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On the Susquehanna division, with 487 miles of track, not a passenger has ever been killed in the thirty years and more during which the division has been in operation. These remarkable facts call attention to a circumstance seldom taken into account-namely, that American railroads do not constitute a single system, and that the appalling record of death and maiming by which those roads have won an evil notoriety does not belong to all of them collectively, but only to a part of them. Of course, that makes the figures all the more deadly for that part to which they do apply. In a statistical report prepared for the General Managers' Association of Chicago by Mr. Slason Thompson it is stated, for the admiration of the public, that 279 companies, operating 119,462 miles of road, went through the years 1905 and 1906 without killing a single passenger, and twelve other companies, operating 31,141 miles, killed only one passenger apiece in each of those years. That is an admirable, a wonderful, record, but it leaves the companies operating only 69,423 miles out of the 220,026 miles of road in the United States to bear the frightful responsibility of killing 406 passengers in 1906 and 524 in 1905. Presumably the responsibility for the vastly greater mortality among employees and outsiders is distributed in a similar proportion. The fact that practically all the deaths of passengers occur on one-third of the mileage of the country seems to dispose of the theory that fatal accidents are unavoidable misfortunes. PREPARING FOR THE HAGUE The plan of limiting armaments is not HE fact that the eight great Powers of the world are squandering The fact that fed million dollars a year-enough to build about thirty thousand miles of railroad every twelve months-on preparations for war finds great difficulty in impressing itself upon the minds of practical statesmen as a thing to be reformed. There is no other way in which five hundred millions a year could be so easily saved as by an agreement to limit armaments all round; yet this simple process, which could be practically worked out in a day, is treated by most members of the ruling classes of Europe as a feat beyond the capacity of the human mind. Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman's plea for the limitation of armaments has not been received with enthusiasm on the Continent, nor even in England. Nevertheless the protest against the waste of war is gathering volume. For instance, on March 15, the Provincial Legislature of Ontario passed without a dissenting voice a resolution prepared by the Canadian Peace and Arbitration Society urging the transformation of the Hague Conference into a permanent and recognized Congress of Nations, the adoption of a general treaty of compulsory arbitration, and "a plan for the reasonable reduction of armaments by concurrent international action." 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Morgan gains control of a lot of railroads those roads naturally fall into systems, and are administered as such, but the great natural routes of water transportation which belong to the whole people have never had the benefit of a comprehensive development. Now the railroads find that they can no longer handle their business, and they are willing to have some of it diverted to the rivers. But the matter of transportation is only one item in the treatment of the waterways. There The is a variety of interests of enormous importance, all closely interlaced. The Missouri River, for instance, ought to be a great artery of trade. In order to make it such, its flow must be regulated. This confronts us with the flood problem. A river which is to be useful for navigation the greater part of the year must not send the bulk of its year's supply of water roaring down upon the towns and farms of its lower course in a few weeks. prevention of floods in the Missouri would help to solve the flood problem on the Lower Mississippi, and at the same time improve the navigability of To deal with floods in the Missouri we must control its headwaters by storage reservoirs and forest plantations. That would incidentally check the appalling waste of life-giving materials involved in the transfer every year of hundreds of millions of tons of rich sediment from our uplands to the Gulf of Mexico. The flood-water held back would be available for irrigation in dry seasons. The forests which helped to regulate the water supply would be available at the same time for our timber needs. vast national interest would supplement another. that stream. Thus one Such thoughts are touched upon by President Roosevelt in his letter to the members of the new Commission. The work laid out for them is a gigantic one, but if they do it as well as their records give reason to expect that they will, the national benefits to be gained from it will be beyond computation. HE curious mixture of energy and languor that characterizes the Russian The curious mixture téd when part of the ceiling of the halls or the Dian in the Tauride Palace fell on March 15. It was a time of intense political anxiety. The day had arrived to present the Ministerial declaration of policy. Premier Stolypin and all the members of the Cabinet were present for that purpose. The question was to be decided whether the Duma and the Government could work together, or whether there would be a break, with civil war in the background. In such circumstances an American legislative body would have promptly moved to another hall and gone on with its work. The Duma adjourned indefinitely, awaiting the leisurely selection of another meeting place, and the Government's declaration of policy was postponed to a more convenient season. Later it was decided to resume the sessions on March 19 in the Hall of the Nobility. An interesting example of the political ferment in the East was the despatch of a telegram from the infant Parliament of Persia to the Duma, congratulating the Russian Assembly on its auspicious opening and concluding: "All fighters for freedom are brothers. We, therefore, the young Parliament of Persia, send greetings to our older sister and wish you success. Hurrah for popular liberty! Hurrah for justice!" Although the Reactionaries are continually striving to bring about a break between the Czar and the Duma, Nicholas II has thus far shown a desire to maintain relations with the people's representatives as long as possible. 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