Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-04
A PROPHET OF REVOLUTION


 When rich man, who through ot much of his life has been a sitter at Beishazzar feasrs, secs a writins on the wall, the tcil'nE oi his yer sion is an event, evea though 1t be, in part a misreading of the UIes sage. It is for this fedscn that, considering the personality Of the author, we regard as remarkable the observations of Frederick Town send Martin on "The Passing of the Idle Rich" in Everybody's Magazine.
 Mir. Martin by inheritance. educa l ton and environment, is an sX ampler of caste and class-theoret ically a believer in the aristocracy of blood, but sane enough 70 rec ognize reluctantly that the only existent aristOcracy in this or any other coutry today is the aristocracy of money.
 We think a highly significant sign of the times is the irrepressible de sire of man of his type to tell his brand new acquaintances-the real American people-what is going on in the homes and in the clu and in the minds of the rich that friends of hs are reading Socialist books and magazines, sending theh children 70 the public schools, dis cussing the great movements in so cisl. ind Is;rial and political ,e. Like another earnest, honest man shocked into horror at the first full view of civic errors and economic crimes, be sees only one way out, the easiest way, and unconsciously adopts a half baked socialistic creed wi:h revolution as the inevitable pre- nminary.
 These are the indutiable truths , that MT. Martin has grasped;
 For the grim fact stands out beyond denial thas the men who l-are the workers of the nation, and the women and the children depeT dent upon them, are not today giv en the opportunities that are theii proper birthright in free America.
 
 1 crowded tenement sections of oul great cities without having it borne | in upon me that we as a nation pay fearful price in human blood and tears for our indusgria triumphs.
 We arc learning, too. that wha we give our workers in wages we take back from them in ths higher cost Of necessities. in food in clothing, in medicine, in insurance in a hundred devious ways. al with one tendency-to keep the li' ing margin down.
 The fruit of the genius of tho inventors of the world is plucked not by the hands of the workers but by the hands of the comparative ly small and personally insignificant class who. by virtue of the genius Of their fathers. or by virtue O mere chance, administer the tremer dous power of capital.
 When the nineteenth centur! closed America worshiped grea wealth It sanctified it's possessors ]. defed the hundred millionaire In five years time America ha learned to hate great wealth. Pluto, racy is disgorging, but public opil ion is relentless.
 For our industrial system i watered with the bloody sweat O labor and the salt tears of bite poverty and suffering; and i, i fertilized with the dead bodies o men and women outworn in tn, grim battle of life Tended an, watched it is by a' foul horde O underlings, hired judges in the law panderers in politics, time server in ;he pulpit, lickspittles in colleg chancelleries. Judases in the press blackmailers in business, and mi erable, fawning parasites clingin like filthy feeches upon she a ministrative bodies of the nation.
 lie finds that the American peopl have seen their nation ~turne from its purposes. defeated in it honest efforts and betrayed in it administration, through the powe of rnobilized wealth restraining tn hands of our political parties T 'day. in America, the people eleC their statesmen; but the exercis of the peoples power through thes statesmen is curbed, directed an controlled by groups of moneyed terests America, then, is a pl tocracy
 He finds that the tyranny esta iished in ancient Rome by force an l in feudal France by force and frau exists in America by fraud alone