(H) patfaftefl Volume XVII-Ne. 26a jnr D RKSS GOODS. NEW DRESS -AT- TOHN WANAMAKER'S, PHILADELPHIA. One of the finest buntings we knew of '(if it h; a border, it would be a nun's veiling), which we have sold up te within a week at $1, is new 60 cents. Hew it get te CO cents is one of the curiosities of the trade. It is made, fight here in Philadcl phia, of the flaes-.t foreign wool ; we buy of the maker ; and sell at a profit ; 44. inch, at CO cents. Next-outer circle, Chestnut street entrance. Canten pongees, very light color and extraordinary quality, $9.."J0 and $10.50 fur 20 yard pieces. Summer silks mostly afc 53 cents. Bienzes, 75 cents and $1 ; bronze satin tncrveilleux, $2.25 ; bronze damasses, .11.50. Millinery damasses at 75 cents, all silk ; used also for dresses. All silk colored damasses 75 cents. Mack damasses, $1.50. Bennet black silks a fifth off. Ameri can black silk $1.35. Mack surah, light, 24J-inch ; heavy 19-inch ; both $1.50. Canten crepe, $2. Next-outer circle. Chestnut street entrance. In the whole range of dress goods our trade is highly satisfactory. It is evident that we have provided acceptable goods, and that our prices are regarded as liberal. In live distinct lines of dress goods it is perfectly clear that we have the largest variety anil the choicest patterns in the city. These aie : black grenadines, fine French woolens in plain colors, cashmeres, illuminated melanges, cottons, especially flue French cottons. Nine counters, north' south and east Irem Cuntcr. 9 Zephyr shawls, with fringe mere than a lady will care te sec, 50 cents te $5. One at 50 cents is a surprise te these who ex JOHN WANAMAKER, Thirteenth, Market and Chestnut Sts., PHILADELPHIA. ri)HN A. CBAKLKS. :e. rAciut ai. marks LANE ALL, KINDS OF- Dry Goods Offered at Great Bargains, AT THE OLD KKLTAULE STAND, Ne. 24 East King Street. SILK DEPARTMENT. Special Inducements in Iilack and Colored Silk. The general DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT constantly being added te and prices marked down te promote quick sales. MOURNING GOODS DEPARTMENT complete In all its details. ,... CARPKT1NGS, QUEENSWARE AND GLASSWARE in Immense variety and at veiy W DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT unsurpassed In quantity and quality, and goods in nil the departments guaranteed te be what they are sold Ter. j8SCall uml see us. JACOB M. MARKS. JOHN A. JJtON ritON 1IITTKKS. IRON BITTERS! A TRUE TONIC. mended IRON BITTERS ar dent tonic; especially INDIGESTION, DYSfMMS.A. INTERMITTENT FEVERS, WANT OF APPE TITE. LOSS OF STRENGTH, LACK OF ENERGY, &c. It enriches tins mood, strengthens the aiusciix, and gives new life te the nerves. It acts .. 1,., n tl.A ,llA.lh'.. nr.ine TVftlinvitl" nil llVSIiellliC SVllllltOItlS. SUCU HH laSlltlfllnC reed, Belching, heat in the Stomach, Heartburn etc. Tlie only Iren Preparation that will net Dlacken the tecth or give headache. Seltl by all druggists. Write ter the ABC Boek, 1 pp. of ucful and amiibing reading sent free. . BROWN CHEMICAL COMPANY, 123-iy.lAw BALTIMORE, MD. Fer Sale at COCHRAN'S DRUG STORE, 137 and 139 North Queen street, Lancaster. like a l'ZV3tBEB!S J OUN i AKNOM). PLUMBERS' SUPPLY HOUSE. A rCIX, LI3J! Olf BATHTUBS, GUM TUBING, STEAM COCKS, SOIL PIPE, BATH BOILERS, LEAD TRAPS, CHECK VALVES, LEAD PIPE, WATER CLOSETS, IRON HYDRANTS, III DRANT COCKS, GAS COCKS, KITCHEN SINKS, IRON PAVE WASHES, CURB STOrs, GAS FIXTURES. WASH STANDS, GAS GLOBES, GLOVE VALTES, ROOFING SLATE, IRON FITTINGS, WROUGHT IRON PIPE, CENT'iE PIECES, TIN PLATE, FRENCH BANGKS FOR HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. JOHN L. ARNOLD, . Nes. 11, 13 & 15 EAST ORANGE STREET, LANCASTER, PA. raprMtd WISES S. CLAY MILLER, fines , Brandies, Gin Qli Bye ffisfe, b, Ne. 33 PENN SQUARE, LANCASTER, PA. GIBSON'S WHISKY BOTTLED A SPECIALTY. GOODS. D KESS UUOD.. GOODS, ETC., pect little'at such a price. A large double zephyr, for an invalid, $1.50. Shetland shawls, without fringe, also in gieat variety, 75 cents te $8. A zephyr shawl knit by hand in what is kuewn as the crazy stitch is one of the cu riosities from Bosten ; large aud heavy ; tee heavy, maybe, for a"u invalid ; at the amazing pi ice of $3.50. Is it possible that in Yankee Bosten human life is worth no mere than $3.50 for knitting such a shawl ? East from Chestnut-street entrance. Lace mits, 50 cents te $4.50. The writer has forgotten of hew many sorts, but hundreds, and of the choicest. Lisle gloves for both Italics and gentlemen at 25 te 75 cents. Sheepskin gloves, made rough .side out, for gardening, 35 cents. Chest n u l-htrcet entrance, outer. Bathing suits for men ; all wool flannel, mostly blue, trimmed