The Nome daily nugget., 1914-04-13

States among the southern republics.
 Right Hon. Jomes Bryce, former British ambassador at Washington. hut better known. perhaps, as the author of the Amer ican common wealth." said recently. in an address in London that the United States was undergoing a change. In all the thlr- ty~four years that he had never known the minds of the people to be s full of political and social problems, and the people were seeking to solve them with zeal and energy he had never seen displayed in all that time There is no doubt that what Mir Bryce says Is true as he Is too acute an observer and too we'll acquainted with conditions in the United States to be- eas fly mistaken and the question will naturally occur what kind of nation iJ the United States going to develop into.
 The population is changing rapidly, largely through the influx of immi- grants from Southern Europe. The people are changing in their attitude toward social political educational and economic problems generally, and there never was a time in the history o' the country, perhaps. and not mere ly in Mir. Bryce's thirty four years in which so many of these problems were attacked and change demanded in solution, unfc rtunately not always wisely or after due consideration Even the changes which followed the civil war did not alter the normal conditions of the life of the nation as the new propositions which are now pressing for a hearing in every field of human activity are altering it.
 Expert investigation shows that the United States is working at a disad- vantage in trade conditions as com pared with other great nations. Where she thought herself impregnable and easily leading, she is learning that she is behind and must take care or she will be left in the race. To have the great industries of a country managed best, to have profits fairly distribut- co, to have food products unhamper- ed so that the people can get them or fair basis, are things that are rcw claiming the attention of the peo- pc with all the other problems. social and political, of which Mir Bryce spoke.
 Twenty or even ten years ago no public man could have been elected to the presidency on the platform on which Woodrow Wilson won. He would have been considered an icono clast by his own as we'll as by tr.. opposite party. It Is a healthy sign that within such a short time the interests of the people at large have come forward so prominently. Per- haps the great combines are to be thanked for this The burdens which {! ey imposed on the consumers were becoming so'intolerable that the coun- try at last awakened to the fact that u was being shamefully robbed and that the living expenses of the av- craze man had to be cut down to pile IT; enormous fortunes for business ad- venturers, who were performing no real service. President Wilson is sim | lily the mouthpiece of a sentiment which pervades the entire United l States and we have no doubt that he will make himself the leader also in | pClitical matters as he has in the do . main of trade and commerce.
 The trend of events in the United States at the prsent time has a pe- | ouliar interest for Canadians. Our social and economic system so nearly approaches to that of our neighbors that we may safely assume that when the same faults appear in each the same remedies will effect their cure The demand over here for political, SC cial and commercial reform is not as yet so pronounced as in the United States, but it is becoming every day more insistent and the example of | the Americans is bound to give 1t a momentum which will compel those Tn charge of our public affairs to give It more attention than they seem in-