The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-03-11
JUDGE TGURGEE-AS SEEN BY a
NEWS REPRESENTATIVE.

Hon. Albion w. Tourgee, the gentle
man whose works and writings have
made his name q household word from
one end Of the continent to the other,
arrived in the city late yesterday after
noon.
A representative Of the NEWS found
him In his room last night busilY en-
gagged in writing, but was received with
courteous attention and made to feel
perfectly at home and at his ease.
The Judge is 9 man of splendid fig.
ure, with q massive head and q kindly
eye which lights and flashes a. he talks
until the listener becomes completely
magnetized and en- rapport with the
speaker.
The Judge paid visit to the Normal
school this morning and. after visiting
few of the class rooms and examining into
the modes and methods of our western
schools, he was persuaded by Professor
TAYLOR to make a brief address to the
pupils who were assembled in the chapel
and who received the Judge with . round
of applause aud with their customary
salute. -
The Judge spoke about fourteen min
utes, holding the rapt attention of pu.
pills and teachers from his first sentence,
which was only broken by applause, or
laughter at the keen wit and humorous
manner Of the speaker After:a few words
Of commendatiou regarding the appear
ance of the school, with one or two
stories, the Judge congratulated the
school that they were beginning to
study the great questions of The day
That they were considering tn 9 labor
question. at Is" he said, "a great Ques-
ton, and one Of the greatest that has eveI
come before this people. II Is not how
ever question between labor and capital
as so many are apt to term it, but rather
between the man who Isbors and the
traficer upon the results of his labor
Political economy cannot teach Us how
to solve this question, because the con-
dItions Of the present have no parable
in the past. Political economy, If 1t Il
science at all, Is q science only o
the past and not OF the present, or the
future. Like criticism, 1t finds faul
with what has been done, but neve
gives reliable directions how to do
Like history, it may give the Statesman
hints, but can never teach, him how 4
govern.
Mobs and strikes, land and labor. ar
/ tho nuaaffnna ~ 1nk Nha oi, IS .
day has developed that of tomorrow
must decide. The practical statesman
ship of to-day is forever overturnlng til,
theories of yesterday.
, Political economy as q theory de
mands unquestioning adherence to Gel
, tain principles which are fondly sup
posed TO be immutable and irrefragahle
, Political science IN practice-practica
statesmanship-is forever requiring nj
ton to adopt the safest, surest and quicl
est way out of some new dilemma. o.
dinarily the course adopted is declared
by those wise men who know all thing
from the beginning, to be in direct an
e ruInous conflict with the ImmutabI
j 1
hundred years or SO of discussion "
8 find out that 1t was only a new applies
a ton of the old principle, or a new priI
8 ciple then. for the first time, discovered
4 Study political economy by all means
, study it. but do not think of 1t as q prat
teal science. Fill your minds with th
wisdom of theoretical philosophers, bJ
do not dream OF regarding theI
as intAllible rules of life. The polltl
cal philosopher Is almost as often a DC
i litical fool as otherwise. Locke was Oh
i greatest philosopher and most practic!
a theorist of his day. He drew for th
Lord Proprietors the first constItutio
> for the colony OF North Carolina.
a was q splendid constitution, a beautl fl
specimen OF philosophical theory, bI
4 there never was power enough on cart
to make any community conform to Il
Q strait jacket articles.
= The Judge will give our citizens b
5 lecture "Give as q Rest" at the oper
house tonight and our readers will NIL
one OF the greatest treats OF their lives
: they fail to attend.
d The Judge is without exception, n,
only one of the greatest writers an
thinkers of the day, but he IL one of Il
L finest orators of this country and age
we'll.