The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-30

dovelopment which began with the
ssoe cities of Greece, assumed i'm
nsrial proportions in the majestic
pproyess Of the Roman state, gath
irred fresh vigor from the barbarous
free dom Of the Teutonic tribes and
has issued in the splendid structures
If o the Germanic and Anglican king
doms. The New World, az
Il is still called, closes the
circuit of the continents, and
here, under the most favor.
mo conditions of climate, soil
and physical environment, may
reasonably be expected the ultl.
mate and ideal society of the future.
Ipheritirg all the glories of the
past, dominated by the greatest
race in history, surrounded by the
best and brightest influences Of ma
ture, possessed of the freest and
most fl xible institutions on earth,
emancipated from the inveterate
preiudices and long contracted
ed associations of the Old
World, and inspired with all the
vigor, hope and confidence of
youth, the American republic may
Justly challenge the competitive
criticism of other nations and
arouse the exultant enthusiasm of
its own citizens.
And yet with all these apparent
assurances of security and success,
no candid and thoughtful mind
can conceal or deny the
REAL AND ONIINUs DANGERS.
that beset us. Theoretically our
present and prospective conditions
are well nigh perfect; practically
they are most preearious and profile
matcal. In spite Of the abundant
safeguards of our constitutional and
statutory systems, we find the en-
tire structure of our social and pc.
litical edifice shaken by internal
commissions popular discomfort
and actually menaced by palpable
weakness and defects in its every
day adapatability to the wants and
welfare of our people. The ex
tremes of poverty and wealth,
the expressions Of the
weak by, the strong,
the practical tyranny of favored
classes in the community, the ability
Of the few to monopolize the SOY,
ereign franchises of the state at the
expense and to the degradation of
the many, the world-old conflict be-
tween the wage Garner and the wage
consumer-all these thrive and
grow apace aa rapidly and as ruth
lessly beneath the sway of the free
democracy of this Western World
as they did and do under the des-
pissed and effete monarchies and
autocracies of Europe and Asia.
In the brief space of quarter of
acentuIy there have arisen, as it
were by impalpable magic and
inevitable circumstances, vast and
unforeseen disparities in the social
conditions of our population. We
have run upon shoals and hidden
rocks not plated nor marked in the
charts OF our wisest political pilots;
We have entered upon a sea of
struggle whose currents, tides and
perllous depths were not reckoned
by those who launched the ship and
planned it's voyage.
A few men and limited class of
our people within few years, have
anassed such stores of wealth as
1t is not given to the average indi-
vldual to acquire by the most siren
uous efforts of a lifetime Of honest
and unaided toll. These vast ag-
gregstions of capital have monopo
llzed the chief industries of the
community and have been able by
their overwhelming influence to
alrect and secure partisan legisla-
ton, further strengthening their
grasp upon the normal fun ctions of
society. They have usurped the
very sovereignty of the govern
nent, and by inge NOUS fctions of
legal and judicial interpretations,
taey have farmed out to themselves
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