Article 23 of the treaty, by providing that the administration of the principalities was to be on a national basis, implicitly pointed to the idea of union, as the organization of one principality independently of the other would not have been national.

In St. Louis the League has never been represented in the central body by its own delegates, but by members representing primarily their own organizations, such as Bindery Women and Boot and Shoe Workers.

For some time this territory had scarcely any civil organization.

Unhappily, the Afrikanderbondthe powerful political organization supporting Mr. Merriman, and holding the bulk of the Dutch vote at the Capetook fright at the proposal.