The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-11-19

institutions. The individual counts for
less and less. organization for more
and more. II is the idiosyncracy OF the
age we live in. We may tear down the
house but cannot at one and the same
time destroy 1t and occupy Il. That Is
what Mr.. Bryan and his followers are
pretending that they can do. Mean
While. must a man lose his individual
rights OF property because he has in
vested his accretions In a bank. or a
railway, or even n trust company?
That Is the question we have to meet
and settle before we can feel entirely
sure about anything"
What OF the sectional spirit and
tendency"
Among a people so great in num-
Ders and occupying such a vast terri
torial extent sectional distinctions,
growing out of conflicting local inter-
ests, are inevitable. We had a North
and South; now we are beginning 10
hear OF an East and West. l do not
believe that in lS6e-6l. more than two
OF the southern states actually voted
themselves out OF the union: certainly
the states OF Virginia. North Carolina
and Tennessee, did not, and yet such
was the pressure and infection that
NfN biil'il nl ftDIu-
airy and March Of the latter year were
found in July fighting the battles Of
the confederacy"
DO you apprehend the serious
growth Of the new sectionalsm which
with the death OF the old sectionaIism
seems 10 be struggling into life in
American
III human experience goes for any
tning ana Is even to count for much.
the world ought to be wiser for the les
sons II has had. l am afraid. however.
that organized wealth and bower have
not yet gro,4n'wise enough to scent the
danger before II Is upon them. The
eastern section of our country il al
ready IN dan ger. have an impression
that IL does not see this Yet IL might
with profit to itself and to us All. read
chapter out of our own history and
take hint in time from the experience
OF the SOUTH The institution of Afri-
can slavery was thought TO confer
great benefits upon its possessors. IL
produced In the South distinct caste.
Recognized blythe constitution property
In man came to take on a kind of di-
vine right and at last its supporters
went TO war to defend It, England
had got rid of slavery in her colonies,
Russia had extinguished serfdom. Bra
I'll was preparing To emancipate ner
slaves, everywh ere except In the south
ern states of he American union the
world was set against slavery. To
cling with tenacity 10 so untenable,
ard, as has since been revealed, to so
prohtless sys lem of labor, TO say
nothing about morals, was slngularly
short sighted In the public men of the
South. but tn take the field in its be-
half and against such odds, seems in
conceivable from the standpoint of ma
tional craftsmanship. But the South
did 1t and 1t dearly paid the conse-
quences.
Let the West take to itself the les
sen Of the South. In its concentration
or the wealth of the country and In it's
ostentatfous display Of this wealth. in
the gradual cultivation of caste, In the
tendency To hug its vast riches. and I'm
the finding OF means To keep its mill
lens at home. let IL behold a danger
that IL Will do well to consider I'm the
light of both ancient and modern his
tory, and If it has any real statesmen
they cannot put their genius and re-
sources to better uses than by the con-
struction of policies which will bring
them alliances and make them friends
of these policies wide and broad. justi-
flying in some measure the unlimited
accumulations they have been able to
rile up In such a relatively short COM
pass of time. Those accretions not
only serve to breed corruption among
themselves, but they unite against the
simple rights of property all the forces
of cupidity and rapine. operating on
agrarian and sectional lines. States
have been saved before now by timely
forecast. Only pride and very fool
ish pride at that has led gain 10 defy