Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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touphold the statutes they are sworn to enforce. Incurable: Our story this month is more than aninteresting and human sketch. It carries with ita great and needed lesson. No more vicious phil-osophy can be promulgated than that which holdsthat it is the duty of pure, high-minded women tomarry degraded or debauched men in order to savethem. Such unions most frequently result in in-harmony, misery and the moral degradation of thewife, while the offspring of such marriages are notunfreouently moral degenerates. Mr. Carman isan old contributor to The Arena, having writtenfor it many years ago a short time after we hadfounded this review, and our old readers will wel-come him back to our pages. The Railways of Colorado: Hon. J. Warner Milkdiscussion of the railways of Colorado does notappear in this issue because the manuscript arrivedtoo late to be used this month. It will appear inthe May Arena, and will richly repay the waitingon the readers part. Digitized by Google Digitized by Google
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CHARLES H. GRANT « . Digitized by Thi Arena Google • We do not take pottettion of our ideat, but are pottetted by them.They matter ut and force us into the arena.Where, like gladiators, we mutt fight for them.—Hkixs. The Arena Vol. 35 May, 1906 No. 198 CRIMINAL WEALTH versus COMMON HONESTY. Bt Albert Brandt. I. THE OLIGARCHY OF THE CRIMINALRICH THE GRAVEST MENACETO THE REPUBLIC. ONE QUESTION transcends allother issues calling for the imme-diate action of our people, because on itdepends the fate of free institutions. Formore than a quarter of a century a powerhas been at work in our civic and businesslife as sinister as it is destructive to demo-cratic government; a power not alto-gether new, it is true, in political and com-mercial affairs, but now for the first timeperfectly organized and so developed asto act as a formidable, sentient beingwhose growth has been as rapid as itsevil influence has been far-reaching andpronounced. This baleful influence hasnow entrenched itself so

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