Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-10-30
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK
BY GEORGE DARIEN

| BY GhOR5E DARIEN
Those who are in the thick of com.
bat frequently do not see as clearly as
do disnterested spectators the vital
strategic position which must be taken
by the party that will be the final vlctors
In the strife. Among the comments Of
the LondCn press on our Presidents
Provincetown speech was this sentence
in the Daily News; at is hard to be-
lisve any popular leader can succeed
in imposing serious measure of con-
troll upon trusts unless he has the work
ing classes with him."
Mr.. Roosevelt is too astute politi-
clan not to know that this judgment is
correct. He knows very we'll that,
whltever may be the name of the sue
cessful party-new-s school Republican
ism or new-school Den ocracy-it will
be Liberal American Iarty. 1t will
be party whose attitude in regard to
the demands of labor and the rights of
capital shall be like that of the domi
nent Liberal party in the British Par
lament. While upholding the author
ity Of the courts to restrain rlotous
demonstrations, the victorious Amer
lean party will not sanction the i'm
prisonment of the peaceful striker who
uses neither violence nor threats in his
argument with the strike breaker.
The wageworkers in the democratic
republic known as the United States of
America would be happy if they en-
joyed the same rights that ale freely
granted to their brethren in the arlsto- !
cratic republic known as the United !
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
If the Liberal members of the British |
Parliament were seated, not in West |
Hall, but in the Capitol at /
Washington, there would be no inter-
ference with peaceful strikers on Amer
lean soil, as there is none on British
soil. While sternly depressing ali riot
and violence, the English aristocracy
Of birth and breeding treats the law
abiding wage. earners with more consid-
Grafton than he receives from our
American aristocracy of the swollen
How truly Thomas Car
lyle wrote concerning the social condi-
ton that followed the suppression of
JacObinism in the closing period of the
French Revolution of the eighteenth
century,
"Aristocracy of Federal Parchment
mas passed away with mighty rushing;
and now, by a natural course, we arrive
1t Aristocracy OF the Money bag,
a still baser sort of Arts
.ocracy? An infinitely baeer; the bas-
,st yet known. In which, however, there
s this advantage, that, like Anarchy
tself, it cannot continue. Hast thou
considered how Thought was stronger
han Artillery, parks, and writes and
lnwrites Acts of Parliament; removes
Mountains models the World like soft
lay? Also how the beginning of all
Thought, worth the name, is Love; and
he wise head never yet was, without
irst the generous heart? The Heavens
ease not their bounty; they send us
generous hearts into every generation.
md now what generous heart can pre-.
end to itself, or be hoodwinked into ,
that Loyalty to the Money
az is a noble Royalty? Mammon, +
ries the generous heart out of all ages Il
nd countries, is the basest of known q
iods, evea Of knowh Devils. Ir him
that glory is there that ye should wor-
hip him?'
Wanting Carlyle's rugged force of
lotion, but with similar earnestness.
President Roosevelt held up to public !
corn our American AristOcracy of the +
Ioney bag. when he said in his great {
speech:
There exists no more sor1id and
nlovely type of social development
han plutocracy, for there is pecul- d =,
II unwholesomeness in a serial and \
governmental idea where wealth by ]
nd of itself is held up as the greatest '
Ood. The mater ialism of such view,
hether it finds its expression in the
fe of such a man who accumulates
asst fortune in ways that arr repug- b
ant to every instinct of generosity J.
I'D fair dealing. or whether it finds its
lpression in the vapidly useless and t,
lfihdulgent life of the inheritor of I
at fortune, is contemplate in the
'es of all men capable Of thrill of @
fly feeling" -
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