The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-02
w. B. DAVIDSON.
 a Asorth court Street.
MASSES IN REVOLT.
Sc says President sehurmua, Of Cornell
 Unversity.

Sc says President sehurman, Uf Cornell
 Unyersity.
 New York American.
 Jacob Gould SchurmRn president oi Cornell University, addressed large body of business men fin Old Trinity a' noon yesterday upon the theme, Con science in Business" Ills talk was one Of a course of lectures iInder the aus pices of the eSabury Society.
 one of the most striking utteranees of Dr. schurman was just at the close of his address. It was apparently an afterthought and not part of the pre- pared speech, when he said;
 T spoke tofa gathering of moro than two thousand men who are mostly la borers and wage earners, at a meeting in Cooper Union last night, and these men are of the vast number who feel that things are radically wrong. At the conclusion of my talk l Invited questions, and say to you that some of the questions asked would make your hair stand on ends.
 one said to me, in all the serious- ness the man could show, Don't you think that the city of New York should seize all the available vacant land be- tween the Battery and the Bronx and build thereon tenements that should be rented to wage earners and labor CTS at a fair rent and destroy the high prices for rents that we have to pay at presently
 "Another question was. Isn't all pri- vate wealth the result of theftT
 "The condition of unrest fs great problem. The fnancier must face it, and 1t is to be sincerely hoped that part of the energy that Is now used to effect an accumulation of wealth will be directed toward effecting a solution of this problem Let the financier whose power Is felt try to study out s.A fu cally that Christlike care for men ana establish a brotherhood of man that will make it part Of It's creed"
 Dr. sehurman said further In the course of his talk:
 Tt is 8 comman criticism of the present business conditions that the man of small means or of no means has no chance to do any ming for him self. The best he can do Is take a position for wages or salary.
 And so the business world Is di- vided between a comparatively small number of large capitalists and a great army of employees. The average mans economic independence is gone. And with it has gone ,..e ethical relation which in former days subsisted be- tween the woSkers in the business world.
 ''The boy without means cannot, of course. set up factory or d a railroad. or open a department store; but he can, not only as O. yore. become n blacksmith or a roadmaker or clerk m a village store. can also become m enpioys in h factory or on q raii- way or in q commercial house. And though it Is much harder than for merly to start an independent business of any kind, 1t must be remembereu that the vast majority of suc.. ,snturea used to end in bankruptcy. But under the present system of big production. steady employment is the rule. So that the principal count In the indictment seems to rest on ...e wages system un- der which we live.
 ''The masses of wage earners are, I believe, today in angry revolt against the vast inequalities which the present economic system produces. Shall the end be socialism, revolution, or wha-
 For, remember that these discon- tented classes may easily constitute the majority of our voters. and that in this republic policies are determi4. by the vote of the majority.
 No men in the nation can do so much to settle this acute and danger ous problem wisely and satisfactorily as our multi-millionaires and large cap. italists"