Editorials.

This article presents information related to socio-political issues in the United States. A plan of a war with Spain was suddenly sprung upon the country last spring. A mere description of what is proposed shows that nothing so important has been laid before the American people since the adoption of the Constitution. It is a more radical change in the political framework of American society than the union of the States. Nothing except the Constitution has been held by American publicists to be so firmly settled. It is true that it has never been formally accepted by those of Europe, but Americans have always said that it made no difference whether they accepted it or not, that they would resolutely enforce it whenever the occasion came.