Oases of Freedom.

The party coming into power in the U.S. is drafting plans for a tariff built to put up one more obstacle for a tottering Europe. The party going out of power celebrates peace by keeping Debs in prison and propaganding violently, with all its machinery, about red hobgoblins, a course of action which sooner or later, if continued, will bring results such as people are now seeing in France. At home is reaction, in greater intensity than several decades have seen. Abroad are confusion and distrust blocking the path. Disillusion, nevertheless, and disappointment, does not excuse discouragement. However evil the circumstances, the work of rebuilding must be carried along.