Editorials.

The article presents information on various developments related to the U.S. The U.S. Interstate Commerce Committee begins this week its hearings on the general subject of anti-Trust laws. But the country has already begun hearings, on an enormous scale. In another development, the municipal victories of the Socialist party in New York, Ohio, Wisconsin, and other States have been universally regarded as striking. While estimates may vary widely in attempting an appraisal, no open-minded person can doubt that these Socialist votes indicate a rapid growth both in Socialistic sentiment proper and in that feeling of profound dissatisfaction with our existing municipal regimes which has no thing in it that can in any permissible sense be designated as Socialism.