The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-08
REMARKs BY PROFESSOR ro1rEM.
He Thinks We Are Having a Prelimi- nary Gust of the Coming WhirIwind.

He Thinks We Are Having a PreItmi-
 nary Gust of the Coming WhirIwind.
 Professor Totten was asked yesterday
 why he had been so silent of late, when
 so many matters along his lines of
 prognosticaton were on deck. Well, :"
 said the professor whats the use?
 had my say long ago. As you say it is
 on deck and will stay there, with more
 also. But what are you thinking about
 the way this goth century opens? The
 sequence of disasters with which this
 very year 1902 has opened has been
 appalling, and there seems to be no
 intermission in the list. Here city is
 swept away by fire, there another by Hood, here an explosion destroys whole
 blocks with great loss of life, and with Tn week or so tunnel railroad hor- TOT adds to the stroke upon the very
 same neighborhood only to be followed
 by hotel holocaust in the very same place few days later while not many
 blocks away a row of houses collapse into another tunnel and the entire sys-
 
 easily to be seen that if the proportion of financial loss and loss of life already discussed should keep up not even so rich and resourceful a land as ours could stand the strainI
 Our belief as to the situation is that we are reaping merely preliminary gust of the whirlwind that comes from sowing to the wind Imitation, nasty work, half'completion of contracts, vio- lations of laws, utter disregard of dan gers, etc, etc, all of which can be traced to the greed of trusts, monopo- lies, deals, politics, jobs, and fast life are at the bottom of the matter. If the people do not look out they will awake 10 the situation and its remedy only after the horse is stolen. The time to close the barn is beforehand The people are being deceived and done in all directions The coal barons' limit the supply so that long demand will force a high price. The beef owners have persistently and coolly raised their prices without reference to the de- mand-for, in a starle, that is constant; And so it goes all along the line. We presume that the suffering of the peo- pie, the great working mass of men, at at the hands of these monopolies that | their own votes (whether cast, or with | held) have created, has been more | severe since the 20th century came in | than ever before. And my friends it is | on the increase: in order to fetch about | the remedy that James foresaW and so | few even yet perceive to be our only | hope The thing has passed beyond the | power of the people to settle and in this | at any rate, they (the voters) i, are entirely responsible for every whit | of bad government on foot and are as 1 selfish and back-slidden as the men they have sent from their own prim- i all jobs, rings and deals | are laid i'll the egg-toward the hatch | ing of some vaster evil in higher places, | The newspapers eater to every issue in | it's early days, and will foster it's | growth during the imitation period; then ! when the sin has brought forth death | (unless bought up) they denounce it for | only a scoop" and to excite controVer- | sy, and cover their own responsibility. | Newspaper government? Horrors! I | had rather be ruled by the czar, the l pope, the porte, the grand mogul, the ! shah whose laws are even and consist ant and invaria blel than be becked here and sent there by some mere syndicate of self-eected formulators of opinion | that boxes the compass differently on | every topic-and has no Cynosure, no | pole. no fixed star even in it's own zen th-for it never allows that there is a zenith that the entire race has lost!'