The Nome daily nugget., 1914-04-13

Right Hon. Jomes Bryce. former British ambassador at Washington. but better known. perhaps. as the author of the "Amel ican common wealth" said recently. in an address in London that the United States was undergoing a change. In all the thir- ty-four years that he had never known the minds of the people to bel 8, full of political and social problems. and the people were seeking to solveI them with a zeal and energy he hadl never seen displayed in all that time. There is no doubt that what MT. Bryce ssys Is true, as he is too acute an observer and too we'll acquainted with conditions in the United States to be easily mistaken, and the question will naturally occur what kind of nation is 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 oi 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. unfortunately 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 held 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 g1 eat nations. Where she thought henielf 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- e6 so that the people can get them on a fair basis. are things that are Icw 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 twn as we'll as by tl.; opposite party. It is a healthy sign that within such a short time the interests of the people at large have ccme forward so prominently. Per- haps the great combines are to be thanked for this. The burdens which C ey imposed on the consumers were becoming so intolerable that the coun. try at last awakened to the fact that IL 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 States and we have no doubt that he will mako himself the leader also In pt litical matters as he has in tho do- main of trade and commerce.
 The trend of events in the United states at the prsent time has a pe- culiar interest for Canadians. Our social and economic system so nearly approaches to that of our neighbors flat we may safely assume that when the same faults appear in each the scme remedies will effect their cure The demand over here for political, gccial and commercial reform is not as yet so pronounced as in the United States. but 1t Is becoming every day m,re insistent. md the example ol the Americans is bound to give it q mcmentum which will compel those .r charge of our public affairs to givs 1t more attsntion than they seem in.