mere or less with biaid. Old pattern, seven sizes, $2.75 te $4. Yeke pattern, $4; indigo-dyed, $4.50; white flannel, $4.75. The joke pattern fits mere perfectly than the old. The white flannel is, of com se, conspicuous ; and as a conspicuous garment ought te be, it is very line in quality. Beys' bathing suits ; old pattern, $1.50 te $2.50, yoke, $3 te $3.75. Market street mlddle entrance. Tapestry carpets at $1.15 down te $1 ; and at $1 down te 75 cents some time age ; net all gene. Northern gallery. reiiN II. KOTIl. & CO. CHARLES. JOHN B. ROTH. ItZTTHItS. TROS I5ITTKKS. SURE APPETISER. ter all diseases requiring a certain and effl- SUri'LZES. rOMN L,. ARNOLD. :e:- ASI) Z.1QUOBS. MISIlCEJt'S 11EJIB BITTEttS. PKOPHET IS NOT WITHOUT J. Hener save in his own country." True and yet like most truisms it has its ex ceptions. The most striking illustration of this id found in the reputation acquired by Mishlcr's Herb Bitten during the twenty flvc years it lias been before the people. Grewing from small beginnings as simply a local remedy, it has steadily worked its way fe the foremost rank anions the sUndurd medical preparations of the age ; yet nowhere is it mere highly regarded than right here at home, in the scenes of its earliest victories ever disease. Teu can scarcely find a man, woman or child in Lancaster county, who, at some time or ether, lias net used it, and the testimony of all is given in its praise. The farmer, the mechanic, laboring men and wo men, the merchant, the clergyman, the banker, the lawyer; people in every walk and condi tion of life are all alike familiar with its merits. Tlie Hen. Thaddeuf- Stevens, member of Congress from this.dlstrlct, suffering from an atTeetiouef the Kidney, could find relief in nothing else. In a letter te a fiiend (new in our posses-ion) he write: " MISHLER'.S HERB IMTTKItS i j the most wonderful com. binutien of medicinal herbs lever saw." The Hen. A. L. IUyes, Law .1 u-igc of the Courts of Lancaster county, w ites : " I have used it myself and in my family and am satis fied that its reputulieni net unmerited.'' Hen. Geerge Sanderson. Mayer of Lancas ter ity for 10 years, writes : " It has become familiar as a household word, and a necessary addition te the medical requirement of every family. In my ephi :t it is THE BEST REM EDY KYKR IN lnODUUEU." Jacob F. Frey. -.., Sheriff et Lancaster county, was cure. 1 et Rheumatism. J. O. Steinhaiiser, Superintendent of the Lancaster County Hospital, testifies te its success in that institution in the treatment et Dyspepsia, Kidney Diseases, Liver Complaint, Rheumatism, Asthma and Scrofula, and this testimony is endorsed from a like crpcrience by A. Fairer, esq., Steward of the Lancaster County Almshouse. The proprietors have in their possession thousands of letters and certificates from per sons in every section of the country who have been cured of various Diseases, and it is their premt beast that they have never published a line that was net genuine, nor a name that was net autherised. Seme of these read like miracles, but the facts are Indisputable. One et the most remarkable i tliu case of Isaac Saltzer, of JVIayeratewn, Lebanon county. Pa., cured of Hereditary Scrofula, aggravated by a perk diet. We bave two large jars of scabs which he saved and brought te us as a curios ity. He has net two square Inches en Ids en. tire body that is net marked with a scar, yet Mtshler's Herb Bitters cured him. Te-day it is sold by druggists and country stercKccpcrs in almost every town, village and hamlet throughout the length and breadth et this great country, and everywhere the s-ame verdict Is recorded. Thousands et families far removed from physicians rely upon it in every emergency and it never fails them ; with it in the house they feel, yes they knew, tlicv are safe against the attacks of disease. It has earned, It pos sesses and will continue te deserve the confi dence et the people. A preparation thus approved alike by the most prominent efliclals and the great mass of the community must noises merit. In fact lt A CERTAIN REMEDY. for purifying the Bleed and secretions A QUICK ANI AIWOLUTK CUKE for Dys pepsia, Liver Complaint, all Diseases of the Kidneys, Cramp in the Stomach and every form of Indigestion A SURE KEMKUY for Intermittent Fever, Fever and Ague, and all ether periodical Complaints. AN IMMEDI ATE RELIEF ter Dysentery, Celic, Cholera Merbus and Kindred Diseases. It is a PURE AND WHOLESOME STOMACHIC,; AN UNEQUALLED APPETIZER, A TONIC WITHOUT A RIVAL AND A PANACEA ter all Diseases of the Lungs, Heart and Threat. IT CURES Fever and Ague with greater certainty than Quinine, and In the river bottoms of