Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1908-11-20
7 II e SEN TIN Ell.
Friday Morning. November 20. 1908.
MATERLALLSM NOW HAS GRASP
ON PEOPLE.

MA TERIALISM NOW HAS GRASP
ON PEOPLE.
Henry Watterson says in Courier Journal:
1.-THE idiosyncrasy Of the time is com.
merce. AS 10 the last century, 1t was lib.
erty reaching out after institutional freedom
and messurably attaining tit is now
materialism reaching out after markets. The
ligence takes no thought of the hereafter and
is even more Indifferent to the heretofore.
"He is completely engrossed by the pres.
ent. That which Bacon calls The Wisdom
Of Our Ancestors makes as little appeal to
his reverence or reason as that which Burns
calls Light from Heaven makes 20 his i'm
agination. He would not exchange the cur.
rent crop reports, with rising price list, for
all the books that were ever written upon
political economy. He is either the fool of
the vicinage with him or else raises enough
dust TO blind his eyes and disarm his suf-
frage.
ut is the part neither of common sense
nor of upright manhood In the vanquished
TO kick against the pricks. Let Us hope and
believe that despite ita rherissisrr I'D &c
Element, politics Is pes Fst oor patty .laes,
yet line Of battle The electorate has de-
olaFed for = high protective tariff it has
declared for I'D iDTincible armament, en-
hiacIng navy unsurpassed upcn sne seas
siong with corresponding military estsb-
lshment upon fixed war footing on the
lanf il has recorded vote Of confidence
Ia The chieftains OF the two branches Of the
national Legislature as they are known 10 20
constituted and controlled, and 1t has given
them carte blanche to make billion dollar
Congresses the rule and not the exception.
"That the Republican party cannot com.
pose the irrepressible conflict between capi.
tai and labor is certain as the old historic
Democratic party could not compose that
between freedom and slavery. But neither
the chiefs OF the system nor victorious party
leaders need trouble themselves about that
just yet. With such men the rule is 'sufl-
cient unto the day and eat, drink and be
merry, though to morrow ye die
"The result shows that we diversified the
spiritual and understood the material in the
hearts and minds of the people. They were
deaf alike to presidents, TO reason and to elo.
quence, for nothing could surpass, as moth
ing has ever equaled, the personal canvass
of Mr.. Bryan, Its wondrous lucidity and
power OF statement, it's splendid intellectual
and physical endurance, its unans werable
argument.
"Nordid Ignatius OF Loyola sweep through
world Of incarnate evil, bearing the cross
OF Jesus TO triumph with greater force of In
SEPARATION and truth than did the heroic son
OF Nebraska traverse land gaping with
curiosity, but too busy over its work and
play 10 consider any danger to the immortal
soul OF Its constitutional fabric.
"Old.time Democrats will wait and keep
their powder dry. II they should despair,
II they should break apart, the country
would be exposed TO political anarchy lead.
ing through radicalism and excess of every
sort TO practical responsibility on the one
hand, unregenerate debauchery backed by
reslstless force on the other hand.
I'VE may be power for good, though
beaten and in opposition. Seven million
OF voters are never to be despised in case
tney hold together. Many States remain to
us. The Constitution of the United States
has not been abolished yet, nor institutional
freedom, nor wise and upright administra-
ton, and these are still worth fighting for