With this swift economic development, northern capital streamed into the South; northern money was invested in southern public and industrial securities in enormous amounts; and energetic northern business men were to be found in southern market places vying with their no less enterprising southern brethren. The men concerned in creating this new nexus of interest between the two regions naturally deprecated the perpetual agitation of sectional issues by the politicians, and particularly northern interference in the negro question. Business interest began to pour cold water on the hottest embers which the Civil War had left behind. FOOTNOTES: [7] The following brief chronology of inventions illustrates the rapidity in the technical changes in the new industrial development: 1875--Bell's telephone in operation between Boston and Salem. 1879--Brush arc street lighting system installed in San Francisco. 1882--Edison's plant for incandescent lighting opened in New York City. 1882--Edison's electric street car operated at Menlo Park, New Jersey. 1885--Electric street railways in operation at Richmond, Virginia, and Baltimore. [8] For the keenest analysis of this social transformation, see Veblen, _Theory of the Leisure Class_ and _Theory of Business Enterprise_. [9] See below, Chaps. VI and VII. [10] See below, p. 234. [11] Youngman, _The Economic Causes of Great Fortunes_, p. 75. [12] By an act passed in August, 1912, Congress provided a territorial legislature for Alaska, which had been governed up to that time by a governor appointed by the President and Senate, under acts of Congress. CHAPTER III THE REVOLUTION IN POLITICS AND LAW The economic revolution that followed the War, the swift and potent upswing of capitalism, and the shifting of political power from the South to the North made their impress upon every branch of the Federal Government. Senators of the old school, Clay, Webster, Calhoun, Roger Baldwin, John P. Hale, James Mason, and Jefferson Davis were succeeded by the apostles of the new order: Roscoe Conkling and Thomas Platt, James Donald Cameron, Leland Stanford, George Hearst, Arthur P. Gorman, William D. Washburn, John R. McPherson, Henry B. Payne, Matthew S. Quay, Philetus Sawyer, John H. Mitchell, and James G. Blaine. The new Senate was composed of men of affairs--practical men, who organized gigantic enterprises, secured possession of natural resources and franchises, collected and applied capital on a large scale to new business undertakings, built railways, established cities with the advancing line of the western frontier--or represented such men as counsel in the courts of law.