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SCKANTON. rinrnUAtW 21, 1809.
Threatened surprises In the senator
Uil ilpht nti n Iuiir time In coming.
Push!
l-'or Ki'Vi'iAl months tlio Hoard of
Tuulo 1ms liven trvlnir to interest local
uiillul In a bolt uml nut vvorka which
r an bo Induced to locate In Kcranton
If the proper ciicouiagement Is given.
Piolltltifr by past experience the board
did not take hold or this project until
It vns sine of ltn ground. Patient In
vestigation was nuule. The chances ot
"tierces were weighed after consulta
tion with disinterested men who arc
familiar with that Industry. Condi
tions weie Imposed which would gle
ample protection to local capital in
vested In the enterprise and finally a
utnwiss of our nionoveel men was un
dertaken. U would not bo true to
speak of this cam ass as a failure, for
that I -j u wmd which the Hoaid of
Trade declines to recognize; the can
vas's will et lOund up the requisite,
ciptllll, but In the couie of the -nn-apssonu'
Instinctive experiences wcro
had.
It was found, foi example, that one
(lass of local capitalists had no time
for any imp lsltlons except such as
Involved Mitt ulatlon In real estate
Some of the-e men had made money
tapldly In the past by buing land on
a low market and selling it on a high.
Thev wanted to continue this process.
Their business Is legitimate and call
for a gieat dial of Mmwdness but It
did not seen' to occur to some ot iho
reil estate dealers that realty values
cannot bo expected to advance Indefin
itely unless the Industry of the cltv
which feeds the real estate market ln
creaseb ulho; unless more men arc giv
en remunerative employment year by
ear, more cash-palng customers pro
vided for oui met chants, In short, more
business done. Other capitalists want
ed to start new banks, forgetting that
without Industries banks nre Idle. Oth
ers having become wealthy by luck,
-vv tinted to take no llsks with their
hoard; they wanted copper-lined bit
per cent, gold bonds.
This Is not the spirit In which Scran
ton was advanced fiom the proportions
of a small settlement In a wilderness
to those of an energetic metropol
itan city, forming one- of the
ivondeia ot the east. It Is not
the spirit which will keep up this
giowth and cany the city ns far for
ward In the next score of years as it
was carried forward In the score lust
ended That which has created past
progress in this municipality and sur
rounding territory has been plucky,
giitty, daring enterprise Wo need
that kind of enterprise still. AVe need
it to protect what wo have; we neel
It to Insuie piontable and peimanent
gioxvth. The Hoaid of Trade has ,mt
Its shoulder to the wheel at the oppor
tune time and every citizen Interested
In Ser.mton's future should help to
push the good woik along.
Tho death of ex-St.ito Treasuier
Haywood Is a human saciifice to fac
tional spleen.
An Autocrntic Eureau System.
Captain I-Cfello J. Terry, In a loiter
to the Now York Tribune, give a tcirlblo
scorching to the Inn en u pystem that
Is causing tho United Stitcs to bo ri
diculous in the tight oe tho woild by
icason of the methods cmplojed with
legaid to the nnny. The staff depart
ment, be a'sLrt, has s fir Intnnrhed
lt.ielf behind laws and piccedents that
Us cumbious inefliclency is n Humb
ling block In the way of aimy rneas
ai es. The department lacks con ela
tion and subordination. Is jirinu!jte
to no mllltaiy nuthoiltv and responsi
ble to no compete nt head. In no tine cr
taln language Captain I'tuy sa:
"It Is the prime object with these
buicau chiefs to bo directly und cx
luflvoly 'uiulei tho depailment,' for
ho very obvious leas-em that In that
relation thev aio independent ot all
mllltaiy supiriois, with absolute sway,
acli In his own 'sphere of Influence'
Thiough joais of skillful management
thy havo so e.mtilved that In joutlne
matteis the nuthoilty of the secretary
-even ot tho president himself un-n'-is
he Is oroiused by some Fpec'al mat
ter has fallen Into u. mete vnguefoim
tho buienu chiefs rontiol everything
IJveiy head always tuggibts, diaftsand
jiesents his unn oideis, to be signed
oy his o-called superloi, upon whom,
is a jule, he secretly looks with con
tempt. "These slaft bureaus and precedent
'oday comniand tho American army.
