Editorials.

The article presents economic and social updates of the U.S., as of November 28, 1901. How strong, and often malign, may be the prejudice connected with old battle cries, was shown again at the opening of the Reciprocity Convention in Washington on November 19. To some delegates, free trade was evidently a dragon hidden somewhere in the hail, and ready to rush upon them if they were unwary. In another update, at the Charities Conference last week George F. Canfield, President of the State Charities Aid Association, read a paper on the influence of politics on State and city institutions. The conclusions, which he reached, are founded upon reports received in answer to inquiries sent throughout the State asking information on this particular point.