the West has largely superceded that long considered specific for Chills and Fever, and the various forms et Malaiia. Its tendency te direct action upon the Kid neys renders its uc peculiarly beneficial in all Diseases of this nature, lt prevents the formation of Gravel, and where formed will dissolve and remove it. The aged and feeble will find it most comforting ami strengthen ing, it remedies the frequent necessity for getting np at night and will ensure sound sleep. PROMPT, CERTAIN AND-POWERFUL in its effects ; it is se mild and geutle in its operations that it may be given with abselute safety te the youngest child. LADIES, old and young, married and single, in every walk ami condition et lire will find its occasional use highly beneficial. The weary aches, the pains in the back and shoulders, the sinking, all gene feelings, nausea aud headaches, will be avoided and the pallid cheeks et the weak and debilitated will rival the rose and peach in the brightness and delicacy et their bloom. In a word it is NATURE'S OWN ASSISTANT, SOLD ONLY IN BOTTLES Enclosed in a yellow wrapper. See that the cork is covered by a 4 cent proprietary stamp from our own private date, bearing a finely engraved portrait of Dr. B. Mishler It is sold by all Druggist and Storekeepers. Try it. J SOLE PROPRIETORS, LANCASTER, PA. A WORD TO MOTHERS. If your child has worms, veu will find PROr. PARKER'S PLEASANT WuRSI SYRUP, the Safest, Speediest and Surest Remedy. IT DESTROYS AND RESIOVES THEM WITHOUT FAIL. Ne Caster Oil, Magnesia or any ether after physic is re quired. It is se pleasant that even the youngest child will take it readily. Ask for Prof. Parker's Pleasant Werm Syrup and Take Ne Other. Sold by all Druggists and Storekeepers. Price 25 cents per Bettle. LANCASTER, PA., SATURDAY, Lancaster Jfritdligrnrrv. SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 2,. 1881 "THE COXING POLITICIAN." AND THE PROBLEMS BEFORE I1IH. Address el J. Hay Drewn, esq., Before the Alumni et Pennsylveufa College, Uet- tysburg, Pa , Jane 20 1881 Assembled here te-night, as is our cus tom, te contribute our share te the literary exercises with which each year in the his tery of this institution is brought te a close, t'ie subject for discussion should net be inappropriate te the occasion. Believ ing that the time is net inopportune, knowing that I am te speak te educated men who are keeping pace with the pro gressive thought of the age. aud feeling that I stand en consecrated ground, wueie no utterance en free geverntnqpt, perpet uated en this field of eternal glory, can ever be out of place, I shall make no apol ogy for introducing te you "Tee Coming Politician." A discussion of the coming pelitician.in the vulgar acceptation of the term would indeed be out of place, and I shall net dig nify him with even a moment's censklera tien. It is of the coming poli tician in the highest and best sense of the term, that I would speak of him who will study the seience of government and learn the art of govern ing, who with an eye single te the welfare and best interests of his people, will man fully meet the great social problems con fronting him, aud, guided by truth's cleat light, strive fdr solutions .that will make the government strong aud stable, and the governed happy and prosperous. Te a consideration et the problems te be solved by the coming politician I first iuvite your attention. Paul's proud appeal te Cajsar was, "I am a Reman citizen." It was an appeal te governmental power for protection. To day the appeal from all oppression is the nobler cry, " I am a man." It asserts the rights due the individual. Increasing re spect for individual rights is most earn estly demanding a remedy for social in equalities. Hew te make stable the forces of our social progress, hew te lessen the gulf between rich and peer, the distance between ruled and ruler, iu ether words, hew te bring about a mere perfect equi librium of social interests, this is a great problem te be solved by the coming poli tician. Day by day great social questions are mere persistently than ever calling for solution. The great enigma of the age is the association of poverty with riches ; for never have there been mere glaring inequalities of life. Invention and labor saving machinery have been made te real ize the wildest dreams of production aud economy. Learning with heroic hands has tilted with prejudice and big otry and tumbled old superstitions into the dust ; while science, working in the highest faith aud with an aim only' for the highest truth, has pushed her way te the very portals of the Un known. All these things are the emblems and trophies of progress, yet what