CHAPTER IX POLITICS AND POLITICIANS 226 The "English-American" Vote--The Best People in Politics--What Politics Means in America--Where Corruption Creeps in--The Danger in England--A Presidential Nomination for 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 Actual. CHAPTER XIV A CONTRAST IN PRINCIPLES 371