The age-herald., 1901-12-04


 ernment was obliged at once to exert it's full police power to save him from in- stant death at the hands of the people. Moreover. his deed worked not the slight est dislocation in our governmental sys- | tenn, and the danger of a recurrence of such deeds. no matter how great it might grow, would work only in the direction of strengthening and giving harshness to the forces of order No man will ever be restrained from becoming President by any fear as to his personal safety. If i, the risk to the Presidents life became great it would mean that the office would more and more come to be filled by men | of a spirit which would make them reso- l lute and merciless in dealing with every friend of disorder. This great country will not fall into anarchy, and if an- archists should ever become serious menace to it's institutions they would not merely be stamped out, but would involve in their own ruin every active or passive sympathizer with their doctrines. The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like consuming flame.
 Prosperity of the Country.
 During the last five years business con- fidence has been restored and the nation | is to be congratulated because of it's present abounding prosperity. Such pros perity can never be created by law alone. although 1t is easy enough to destroy 1t | by mischievous laws. If the hand of the Lord is heavy upon any country; If flood or drouth comes, human, wisdom is pow. erless to avert the calamity. Moreover, | no law can guard us against the conse- quences of our own folly. The men who are idle or credulous, the men who seek gains. not by genuine work with head or l hand, but by gambling in any form, are l Q 1uyo VIC Nf themselves but to others. If the business world loses its head, it loses what legis- lation cannot supply. Fundamentally the welfare of every citizen, and therefore the welfare of the aggregate of citizens which makes the nation, must rest upon l individual thrift and energy, resolution and intelligence. Nothing can take the place of this individual capacity; but wise legislation and honest and inteli- | gent administration can give it the full est scope the largest opportunity, to work to good effect.
 l Discussion of Trusts.
 The tremendous and highly complex in- dustrial development which went on with | ever-accelerated rapidity during the lat | ter half of the nineteenth century brings | us face to face, at the beginning, of the twentieth. with very serious social prob lems. The old laws, and the old customs | 1 law, were once quite sufficient to regu- late the accumulation and distribution of wealth. Since the industrial changes which have so enormously increased the | productive power of mankind, they are 1 no longer sufficient.
 The growth of cities has gone on beyond comparison faster than the growth of the country. and the upbuilding of the l great industrial centers has meant a startling increase. not merely in the az gre gate of wealth, but in the number of very large individual. and especially of very large corporate. fortunes. The crea- | tion of these great corporate fortunes has not been due to the tariff nor to any ether governmental action, but to nat ural causes in the business world, ope- rating in other countries as they operate in our own.
 The process has aroused much antagon- ism. a great part of which is wholly without warrant. It Is not true that as I the rich have grown richer the poor have grown poorer. On the contrary, never 1 before, has the average man. the wage earner. the farmer. the small trader been so well of as in this country and at the present time. There have been abuses connected with the accumulation of | wealth, yet 1t remains true that a fortune l accumulated in legitimate business can be accumulated by the person specially l Deneilteu Oniy oH cOnulllOn or cOn1errfng immense incidental benefits upon others. | Successful enterprise of the type that 1 benefits all mankind can only exist if the conditions are such as to offer great | prizes as the rewards of success
 l The captains of industry who have | driven the railway systems across this continent, who have built up our com merce. who have developed our manufac- l lures, have on the whole done great good to our people Without them the material development of which we are so justly proud could never have taken place. Moreover. we should recognize. the im- mense importance co this material de- velopment of leaving an unhampered as is compatible with the public good the strong and forceful men upon whom the success of business operations inevitably rests. The slightest study of business conditions will satisfy any one capable of