Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-04-17
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The Great Unknown.
Charles Dudley Warner in Harper magazine.
We would like to know, and Like tC
have a communication from the young
man who has Just attained his majority
who will, at date we need not now
! hx, be president Of the United State.
The Young man exists somewhere, and
We hope he is i'll training for his high
office. On the Sth of January last
Prince Edward OF Wales, who is pre-
destined if all goes we'll with him, to
be king Of England, came of age. He
is marked and set apart; he is under
certain bonds of behavior; his education
to be q king must serit Hsly begin, and
al England is Interest. i in it; it will
watch every action and critlcise every
| tendency. He is no longer q free man,
and he cannot be self-supporting there
, is no occupation he can enter on for
ginning .; livelihood consistent with his
coming dignity. The government
must vote him All annual supply of
money, and he must have an establish
ment, and begin to play his role. II
LA is q lad Of spirit, he must chafe
under this espionage, this restraint, and
the limitations of his dependent con-
dition. His subjects hold the purse
! string; his subjects demand that he
shall be this and shall not be that; his
| subj Gets have now the ballot, and can
| cut him off with a shilling, Or put him
one side altogether. Subjects? To
what, alas! has the king business come
in this 10Th century?
Our American lnQ--who may be read
ing this paragraph about himself, for
we trust that he can read, and has not,
! like Andrew Johnson, put off this ele-
CANT accomplishment till after his ma
! jority--is under no such limitations as
his English brother, Edward Of Wales.
Bill of the United States--for We havo
no notion by which he would be called
by some fictitious title, for instance, Bi |
Of NicaHagua-is probably unconscious
of his high destiny. BY the time he
takes the chair at Washington, Il whel~
ever the chair then stands, lie Will be
the ruler, more potent for four wears
than the king Of England, over 100, 000,-
| 900 of people, and have to execute the
affairs Of the most vigorous empire n
existence. If he now expects tbs
honor, it is safe to say he will be disa +
! pointed, for the voters nowadays never
choose man who lays pipe for the place
in advance. It is safe to say that he is
| ignorant Of his destiny,
! II 1t were otherwise, if we all knew
the young fellow just come of age who
is to be president by and by, what an
embarrassment it would be for lis and
for him! What life he would lead with
the reporters Of the newspapers! How
could he escape the snares laid for him
by the mothers who would like to lie
the mothers if law Of president
If he is in college, how self-conscious
the tutor would be when they marked
him, and how impossible it would be
for him to acquit himself we'll at foot"
ball with the eyes of the nation on him
With what content could he humbly
follow a mule on q canal tow-path,
which he may at this moment be doing,
with credit to himself and with an eye
| to the appearance of this achievement
in his biography. Is the young man a
deputy sheriff? Is he waiting for clients
with his heels Oh the table in some
country law office? Is he just beginning
to concern himself with ward politics
with the idea that the "gentleman in
politics" is to be the winning card in the
future? Is he teaching school with a
view OF discharging his college debts
or is he running up college debts with
out any view Of teaching school to dis
charge them? Or has he gone into
farming in the West, IN order to come
moment, leaving his steam gang.
! pillow in the furrow?
Lightly as it may be treated, this is
| really very serious matter. The young
| man is living here, and is we'll known
| to some of us. And as no decent young
man can be sure that he is not the man,
| what follows? Why, that every young
man ought to conduct himself in such a
| manner that his biography, when his
! campaign life is written, will be, plea s.
ant reading, and so that he will be in
some measure fitted for the Office tc
which he is to be elected. This is not
piece of moralizing; it is matter of
common sense. In order to carry on a
republic successfully, the general aver
age of conduct and ability must be high
If we were able to pick out our man
now and set him apart and train him,
| we could get on as we'll as they do in
England, and it would not be much
| matter what become of the other young
fellows. But the risks of our position
are much greater. It is useless for us
to say that the ballot is our protection.
and that Of the proper time we shall
elect the best man. The fact is that
the man we shall elect (at the same
time that it is unnecessary to name) is
already designated by decree certain,
and he is sure to come to his position,
whereas Prince Edward of Wales may
never be king of England. But IL We
knew his name we would carefully con-
| ceal it from him and from the public.
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