New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-10

is problem TO tax the coming Cayour or Bismarck
of our country-a problem. indeed, that might well
demand for it's solution some new Plato, OF Bacon
OF Montesquieu
You know lesanalyss Of representative gov
eminent II, of ten men, nine are recognized as
fools, which is common calculation how In the
name of wonder will you ever get ballot-box 10
grind you out wisdom from the votes OF these ten
menW
OF course the superficial answer to this extraVa-
gance is Educate the other nine" But IL IL AL
unsatisfactory answer. You cannot always euuo"'o
them. They are not always willing to take euuo"
ton if you have the power TO give H. Iney h"'o n0'
always fine ability TO receive 1t, however wiling
they may be to take, and able you may 10 ~ e''''
Al tbe hest it is remedy for the next generation
not Cor the one in which, for us ana
! -, rroeontative Government must succeed OF
! foil Mir Herbert Spencer has better answer anu
a is ono fiat deserves special note IN !. @
~ American Politics by American scholars: .?
ul VI. M horate new Truths and teach them to their
fellows are nowadays the real rulers, tDe yvhan
tnowledged legislators, the virtual klngs, "i I'm
tbe dicta of the Thinker cannot get estlOsneu ~
law until after long battle of Oplnl0n-wnen tney
have TO prove their fitness for the lime ny Cont
ouering Time, we have guarantee tuae t mU can
changes which arc lu-cOnsldereu vi Piohh"' WI
There then is our hope With the scholars OF the
land rests the real SoatrTt II fbe Thinkers are doing
~ ~ tbev are the real rulers And their rule
is prominently safe, because they never attain, W.
in the battle OF opinion, they have fairly won ~
But they fail in their high place. and are raise 10 Ine
country that claims their best service, as Wen as
their own interests, if they keep dalntly OUT OF te
actual strife Their place is in the market ana the
court with Alcibades, quite as much as under the
plane trees with Socrates.
To all this two objections are sure to be urged.
One will deny that in the high sense there Is class
of scholars in America. The other VIII question
whether in country where the most ignorant
prides himself on being as good as you or a httle
better there can be any chance Tor Scholars 10 eAeII
a legitimate influence. ~ =.
nothing by playing the chlldre9s game OF ME-
nearly as good as Amherst-mores the PITY; mar
ward and Yale scarcely reach beyond Rugby OF the
approach to the real Cambridge or the
real .Oxford, this side the -, Atlantic And
yet country that in the tlTst ,, cen
ney and Drisler and Hadley, TO men OF science nke
Henry and Ayassiz and Draper and Pierce, 70 Coz
eges that nurture professors hke that one at part
mouth who develops and almost recreates the Spec
trOscope or that in Amherst VINO gave 10 Anerl-
can Geology the finest collection on the Continent,
country that has Lowell and LOngfellow, that had
Hawthorne and has the promise of his lneal success
sOr III BOwels, that matches Carlyle with Emerson
and Froude with Motley that has given TO pure
scholarship a series of TRANSACTIONS OF the great
world poems, begun by Longfellow and Bryant, and
nObly concluded by BayaTd Taylor, to be i0llowedln
due time by an English TheOGrtus from wan street
sneers at the ircoheTeu nature OF Its scholastic APP
paTatus and dismiss the question as TO whether
there is such a thing as American scholarship
But can il get hearing IN p0htlcSl ~.
1.-THE finding of your Able Man" saws Carlyle, is
the business well or ill-accomplished OF oil social
procedure whatever, in this world" The power and
real rule OF the Able Man is to-day as absolute as
ever. 1.-THE tools to him that can use them, more
and more, as civilization grows complex, that be-
comes the rue Oh SSgy f she INC
Able Man has changed Carlyle fOund MN generally
a soldier. Now he Is never such or II by chahce
mere soldier drifts into the Able Mans place, ne Is
an anachronism. But year by year, IN business IN
law. i'm politics in all our intellectual and social
activities, more and more the man OF the nigh,
est intellectual equipment and the best disciplined
faculties comes to the front and takes command.
The scholar does have his place, and can get his
hearing if he will. ,
fThe speaker here considered number Of the
questions rising dim and vague through the mlsts
of the political future and sure to tax legisa-
tors and politicians through the next quarter cen
tury. Among them were such questions as these
How are YOU going to punish crime or, specl-
fcaly how are you going to punish murdereTs so as
to discourage muTderi ,.,
obtain that civil service reform which Is now az
once the most crying necessity and the most pitlul
How are Won going TO control your corporations
so MS TO protect the rights of the people without Inn
pairing their interests. and diminish the power OF
the corporations without destroying then useIui-
What shall be the relations between the man who
has labOr-skilled or uns1ed-to sell, and the man
with money TO buy itf
Is there 10 be any limit educational or otherwise,
TO suffrage OF any question Of race TO interfere with
the annexation of all outlying tropical and SEMI
shall the strain on suffrage be prevented by Com
pulsOTy EducatlOnY -,
Must we not abandon the theory that we get the
best officers in all cases, or In tourtths OF the cases
by eectionf
Etc. etc, etc.
THE INDIAN PROBLEM
What shall be done with our Indiansi We have
about exhausted on them the possibilities of our
national Formulation of policies. We made treaties
with, we made war upon, we granted peace to
these incoherent, helpless. barbarous Indian
wanderers within our own borders, just as we might
have done with France, our traditional, or Great
Britain. our natural friend and ally. A gang of
broechclouted stragglers stole horses and scalped
An occasional captive along the frontier. II they
had been white, we should have thrown them into
Jail; as they cOpper-coloIed, we straightway
opened diplomatic negotiations with them, sent
embassadors to them, entreated them with gifts,
made treaty with them. Presently, OF course,
they robbed OF scalped somebody else, exactly
as more intelligent and responsible criminals are
won't TO do when they get out OF the clutches OF the
law. Then we made National war upon them, con-
quered them sporadic Capt. Jacks meantime giving
us many a hard struggle over IT., ana then negou,
ated fresh treaties with them which we ratified
with fresh gifts. And then, the stragglers went
upon their reservations whence when the grass ass
fresh raids, 10 be followed by fresh fights, fresh
treaties, fresh returns to the reservations, and
thence, again. and yet again, as the musicians say,
da cqyo Does any rational being doubt that all this
was from the beginning, fifty years ago. and IS
Cbristianized. Congressional and Presiden-
tiai fOOleryt But what will you havei
If these half-starved, irresponsble, worth
less wanderers are not an independent Nation,
mysteriously existing within the limits of another
vet retaining their autonomy and their independ-
ence to be dealt with under the sanction of treaties
and the law of Nations, what are they Are You
ready TO accept the obvious the WISE solution Of
the problem that has perplexed two centuries of
Anglo-SaxOn rule on this continent Ito wipe out
with one stroke your historic policy of National
treaties with wandering gangs Of yagabonds, and
of internatlnnal law TO casual thieves