inequal ities docs the statesman contemplate. Every day the rags of the beggar brush the purple and flue lincuef the millionaire; the hovel stands in the shadow of the pal ace, and within the sound of the " church church geiug bell" are seen the walls of the jail and peer house. Well has it been said, "The 'tramp' comes with the locomotive, and almshouses and prisons arc as surely the marks of ' material progress ' as are costly dwellings, rich warehouses and magnificent churches Upen streets light ed with gas and patrolled by uniformed policemen, beggars wait for the passer-by, and in the shadow of college, and library, and museum, are gathering the mere hide ous Huns and fiercer Vandals of whom Macaulay prophesied. This fact the great fact that poverty and all its concomitants show themselves in communities just as they develop into the conditions towards which material progress tends proves that the social difficulties existing wher ever a certain stage of progress has been reached, de net arise from local circum stances, but arc, iu seme way or another, engendered by progress itself." The individual tnau is asking, "Why this inequality ?" He is asking it in the fierce tones or the Irish Land Leaguers and English agriculturists ; he is asking it in the sullen demands of German Sosial Sesial ists and in the despairing cry of Russian Nihilists. In our own fair land we may beast of apparent " material progress ;" may point te our fifty million people and the vast extent of our territory ; but the politician of the coining time will recog nize that size is net grandeur, and that bread acreage docs net make a nation. The problem will be, " What shall we de with it ?" As yet we arc making an cxpsritnent in representative government. Piofcsser Huxley warned well when in a public ad dress at the epeuing of a southern college he said : " Yeu and your descendants have te as certain whether this great mass will held together under the storms ei a republic, aud the despotic reality of universal suffrage ; whether state rights will held out against centralization without separa tion ; whether centralization will get the better without actual or disguised mon archy ; whether shifting corruption is better than a permanent bureaucracy ; and as population thickens iu your great cities, and the presence of want is felt,the gaunt spectre of pauperism will stalk among you, and communism aud social ism will claim te be heard." " Bossism" and " Machiuistn"' in our politics ; the dictatorship of political lead ers strong only in the control of official patronage ; the power of concentrated wealth ; the almost moral irresponsibility of corporate power ; the subordination of right itself te the behests of party fealty all these are problems, social, political and moral, te be solved by the future peli tician. The future is in the womb of the pres ent. The coming man will be the heir of the thoughts, feeling and tendencies of to day, and of the result of the ferment that is new upheaving the worn out creeds of men and raising the average intelligence te the conception of a nobler and higher state of things. Hence we must infer from present tendencies of political thought and feeling what the moral and intellectual status of the cemiug politician will be. This is the golden age of democratic spirit, and, therefore, of political skepti cism that reverent skepticism which does net rudely turn Iconoclast and has no fairer image te replace the fallen statue ; net the skepticism of the French Revolution, which interpreted liberty as license, but rather au inquiring unbelief that wisely construe) s as it tears down. The old rev erence of Diviuc right of kings and of gov ernment is ineltins away under the vivify ing rays of political rationalism. A few months age the tired hand of Carlyle rested forever. Modern ideas had swept around him aud left him sadly mourning amid his wrathful sayings and political sophisms. He died the apostleef an old, effete creed the advocate of Force. By nature and thought a pessimist, he had no faith in the potencies of man or the possibilities of bis development. Evil JULY 2. 