The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-15
Impending Political Revolution.

New Orleans Picayune.
 United States Senator William Pinck- ney Whyte of Maryland. who succeed ed the late Senator Arthur F. German, has issued an address to the Demo- crats in connection with the nomina tion for Governor of New York of Will letter written in 1851 by Macaulay, the English historian to a prominent pub lie man in the United States. IS fol- lows
 New York. when a multitude of people. none of whom have had more than half breakfast. or expect to have more than half a dinnor. will choose a Ehat sors of 'S wifi Go"S Se chosen? On one side is a statesman preaching patience. respect for vested rights, strict observance of public faith On the other is a demagogue ranting about the tyranny of capital ists and insurers, and asking why any body should be permitted to drink champagne and ride in carriage when thousands of honest folk ar" in want of necessaries Which of tho two can didates is likely 10 be preferred by a working man who hears his children cry for bread? Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the rcins of Government in q strong hand or your republic will be as fearlessiy plund- cred and laid waste by the barbarians In the twentieth centur. as the Ro- man Empire was in the fifth, with this differcnce-that the Huns and Vandals who raVaged the Roman Empire came from without and that your Huns and Nandals will have been ."ngcndered in your own country and by your own institutions.
 It is not necessary to wait to such time of general distress for the mem ace of revolution predicted by the phil osophic student of the worlds history. and such a time might come as the result of widespread financial panic and an overwhelming commercial and industrial depression. TMn simple fact is that conditions now iN existence are already seriously thrcuteE'us; some such disturbance. Not rt"'clN are the agi- tators among the proletariat and po- litical demagogueS in every class howl ing for social revolution, but hun dreds of newspapers of responsibility conducted by persons who are usually sane. law-abiding and prudent, are joining the outcrS againGt the owners of wealth
 Every intelligent and r~aSonabl" per son believes that great Uurnbcrs. prob- ably the greatest numbers of rich men, have accumulated their fortunes by their industry and economy in the be- ginning, and by intellectual work and good management after lue start had been made. Many of these men have used their wealth wisely, Hut only in endowing and establishing benevolent and charitable institut oHs, hut in or ganiZing great industrial enterprises in which thousands of men and women secur" gainful employment.
 Such undertakings as the operation of vast manufacturing and transpor- tation systems would be impossible without such combinations of capital. and by their means quasi public inn provements are made which have added enormously to the comfort and conve- nience of millions of people. But all this is forgotten in the light of the fact that not a few of the great for tunes have been made by discreditable and even dishonorable means. and that such wealth has been used to corrupt public officials, to secure or prevent special legislation, and even to con trOl public elections.
 When such political leaders as Mir. Bryan can advocate the assumption by the Government of ownership of rail roads. and as President Roosevelt can urge and compel the enactment of laws to give the Government control of railroads. and declare that it is neces- sarY to increase and extend the Fed eral power until it can control abso- lutelv all corporations and combina- tlons "l wealth that enter into and have spv ronnection with interstate commerce. IL is plain that they have