I'hey commanded It thioughout the Ou
3 in war. Yet by law and piecedent
these bureau chiefs aie a spec lew dis
tinct fiom tho soldiers of the real nr
; although they wear shoulder
Uraps and draw army nav they me
lot soldiers. They are mere- bureau
idmlnlstratoi., performing civil hoi vice
ind not, under tho peculiar system of
heir own, mllltaiy ofllcets at all In
he tiuo gorge of tho teim. Never
.heless, by their machinations, and their
isuipatlons they place themselves
ibove the army.
Stianger still, by a hocus-pocus of
raft and humbug, reinforced by tho
Jieeedenta cieated fiom time to time
y themselves, they have seized tho
nachlnery of the war department it
it'lf. Their wishes in the matter ot
egislatlon almost Invariably go for
ward In form to congress with the uec
retnry'a Indorsement. The composition
particularly of tho military commlt
tfees of both houses they watch with
an eagle oye. It Is Improbable, there
fore, that there will bo any recommen
dations to congress for advejse changes
from a condition of things so satls
raotory to tho beneficiaries. The .sys
tem appears to bo Impregnably in
trenched against all reforms from the
Inside.;'
He furthermore declares that Hasan
has unintentionally proved lilm-mlf n
benefactor In eiilllncr attontlon to the
utter helplessrnoss of tho war depart
mont under Its present Hvnlem and
hints that thin was probably taken Into
account In the extraordinary mitiga
tion of that nfTlcer's sentence for his
umnlstnlablc outrage against decency
and mllltaiy discipline. Captrln Per
iyp statement, which occupies two and
one-half columns, is a clear and logical
exposition ot what many sensible peo
ple havo felt assured for some time
that tho war department now in vogue
needs tt tremendous shaklng-up. It le
but In line with President Seth Iow's
speech on Washington's birthday In
which ho said. "Wo arc obliged to ad
mit that on tho side of the war de
partment, the genius 'that made our
railroads the most oftectlve In the
woild. the genius that has enabled our
manufacturers to conquer the markets
of tho world, Is not forthcoming. The
contrast between the work of tho navy
depattment and of tho war department
Is too great to bo wholly explained
away. It la as clear as the noonday
pun that the organization of tho war
department and of the nimv Is abso
lutely unfilendly to efficient r '
The fact that a United States cruiser
has been sent to Hluellelds to discover
the cause of tho fulluro of tho gunboat
Mailctta, to send reports, will probably
provoke another wall fiom null-Imperialists
who will imagine that tho
administration Is desirous of annexing
Nicaragua.
Benjamin J. Haywood.
After woaiy weeks of suffering,
weeks and months ot gasping for
breath and lighting for life, Unjnmln
.1. Havwood has yielded In the battle
to the inevitable victor. The "tabs of
torture bo has endured have just as
surely been administered by his perse
cutors us If his malicious and vin
dictive enemies had come to his bed
side and with daggers of steel thrust
him to the heart A pure and beau
tiful life has reached an end too early.
Genuine 1 egret will be mingled with
gilef at his death that he could not
have lived to see tho complete vindica
tion which would have been his In the
near future. His memoiv will be long
cheilshed by a countless number of
friends
And still the house has not acted
on the bill to make Dewey admiral.
Cm It affoid to fall in this matter?
A Chinese Diplomat.
AVu Ting Tang, the Chinese minister
to this country, spoke at the Southern
society dinner In New York on Wed
nesday and proved by his sapeech that
he is a diplomatist of tho first rank.
