Transcriber’s Note:

The cover was created by the transcriber using elements from the original cover, and is placed in the public domain.

Extract from a three-column review in the San Francisco Examiner:

“Mr. Hastings has touched the very core of the matter respecting the proclivities of our doddering plutocracy. Throughout his book he has revealed that plutocracy in its true light and shown it to be something utterly conscienceless and debased. No more scathing review of the situation, as it is seen at present, could possibly be given in a work of fiction.”

SHALL WE
HAVE A
KING?

Will the United States be a monarchy in 1975? Have you read “THE FIRST AMERICAN KING,” by George Gordon Hastings? It is a dashing romance in which a scientist and a detective of today wake up seventy-five years later to find His Majesty, Imperial and Royal, William I, Emperor of the United States and King of the Empire State of New York, ruling the land, with the real power in the hands of half a dozen huge trusts. Automobiles have been replaced by phaërmobiles; air-ships sail above the surface of the earth; there has been a successful war against Russia; a social revolution is brewing. The book is both an enthralling romance and a serious sociological study, which scourges unmercifully the society and politics of the present time, many of whose brightest stars reappear in the future under thinly disguised names. There are wit and humor and sarcasm galore—a stirring tale of adventure and a charming love-story.

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March, 1905

The Political Situation	Thomas E. Watson	1
To W. J. B.—To President Roosevelt—The Ship Subsidy —Hearst, the Myth—Mr. Bryan’s Race in Nebraska—Let the Greenbacks Alone!—En Route to Royalty
The Palace	Edwin Markham	12
The House in the Jungle	St. Clair Beall	13
A Belated Reconciliation	Will N. Harben	32
Franchise Wealth and Municipal Ownership	John H. Girdner, M.D.	40
The Storm-Petrel	Maxim Gorky	44
What Buzz-Saw Morgan Thinks	W. S. Morgan	45
A Family Necessity	Alex. Ricketts	49
The Songs We Love	Eugene C. Dolson	49
The Alligator of Blique Bayou	Frank Savile	50
The Boy; His Hand and Pen	Tom P. Morgan	60
The Force of Circumstance	Chauncey C. Hotchkiss	61
An Ideal Cruise in an Ideal Craft	Wallace Irwin	72
The Heritage of Maxwell Fair	Vincent Harper	73
The Butcheries of Peace	W. J. Ghent	87
Remembered	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	90
Martyrdom	Leonard Charles van Noppen	90
The Heroism of Admiral Guldberg	Robert Barr	91
A Sociological Fable	F. P. Williams	95
The Old 10.30 Train	Marion Drace	96
Gallows Gate	H. B. Marriott-Watson	97
The Judge and the Jack Tar	Henry H. Cornish	105
Object, Matrimony	Caroline Lockhart	106
The Rivers of the Nameless Dead	Theodore Dreiser	112
Another View of the Simple Life	Zenobia Cox	114
The Corner in Change	William A. Johnston	118
Car Straps as Disease Spreaders	John H. Girdner, M.D.	124
The Say of Reform Editors		126

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Copyright, 1905, in U. S. and Great Britain.
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TOM WATSON’S MAGAZINE
FOR APRIL

EDITORIALS Hon. THOMAS E. WATSON

In Russia—President Roosevelt and the Railroad Problem—Bribery in Georgia—Who Pays the Taxes? —The Free Pass Evil, etc., etc.

CORRUPT PRACTICES IN POLITICS

Hon. Lucius F. C. Garvin,
Ex-Governor of Rhode Island

THE NEW YORK CHILDREN’S COURT

Hon. Joseph M. Deuel,
Author of the legislation creating the Court
and one of the Judges presiding therein

CONSERVATIVES AND RADICALS

John H. Girdner, M.D.

NEW SINS—Footpace Ethics in a Horse-Power World

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

THE CONSTITUTION—A Document that Needs Revision

FICTION

WILL N. HARBEN	OWEN OLIVER
W. MURRAY GRAYDON	Capt. W. E. P. FRENCH, U.S.A.
ELEANOR H. PORTER	B. M. BOWER
VINCENT HARPER	HUGH PENDEXTER

Tom Watson’s Magazine

VOL. I.MARCH, 1905 No. 1

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