Our foreign commerce for the year 1910 amounted in the aggregate to

about $3,500,000,000, or over $1,250,000,000 more than in 1900. Our

exports were valued at $2,000,000,000.

CHAPTER XVII

THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT

[1911]

From time to time it has been charged that "government by the people"

has become fiction in our country. Little had been done to remedy this

condition until the opening of the last decade. Trouble then came for