Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-10
CAPITALIZATION
ALARMING TENDENCY OF BOTH
MONEY AND MEN.
lNDIvIDUALISM IS BEING LOST.
Opening of Crusade for Municipal and
Political Reform in Phila-
delphia.

Philadelphia. Jan. 10.-Bishop Potter.
in his address at the Academy of Music
last night, said:
Nobody who has followed the history
of this republic can be insensible to the
enormous change in the relation of the
population of this land to it's great
business centers Two leading cities of
inferior size in the state in which l have
lived during the last decade have &C
tually lost in population and the COM
munities surrounding them have lost
still more largely. The growth on the
other hand of TWO or more large centers
OF population in America is enormous.
There are startling facts in our history.
Iii other words the drift of the most ac-
tive men and of the youth of the land
for educational or other purposes is IN
creasing to those great centerS. More
than ever they strike the key note, more
than ever they set the pace. l want to
sneak to YOU about the relations of such
factor as this to communities in our
municipal and national life, which ought
to be remembered. one of these pc
lieve to be the curious decay in life.
whether it is national or municipal. OF
the influence and power OF the lndlNlu-
ual. That great Political revolution
which began in France. which had for
its masters Rousseau and the rest STOOD
for the emancipation of that older world,
for the freedom of the ind1Nldual HE
and mind.
There have been at work during the
last % years. in the United States promi-
rently. | think. certain great tendencies
toward Capitalization of power. You see
if in the domination of capital, IN DIS
honest aggresations of money, when
makes it possible for three or four indl-
yiduals in the back office of some bank
to create III half an hour CONFUSION
in the financial markets of the world.
You see il in the consolidation and or
sanization of great industrial enter
prises, but with their genius and abll-
ity.
The difficulty in modern life is with
the organized forces that touch the IN
dividual life. They are so great ana SO
rich and so many handed that for the
individual to stand up against them Is
something more than ordinary courage
will dare to attempt. The whole ten
dency of our modern life is in this dl-
rection There does not exist man who
is not a purchasable man. About q
wear GO there came into my study IN
New York come one whom l had never
seen. stranger, whose name upon his
card l did not recognize. and whose en-
rand l could not divine.
Sir said he. \ am from such and
such part of the country. In that part
of the country fierce political cam
paign is now in progress. ono of your
clergy. cit was in territory and not in
city,. is attacking from the pulpit the
moral character and moral standards of
a gentleman a candidate for very high
office whom / represent. l said Il have
= not any clergy out in that part of the
world. | have no more jurisdiction there
than you have. He said Perhaps not in
the sense YOU mean. but it is one of your
men,. What do YOU want me to do
said I. L want You to stop it. said he.
and I am authorized by the distinguished
gentleman whom ! represent to say that
Il you will stop it, he win make it worth
your while. l felt like saying 1t will
come high l got up and walked to the
door: l opened it and stood there. He
looked there moment in some per-
pleXity. l said Does it not occur to you
sir that this interview it at an end? He
went out.
Il mention that incident as a proof
of the statement l have made here.
Here was a person i'll a distant part of
the country candidate for a very high
position, who had not the smallest hesi-
tation in sending an emissary to me
with an intimation that if l We're pre-
pared to silence Il speaker who was say
ing disagree cable things, that money
would be put up to make it worth while
The appalling fact is that from the top
Co the bottom of our social structure