THE BUILDER OF THE CANAL (Illustrated) - FARNHAM BISHOP 389 (Illustrated) C. M. KEYS 403 HOW PANAMA WILL ALTER TRADE (II.) EDWARD NEVILLE VOSE 418 PICTURESQUE NEW YORK (Illustrated) F. HOPKINSON SMITH 434 WILLIAM BAYARD HALE 443 SAMUEL P. ORTH 452 FREDERICK T. GATES 460 THE MARCH OF THE CITIES FORWARD TO THE LAND 467 468 TERMS: $3.00 a year; single copies, 25 cents. For Foreign Postage add $1.28; Canada, 60 cents. Published monthly. Copyright, 1912, by Doubleday, Page & Company. All rights reserved. Entered at the Post-Office at Garden City, N. Y., as second-class mail matter. Country Life in America CHICAGO 1118 Peoples Gas Bldg. DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY, N. Y. The Garden Magazine-Farming GARDEN CITY, WALTER H. PAGE, F. N. DOUBLEDAY, President Vice-Presidents S. A. EVERITT, Treas. RUSSELL DOUBLEDAY, Sec'y H. S. HOUSTON, THE DEMOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY OF GOVERNMENT AND OF LIFE AS FORMULATED BY HIM AND APPLIED TO PRESENT CONDITIONS WILL PROFOUNDLY AFFECT AMERICAN THOUGHT AND DETERMINE THE NEXT MOOD OF THE REPUBLIC T THE MARCH OF EVENTS HE inevitable defeat of Mr. Roosevelt and the victory of Governor Wilson will remain the two historic political events of our year. Mr. Roosevelt had made his notable contribution to our public life, and unluckily he did not seem to know that it does not need repeating. Other conditions and other duties are now come, and another man. Governor Wilson will now fill the public mind for a term at least, and he will bring another mood. What statutes and decisions will mark his Administration none can foresee, and, in a way, these are of less importance than the turn he will give to American thought. What may be called the democratic philosophy of life will receive forcible formulation by him. And the democratic philosophy of life is not a vague generality. It may take many It may take many forms. At bottom it means the denial of privilege, the demand of equal opportunity. It means right social ideals. It means broad educational ideals very very broad. It means a quickened human sympathy and right human relationships. It means discouragement to the cynical in literature as well as in life and the encouragement of the sympathetic. His speeches and writings clearly set forth such a philosophy. He believes fundamentally in the democratic ideal. His acts, his state papers — all that he does and says as President — will embody and illustrate this doctrine and this temperament. This will be a new influence - this oldtime creed, revived with sincerity and applied to present conditions and set forth with authority. It is a quieter force than Mr. Roosevelt's robust shaking-up of a people. But it is permeating and it has the quality of permanence. As the dull gray day of Mr. Taft sinks to its close, a day of well-meaning indecision, with no distinct quality, no invigorating atmosphere, no positive impulsewe witness the passing of one vigorous man. and the coming of another, wholly different in their kinds of service and in their ways of rendering it. After all, in its own way our democracy does manage to find voices for its various moods; and there is something majestic in its struggles to lift them to its great sounding board which we call the Presidency. Copyright, 1912, by Doubleday, Page & Co. All rights reserved. |