1881. with him was nncurblc. All the wis dom desirable was that which can find the strong man and place him in the throne of power. His utterances eveu at this early day, sound rather like the harsh laughter of a cynical humorist than the sane opin ions of a philosopher. Even the great Mill died in the morning twilight of scientific democratic thought. Pick up any late history, penned by acknowledged scholar ship, and we find hew completely historical thought has changed in a few years. Henry Buckle, startling as he was but twenty years age and suggestive as he is new, has no place in advanced political thought. Freeman, Memmscn, Lecky aud Greene, mtcrpret history according te modern feelings, and doubts are cast upon the old theories. Science comes .te the aid of literature, pure and simple, and is teaching a rational optimism. Upen the widest generalization of physical phenomena she is building up a philosophy of government and morals. The ideas of the scientist and the scholar are filtered daily through the public press and periodicals; aud, little by little, the minds of the multitude are being enlight cucd. The innumerable essays, pamph lets aud books that are written oil specula tive theories evince the fermentation that is going en, the domination of ideas, and the curiosity prevalent in all rauks in re gard te them. This doubting spirit of the age has net yet overcome the powerful prejudice of party bias, but it is asking the why of economic relations and regulations, the duty of government and the legitimate extent of its functions. This spirit has called for independence in press and pulpit. It is demanding that a government shall be by the people and for the people; and the cemiug peliticiau of commanding greatness will be he who best represents this intelligent aud earnest spirit. It is in Swcdcnberg's theory that every organ is made up el homogeneous pariicies, that is, the lungs are composed of infinitely small lungs, hearts of infinitely small hearts. ' Following this analogy, " says Emersen, " if auy man is found te carry with him the power and affections of vast numbers, if Napeleon is France, if Napo Nape leon is Europe, it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons." It may new be well te consider for a mo ment the two distinctive elements in our politics. Naturally all palitical sentiment is either conservative of democratic. Iu Napeleon's time it was thought noth ing new could be learned in war ; and the ruling conservative politician of te-day, believing that nothing new can be kuewn in politics, sticks te his ancestral customs aud the tried modes of political warfare. He believes in using means that have been used before in the accomplishment of his ends. He believes in walking in the old ways, and denounces the voice of doubt, daring and inquiry that beckens the politi cal wayfarer into new paths, as the voice of revolution. He believes in caucus, be cause he believes that stability of parties, as well as of irevernmeut, lies in cenccn trated force" Whatever is " machine like " in our politics is conservative. The perfect working of the machine is the complete success of the party. " AVhat has made it work before should" run it. new," say the conservative poli tician. He believes that the individ ual in individual matters should be honest and upright, and in private life may teach the purest cedo of morals ; but political corruption and bribery de net always shock him, because they are rather the in heritances of the past than the creations of te-day ; because public sentiment has net branded public dishonesty as it has private ; because it has net held the man in public life te the same strict ac countability that it exacts from the pri vate individual. Aui the conservative man is slew te ehauge. Says Memmsen in describing the virtuous period iu Reman history, "The conscience of the Remans, otherwise in economic matters se scrupu lous, showed se far as the state was con cerned remarkable laxity," and quoting the language of Cate, "He who stele from a private person ended his days in chains and fetters, while he who stele from the public, ended them in geld aud purple.' ' Verily does history repeat itself. Se far as we are engaged privately we arc daily growing mere moral. "Yet," says one discussing the "People's Prob lem," "in our public alfairs we have be come se accustomed te downright robbery at the hands of men holding public place that the whole cemmuuity gives a sigh of relief when Congress or a state Legislature adjourns, at the thought that their power for cvi is for a time ended. Yet most of these men who fill our public places are, in private life, hpnest men." Millions change hands hourly en the stock ex changes upon simple memoranda. Hon esty in business transactions has an im mense commercial value, aud it is only when we enter the counting house of con servative politics that the stock of per seual honor or integrity is below par. The conservative politician believes in the nobility of class, the nobility of strength. He favors corporate power and monopoly, and talks of millions drawn from them for electioneering purposes as a matter of cenre IIe distiusts the people and