“Watson’s thoughts are upon great things, and he will not be diverted by inconsequential affairs.”—_Joliet (Ill.) News._ “TOM WATSON’S MAGAZINE is the latest addition to the list of first-class periodicals of the country.”—_Puget Sound American._ “Filled with the piquant, forceful, pungent sentences for which Tom Watson is famous.”—_Nebraska Independent, Lincoln, Neb._ “Clean, entertaining and filled with a full sheath of articles, poems and stories by well-known writers.”—_Boston Tribune._ “Mr. Watson is an intelligent, aggressive writer, with the courage needed by every man who enters the lists as a reformer.”—_Topeka Herald._ “Mr. Thos. E. Watson is a brilliant writer on history, and an honest man, sincerely interested in the welfare of mankind.”—_Kansas City Times._ “It shall ever stand for the rights of those who believe in Democracy; it stands and will ever stand for the principles of truth and justice.”—_San Francisco Examiner._ “The magazine will be useful as an educational force, and all reformers welcome, or should welcome, every publication which is educational in its purpose.”—_W. J. Bryan’s Commoner._ “Following Tom Lawson, Tom Watson will begin his magazine next month. Now, if Teddy will use the big stick when the two Toms throw the limelight, the great audience will be ‘de-lighted.’”—_American Standard, Indianapolis, Ind._ =_TOM WATSON’S MAGAZINE_= VOL. I APRIL, 1905 No. 2 _Politics and Economics_ BY THOMAS E. WATSON _In Russia_ “A Tale of Two Cities,” written by the great novelist, Charles Dickens, contains a vivid picture, which shows the relation existing between a nobleman of the Old Order in France and one of the common people. In that day the streets were narrow. Sidewalks did not separate the space used by those who went on foot from that used by those who went in vehicles. From the houses on the one side to the houses on the other, travel was free to all: those on the ground were ever in danger from those who were in vehicles. Dickens describes the progress of the carriage of one of the French aristocrats, driven at headlong speed along these narrow streets. It whirled around the corners with a wild rattle and clatter, and with an utter lack of consideration for pedestrians. Women and children scattered, screaming, to get out of its way, and men clutched at one another to escape the danger. At last, whirling round a corner, by a fountain, one of the wheels of this furiously driven carriage strikes a little child and kills it. Amid the loud cries of those who behold the sickening spectacle the horses rear and plunge and the carriage comes to a standstill. The nobleman looks out and calmly inquires what has gone wrong. He is told that a child has been run over. A man is bending over the lifeless form, screaming with grief.