Social Reform To The Fore.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 6, 1912:
London Times Sees Momentous Issues Raised in American Politics.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Tuesday, Aug. 6.— The Times in an editorial on the Chicago Convention says:
    "Whatever may be the future of the Bull Moose Party and its leader, they have raised the problem of social reform as it has never yet been raised in the United States.
    "Nobody who has watched American movements, however superficially, can have failed to observe the progressive growth of discontent in large sections of the population during the last generation. Some of it is probably justified, some of it is not.
    "It springs from many causes, and the task of devising and applying remedies to such of them as can and ought to be remedied may well tax the statesmanship of the Nation and their rulers.
    "But the 'acceptance' speech of President Taft, no less than the speeches and writings of Roosevelt and the platform of the Democrats, shows
that in the judgment of the shrewdest and most experienced politicians of all parties it can no longer be ignored.
    "Clearly social reform has come within the domain of practical politics in the Republic, and on the manner and spirit of its treatment there great issues hang, not only for America, but for all civilized peoples."