The herald., 1896-11-19

N strictly construed was secured to the
& people. In 1900 we shall have to fas,e
the same general question in a ne>v
s. form and the issue will be under eX
istinE conditions: Are orderly govern
fnent and popular government concur
II rent possibilities?'
IF we are to have many presidential
]. campaigns like the one just ended they
are mot unless the body of the people
will be brought to realize the changes
of a, century of progress, every four
iveA-s~SxilI witness a party taking the
ifeldA in support of the alleged rights of
ibumA MY, whose very existence is
imenac to the public order, the peace
Sof so,ia ty the just balance between the
s.ections, of the nation, the money of the
fraonle tn credit the union, and every
lother good. and perfect thing supposed to
semanate fir, I'M our republican syetem.
"What do you regard as the most
radical chang OF the century
aTp 1Sop we. were few millions of
rson,e and we loved liberty. In 1900
we are nearly l. undred millions OF peo-
# pe exld we love money. Moreover IN
& divifi, ,\ally and coll ectvely, we nave
X great deal of money. Most of this money
is ;nvesa ed in what ace called corIora-
tions Frm a handful OF individuals we
have become nation OF INSTITUTIONS.
s The irdiyidu ual counts for less ana less
4 the organizat tion for more ana more 1t
Is the idiocy pcrasy of the age we
live in. We may tear down the mousse
4 but cannot at the same time de estroS IL
and occupy 1t. Mat is what MI Bryan
and his followers are pretending that
+h.v can do Me. tnwllile must man
( lost his individual. rights OF property
4 bec,use he has inve Sted his accretlons
in n hank. or railway, or even trust
j company? That is the question we nave
90 n,aet aud settle. as as yainst the clamor
of the mob, before we can feereh'lreis
sure about anything
what of the sectional .spirit ana ten
dency?"
N "Among a people so great in numn rs
and occupying such vast teAo"ollai sN-
tent, sectional distinctions, g'o@N Nlhs'opl
of conflicting local interests, 'elneNl'd-
ble We had a north and a south' no"
we are beginning to hear OF an EAST All"
q west. He who knows the whole coun-
try and is familiar With the peopN' iro'i'
the Canadian line to the MeXlcall poI
der and between the two oceans, HeedS
not to be told that judged by othe1 ma
tionalities the popular homogeniety ID
America is little short of amaZh &
limited Germany united Italy, the Aus
tro-Hunearian empire. neither France
nor England nor even the Swiss con-
federation. can boast of anything like
the oneness of origin. character, ties,
aims hopes. manners ana customs
Z which mark the inhabitants of the
United States of North America. But
the demagogue is always around, and
there is ever a chance to stir up STRIFE
between rival communities. but he finds
work to his hands and particularly 10
his mouth, it being with him usually a
hand to mouth affair If men would stop
and think they would offer some check
= to this pestiferous insect. But environ
ment counts for more than we commonly
allow it both in human ethics and ac
tion. a few resolute. self-confident Lead
ers may. as they often do, compel the re-
luctant acQuiescence OF timld, Vacil-
I lating majority: and thus whole COM
munities are driven like herds OF cattle
down the mountain side, by sort ol
unconscious impulsion. LIDO not believe
that in 1S60-61 more than two OF the
southern states actually voted them
selves out of the union. certainly the
states of Virginia. North Carolina an'i
Tennessee did not: and yet such is the
pressure and infection that the immense
union majority of February and March
of the latter year were found in July
n fighting the battles of the confederacy.
do you apprehend the serious growth
of the new sactionalism, which with the
X death of the old sectionalism. seems 10
be struggling into life in American
"If human experience goes for any
thing and is even to count for much
the world ought to be wiser for the les
sons it has had. l am afraid, however
that organized wealth and power have
not yet grown wise enough to scent the
danger before II is upon them. The east
ern section OF our country is already ir
danger ! have an impression that il
does not see this. Yet it might, with
profit to itself and to us all. read chap
ter out of our own history and take d
hint in time from the experience of tbs
south The institution of African slav-
cry was thought to confer great benefits
upon its possessors. 1t produced in the
south a distinct caste. Recognized 10y
the constitution, property in man came
TO take on a kind of divine right, and al
last it's supporters went to war to de
fend it. England had got rid of slavery
in her colonies. Russia had eXtinguish
ed serfdom. Brazil was preparing t
emancipate her slaves Everywhere ex-
.ept in the southern states of the Ameri
can union the world was set agains
slavery To cling With tenacity to so un
tenabe and, as has since been revealed
to so profitless a system of labor, to saS
nothing about morals, was singularls
shortsghted in the public men of tn
south; but to take the field in its be
ia half and against such odds seems in
conceivable from the standpoint of ra
tional craftsmanship. But the south di,
it and dearly paid the consequences
Let the east take to itself the lesson o
the south. In its concentration of th
wealth of the country and in its ostenta
tious display of this wealth. in the grad
ual cultivation of caste, in the tendenc,
to hug its vast riches and in the find
ing of means to keep its millions at home
let 1t behold a danger it will do well t.
consider in the light of both ancient ar,
modern history, and if it has any rea
statesmen they cannot put their geniu
and resources to better uses than b.
the construction of policies which wi
bring them allowances and make ther
friends-policies wise and broad, justify
ing in some measure the unlimited a"