The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-08-16


pedients and too little on principle; it |
has allowed itself to work for temporary |
success and never tried to win victory |
on principle that is abiding. 1t carried |
the state last year by subserviency to an |
element whose support will eventually |
be a source of weakness. It has shown
a willingness TO truckle to anything for
Temporary success. It became an ap-
pendage to the fanatical idiots who as
sumed the name of Greenback party
With what reward? 1t shared the Offices |
of the assembly one year and was damned
for all time by the alliance; made itself |
unworthy of confidence and showed a
degree of obsequiousness for which it is |
striving to find parallel in its present
course. The chances are that Wisconsin |
will be democratic IL 1884; but it will be
a victory over which there viii be little |
reason to rejoice, and won on principles |
or lack Of principles that will aid in
disintegrating the party.
So much for The Pilots views on the !
situation. Now as to Congressman
Rankin s views: Mr.. Rankin realizes that |
in party fight on present party princi-
pies, the state is republican. That if
the temperance question plays no part in
1884, the state will go republican. Sue
cess secured through issues that are
transitory in their nature, cannot be per-
manent. If Wisconsin is to be made
democratic it must be made SO on PRIN-
cIPLE, and some class must be won over
permanently by being shown that good,
honest government can be secured thro'
the democratic party because of its de-
votion to principles on which good gov
eminent is based. Until some change is
made that will be lasting, Wisconsin will
continue to be republican state not
withstanding occasional flashes Of sue
cess. Unless some issue with Life in
it, one which commends itself to ma
joritY of the people of the state, is taken
up by the democrats, they cannot win
votes enough in this state to insure their
continuance in power. All who know
Mr.. Rankin, know that what is here at
tribuJed to him are substantially his views.
A LIVELY dispute is going on at pres
ent relative to the education of girls,
some holding that they are not educated
SO as to be self-supporting. There can
be no question of the truth of this in a
| majority of cases. There is no idea of
utility, no desire for solidity,-nothing
but snowy accomplishment. There are
they must 'do something" when mans
estate is reached. What that ''some-
thing" is too often does not take sub
stance and shape, and the boy becomes a
vagabond But he never becomes di-
vorced from the thought that he is de-
| pendent on his own resources for his
support.
| The thought of being self.sustaining
is, as a rule, wholly eliminated from plans
for the education of girls. Many become
teachers because no special instruction
seems to be demanded for this line of
business. They are teachers, not from
choice but from necessity, because they
know not what else to do. There are
but few rounds in their ladder of promo
ton. Popular prejudice gives but little
scope to the play of their ambition and
they are themselves largely responsible
for the vitiated state of public sentiment
| 10 their case.
Girls have their future in their own
| hands. Fathers are too busy with af-
fairs of business and in planning for the
| future OF their sons, to reflect that girls
have future which includes anything
beside marriage or the prim acerbity of
old maidenhood. Mothers have too
much concern for the requirements of
the present to demand anything practic-
al in the education OF their Children
To dress with taste, appear well at a
party, be attractive and properly reiig-
ious, are the sltnlD2asna 6Ofuna IN the
early life of girl according to the moth
er's idea. But there are not few girls
whose eyes rest on the future and who
have purpose beyond social pleasures
s.nd the delights of youthful love making.
They are not striving to cast off all feel
ings of responsibility, but acquiring
strength so as to be able to discharge
life's duties as becomes women. These
are the true women, the leaders of
fashion which sinks deep INTO the current
of life and developes the womauhood
which has not frivolity as its chief char
acteristic. The education which digni- |
fies life with purpose has the elements |
Of real beauty. Culture must reach |
character. A girl who has learned to
sew well has given evidence Of higher
conception of life's duties than one who
has received ''polish' which precludes
all knowledge of domestic accomplish
ments.
Girls must seek that training which
gives independence, which will give
them strength to look fearlessly at the
future and meet its trials alone If need
be. The quiet, earnest industrious girl
who cares more for the approval her acts
command than the homage her beauty
attracts, is the girl who will lead in the
millennium She is the girl who is
educated, though the kitchen is the
school.
The twin relic carried Utah. lie is