will tell you that, though they may inaugurate lcvolutieu, they cau accom plish nothing of permanent geed in gov ernment. He will tell you that it was the barons and net the rabble who wrested Magna Charta from King Jehn ; that the nobles and net the peasants overthrew Charles I. ; that a hereditary nobility drew up the Habeas Corpus Act, expelled James II.. and did whatever was whole some and iust in the French revolution. Possibly he may say that the aristecraey of the American colenics, Washington, Jeffersen, Hamilton, wcre the conserva tives of their day, fit te rule. And this conservative element is the strong, ruiing clement iu our politics. It, of course, has its evils, te some of which I have just brielly referred, but it is the cle ment of wisdom. Its caution and indispo sition te venture out upon unknown seas have in the past saved restles3 political mariners from voyages of destruction, and in the future it will ever be the anchor te steady the ship of state when tossed upon a sea maddened by the fury of revolution. Opposed te this is the democratic or radical spirit in our politics. It is the spirit of individual independence, of earnest in quiry. It is the spirit that says te conser vatism, "progress, march onward." It is the spirit that believes in experimenting in politics, hoping te find something new and better. It is the spirit of doubt. " Denbt is the restless pinion et the mind And wings the soul te action. Men are prone le fatten en their creeus and softly ew These things most holy that are least divined ; Te slumber In sweet comfort, te be blind, And dull, and slavish, like the pampered drone, Whnsu ears arc de.if te any fry or mean, rttcred el" hearts me-t tender, brave and kind. Hut doubt makes thinkers dreamers, soldiers men ; Leeks ferwaid, never backward ; shame-- Use face Ol insolent pride and Jciuliie slmm." This element consists of di earners, thinkers, philosophers, civil service re formers, socialists, communists and every man that has a social theory, or who feels the inequalities of the age ; of the men who have inherited neither ability, posses sions nor influence ; of the meu who feel the stings of poverty or the enthusiasm of philanthropy. The great philosophic democrat of the age is Herbert spencer, wne in nis so cial Statics " and various essays would limit government te the simple function of enforcing contracts and allowing the individual the largest development, under what he conceives te.be the law of evolu tion. In our own country, the late work of Henry Geerge en m" Progress and Pov erty " has had an immense circulation and produced a profound effect en the radical intellect of the day. Ignoring all absolute ownership in real estate, he would se tax land values as te prevent any mo nopoly. In politics we nuu men line ucergc William Curtis, Carl Schurz and Wendell Phillips, representing this radical spirit of change. The various strikes are sug gestive in showing the strength of. the rough democratic spirit. Dennis Kear ney was a small Rebespierre, tossed for a moment en the froth and foam of a revo lutionary democratic sea. This element, in short, is the leaven iu our political mass. Truth must b3 found in the middle. The coming politician must be philosopher enough te adjust an equilibrium between these" two antagonistic forces. He must recencile the claims of conservative sta bility with the demands of democratic progress. He most see that conservatism, yielding nothing essential te the stability of geed government, but clinging only te the true and discarding the false, meets and tempers the democratic spirit of inde pendent inquiry, seeking earnestly at:d honestly for truth aud right. His legisla tion must net circle around the selection of a deer-keeper or a custom house ap pointment, but with true conservatism te guide him en the one hand and a tempered democratic spirit en the ethor, it must be a manly solution of the problems I have mentioned. Te his task he must bring breadth of mind aud advanced scientific thought. The people demand it and he must heed it. What will be his training? What ele ments of preparation will he receive? What will be the factors in his develop ment ? THE COIiMXlE, THE I'ltESS AND THE ruLrix. The power of aggressive intelligence is manifested in the direction and drift of the democratic spirit. The democratic thought which will in a large measure form the coming politician finds but little sympathy in our modern schools. Our educational institutions, like all organized power, incline te support the conservative aspect of politics and morals. This is leading te adverse criticism. Only a few months age Richard Grant White