By what must seem to us a mistake in the Republican systema mistake which we have seen made more than once in the late American warhigh political offices were necessarily combined with military command.

Each political party in turn is only too eager to charge the other with tampering with the National systema sin, the bare hint of which is like suspicion of witchcraft or heresy in the Middle Ages.

Proneness to excessive issues has ever been the vice of the banking systema vice as prominent in national as in State institutions.