The political earthquake is essentially a popular protest against hard conditions brought about, as the voters seem to believe, by the oppressions of the alien corporations and extortionate railroad rates.

An earthquake is a shaking or tearing apart of the ground.

An earthquake for example, is to them a much more vigorous, and effective agency.

It seems, also, as if the earthquake or hurricane had been actually a benefit to Jerusalem which was often then, and has been often since, in want of waterthat either fresh springs had broken out, or abundant rain had fallen, as occurs at times in such convulsions of nature.