After paving, in excellent English, a
number of compliments to the mem
ory of Washington, he noted the cir
cumstance that the American nation
had been fotced by circumstances to
grow beyond f-ome of the traditions '
popularly associated with Washington's
name and hoped tint out new policy
of expansion Would be chanieterlzcd
by tho paino high ideals which had
been Washington's inspiration. Then
he ald"
"You have had the Philippines ceded
to vou, and I see now that vou aie
hesitating whether jou will keep them
or not. I expiess no opinion ns to
v hetln i yuu Miould or should not keep
them. That of course, is a matter for
vou to decide, and one upon which l
liuvc i.o ilsht to say a word for or
against. But I will say this that we
nnift huvM a. neighbor, whether you
take tho Philippines or not Whoever
occupies thine Islands will be a neigh
bor of our country, and In mv humble
opinion It Ir. better to linvo a good
neighbor than an Indifferent one
Gentlemen If you should ever dccldo
to k"cji the Philippines mind jou, I
am expicssing no opiil; i what would
1h the consequences'' There has In en
a huge tinde eairicd on between those
Mauds and China for centuries, our
enuntrjmen. havo pone tlieio for tiade,
and they to us, lu fact, tlieio hai b"en
a conrtant lntoicouis" between the two
places Theiefore, If mi should de
cide to keep tho Philippines, jour trvdo
would undoubtedly be greatly ln
creasMl, and jou would be benefited
thcrtbj. Aput from thli the Ameri
can ttade In China Is considerable, and
for tho last few yeais it lias steadily
inci cased.
"A question I have been often asked
is whether we Chlnepo aie well dis
posed tow aid Americans. Now It Is
unnecessary for me to give vou a direct
answer; but I will do so In Illustration.
I you know what we call your nation
in K.hhuse We call jour nation '.i
How cry Hag nation,' and do jou know
what we call your people? We call
them 'the handsome people I do not
know who Is losponslble for tho origin
of this last teim, but perhaps It came
from feeing jour women. P.ut, gentle
men, seilously that cleaily shows that
wo aie favoiably disposed toward vou.
If we did not like jou we should not
give jou such nlce-soundlng descilp
tloiiH. Trom this jou will undeistand
that tho odlclals of China as well as
the people genernllv, llko America, and
our lelatlons, both commercial and
political, are very cordial."
It would be difficult to Impiove on
this
7f the Ameilcan officers In Cuba wero
nt flist a little suspicious of Gomez It
is pai tly to bo accounted -for by the
fact that ho was equally suspicious of
them. This feeling evidently Is djlng
away At Mntanzas Tuesday Gomez
was the guest of General Wilson at
the provincial palace and reviewed the
American troops; and at Havana he Is
to be for a time tho guest of General
Urcioke and Is to lecelvo full mllltaiy
honors.
There are persons who apparently
contlnuo to be Imbued with the Idea
that General Miles has committed a
ci lino In taking un Interest In the wel
fare of tho men under his command,
but their number Is diminishing.
It Is alleged that Chauncey Depew
has not been funny since he was elec ted
United States senator. Mr. Depew Is
evidently reserving his wit for the
coming editions of the Congressional
Ilecord.
There Is no question that tho Inhabit
ants1 of Negros aio entitled to be num
beied among the Filipinos who np
pioach the condition of Intelligence
necessary for successful self-eovero-
ment. The people of the Island of N'e.
gros profeired poaco to yellow politics
und therefore raised the American flag
as noon as thev believed It to be safe.
The news from Manila would seem
to Indicate Hint Agulnaldo's veneer
ing of civilization Is exceedingly thin.
Against Woman Suffrage.
A significant fenturp of the suffrage
question wns brought out this week
when n number of womet anucaied
before tho Senato Judiciary commit
tee nt Albany and protested against
bills advocating woman suffiage. They
declared In the- memorial presented
that tho legislation which has most
aided women In protecting their rights
has been Introduced by men In whos-c
minds the reform had originated and
upon whom no feminine persuasion
had been exercised. An an instance
was cited the Married Woman's Prop
erty Act passed in 1S48 entirely with
out the assistance or the clamor of
women, but onlj from a sene of jus
tice by the thinking men of tho time.
The momoilal closes with this some
what remarkable statement; "Gentle
men, woman suffrage and woman's
progress nre founded on distinct and,
as wo believe, on antagonistic prin
ciples. As proof that lawmakers havo
recognized this tiuth, we point to th9
fact that while for fifty years Now
York has steadfastly denied appeal
for woman suffrage, her statesmen
have made laws so largely In our favor
that, If wo want legal cqualltj, vr
must begin with a surrender of great
pilvlleges We believe that thesj priv
ileges havo been granted In recogni
tion of the fact that our life and work
are as valuable to man and to tho gov
ernment, and as much reipoctel by
both, as man's tnoie evident iervic
Such pilvlleges appear to be our equal
rights, and wo pray you not to en
danger them by the passage of thso
bills."
