The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-19

one Of the company's western Offices. without
money or influence The vice president of the
Chemical bank of New York. the greatest private
banking corporation in the world, is William II.
tion from n messenger boy without an influential
friend or acquaintance in all the world. Thcsa
are illustrations within my own personal obser.
vation. And the history OF every successful
business enterprise in this country, which the
party of destruction in this campaign declares
is taking away from young men their opportuni.
stant and certain and absolutely necessary ad-
vance of young men from the lowest positions to
the very head and gencralshp Of these great in.
d,stral armies. all of which are developments OF
civilization itself For civilization is nothing
more than the inter.dependence OF human beings
upon each other. instead Of the dependence OF
each individual upon himself Therefore, civili-
zation requires OF each man the most cXacting
discharge of his duties. And so it is that these
great industrial enterprises OF production. trans
pditation and distribution instead of .aking op.
increased number OF opportunities to the young
man. 10 destroy this development OF civiza.
tion, whose two great principles are combination
And yet that is what the party OF destruction
proposes. That is what that party's great lead.
er declares to be his purpose. That party's pro-
sramlne is not TO remedy an evil, but to destroy
development.
History Repeated.
This is no new attitude. The sam. objection
was made against tho steam engine and passcn.
ger train il was said that they would destroy
the sale of horses and the business Oi the stage
coach. The same objection was made to the i'm.
proved machinery of farming; it was said that
the harvester. The thres!rr and the stacker
would take the b.ead out OF the mouths Of the
farm hands and make the farmer an independent
aiistoclat. The same objection has been made
t every step of human advance And all these
objections have eliminated today in The decla
ration Of the Democratic party, as the party OF
destruction. that it proposes war OF annhs.
tinr against this Whole industrial development.
On the other hand, the Republican party, as the
party OF construction, pcrceiveS tha, this great
development is merely another step in our ad'
mertary principles of this advance are beneficial
to all mankind. But it perccives with just as
ken an eye that evil attend it,, just as evils
attend and always have attended, and always
gress. just as each period of our physical life
has its own peculiar ills. But the difference be-
tween the Democratic party and the Republican
party on this elemental question is that one party
proposes destruction of this development itself,
whereas the other party proposes, to regulate
that development and TO remedy the evils that
attend it. And so put the question to the
young men oi the nation whether there is any.
thing attractive to their youth. their energy,
their initiative, their hope in the programme
might possibly ally itself with Mr.. Bryan's
proposition to 60 back to the old days, but not
OF single reason why vital, constructing, ad.
of death, On the contrary, by the very nature
of your period OF life. young man, by the swift
of your blood Of youth, by yo'ir fresh
brain, your clear vision your daring heart, you
belong, with the party of construction and NOT
that advances as civilization advances. and not
with the party whose perpetual purpose is to
reverse the wheels OF progress.