SIX MONTHS OF IT.

The newspapers are featuring reviews of our first half year of war. Our armies have won no victories; nor have they taken cities. Nevertheless some things have been done.

Most remarkable, though least remarked, of the things which have been done is an overturning of our entire conception of the part which our nation is to play in the politics of the world. Who is there now who thinks that the greatest good which might come to us from this war is great prosperity? Who is there who conceives of Europe and her agony as the woes of another planet, to be scientifically investigated and discussed, but never to be partaken? Who is there who trusts to the Monroe doctrine the wide sea, and the inherited flintlock over the fireplace, to keep us from the ambitions and intrigues of martial peoples? Who is there who thinks as he thought before, and as previous generations have thought before during all our national life? Who indeed, save a Senator from Wisconsin, and an anarchistic leader, and a well-known newspaper man who is not without influence, who uses the whole power of his press to instill discord into our people by insinuation, though words he dare not utter?