In the face of this determined and
evidently gt owing fire from the rear,
the suffragist cohorts will have to ic
form their battle-lines and lessen, for
n period, their determined assaults
upon "the common enemy, man."
We trust that Kudjard Kipling's Ill
ness has not been pioduced by the
Americnn parodies on his poems.
Senator Goiman thieatens to make
Schley a presidential candidate. Does
he deseive that?
The Nation's Latest
Question of Diity.
Prom Seth Low's Washington's Ulrthday
Oration in Philadelphia
PHILLIPS mtOOKS onco Fald that
If a man believed that the country
had escaped all tho dangers which
hav o eonf ronted It only bj' a series
of happj accidents such a man n i
tural'y would bo full of ftar at every
new j rll that makes Its appearance, be
bccpusti saich a m in nevci could tell when
the toiintij s luck mlKht not change. If,
on theotlui hmd, said Dr. Urooks a man
btllcves that the countrj his overcome
tin clnrneis of the past because lis polltl
e il fcjsUm Ik Inherontlv sound, such a ono
l.itcsoveij new pull with a courage born
of the clmccr that hive been overcome
Jt Is In this salrlt of well-grounded cour
njo I think, tn it the people of the United
btiitfs liould conic nipl ite tho situation
In which thn find themselves pi icrcl, in
1S13 by the trciiv of ikhco with Spain
Unless our tnat with Sjuln his boen
nictated bv lust ot emplte. It Is not fair
to call thove who advocated It impcriil
Ists unless It his been uici.ued bj lust
of terrltoiy. Il Is not fall to call tlK'm
t'xp insleiilstb, unless n better way cin
bo shown bj whli h peace, could have bit u
rnurcil, It Is not just to criticise the
,o eminent for nccrptlng even unwelcome
obligations thit the wir has brought In
Its train.
o
What then, nie the facts" The con
KresH of tlu United State, In dermnd-
lug tho withdrawal of Hpiln fiom Cub i,
declared It to be tho purpose of tills loun
tr to Ktcuro fietdom for the Cub ma.
There is cert ilnh mlther Imperialism nir
expansion In those resolutions. Up to this
hour theio is rot nn indication that tho
puipoi.0 of the c junto, as thus formulit
cvl by conyiesx, will not he lived up to
both In tho letter and In the spirit. It Is
evident, therefore that our imperialism
and our expulsion if they cxin at all,
nro lij-prooucti), thej do not represent
tho he art's desire Hut some one w 111 s ly,
"Why, then, did we demand tho cession
of Porto Itlco and of the Philippines.' If
tho Americnn people aro not Imperialists
und aro not exiiiiislonlsts, why should
we demand from Spain tho cession of
those islands"'" The answer, it seems to
mo Is very simple, though It Is not tho
sumo In both cases It Spain had with
drawn from Cuba wlthuut war. she would
undoubtedly bo still in possession, so far
ns nu nie concerned, of both Porto Hleo
und tho Philippines 'iho moment sho
compelled us to go to war In order to ex
pel her from Cuba, It became) evldcntlv
tho dictate of good scrso to make It Im
possible for future troubles to aiise be
tween us from similar causes b icmovlng
her from this hemisphere. She has been
a dllllcult neighbor from the beginning.
No one, I think seilously ciltlcises this
decision.
fl
it Is said, however, that In the Philip,
pines, by ifiison of their distance and
thelt population, the case Is different.
Undoubtedly It Is, and therefore the an
swer Is dlffeieut Evidently it would
have been unwise to attempt anv solution
of tho Philippine problem which should
place Spanish and American civilization
sldo by side In control of different parts
of tho Philippine group That would
hivo been deliberately to reproduce In
tho Eastern hemisphere tho vcrv condi.
tlons that had just led to conlllet in tho
Antilles It was Inevitable, therefore,
thit clthci Spiin or America must leave
tho Philippines. Wo had destroved
Spain's authority there and had also de
strayed her power to re-establish It In
no fair sense of tho words, under these
conditions, Is It Just to bay that in de
termining to make peace by securing tho
cession of the Philippines tho United
States has been animated by cither tho
lust of empire or the lust of tenltorj'.
