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very high authority says it is the " carnal mind which is enmity 

 against God," and u out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, 

 adulteries." Man is not more of a "brute" for cultivating his body, 

 but a better man if he cultivate both body and mind : body, first in 

 the order of development ; mind, second in order of time, but the 

 crown and king of the whole. 



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TRANSPORTATION AND THE FEDERAL GOVERN- 

 MENT. 



By JOHN C. WELCH. 



MOST of the great fortunes of the United States those that are 

 unduly great are ascribed to the rapid development of the 

 means of transportation and the facility with which those means have 

 been centered in comparatively few hands. The general sense of the 

 nation is that this concentration of power, of wealth, is an evil, and 

 that it would be much better if we could have had the development of 

 the transportation interests that we have had with a greater diffusion 

 of the power and wealth that have attended them. The founders of 

 our republic thought they were establishing civil institutions where 

 enormous fortunes would be comparatively unknown. A hundred 

 years have hardly passed certainly not a long time in national life 

 when the largest individual fortune of the world is accredited to the 

 United States, and there are others that approximate this in magni- 

 tude, and many of them dating back to less than one fifth of a cent- 

 ury. In the matter of private wealth, we have clearly departed from 

 the ideas of our fathers. In this departure is there adherence to the 

 stern principles of republicanism with which our country started out, 

 and have these growths been fortuitous, exceptional, easily swallowed 

 up in the general growth and prosperity of the country, so that the 

 spirit of our institutions is unchanged, and are these fortunes to be 

 dissipated in an early succeeding generation, and not to be replaced 

 by others of equal or greater magnitude and greater in number ? The 

 instincts of the nation are that danger lurks in any other solution of 

 these inquiries than in the line of suppression of causes that have 

 made these fortunes possible. Nor can the subject be dismissed on 

 the ground that, in the development of the use of the physical forces 

 of steam and electricity that this generation has seen, there is inherent 

 this aggregation of wealth in few hands. The disproof of this is that 

 in European countries that have enjoyed a like favorable development 

 with ourselves in wealth, barring that which came from our virgin 

 territory, such developments of the physical forces in their adminis- 

 tration and the accompanying emoluments have not been centralized 

 upon a few. 



