appreciable effect upon the trend of the hostilities and their duration. It is fully realized that the party which introduce' compulsion to the Statue Book will run enormous risks of losifig much of the support it might have, but it is easy to imagine a state of affairs, in which such a party, being in power would have decide between loyalty to the safety of the state and its own political fortunes. For that reason probably the best decision would have been to put the compilation of the national register on a compulsory basis, as a means of accustoming the nation to the system which the necessities of war might one day ronde y render imiacgiteiy
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.