Editorials.

The article presents information related to politics in the U.S. It states that nine years after the acquisition from Denmark of her possessions in West Indies there is a prospect that the U.S. might give them some of the democracy which they artlessly thought would be theirs as a matter of course upon coming under the sovereignty of the U.S. Thanks to Representative Robert Bacon of New York, a bill is now before the U.S. Congress which, if enacted into law, will end the nine years of absolutism and mismanagement by conferring upon those inhabitants American citizenship, universal suffrage and a civilian government resting upon a large measure of self-rule.