Editorials.

The article presents socio-political news, from around the world. In looking over the rows and columns of widespread "financial" advertisements contained nowadays in almost every paper of any circulation, many persons are reminded of the unceasing growth of the national and individual activity, some will reflect upon the profitableness of enterprises that can afford such lavish expense, and here and there one will speculate upon the handsome income the newspapers derive there from. The main purpose of inserting the advertisement and puff in the feebler dailies and weeklies is to gain access thereby to the principal journals in the large cities all over the country, the great leaders of public opinion, the papers having the highest circulation. The article presents an enquiry into the programme of the Democratic Party for the coming year or two. The State platforms contain just as much vague declamation about the duty of protecting the rights of American citizens abroad as seems likely to satisfy, or at least pacify, the Fenians-that is, the most gullible portion of the community; but we have never yet seen in any Democratic speech or article a direct mention of rights of American citizens abroad which the present Administration was not seeking to protect by the negotiations it has concluded with the principal European states.