Editorials.

The article presents some economic and political updates as of August 6, 1903. One of the updates comments on the paper by professor Charles J. Bullock titled "The Concentration of Banking Interests in the United States." He takes, for purposes of illustration and comment, the drawing together of certain groups of banks and trust companies in New York City. They represent in part consolidations and in part affiliations. Another update highlights that at a confederate reunion recently held at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, a Federal judge spoke of cowardice in the jury-box as a prime cause of the trouble now afflicting the U.S.