Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-18

Science and invention, the two great
factors in this situation, have not
only altered radically, human envi-
ronment and our .eiations- to nature,
bnt, in their application, they have
reyolutionized economic conditions.
These changed economic conditions
have. in turn. affected profoundly so
ciety and politics. They have led,
among other things, to combination
of capital and labor on a scale and
with a power never before Witnessed.
They have opened the way to aCcum-
ulations of wealth in masses beyond
the dreams of avarice and never be-
fore contemplated by men.
The social and political problems
thus created are wholly new. 1t is
a fallsey to suppose that because the
elements are old the problem itself
must, therefore, ffer only In de
gree from those which have gone b.
fore. The elements may be old but
the problem presented by a change
in the proportion of the elements
may be. and, in this case is, entirely
rev,
Great individual fortunes and rich
history. Nearly two thousand years
ago the tax farmers of Rome formed
a Trust" for their own Profit and
protection; the English people. three
centuries ago, reyolted against the
patents and monopo!ies granted by
Elizabeth and James 10 their court
iers and nonopOlists, forestallers and
spectators in the necessities OF life
were curse in our revolution and
bitterly denounced by Washington.
Yet. it is none the less true that tae
same things today present questions
different in kind as well as in degree
from their predecessors.
1t is the huge size of private for
tunes, the vast extent and power OF
/ modern combinations of aptal.
made posibleb V present conditions,
which have brought upon us, in these
later years, problems pOrtentous in
their possibilities, and threatening,
not only our social and political vel
fare, but even our personal freedom,
II they are not boldly met and wisely
solved.
The great body of American people,
neither very rich nor very poor, the
honest, the thrifty, the Woodworking
the men and women who earn and
save, have no base envy-no ranaIrC
hatred of wealth, whether Individual
or corporate. if it has been honestly
gained and is wisely and generously
employed with sense of RESPONSE
bility to the public. But this great
body of our people, by habit and In
stinct alike, wisely conservative,
these people, who are the bone and
sinew of our country and upon whom
its fortunes and It's safety rest, be
gan to observe, with deep alarm, the
recent manifestations of the new eco
nomic conditions. They came to be
Tieye that these vast fortunes ana
these huge combinations of capital
were formed and built up by tortu-
} Gus and dishonest means and through
/ cynical disregard OF the very laws
which the mass of the people were
compelled to obey. They began tC
fear that political power was being
Teft from their hands and put into Ine
| possession of the money holders, that
their dearest hopes Of success and
advancement were cut off by bust
ness systems which they could not
understand but by which the individ
/ ual was sacrificed and held down.
T 70 those who look beneath the sur
surface an ominous unrest was an
/ parent. The violent counsels of VIC
! lent men, who aimed at the destruc
! ton Of property and the overthrow
| CT law, began to be heard and bark
encd to. The great. order-loving, in
| dustTious masses of American people
! turned away from these advocates o.
violence but, at the same time. de
manded that their government should
give them, in lawful, and reasonable
ways, the protection to which they
were entitled, against the dangers
they justly apprehended.
| The great duty of fulfilling these
righteous demands, like all the great
public services of the last half cen
tnry, was imposed uron the ReTu' l.
can party and they have not flinchet
ON the burden. Undor the lead Of
the Pre~id~nt, the Republican party
has grappled with the new problems
born Of the new conditions. 1t has
been no light task. DANGEROUS ca
tremes threatened on either hTI
| On the one side were the radicals o
iEeaction, WHO resisted any change
at aIl;-on the other side were the
radicals of destruction who wished
toe 1ange everything. These two
forms of radicalism are as far apar-
atth e outset as the poles. but, waer
carried out they lead alike to rev
oIution. Between these two extremes
the Republican President and the Re
publican Congress were compiled Il
steer and while they advanced stead
lily, sobe-ly and eFfectivslv, they
were obliged to rereI the radical as
saults on either hand.
Yet, notwithstanding all these dif
lficulties, much has been accom-
plished. The resources Of the peopl
to the policies urged by the Pres
dent, has been so emphatic that