Sale--Buying
Legislation--Could it Occur in England?--A Delectable Alderman--
Taxation while you Wait--Perils that England Escapes--The
Morality of Congress--Political Corruption of the Irish--
Democrat and Republican.

CHAPTER X

AMERICAN POLITICS IN ENGLAND 260

The System of Parties--Interdependence of National and Local
Organisations--The Federal Government and Sovereign States--
The Boss of Warwickshire--The Unit System--Prime Minister
Crooks--Lanark and the Nation--New York and Tammany Hall--
America's Superior Opportunities for Wickedness--How England
Is Catching up--Campaign Reminiscences--The "Hell-box"--Politics
in a Gravel-pit--Mr. Hearst and Mr. Bryan.

CHAPTER XI

SOME QUESTIONS OF THE MOMENT 285

Sovereign States and the Federal Government--California and
the Senate--The Constitutional Powers of Congress and the
President--Government by Interpretation--President Roosevelt
as an Inspiration to the People--A New Conception of the
Presidential Office--"Teddy" and the "fraid strap"--Mr.
Roosevelt and the Corporations--As a Politician--His
Imperiousness--The Negro Problem--The Americanism of the South.

CHAPTER XII

COMMERCIAL MORALITY 308

Are Americans more Honest than Englishmen?--An American
Peerage--Senators and other Aristocrats--Trade and the British
Upper Classes--Two Views of a Business Career--America's Wild
Oats--The Packing House Scandals--"American Methods" in
Business--A Countryman and Some Eggs--A New Dog--The Morals of
British Peers--A Contract of Mutual Confidence--Embalmed Beef,
Re-mounts, and War Stores--The Yellow Press and Mr. Hearst--
American View of the House of Lords.

CHAPTER XIII

THE GROWTH OF HONESTY 347

The Superiority of the Anglo-Saxon--America's Resemblance to
Japan--A German View--Can Americans Lie?--Honesty as the Best
Policy--Religious Sentiment--Moral and Immoral Railway
Managers--A Struggle for Self-preservation--Gentlemen in
Business--Peculation among Railway Servants--How the Old
Order Changes, Yielding Place to New--The Strain on British
Machinery--Americans as Story-Tellers--The Incredibility of
the Actua