The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-07
HAS HE CHANGEDP

Has William Randolph Hearst really changed his nature and his views. or was his speech at Norfolk on last Mon day a sham? Take this as an exam pie of unexpectedness:
 The great financial promoters. or- ganizers executives of America, are worthy of recognition and reward; They work as hard as any of us ana the full production of the riches out or which are paid here in America the highest wages in the world.
 Let them have a liberal share of that wealth as long as that is the incentive which stimulates them to useful ac- tivity. Let them have wealth as long terprises that benefit the whole com munity.
 The riches they amass and call their own are seldom spent in extraVagance and luxury upon themselves. but are put back into new industries to pro- duce more wealth and give employ ment to more men.
 From a conservative, level-headed orator that would not sound strange, but from the owner and editorial man. ager of the yellowest of all the saf- fron-hued journals in the country, 1t certainly seems in the nature of a sumner, but 1t isn't all. Here is an- other:
 I have no patience with the preju- dices which exist between alleged classes, when the classes themselves son for hostility between employer and employe, between capitalists and wage-earner. Capital is but the ae- . and employe create together. Wages division is not just. 1t can always be made so by arbitration, and there is still no occasion for conflict.
 A condition of class such as has been developed in Colorado is curse to this G9untry bH s90t the c@pitai ist toward the laborer, and there should be no prejudice by the laborer toward the capitalist, There should part which each plays in the creation of wealth. The man who digs the precious metal from the earth is worth his wage. The man who tells nm now to find the gold deserves his profit.
 Did Hearst really mean what he said? If so, what has converted him from a purveyor and exploiter of sensational ism into an advocate of reason. law and good order? It is true that strange things happen in these days, but if Hearst was in earnest in what he said at Norfolk and if he really believed what he expressed. he should bring his various newspapers up to something like rationalism and reason.
 In connection with this matter. there is another interesting feature. While Hearst was making his speech at Nor folk, Iieutenant- Governor William s. Chanler of New York was speaking at Poughkeepsie both of them being La bor Day addresses. ITO my mind" said MT. Chanler, there is nothing sc splen- did as the privilege of power; the privilege of power rlghtfully wielded; the use of the privilege of power for universal good. You union men hold that power in the hollow of your hand. You have, and can keep if you will. the sympathetic support of thegpeople. You have, like all others, your shortcom- ings; there are conditions that you en- force that are intrinsically crude. You should not dominate, but regulate. Regulate with right thinking and with candor"
 The interesting feature of these two speeches lies in the men who delivered them. It will be remembered that MT. Hearst made the race for Governor of