The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-24

yielding to the expanding power of
 Congress Political parties are largely
 under the management of bosses, and
 the whole great forces of industry,
 business and politics. seem passing un-
 der the dominance of single central
 control
 Is this centralizing tendency Hnt "o7-
 istic or helpful to the Republic? Is 1t
 consistent with popular government?
 Apparently it is antagonistic; against the Republican thought of equality of
 right; each man q ruler and equally
 sharing the responsibilities and powers
 of government Forms may not be
 changed. Power seldom cares about
 forms; it seeks the substance of con-
 trol Many and insldious are the temp
 tations which attend the efforts ot
 power to centraliZe and establish itself.
 Wealth and it's offer of luxuries; sweet
 ness of office holding; popular applause,
 even thought manufactured and pur-
 chased, He who stands in the center
 has these and thousand other strings
 reaching to every side of the surround
 ing circle
 We hear to-day many financial and
 industrial leader asserting that there is
 no need of college training except for the few who wish to follow a mere
 ly professional life; that the time oc- cupied in such training Is lost to him
 who seeks to take part in the great industries of the day; that more wisely would 1t be spent in learning all the machinery and mysteries of organiza- ton and business. These assertions have q deeper significance than Is or dinarily credited to them They are the outcry of power against equality; the challenge of the forces which seek to polish the material to those which aim at the elevation of the intellectual and spiritual.
 If the end of life be the mere perfec- tion of the organization, the mere building up of colossal machines for doing work and making money then it may be that the young man should com mence IS soon as possible to learn all the details of organization; all the workings of the machine. But surely the purpose of life is broader, and in cludes the relations of the individual as well as of the organization and the ma chine to the larger public and to popu- lar government
 You cannot stay this movement to- wards consolidation and standardization. ! It is natural evolution. The com mercial spirit is taking advantage of | the wonderful facilities given by steam and electricity. Injunction against { strikers will not stop it; legislation | against trusts will not Attempting to stay the movement of It's chariot wheels , by injunction of staute is lunacy com pared with which Dame Partington's effort to stop the Atlantic with mop was supreme wisdom Appeal must be taken to the great court of public opin- ion, whose decrees are irresistible. In that court every man is counsel and ev- cry man is judge. That court may not stay the movement, but will control 1t. 1t can make the movement with all the wonderful things attending it subserve the higher thought of ennoblng the in- dividual. Who shall lead and guide in that court? Not the deniagogue, ap pealing for selfish purposes to ignorance and prejudice. In the opening hours of the French revolution Mira beau reused the rabble in Paris. and the reused rabble whrled social order into 'lldOH, pIpNbhlH6 hdudilc INcldIb dy- Ing words, "Oh, liberty. what crimes are done In thy name!' We want no Mirabeau here. We turn to the educat- ad lover of his country, the one who in her institutions; who would not destroy but keep pure, and is filled avermore with the thought that true service of the public Is the greatest glory of man We look to him in that :ourt for the preservation of the liberty # the individual against the, threatened dominance of wealth and organization: o invigorate the so-called generalities If the Declaration of Independence, ,nd to fill the land with such a spirit if independence and liberty as shall tive new emphasis to the grand old | N ong, America the Land of the Free" P We look to him In that court to exter- is ninate the assassin and to put an end 0 anarchism so that nevermore in the ] history of this republic shall the sad |