The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-17

far too little IS said in our school bis
lories. 1, has had both IFS brlghl and it
,.,,,f< utnk siaes. The amount OF goods lila
Could be creatcd for human eniovi:cn
WE VASTLY Increased But the new, sys
tenn brought with 1t the growth of fac
tories child labor. The capitaIIstic sys
teH, LII tlc evolution of Industrial socf
ely there developed n system OF com
Dlnation called corpolations having th
activities OF an Individual ana ifiinitcf'
al = responsibility.
The place OF lheso giant comblnaijou
is the problem OF tho day Shall tho,
n oe our tyrants or our servants? In IL
,inal analysis. the problem resolves itsel
INTO The question of whether tho Eynv
ernment shall he administered in M.
,mteresls ,iid rsS OF the many or the few. slnl
'oeracy Of special privilege?
Problem Of Industrial Democracy
For scores of generations thc Aprlo
saxon race has been plodding along tn
stony road that sleads To political co,,ol
ity' In America that goal. III theory
has been attained. And now We i'm
ourselves face 10 fece with the problem
OF securing equality Of economic opuor
tunity. For the new battle we arc rlrd,
me ourselves. The nslit Is not for eaua
wealth, but for fair start This +,
a few words Is the philosophy OF or
present politica! situation-sIim!y under
stood by most. perhaps. but felt by all
AS at present constituted n.athcf part,
can cripple with the great trrobler1 b.
earnest. Each has its couscrv:ftjysgJ 'ryln
are content In let things driffaRi ntls IA.
! progresslves, who take thought FOR yth,
morrow, The clements in each pnfti
nave little In common but :, party nan,e
How could Il Cuinmins or "a La lroit<tt
have anything IN common with all Nj
rich or a.Cannon? They are us far asun
der as the poles.
How long can mere party symbo
keep the real birds of feather from
! locking together? Roosevelt CtImmins
Beveridgc, LII Toilette. Hughes, Bristow
Gore. and their followers. bcloug in on
party. The Cannons. Aldrichcs. HaIcs
Cranes, Daizclls. Dcpcws. Shcrmans. For
akers. Ballingers, KnoXes, Baileys, Nc
all others tarred with tho same stick
| belong in another. Only St Peter coul.
DECIDE where Taft belongs.
In actual opinions. The people OF thh
country are no longer either Deuocrati
or Republicans; they arc Progressives o.
Conservatives What Is the real differ
ence between Democrat and a Rcpul,
llcan. Will you please tell mo- Each ha,
its conservatiOnists and its antsr rcongcrv.
ationists, It's servants Of the pcAple anS
| its defenders Of special privilege. -
rcadiu5t.nent is bound to come. OulJ
n shock is needed for the Ice TO CONCEAL
It may come in any one of many ways
by an effort to read the Insurgents" oui
of the party. through qualification Of
the supreme court in the ANTITRUST cases
through some new and startling aggres.
sion on the part of corporations oi
| through Theodore Roosevelt's declaring
against the admins trltion
Perhaps once more the famous Rcpub.
licap discipline Will suffice to close ul
tire ranks FOR final battle. But emptJ
names and battlecriss cannot Keep war
ring followers faithful forever Neither
party can continue TO be a Mr. Face.
Two-Ways much longer Old party
names may persist. but they will acquire
new meanings. Who will be the Moses
10 gather up the progrcssives of both
| parties and lead them TO the promised
| land? The army stands waiting. Where
| is the man on horse back?