The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
very camp where its favorites were

every camp where its favorites were
 No Democrats as Bosses.
 It Is one of the natural. but interest ing, and often overlooked, facts of polit- ical history, that, with all the devel- opment of bosses" throughout the country. during the past generation, State, Democrat has come to the front with the will and the opportunity to use public power or revenues to en- followers It is also true that, in no more than three or four cities has this rank and foul excrescence been able to gain hold. to grow and to the Democratic party.
 No claim need be made that this Is is true that never In it's history has the party been So allied with monopoly as to attract it's agents. As it has had no public favors to sell, 1t could not reservoir of bribery should be turned its away. It has, therefore, always had to depend upon contributions from its individual members for needed cam paign funds and-even If neither prin- ciplJ /nor morality were involved-it coul make no more serious mistake votes.
 The Recent Revelations of Shame.
 During the past year the country has been listening. with open. eager ear to
 
 character. In this time we have be- come familiar with breaches of trust. involving the rifing of graves and the robbery of widows and orphans; with combinations in which. now, one group of financiers, now another, has played it's part; and with pretentious business writ in water" The ordinary moral obliquities, so common to mankind, have almost been lost sight of, while, day after day and week after week, fbiG di96a1FtpninR and seemingly ending story has been told, until, at each new recital. .. the public ,!6 has been
 But why should there have been any cause for wonder? When, for nearly half a century, We hay ebeen binding our manufacturers as appren- tices to monopoly. why should we be surprised that a few of our flnanciers. or bare handful of our merchants and lawyers, got only learned the trade but bettered the instructions of their teach CT? Having, ourselves. created the forces which thus threaten to break up the fountains of the great deep of fume. or repine? Shrinking back at the sight of our own hideous monster. why should we take counsel of despair?
 The Necessity of Vigorous Action. as we have sown. it behooves to be up and doino. The effect upon the world of these revelations must be as deep and profound as our own trial has been serious our shame open, barefaced impossible to be hid. For time, the ideals of our three centuries .of life have been shattered, and our people feel that they have come far short of their early promise. But why should the knowledge that a few thieves in high places have been uncovered dis hearten us? Suppose their operations had gone on for another decade, should we have been better or happier to have realized at its end. that we had been living all those years over an ever widening, ever -deenening, sewer of ever increasing foulnes?
 All these things are bad-certainly nothing worse has leaped to light In any country within a century; but+it is not too late to retrace our steps; to assert anew, and with added effective ness the strong points of our national character and to appeal to tho inhe- rent good, the almost unerring im- pulse to do right There are perhaos, fewer thieves now. in proportion to population, than those who preyed upon ouI society fifty years ago. and though more dangerous, because round in high places we must confess that, on the other hand. it is easier than ever hoeorc to find, expose. and punish them
 Resides, we must bear In mind that many of the revelations are not reVela- tiOns at all. 4 haf-dozen great of lenders in the insurance companies have bred suspicion of every man in the same business, a result moi at all Justified because, for the most part the men engaged in 1t. as In all other callings, are honest and high minded. If some railroad officials nave been