, 1874-03-24
and how should thoy bs guided except by oul.
tured atatcAmnnRhtp,


wore final, a',d proceeded to ansvyr tito s,os.
tion. Tho politiunl ,dons upon which our To-
public ", was lasod bound bound ns logically to n!
hs lad gene ena b11s nse in thS hsosy Of
our own. Tho finalItv Of political development
WIS perfectly wise government, in wl,ic!, tue
eenso Of duty should tako tho pfaee Of !ntcrest,
lad boon tho political dream Of tic world--u.o
ideal; and nothing short Of 1t could 10 tl,al
It was not simply fancy. thls dronm Of Hoy-
ernmcnt OF tho hest:-this. pu1e sristocraoy.
horenchod. tho world wae. moving ia its ulreo-
tson. Bolf-interoat was tho leading motive In
politics now but eidc BY sido with interest duty
was an actual motive. Duty waH tho Leading po-
fS neodaa 1 to % give iE oontre % bu M s t %ss
extant ali tho vhlo. This, tic sool or tho ult.
n,ato m'tivo Of political conduct, waa plainly IN
tho heart Of man to-day. Change would come.
dr'von up b. tho advancing tide; but ths next
wave would como with an Increased impotus mud
even carry 1t a littlo further than 1t fell sway.
NEW CHAPTER.
He thought our polticnl syBtem waH nmnIy
ono more chapter in tho Aryan history, Tho
cIlangea Of political s;stom that had occurred to
others werc possible with ns. He trusted tho
American Ropub!lc would continue to ho tho
political thought. Tho prime need Of tie nation
was cultured stateanlanshp. 10 provo thisthe leo
turorcitod several Of tho probsonsof Amor
lean politics. He showed how eBsontial rospoct
FOR the courts Of Tho nation wag for tho nnton'a
prosperity. Ho saw IN the growing lack Of re-
Hpeot for the courts Of Now York City source
Of danger to The Republic. He asked: How
ahal tho public and private noraltlos Of tue poo-
PIE be protnotodw tho gans and distinctions Of
TO every voter, while many Of tho boat men were
too eager In tito pursuit. If wealth to attend to
practical politics. Flo thought
oUn ru1LlO LIFE
fJa1 t*nf J,11R
puolio mon could help it.. Flo asked t,uw, iu
those days, when tho individual had become lnl-
portRnt again. and waa becoming more and more
po's sqps liz as rovaes sSF tic IL Utfa SuP P5SS' sad s
province Of tho masa bo best divided, the
province Of the unit from tho province Of the
political aggregate. For instance, sh.ll the
Government meddlo With the manufacturer
through tho currency, or let the individual pur-
Bno Ills busness-ltfo without either foaring or
hoping tho interference OF Government? Tho
province OF tile individual and Of the mass was o
tangled skcin which nothing but pationt and cul-
tured craftsmanship could bring out Of disorder.
GOVERNMENTAL CONTROL.
Tho question OF whether tho Government
should noNtl oil railroads WIS singularly Profound
zion with tho prcsont political, commercial, and
social systom u I, now fact in modorn life, to-
wit: Combination. The agitation by the farmer
hnl only brought to the front none too aoon a
tho flrmer would elnk out Of sight. aud tho
whole natiou come iu view. Tho modern idoa
COMBINATION
waa the synthetic result OF TINT analytic modern
accountable that the American people should 10
10 reclless Of their statosmanshp. Every po-
httcal philosopher or philosophical statesman
hero Or III Europe knew That the question OF CO.
operation, otherwise called corporation or COM
bination, was the veriest problem over
proposed to statosmanBl,ip. md oyery child
knew TINT tho statesmen confronted BY tho
problem problem we're. Tor the most part,
TO study It. rho sublime aud tho ridiculous
were met faro to face. There were at least
THREE POSSIBLE ISSUES
to the question in the hand of = competent
signify tho failure Of tho Republlo. Que waa
tue Limitation OF tho suffrage; another,
the sufficient universal education Of the people;
the thi,d the Weakening Of the power Of the
referred to tho third issue, at tile aame timo
stating that he did not pretend to hayo solu-
ton Of the problem. There was, Of course, no
educating Of the voters compotently, could only
come round In the distant future. as long aa tle
suffrage was extending As to the weakening d
the individual yoto, lie thought thoro wero at
was Weakening. What waa true Of any, ono
voter was true Of any part Of tho whole body Of
voters. We could conceive tho dilgent, ndo-
pendent votofa IN hopeless minority, the rest
tho fixed influence Of certain leading mon. ANY
ono who had studied political economy knew
| tint whom tendency act Of work IN politics it
! would probably work itself out to Ito logical
| American politics toward the weakening Of tho
| individual vote? He thought that it wns quito
within the range of possibility that tho phsuoHena
observable all aoout us should grow into such II
| tendoncy. Again, ho would etate TINT 2u imper-
I atiye need OF the Republic wis
ouLTuAED srArEasiANsHIP.
| Il it was not requisite to 10 gentleman In
order to be ruler Of free men. then it conid not
be OF much use to DO gentleman at ail. Tho
culture needed in statesmanshlp was very vide.
What proper limit was there to the appropriate
culture Of tho profession of atatesmausllipt lie
| thought the culture Of q statesman should in
| clude d thorough acquaintance with history aud
! its chronology, q Largo conception OF what his
| tory uloant. and whore lila own nation stood III
| tho common field Of history; O knowledge Of
! political philosophy and Of political economy,
Of law, nunlcipas and international The atates.
| man should aiso have a knowledge OF political
affairs before he waa Called at any rato, to tho
| highest executive positions In government. 4
man without this Knowledge of ailairs might in
| rare instances, succeed as President or Cabinet
| 1nember, but as Iulo he would prove failure.
| At the same time it must DO remembered that
| the culture would not necessarily mako IL states
| man, ae politics was not an exact science, like
mathematics, or an oxnct art, like 0rlck"'naalnS
With rars exccf t'ons America had IT. no statesmen
ut all Calling our public men politicians was an
anomaly, It wns not tit that !ow-toned, ul,cnl-
tured life should surround permanent republic.
| The Republic was uhqnostlunably
| DRIFTING, DNlFTr1Sa. DRIFTING.
A republic, no more than ship, Soald drift al
| wavs without compass or rndler. llI tihe wonther
drifting VAS vary well, but iu rough weather the
abip would be lost. The question waH, Must
tho Republic continue to diff, or shall Il be
! stoeredf Tho lecturer thought the world wa8
getting ready for distinctive political aye. An
| aga VAS drawing noar favorable devoted to po-
| liiical development. Wac was losng its iron
"trip, Iudiyidualism WAS getting itB footIlold
secure Physical and theological science
would have lad their distinctive day. Thon
politics and the science Of society wonld occupy
tho field OF al age, When that time came, the
American Republic, which was to-day tho boss
product Of Aryan politics. might still bo In Its
prime, and be then, At it WAS now, the political
Ieader of the world.
"DLI PERKINS,"