in a popular newspaper pointed out the insuffi ciency of our public schools. A few years age a member of Parliament, wiie had taken the prize for classic attainments at Cambridge, from his seat in England's grand council ridiculed the study of the dead languages. Bigelew, a professor of Harvard, in his "Modern Inquiries" pleads for a practical oducatieu. Through the pages of such periodicals as the Popn Pepn ular Science Monthly, in the works of eminent thinkers and philosophers, are found telling criticisms against the educa tional dogmatism aud conservatism of the times. The democrat of te-day calls for an education that will make a citizen ; for the education of the coming man will de termine the mental and moral tene of the coming politician. Believing as I de, that intellectually and morally we arc pro gressing, the coming politician injst be a man of wide range of thought and net afraid of the most abstract political the )iics He must be a man of science. The study of sociology is yet in its infancy, but he who will create government must net be an empiric. He must knew mere general ly the complex relations of human life. Involved iu every law are sociological, biological and psychological considerations. The ignorant controller of ward votes can net legislate for the future. The intelli gence of the day dimly sees that the legis lator who can net succeed in piivate life, when the conditions surrounding him are net se complex, is net fit te legislate for society when surroundings are se little un derstood aud se difficult te understand. Science claims te ruie the hour, and her dicta are becoming se common among the people that less questioning is being made as te the technical constitutionality of a law and mere as te whether the law itself is right. Logical, scientific thought, act ing upon the masses, is reacting upon the politician. He is the resultant of two forces, the classic conservatism of the old education and the radical demand of the new. The question new demanding answer is, " Hew are our schools aud colleges meet ing the demands of the hour ?'' " What relation has the cellege te the coming pol itician." However pleasant it may be te sit in Athe nian groves and listen te the wisdom of Secrates and Plate, will this alene enable the student or politician te walk the Broadways of the nineteenth century, con scious of mental strength equal te the de mands of the hour? Classic hours, inter preting Delphic oracles or listening te the responses from the whispering branches of Dedena's sacied oak will net suffice te teach the coming politician exact knowl edge of economic questions or govern mental arrangements. A little mere Adam Smith, Ricarde, Jehn Stuart Mill, Bastiat or Carey, along with Euripides ; mere of the study of Sociology and Biol ogy with Hemer and Cicere will help the coming politician trcau me legislative halls mere firmly and mt'slligently. The politician of the future is largely in the hands of the college and common schools. Hew arc they excrcisii.g their high trusts? Is our education such, is its tendency such, that the intelligence gained is but fuel for prejudice ? Are our schools sending out into the world of politics men whose minds arc se purged from "vulgar fears aud perturbations " that they can leek calmly at all political questions un-i-ifliicnccd by party bias or sectional ani mosities? In a large measure I think they are. The mere fact that all our great col leges are making a specialty of scientific courses and paying mere attention te scientific, political thought, is a hope for the future. The coming man must knew something of political economy, and lie will demand that the politician who legis lates for him shall knew something of the science of legislation. At present we have tee much of the government of men. The college must give us the rule of principles and intelli gence. This must come ; it is coming. But our educator.? must no longer lie sleeping in the decks of Carthaginian ships or gather mock courage amid the rowers of Reman galleys ; dream under the music of Apelle's lyre or listen with fancied terrors te the clanger of his silver bow ; but, laving the hand of knowledge upon the wild pnlse of this throbbing present world, prescribe a remedy for our ills and demand that the coming politician shall be strong and great in his luteili- fiCThe handmaid of the college the s press What the former is te the few it is ; te the mam-. Only a favored oneheie and there ean enter the recitation 100m and lecture hall of the college te study science, litera ture, history and philosepy ; but it 13 a Price Twe Ctltfc constantly open book" from whose pages light