ABSTRACT
The Liberal party was in power in England in 1911, and the author's attention became attracted to its tenets. The author had already seen something of Liberalism in America as a kind of glorified mug wumpery. The Cleveland Administration had long before proved what everybody already knew, that there was no essential difference between the Republican and Democratic parties. Again, one could perceive at once the basic misapprehension which forever nullifies the labors of Liberalism and Reform. Moreover, remembering the political theories of the eighteenth century, and the expectations put upon them, the author was struck with the fact that the republican, constitutional-monarchical and autocratic States behaved exactly alike. Finally, one could perceive the reason for the matter that most puzzled the author. When he first observed a legislature in action, namely, the almost exclusive concern of legislative bodies with such measures as tend to take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another.