o
II ut some raj that the islands should
have been surrendered to the natives
under a Joint protectorate It is uiged
that our action, In demanding a cession
of tho Philippine Islands to ourselves, Is
comparable with what the action of
Prance would havo been If. at the end ot
the Itevolutlonary war, France had made
peace with England by demanding tho
cession of England's American colonies to
herself Leaving out of account the fuct
that Franco had entered Into formal al
banco with tho culoulsts to aid them In
securing Indcperdence. It eeems to me.
rather, that the demand of those vvhe
seek a Joint protectorate for the natives Is
llko a demand on tho part of Prance, had
sho made it, that England's co'onles
should bo left to tho Indians under a
joint protectorate. It Is impossible, In
such attnlrs, to leave out of nccount tho
demonstrated capacity of a people for
suit-government.
o
Undoubtedly, the Unlttd States should,
mid undoubtedly we shall, give to the mi
Uvea of Hie Philippines as uitvit a menu.
t Uf of self-government us they arc ea
pablo ot excrcllng; but we could not, in
Justice to civilization, assume, In our
treaty with Spain, a. capnelty tor civilized
government on the part of the niitlves
which has never been shewn to exist. It
was tho samo Jefferson who wroto In our
Declaration of Independence that gov
ernment ought to rest upon tho consent
of tho governed, and who nrgucd for a
strict construction of our national con
stitution, that purchased Louisiana from
Napoleon without tho consent of tho pco
plo sovereignty over whom was thus
transferred to tho United Slates, nnd also
without any other constitutional author
ity than that which bns Leon exercised
In connection with tho cession ot tho
PhlllpplrcR. Thit Is tho difference be
tween JefTetsDii tho statesman nnd
Jefferson tho philosopher Tho phil
osopher stated tho Ideal, which I believe
to bo tho Ideal of tho American pcoplo to
day as fully as It nlwajs has been, but
tho statesman did n great service to his
country and to civilization, bj doing a
wise thing nt a fortunate moment, al
though, In doing It, ho contravened his
own deal, I freely ay that If the di
lemma with which we havo huil to deal
In tho matter of tho Philippines had been
voluntarily and consciously sought, the
outcome would hivo been discreditable to
our good faith and alarming In Its por
tent Coming as It his, however, as an
unintended result of a war with Spain
hiving Its origin In disturbances with
Cuba, I believe tho children have given
tho answer the father would havo mado
In the llko case Unless civilization under
proper conditions has a right to vvlthnold
control from barbnrlm and Hcml-bar-barlsm
and to sublltute for cither some
thing bettei our own national life rests
upon Inexcusable wrong to tho aborigines
whoso land wo havo taken and for whoso
civilization, such as it was, wo have sub
stituted our own.
o
Hut others again sny that tho American
Ideal Is government "of tho people, by tho
people, and for tho poople," and that, how
ever truly wo mnj give to tho Philippine
Islands a government for tho people, It
will not bo nnd cinnot be, under our uu-thorltj-,
a government of tho people and
by tho people Undoubtedly In this as
pect, also, tho fact comes short of tho
Ideal; but to Piy that, In the premises,
we have no duty to civilization or to the
Phlllpplno Islanders Is to claim that a
self-governing democracy by Its verj na
ture Is lncnpablo of serving other peoplo
except by Its own oxiniplc. I do not think
so mennlv of democrncj Yet I would
not ndmit for a moment, even by Impu
tation, that the service of the Amerlcin
democracy to nnnMnd has been hitherto
nn j thing les3 than a world service. I
have no inpithj" with anv ono wan
speaks with a certain ulr of apology of
America's Isolation In tho pist. No na
tion slnco the American rcnubllo was
founded has Influenced tho history of all
nations more Importantly or more bene-llclallj-.
