Show IDEALS IN POLiTiCS WAYNE MACVEIGHS ADDRESS BEFORE PHI BETA KAPPA Two Great Political Divisions of Americans Will Soon Struggle for Possession of Government t II I I Boston June 28The oration of Ideals in Politics which Wayne MacVoagh delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa at its annual meeting at Cambridge has attracted unusual attention at-tention Among other things Mr Mac Veagh said It seems to me quite too plain for dispute that no single member of a weaker race can be killed no hut of such a race however humble can be burn dIio one can be selected for especial honor for his part in such pitiful piti-ful warfare without I Its helping to light the torch which starta the fire by which some hapless negro is to be burned at the stake in our own country coun-try not onfy In defiance but in contempt con-tempt of law and all such acts must be surely followed by greater insecurity insecur-ity for the surplus wealth which the contented class possesses Now it Is at least quite possible that In the not distant future American politics pol-itics may transform Mr Websters warning Into history for our electorate elector-ate is already beginning he divided and must In obedience to the law of social evolution continue more and more to be divided by that sharp cleavage which separates those who are contented with their lot front those who are discontented with their lot Under whatever disguises called by whatever names inheriting or seizing whatever partisan organizations the alignment of two great political divisions di-visions of American voters who will sooner or later struggle against each other for the possession of the Government Govern-ment will inevitably upon the basis I have named The party of the contented con-tented will be ranged under one banner ban-ner and the party of the discontented will bo ranged under the other and that alignment will steadily develop increasing sharpness of division until the party of discontented being the majority has obtained the control of the Government to which under our system they are entitled and then I they will be sure to remodel the present pres-ent < system for the distribution of wealth unless we have previously done so upon a basis higher and wider and more equitable than those now existing exist-ing I The one party will be under whatever what-ever name the party of capital and I the other party will be under whatever II what-ever name the party rQf labor jIl certainly would tend to make prl vale property far more secure in America if he I less fortunate majority of our population saw us the more I fortunate minority giving courage and time and thought to efforts to solve these problems and others with them and thereby lessen some of the evils which In many cases bear so heavily and so unjustly upon the poor |