Editorials.

This article presents information related to political developments in the several countries. The U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has at last declared himself against the use of Federal offices to control political committees and pack political conventions. Past occurrences, however, are of less importance than future policy. It is not necessary to connect the capture of the English Labor party by the Socialists with the rioting at the workmen in Berlin or the unrest among the masses in Portugal. At the conference of the party at Hull a resolution that the organization declare as its "ultimate object" the "overthrow of the present system" was first voted down by 951,000 votes to 91,000.