De Alexander: “The controversy grows out of the fact that men do not believe our legal tenders ever will be as good as gold.”

Human, dramatic, interesting, absorbing, there is philosophy of national and political life back of it--a philosophy which not only furnished interpretation of past events, but offers guidance for the future....

Shows the historical reasons for the present method, and its effect on the senate and senators, and on state and local government, with a detailed review of the arguments for and against direct election.

Enlightened and persuasive discussion of the negro problem in its present phases and aspects.

More valuable still is his exposition of the Philippine question in its bearings on American life and politics.