Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-10-05
Says Samuel G. Blyth, in Ad-
dress at Montana State
Fair.
POPULAR RULE COMING
People are Adjusting Them
selves to New Conditions
and Will Control.

wide reputation as writer and pub
licist delivered an address at the
Montana state fair last week that
should receive attention in every
quarter of the nation
Arising to speak, Mr.. Blythe,
launched into an analysis of present.
day conditions and tendencies. A peri
or of revolution, it seemed to him,
and he believed that the country was
entering an area of intelligent popular
government and juster laws He said:
III part:
Age of REIMBURSEMENT
This is an era of readjustment. Po-
litical conditions are changing. Bust
ness conditions are changing or be-
ing changed Social conditions are
being realigned. Problems that seem
ed theoretical five years ago are now
pressing for solution. Older and, no
doubt wiser men than | call this
period of unrest. | call it a period of
re birth.
The American nation is finding it.
self. slowly, perhaps, and clumsily,
but not stupdly-and surely Out of
our first century and a quarter has
grown nation so vast as to be I'M
Wieldy. We are a great people, but
we are an uniformed people. Our in
terests are as diverse as our climate,
and our topography, and our people
are as diverse as either. So far as
our population is concerned, we are
diffuse and noncohered. The extent
of our territory, of course, makes this
inevitable to degree but not with.
out remedy in many of its aspects.
Revolution a Reality
There is a revolution under way in
this country,sa revolution in business
and in politics. The potter term is
REIMBURSEMENT, but it is a revolution
just the same. Evidences have crop.
Those are the skirmishes, the firing
by the outposts. Men, and strong
men, welded to the old order of
things, have affected to scott at these
manifestations. No person is so
Elind as an old-timer, and no person
so impenetrably in the dark as an
Odtime politician. Still, you cannot
destroy fact by scoffing at it. You
may retard a truth, you may reject
truth, but you cannot rescind a
truth.
Trend Recognized
A few men, wise in business and
rolitics-nOt many. but a few-have
recognized the trend of the thought
and action of the day. They are
protesting now to educate the people
SC the people may understand them
selves. 1t is too late. The people
are now doing the educating. If
per cent of the money spent by men
of this class since the civil war in
buying legislatures to enact laws
they needed had been spent in an edu-
catiOnal propaganda such as they are
feverishly engineering at this time,
there would have been an easier stu.
alton all around A good many per-
selves immune will be hurt before
what is under way is accomplished.
The demand for new alignment in
politics and in business to meet pres
ent conditions, which has seemed
sporadic, is bound to become general.
The people are beginning to know
their strength. They are beginning
to think. When you get people to
think you have taken a long step to-
wards the regeneration of your pub
lie affairs. for, basicly, intrinsically,
the average mans mind is right if it
can be stirred to action.
Situation Marked
This situation is nowhere more
party designation is no longer a
fetch. The political boss is losing
his power. The slogan, Stand by
the organization" provokes more
jeers than cheers. Within the past
two or three years we have seen the
once soliditied Republican party split
into two wide-apart wings. We have
seen also a similar division in the
Democratic party. Wherefore, we now
have conservative Republicans and
radical Republicans and We have con-
sentative Democrats and radical
Democrats. This makes an anomO-
lous political situation. When two
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