Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-09
Where Battle is joined.

meaning to the present generation.
Party organizations are in a state of
and party leaders appear to be
For years a great privileged
has been forming in this country.
Its growth has been as silent and per-
as the growth Of the grass OF
the field, or the tree Of the forest. Its
roots are to be found in the changed
social conditions, created by the phe-
nomenal expansion of the physical
sciences that have given men a con-
troll over the forces of nature, un-
dreamed of aver in the fairy tales that
amused the childhood of our ancestors.
Wireless telegraphy enables the ship
in distress to hail the shore hundreds
of miles away. Marconi's recent
achievements show that the day is at
hand when the stock gambler In Lon
don may bid for securities on the New
York exchange, by word OF mouth,
without the intervention OF an agent.
The business OF the whole world may
be conducted at the same hour OF the
day, and the merchants OF Manila,
Hong Kong and Calcutta may do BUSH
ness in Wall Street, or at the London
stock exchange, with the same facility
as if they were upon the soil OF the
United States or of England.
If the electric current, without a
wire, can make a keyboard rattle
seventeen hundred miles away, why
can it not be made to lift a ton, run a
railroad train, light a city or wipe out
an army at the same distance? Cap
tain Nemo's Nautilus has become a
reality in the Holland boat, in which
men dwelt for fifteen hours at the bot
tom OF the sea without discomfort;
while Phineas Fogg has become a
very commonplace gentleman, whose
record Of around the world in eighty
days has been frequently broken. The
marvels of the present age are in
~fiuitely greater than those with which
Columbus dazzled the Imagination of
mankind four hundred years ago,
when he lifted the curtain that con-
cealed a new world. The barriers be-
tween the possible and tho impossible
have been broken down. The dream
of to-day becomes the fact Of to-mOr-
row. The average man stares about
him with as much confusion of mind
as a country pumpkin on his first visit
to the circus, and, in a metaphoricaI
+ sense, stands al equally good chance
to have his pocket picked before he
. becomes familiarized with the scenes
around him. The control over thu
, forces OF nature that men have &C
! quired has Injured to the benefit of
y few, and not to society as a whole. |
has made rich men rather than ricf
communities. Beside our Rockefeller
and Vanderbilts, Creosus would be
, pauper; beside the Rothschllds, Media
, would be a beggar.
v Amid this confusion of sights ant
: sound, and overthrowing Of old habit
n OF thought and general unsettling o
e ideas, men who live in a free countr.
and who love free institutions, shoul,
!, keep clear heads and courageou
a hearts. Were the power newly ere
ated distributed evenly throughout tn
e great body of society, only good coul'
come from it; but, as we have befor
s pointed out, this is not the case. Tn
enormous increase in wealth ha
n gravitated into a fewhands. A world
: wide monied ~aristocracy has bee
created that acts together al a unit
g Is there danger to the monied interest
in Berlin, the gold of New York j
d flowing through its Bourse within
g week. Is there legislation propose
in Washington that the great bankin
houses of the world regard as inimics
to their interests, London joins Ne
York in securing its suppression
Against this vast aggregation, for tb
present, the mass of individuals thu
make up the nations of the earth al
=, e~ndeavoring to act singly. The Socia
ist OF western and central Europe BIZ
one remedy, the Nlhilist Of Russia hi
another, the Democrat OF America b,
a third. In this country the wealth
classes act through the corporation;
body without a soul to ave or a hes
to punch. Through the agencies
these artificial persons they DONNA
our government. Already they ha,
= made the Republican party-a par
. organized to perpetuate human liber
their plant and subservient toe
:, and they are moving heaven and ear
to make the Democratic p arty answ
the same ends. 1t is here that bait
is Joined. Democrats understand tn
great corporations like the StandaI
m Oil Company, that defes States, al
IN whose revenues are sufficient to equ
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