Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-12-22

| Administrations change there hut nor
as advantageously as with us. for there
they may change almost any day, while
with us party in power continues in
power at least four years
Question of MonopoIies.
Again, the monopOlistic oppression is
less in America than anywhere else The
air Is full of protest because great houses,
great companies. great individuals. are
building such oveYtowering fortunes. Ste
phen GiFard and John Jacob Astor. star
ed at in their time for their august for
tunes. would not now be pointed at in the
streets Of Washington or Philadelphia or
New York as anything remarkable These
vast fortunes for some imply pinchednesS,
of want for others. 4 growing protuber-
| ance on mans head implies illness of
the whole body. These estates of dispro-
! pOrti0nate size weaken all the body poll
! tic But the evil is nothing with us caul-
| pared with the monop0listic oppression
abroad. Just look at the ecclesiastical
| establishments on the other side the sea.
| Look at those great cathedrals, built at
fabulous expense and supported by eccle-
/ siastlcal machinery. and sometimes ia an
audience room that would hold a thou
sand people twenty or thirty people gath
or for worship, The Pope's income is
| $S,oo0,oO0 a year. CathedralS oG statu-
AIRY and braided arch and walls covered
| with masterpieces Of RubenS and Ra-
phael and Michael Angelo. Against all
the walls dash seas Of poverty and crime
and filth and abomination,
Ireland to-day one vast monopolistir
visitation. About 45,OO0Q00 people la
Great Britain, and yet all the soil owned
by about $1,000. Statistics enough to
make the earth trembc Duke of Devon
shire owning $4,000 acres in Derbyshire.
| Duke of Richmond owning 30O,000 acres
around Gordon castle. Marcus of Bred
albane going on II journey of 100 miles
in straight line, all on his own property.
Duke of Sutherland has an estate wide as
| Scotland, which dips into the sea on both
sides Unfortunate as we have it here,
| it is a great deal worse there
The majority of the people Of the Unit
ed States are ON their way 10 fortunes.
| They will either be rich themselves or
their children will he rich IL should
| Fut to some men the question, Would
you have Il fortune and let your chill.
drcn struggle all through their lives in
the same kind of struggle that you have
! had to make!" scores of men would say:
!
way through, but give my children n
chance. j do not care so much about
myself. 1t is only for ten or twelve
| years anyhow. Give my children IL
chance" IL there is anything that stirs
my admiration, it is a man, without amy
education himself. sending his sons to
college and, without any opportunity for
| laXury himself. resolved that, though he
shall have it hard all the days of his life,
his children shall have a good start. And
| tell you that, though some of our peo-
pie may have great commercial struggles.
there is going to be Il great opening for
their sons and daughters as they come on
TO take their places in the world.
Beat Climate in the World.
Continuing this international eompari-
son. l have TO say TO you that we have
better climate chan is to be found in any
other nation. We do not suffer from any.
thing like the Scotch mists or the Eng,
fish fogs or the Russian Gle blasts or the
typhus Of southern Europe or the Asatic
cholera. Epidcmcs in America are ex-
ceptional very exceptional. Plenty OF
wood and coal to make roaring fire
midwintcr. easy access to sea beach or
mountain top when the ardors of summer
come down. Michigan wheat for the
bread, Long Island corn for the meal,
Carolina rice for the queen Of puddings,
Louisiana sugar to sweetcn our bever-
ages. Georgia cotton TO keep us warm
In our land all products and all climates
Are your nerves weak? Go north. /.
your throat delicate! Go south DO
you feel crowded and want more room?
TO west. ! declare it: This is he best
country in all the world to live in How
do | know il? l have $4,000 new rea-
sons for saying Il. Six hundred and
fifty thousand people in one year came
from the other side Of the Atlantic to live
| ia America, and they came because it is
the very best country Ia live in.
While making this international com
/ palison let us look forward 10 the time
| which will surely come when all nations
will have as great advantages as orr
own. As surely as the Bible is true the
| whole earth is 90 be gardeniZed aud set
! free. Even the climates will change and
the heat, bc cooled and the frigidity
warmed
The day speeds on when the grandcst
achievement of man will be consumed
and the world will blaze. Down will 70
| galleries Of art aud thrones of royalty.
| and the hurricane OF Gods power will
scatter even the ashes Of consumed great
ness and glory. Not one tower left. not
one city uncOnsumcd, not one scene or
grandeur to relieve the desolation For
csts dismasted, seas licked mp, continents
sunk. homisphercs anuihilatcd. Oh, the
roar and laundering crash OF that last
conhagruiion! But from that ruin Of u
blazing earth We shall look up 10 see the
temple OF liberty aud Justice rising
through tn" ages, white and pure aud
| grand unscarred and mistaken. Found
cd on the eternal rock and swelling into
domes Of intinitudc and glory. in which
the halcuiahs Of heaven have their e.
| ycrberation No fame Of hrman hate
shall blackcn its walls. No thunder Of
Internal wrath shall rock It's foundations.
! BY the upheld torches Of burning worlds
We shall read it on column and architravc
! and throne of eternal dominion, Heaven