is " perpetually shining upon the masses. It i3 their educator, their great teacher. It teaches them in simply print ing the news. It speaks te them of the correct principles of government and what they ewe as citizens ; it asserts their rights and declares their duties ; it tells thorn of their needs and warns them of their dan gers, and, teaching them intelligence, dis cusses for them and with them the great problems upon the solution of which de pends their weal or wee. It says for them and te them that the peliticiau who is their representative in the legislative hall shall be as upright and honest in his public life as in his private walks ; and it demands that he bring te his task wisdom, and that the light te guide him shall be the light of advanced political thought, that clear light whose rays arc the restless but neucst spirit of democratic inquiry, subdued by true conservatism. The press is the great mirror in which public opinion daily views itself. Under its" searching glance truth en every subject must sooner or later be found. Its vigi lant eye is upon the world at large, upon the lowest as well as the highest. It mere sensif ively feels the subtle changes of popu lar thought and is mere bold in the ex pression of opinion than the college. The faet that all metropolitan journals te be great must be independent is one of the happiest signs of the times, for it fore shadows the independent, spirit of the coming politician. The press is becoming mero scholarly inclined, mere disposed te discuss questions from the standpoint of abstract truth than from the low piano of personal abuse. This, tee, anticipates the higher teue of the coming politician. Invading every home, bringing the news of every clime, publishing the minutest details of every public man's actions, dis cussing every live question, giving the world daily the benefit of the latest fact fancy or hypothesis in art, science and lit erature, reviewing every new book, criti- . cizing every new thought, the press is the most potent factor in our political life and the development et political character. Anether mighty power is in our midst, net only teaching a pure morality, but ope rating en the masses and determining in a large measure the moral tone of the coming politician. Owing te the bigotry of party prejudice, the pulpit has confined itself te individual morality and has net paid much attention te the relations the citizeu bears te the state. Said the Great Teacher, "Render, therefore, unto Cawar the things which are Cassar's, and unto Ged the" things that arc Ged's. " The pulpit has thus far dealt mero with the lat ter admonition and less with the for mer. Duty te the state is second only te duty te Ged ; aud from the ten thou sand pulpits iu the Iansl from which His servants spaak te His people aud all man kind of what they ewe Him for His matchless love, a voice should sometimes be heard speaking te the people of what are C.-csar's. They should sometimes be re minded that thore are political as well as Christian duties ; they should be taught te abhor the faults and short comings of tlicjwblic man no less than the sins of the private individual ; they should be taught that society is a great family, the mem bers of which in all their relations should practice the same virtues that adorn every well-regulated household. We need a high standard of national ethics. We need a national ideal tcmiwr ed and ennobled by religious thought. The ideal of the Spaniard, taught by the priest, was a Catholic world through Spanish force of arms. Our ideal should be the highest patriotism, and this ideal the pul pit should teach. As of old, the preacher is standing between the throne and the people, demanding of the one honesty, of the ether love of country. This teaching accompanied by all the force of religions sanction and authority, will act, is acting, slowly, it may be, but surely, upon the body politic, and will help make the com ing politician, if net technically religions, at least better, purer and mere patriotic. Believing as I de, in the permanent. ad vance of humanity, and taking up the hopeful strain that Tlire"th; ages enis increasing purpose runs. And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the huiis," I leek for the future politician te be what 1 have depicted ; te be wise, geed and patriotic. The democratic spirit is abroad iu its strength, asserting tup. dignity of man. It presents problems that only the intelligent politician can s-jlve. He must get his intelligence from the college, his support from the press, and his moral courage from the pulpit. 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