Arizona republican., 1900-12-11

by the conservatism of their day. In- dividuals come and go, but right ideas are immortal
 In the instant case, a glittering, but ephemeral prosperity blinds the vast majority of Americans to the grim realities of their environme mt. Through a singular conjunction Of circum- stances. hundreds of millions of fo~- eign gold have been poured into our coffers. and there Is a tendency to as- cribe this marvellous good fortune to the party in power, just as the degen- crate Romans deified the emperor, as the source of all benificert action. In the sequence of events, the pendulum will surely swing in the opposite di- reCtion. and it will then be clearly seen that the rising generation must tread paths very different from those which their fathers trod. In the light of the tremendous disilIusion, the rid dies of the time will once more press for solution. and it is entirely certain that they will be approached in revolutionary temper.
 How many people have ever grasped | the ultimate meaning of a private for ! tune of $500, 000 placed beyond the i reach of the nations taxing-power ! and increasing at fabulous rate, un- 1 der the operation of the principle of compound interest? How many men
 of the so-called practical sort have ever endeavored to measure the power of the great capitalists who are pos | sessed of the whole machinery of pro- duction, transportation and d.stribu- 1 tfon? How many of the stepchildren ! of fortune are aware that they must battle with the uncertainties of life, ] while their favored fellow men rest ! secure in the knowledge that the vicis- | situdes of trade and the seasons can
 not reach the hoards which are in vested in the relative certainties of , existence? How many American cfti- zens know that their descendants in I the mass, must expect to receive their 1 livelihood as a largess from above?
 Time will tell thelwhole story, with
 infallibe precision. From the stand
 point of history, 1t will be seen that
 under the existing order of things all
 the streams of prosperity flow into the
 great ocean of wealth over which the plutocrats hold undisputed dominion. In the glamor of the present optimism ! our entire industrial system has been changed, while the victims of the rev.
 olution look on in perfect unconcern. ] Very different will be the mood of mill
 lions of employees who find themselves
 locked out in order that the trusts may
 avert the consequences of disastrous
 conditions. As the line of clevage be-
 comes more and more distinct. the
 feelings of the sufferers will become i more and more envenomed, and our ' institutions will be put to a test which
 one hardly likes to think. It is, of
 course, idle to talk of such things now
 that the average man is imbued with
 the idea that he lives in the best Of all
 possible worlds; but the day will come when the issues will be taken up for
 final settlement at any cost, and the
 radical of the present time will be ac-
 counted a reactionary of the most per
 verse kind. In all the ages of the life
 of the race, there has been no eXcep- ! tion to the rule that each generation
 must tread the wine-press for itself, | and there is no valid reason to sup
 pose that the laws of the universe