Indirectly by Its Influence, nnd
directly by its action, It has dono more
than any other country to substitute ar
bitration for war as a means of settling
International disputes, while Its general
success ns n self-govenilnti nation, sln
ceicly devoted to tho arts of peace, his
given a profound lmpulo to democracy
the world over. Neither do I believe that
the short and successful war with Spain
has changed the temper of our country,
men In a night
o
The cqimllj- successful war with Mexico
produced no such result, and tno inbred
h iblt of a century Is not so e islly cast
aside. Our mission, Indeed, has been a
world mission of the highest order Wo
hive Invited to our shores men of every
European country nnd many others to
haro with us in the development nnd civ
llizitlon of a continent Not even Eng
land's mission, with her colonics and de
pendencies scattered over the earth, has
been more wide-reaching than ours. Wo
have asked the people of tho civilized
world to Join with 113 In developing a con
tinent, nnd in doing so to learn with us
the nrt and lesion of sf-government We
havo also invited here tho wealth of
Chtlstcndom to take nart In the develop
ment of our material resouices.
o
Tt is noticeable that In the same event
ful vcir of 1V)S tint has burdened us with
new duties to people ncross tho sea. we
lino become for the 111 st time a credltefr
nation lending vast sums of monev to thf,
peoplo of Europe. It Is n striking and
tugtje stive coincidence that at the very
moment when our relitlons to the civil
ized world hive changed financially, an
obligation ot dutv to outside people less
civilized than wo are seems also to hav
been laid upon us It Is ns If a voice that
ndmlts of no it monstrance hid said to
us in the plenitude of our piopeiltv and
pnver "Heroiftei jou must heed the
call to Ftrvlce both with men nnd vvl'h
monej away from homo as well as at
home" To me It seems un evidence ot
the roundness of hunt of the Amciieun
people that thev have unflinchingly ac
cepted tho heivj burdens devolved upon
the nation by leason of tho war with
Spain, and l do not ee In tho accept
ance of theso burdens anv unfaithfulness
to our past or to what we stand for
among the nations of the earth
COLLEGES.
Trom the Pittsburg Times
When tho citizen rends of colleges and
universities two oi thieo favored insti
tutions llko Haivard and 'i aio come into
his hend. Hut thero are In tho United
States al least 47j Institutions devoted to
higher education, receiving from tuition
unnuallv more than ?7,0W,0OO, and from
other sources, such as endowments, bene
factions and government help, enough to
Bwell tho lueomo to nearly fly 000,000. The
college libraries contain 7 000,000 volumes,
the grounds nnd buildings are worth $1J0,
000 000, und the productive funds amount
to JIH.OuO.OOU, Of tho whole number ot
colleges and universities 10 havo an at
tendance of moro than 1,000 btudents each
and 10 nn attendance of more than 2 000.
Of theso Harvard hcuds the list with 3.SJ0,
followed by the University of Michigan
with 3 230. University of Minnesota with
3 000, Pennsjlvania with 2,833, while Ynlo
and the famous University of Chicago are
content with but 21100 each. Tho total
number of students Is close to ICO.000, und
nearly U 000 Instructors aro busy with
them. Of the 475 Institutions considerably
moro than half are under the care ot the
various tellglous denominations of tho
country.
o
Ot tho picsldcnts of tho United Stnts
nlno were not col lego men. That Wash
lngton und Lincoln were among that list
snjs nothing agninst tho college, either.
The Adamses vveio Harvard men. Yalo
has not a representative In the white
house list. Jefferson and Monroe, the
Virginians, w ero from William and Mary,
and they telleet ns much credit on the In
stitutlon vvhenco they came as tho Harv
ard men. So did Grant, who came from
est Point, the military school of the
United States, or the Harrisons, who
came old "Tippecanoe" from Hampden
Sjdney, or tho other who graduited from
Miami university. Tvler was a William
and Mary man, giving that institution
three representatives In the whlto house,
a distinction enjoyed by none other.
Princeton gave tho country Madison, Polk
came from the University of Noith Cam
Una, Plerco from Bowdoln, Uuchanan
from Dickinson. Hayes from Kcnyon,
Garfield from Williams, and Arthur from
Union. Of course, tho lending military
men camo from West Point, having
shaped their courses to bo soldiers from
tho start Of congressmen tho majoilty
who attendiHl collego sought thoso thnt
wero not far dlstan, and thus It happens
that tho nativity and bojhood of t J .
member or serutor pretty nearly Indlcul.
