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Title: Review of reviews and world’s work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts – University of Toronto
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ws. When the fact is recalled that six yeaiS ago noone knew this man possessed this power, exceptthe few who, had listened to his arguments in thelocal courts and before the Supreme Court of hisState, or had lieard him debate in the generalconferences of his Church, and that since 1896 hehas made hundreds of speeches and occasionaladdresses East,West, North, and South, and hasnever yet failed to make the speech of theoccasion, the record. must stand as convincingproof that Leslie M. Shaw is a consummate ora-tor, and has unusual reserves of strength. A NEW REPUBLIC AND ITS PRESIDENT. THE launching of a sovereign state is no trivialor ordinary affair. Such are the conditionsof world politics in our time that no changes in-volving the admission of a new member to thefamily of nations can come about except througha series of events that must fill large chapters ofhistory. Thegeneral trend inrecent times hasbeen toward fed-oration, or impe-rial aggregation.The dav of small sovereignties IS
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not wholly past,however ; for,thanks to the newmodes of war-fare, the smallpower can faceoverwhelming-odds in its de-fense against ag-gression. ]nplace of vast em-pires founded onthe principle offorce, the worldpromises to enterupon a period inwhich there willbe an increasednumber of small-er sovereignties,republican in theform of theirgovernment, andgrouped togetheron principles offriendly coopera-tion. Canadaand Australia arealready near thepoint of assum-ing their places as independent federal republics,bound to Great Britain by peculiar ties of kinship,tradition, and interest. Every day of the prolonga-tion of the South African war makes it more cer-tain that there must emerge in the early future anindependent South African republic. Whether thatrepublic shall bear close relations to Great Britain,myLSt depend chiefly upon the question whetherthe English people shall themselves have the ca- Piiuto bj- Moreno .N: Lopez. PRESIDENT TOMAS ESTRADA PALMA. pacity to depose their present
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