. Review of reviews and world's work. es-tablishment, although he might be able to pre-vent its further increase. There has been re-markable and very valuable progress in a greatnumber of the services of the United StatesGovernment. The Agricultural Department, inits varied and increasing activities, is. for ex-ample, costing much more than in former year- ;but every dollar Uncle Sam spends upon hisAgricultural Department is worth a good manydollars to the people of the United States. Itwould be the height of stupidity to cripple such adepartment for tin1 mere sake of trying to showthat a Demo
. Review of reviews and world's work. es-tablishment, although he might be able to pre-vent its further increase. There has been re-markable and very valuable progress in a greatnumber of the services of the United StatesGovernment. The Agricultural Department, inits varied and increasing activities, is. for ex-ample, costing much more than in former year- ;but every dollar Uncle Sam spends upon hisAgricultural Department is worth a good manydollars to the people of the United States. Itwould be the height of stupidity to cripple such adepartment for tin1 mere sake of trying to showthat a Democratic administration could squeezethe government expenditures down to a pointjust a little smaller than those of the precedingRepublican government. The The character of the work IPresidents Sam has been carrying on. and theLltter- results that he has undertaken to se-cure for the expenditure of his money, are setforth with a masterly array of statement andargument in President Roosevelts letter of ac- THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 395. ceptance, which was dated Oyster Bay, September12. The document is not a short one, for it con-tains about twelve thousand words ; but thereader who goes through it carefully will find itterse and condensed rather than diffuse. It islong because it deals with many topics, and be-cause it embodies a vast amount of concrete in-formation. On this matter of public Roosevelt, having first shown the error ofthe statement that there was a deficit last , in a very spirited and suggestive enumeration of useful public services, to show thedifference between a true and a false Roosevelts mature and statesman-like graspof the national situation has never been shownto better advantage in any utterance of his thanin this comprehensive argument in defense ofRepublican methods and policies. Above all, itis refreshing in its directness, its freedom frommere platitude, and its avoidance of vague andambiguous phrasing. Mr. Ro
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