the section in which ho was educate l
Senator White, ot California, for instaiu e
was educated at Santa Clnia, Scimim
Frjo at Howdoin, whence camo nit- i
Speaker Heed; Senator Money and .Mr
Allen, tho odd pair of Mlsslsslpplans-'iirt
from tho unlverslljr of their own slut
And so It goes all over tho Union. In the
newer states tho lepresentatlves hall
from Bomo of tho colleges further r.es'
but tho general tendency has been to keen
pretty close to tho homo nest when the
joung man seeks nn education,
o
The colleges und universities Ihni me
set down ns being 'In tho lend nro not
represented proportionately to any great
er extent by men In prominent or public
llfo than tho small Institutions. The con
clusion seems to bo that the joulh who
comes from any good educational Institu
tion with a proper training nccordlng to
Us requirements Is iilto well equipped
for his struggles with tho world, and It
may bo that from somo of tho rural col
leges he carries uway somo habits of
thought and practice that stand him In
better hand than those he would pick
up If his schooling had thrown him
nmong a larger number, with more money
nnd a freer rein In the country towns
where tho small colleges thrlvo thcro Is
usually un atmosphere of restraint that Is
whocsome. Particularly Is that tho caso
at tho colleges established by sectarian
influences. Ono of tho lltst things tho
government of the school looks to Is, that
objectlonablo suiroundlngs shall not pre
vail, for that Is to rob the college of pos
slble patronage
o
There Is no nrgument between tho big
and little collcKe anj more than between
tho big and little man Thej aio tontein
porarles, but not ilvnls. It Is necessiry
that so m.inv should exist and that they
should bo scattered nil ovor the countrj,
for their object Is education 'Iho meth
ods ot touching aro qulto tho same, nnd
tho things tuught cannot differ much.
Hut car fures do dlffei. and it would bo a
burden If tho Inhabitants of Texas were
obliged to send their voting pcoplo to
Michigan or Maine to bo launched upon
tho great struggle Possibly somo day
thero will bo a few great universities in
the United States wheie thoso who have
passed through the less pretentious insti
tutions may meet and add tho broaden
ing touches of education, but at tho same
time It Is to be desired that the smaller
colleges will contlnuo to mulllplv until
everj- community of reasonable popula
tion will havo easily accessible at somo
point of ndvantngc a sninll college vvhero
a thorough training may bo afforded,
amid wholesome surroundings, nnd at a
moderato cost Education in tho dijs to
como is to bo moro general than In tho
davs that are gone, and tho joung man
who is following us will not bo content to
go out Into tho woild ns soon as ho ins
learned to read In wolds of three sjlla
blcs und add, subtract and multiply, nnd
Ilguro moderately well In fiactlons
Somo 473 colleges and universities in
tho TJnlted States looks like a consldei
able number, and it Is. Hut when It is
considered that It represents but ono In
stitution for 160 000 people It Is not too
manj. Wero the colleges attended as
they are bound to bo In time, as pcoplo
h'avo moro means, und as the value of
higher educational training is learned,
tho number now in existence would be far
better patronized at least, even It tho
number did not increase However, tho
patronngo Is fair, as tho rolls of gradu
ates show, and It makes America tho best
educated country in tho world.
AN OPEN LETTEK.
Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Now that tho excitement of tho
election is over, perhaps a few Incidents
of tho duj- wouid receive somo attention.
And tho chief of theso Is one that 1 wish
to present to the citizens oi Scranton lu
tho shapo of a question. "Hy what right,
under the law foi bidding any ona to sell
or glvo liquor to a person on election daj,
and forbidding anj ono keeping a licensee!
place, to keep open on election daj, could
all tho drinking places In tho centrnl city
but two, piovklo either bj sale or gift
drinks to nil comets on Tuesd.aj-, Pcb 21,
li.93?" This is not a guess, but a fact
demonstiated bv actual investigation mid
observance.
At somo of the places the piecautlon of
using tho side door was not even made
use of. Tho excuse for not keeping tho
law is that there are so manj unllcense d
places allowed lo do business, that thoso
who do pa j license nre wronged. Grant
ed Then the best waj- Is for those who
do paj to keep tho law, then combine and
compel the law to bo i nforecd In regard to
those who don t secure the right to sell
AVo uro not trvlng to enforce n new or
strani'o law Wi ask oulv to have tho
laws now on the statute books enforced.
Hex G W Welsh
President of Cltj Christian Endeavor
Union
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