Contents. Why I Believe in the Kind of American Journalism for Which The Outlook Stands .. - - .. I A Judicial Experience S-.. .. I I A Scientific Expedition - - - .. 23 Where We Cannot Work With Socialists 29 Where Wc Can Work With Socialists . I , I Quack Cure-Alls for the Body Politic - 65 The Japanese Question - - - 71 Tolstoy - - - - o - 81 A Southerners View of the South o 95 The Thraldom of Names - o m 101 Give Me Neither Poverty Nor Riches IZI By Way of Welcome From The Outlook of March 6, 1909 would be a singular affectation to introuce to the readers of The Outlook 1 its new Associate Editor, Theodore Roosevelt. He is the most widely known representative of the present worZd movement towards industrial democracy. It is needless here to describe that movement, so fully has it been described by editorials in The Outlook, and by the public addresses and state papers of the retiring President of the United States. Unconsciously co-operating, we have pursued a common end, which in the future we s hall pursue in conscious co-operation. Our object is to bring the industrial institutions of democracy into harmony with its political and educational institutions. 0 ur resolve is that the money power in America, as its political and edu cational power, shall come from the people, be exercised for the people, and be controlled by the people. Our motto is, Special privilege for none, equality of opportunity for all. In the name of the editorial and publishing departments of The Outlook, I frankly acknowledge our gratification that Theodore Roosevelt has chosen this journal to be the medium for his published utterances on social, economic and political subjects, and in their rtame I welcome him as an Associate to its editorial staf. LYMAN ABBOTT. Why I Believe in the Kind of American Journalism for Which The Outlook Stands Why I Believe in the Kind of American Journalism for Which The Outlook Stands I FIRST came into close contact with The Outlook when Governor of New York, ten years ago, and I speedily grew to have a peculiar feeling of respect and regard for Dr. Abbott and his associates. We did not always agree, and as our convictions were strong our disagreements were sometimes positive but experience taught me that, in the first place, Dr. Abbott and his associates always conscientiously strove to be fair, and that, in the second place, they not only desired to tell the truth, but made a serious endeavor to find out the facts. I found, moreover, that they combined to a peculiar degree a number of qualities, each of them good, but rarely found in combination. Every owner, editor, or reporter of a conscientiously and ably conducted newspaper or periodical is an asset of real value to the whole community. It would be difficult to