write without a heavy heart of the world- wide fiasco resulting from the sad accident of Mr. Wilson's occupancy of the White House."
I shall not attempt to debate the " fiasco "—let that be granted. But I cannot imagine any of the candidates opposed to Woodrow Wilson, whether Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, or Charles E. Hughes, attempting an enterprise of the magnitude of that attempted by Mr. Wilson, which was nothing less than that of establishing as a reality that of which poets and seers have ever dreamed in their moments of exaltation, and which your own—and- our—Tennyson phrased as " the Parliament of matt, the federation of the world." If this enterprise proves a failure, it seems to me more logical to cast the blame on those who have opposed and blocked it than to place it on the man who entered the valley of the shadow of death in his efforts to accomplish it.—Yours for international justice,
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