The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-21

ing the life of the American people"
Mr.. David Graham Phillips writes a Wig
orous and trenchant paper in Every
body's Magazine on this consuming,
tn catching Madness Of Power" He re.
CARDS properly, wisely, that the Glove CT
money and the mad race for power" have
ali Gady become in these United States "a
dangerous deliverance" 1t is even more
than that-it is an unmitigated curse
loa 2ed with dynamite and hellflre. He
thinks this madness of power"-this
dangerous deliverance'' is a stupendous
evil and all the same no matter what
class is referred to. l make but one quo
taton from him, and commend it to the
thoughtful:
THE custodian of concentrated power
may be an enthusiast like OF, erpontJ
Morgan, or cold and stomach-like Rookie
Teller, or suddenly craZed Schwab OF
Gates; he may be professional corrup'
zionist, a Plat or Croker; he may be a
bowie, Debs, or a Sam Parks. The
condition OF the possession of power pro-
duces always the same result OF deliver
ance-dangerous deliverium. Some are
mad for money; others are mad for
fame, which they cannot distinguish from
nctoriety; others, again, have the desire
to rule in it's simplest form. But they all
60 the same way"
He puts eRockefeller at the head and
the other lunatics and enemies OF the
country fellow-Gould Morgan, Carnegie.
Addcks, Quay, Durham, Schwab, Cassatt,
and SO on, including Mark Hanna and
TEDDY Roosevelt both connected by the
lust OF ambition and selfskness, and all
enemies of the people.
The editor of the New York Book
man" has an ill-natured spiteful fling at
Colonel Henry Wattarson, the venerable
editor of the Louisville CONFECTIONERY, -
III the February number of his monthly.
1t is an attempt to make the most bril-
liant. but not the Wisest, safest editor IN
the South, very ordinary fellow with
snail gifts and excessive gall, and low
depths. 1t would be interesting to read
what Mr.. Watterson might choose to say
of his critic. Prof. Peck, Of Columbia
University, New York City. The Profess
or regards Watterson as "a curious
study, this survival of type now almost
totally extinct" How does the gifted
and pungent hative of Tennessee regarI
the man derides him?
The modern Juggernaut." as the auto
Il obile has been named, last year dld a
lively business in killing people. In Eng
land and Wales for the year ending 31st
August, 1908, it killed more people than
all the railroads combined. 1t killed
more it is reported in one week, than al
the railroads killed in an entire pear. The
automobile accidents enumerated in Eng
lard and Wales during the period men,
toned were 1891, the persons injured be.
ing 1901 and the deaths All. The figures
shCN an average of 1915 accidents per
week, with SIS persons injured and 10
killed every week.
The Dutch Beers in Africa are prepar-
ing to move to Northern Mexico, capital
idea. 1t is expected that over 100000
acres will be purchased. Thus far $4,000
acres of land have been secured. Let
them come out from English tyranny.
Between 1890 and 1900, the increase Of
the negroes in the United States was 1871
per cent. For the same period the white
population increased ola per cent or 3
Der cent more than the negro increase.
IN 1900 the negroes constituted lie per
cent of the whole poplation. There were
n5arly white to one negro.
1t is estimated now that there is more
money in circulation in this country than