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Subscribers may remit to us by post-office or express money orders, or by bank checks, drafts, or registered letters. Money in letters is at sender's risk. Renew as early as possible in order to avoid a break in the receipt of the numbers. Bookdealers, Postmasters, and Newsdealers receive subscriptions. (Subscriptions to the English REVIEW OF REVIEWS, which is edited and published by Mr. W. T. Stead in London, may be sent to this office, and orders for single copies can also be filled, at the price of $2.50 for the yearly subscription, including postage, or 25 cents for single copies.) THE REVIEW OF REviews co., 13 Astor Place, New York City HON. CHAMP CLARK NEXT SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE The choice of the Democratic members of the Sixty-second Congress for Speaker of the House is the Hon. Champ Clark, who for many years has represented the Ninth Missouri District. Mr. Clark was born in Kentucky sixty-one years ago. His name is a shortening of his mother's family name (Beauchamp). His education was obtained in the public schools, at Kentucky University, at Bethany College, and at the Cincinnati Law School. At the age of twenty-three Mr. Clark became president of Marshall College in West Virginia, but he soon returned to the profession of the law, removing to Missouri and engaging in practice at Bowling Green in that State. He became prosecuting attorney of Pike County in 1885 and four years later was sent to Congress from his district. With the exception of two Congresses, the Fifty-second and the Fifty-fourth, --Mr. Clark has served continuously in the House for the past twenty-two years and last fall was reelected to the Sixty-second Congress. In the second session of the Sixtieth Congress and in the Sixty-first Congress he was minority leader of the House. For many years he has been a member of the Ways and Means Committee. In 1904 he was permanent chairman of the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis. Mr. Clark is famous in Congress for his wit and readiness in debate, for his knowledge of American history, and for his suavity and self-control under all circumstances. THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS VOL. XLIII NEW YORK, APRIL, 1911 No. 4 THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD After Fifty Years Fifty years ago last month Abra- respect than is always shown to the son of ham Lincoln was inaugurated Abraham Lincoln, and to Lincoln's present at Washington. It will be fifty Republican successor in the White House. years on April 12 since the firing upon Fort The heroic men of fifty years ago, whether Sumter, which is usually regarded as the Federal or Confederate, will survive in our opening act of the great war. Last month, at history as typical sons of America. Their Augusta, Georgia, the President of the United resemblances will seem far more striking than States was enjoying a few days of recreation their differences. We are glad to present to on a golf course, where Confederate rifle pits our readers this month an article from the formed conspicuous hazards in the game. pen of the Rev. Dr. Randolph H. McKim, of One of President Taft's fellow-sojourners at Washington, who served in the Confederate Augusta was the Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, Army and whose pen-pictures of that period himself a Republican who had seen service as we have illustrated with original Confederate Secretary of War, and son of the first Repub- photographs which have never before been lican President. No guests could have been made public. Accompanying this article is a treated in Georgia with more kindliness and strong presentation by Rear-Admiral Chad PRESIDENT TAFT AT ATLANTA, GEORGIA, LAST MONTH 387 Copyright by the American Press Association, N. Y. VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR FROM THE SOLDIERS HOME AT HAMPTON, VIRGINIA, WATCHING THE EMBARKATION OF TROOPS FROM FORTRESS MONROE ON MARCH 14. DESTINED FOR THE MEXICAN FRONTIER wick of the services performed by the Federal small. The annual pension bill for the veternavy in the great struggle. Pensions South ans of '61-5 affects the South somewhat as if it were paying each year,-year after year,a substantial war indemnity as punishment for a devastating struggle entered upon half a century ago. It is probably true that if the Federal veterans now surviving could by their own free will extend the pension system to the survivors of the Southern armies they would be heartily glad to do it. Several of the Southern States have recently increased very greatly the amounts paid by them to surviving Confederate veterans, and in these cases, as recently in the Tennessee Legislature,Republicans and sons of Union soldiers are as ready to appropriate these necessary sums as are the sons of Confederates. In the closing hours of the Sixtyand the first Congress, early last month, a bill greatly increasing the aggregate amount of pension money paid to Union veterans, which had passed the lower House, and was about to pass the Senate, was defeated upon a point of order raised by Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts. The country is wholly generous in its attitude of mind toward the survivors of the war that began fifty years ago. It does not follow, however, that new pension laws, carrying large appropriations, ought to be passed without careful study and thorough discussion. There is one phase of the pension question that is not often emphasized, yet it deserves to be stated in a It is merely just that Congress spirit of candor. So far as the Northern serves National should remember that the SouthStates are concerned, large pension payments ern States to-day are not only involve no economic waste or drain. The caring for Confederate survivors but are at money is collected from the people by taxa- the same time contributing toward the paytion and is paid back, somewhat unevenly, to ment of Federal pensions in the North a the communities from which it is drawn. much larger sum than they are able to devote The South, however, is not affected in this to the welfare of indigent Confederates. We way. The number of Federal pensioners have no remedy of any kind to propose for a living in the Southern States is comparatively situation that the South itself bears with The South De- |