The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-10-11

question: furnishes ample opportunity
for the discussion OF the application of ,
principles, and the speaker who injects ,
partisan or sectional features simply adj {
vertises his inability to grasp the ques- {
ton in its full significance. When Mr..
Hoard stated that the south had not for
gotten that it was the prosperity of the
which sustained the armies of the union
and brought defeat to the confederacy, L
and that this bill was a measure origina-
ted by southern people, vindictive In its
inception and secret In its operation, de-
iberately designed to destroy northern
industries, retaliatory measure for the
defeat of 1866, he offered an insult to the
intelligence of his audience and showed |
his inability to discuss an economic ques-
ton from an unprejudiced and unparti- |
san standpoint.
There was nothing in MIR. Hoard's |
speech which entities it is review even in |
the columns of local paper. AS can
didate for the position of governor his |
opinions naturally challenge attention,
while they create surprise for the narrow
ness of the mental mould in which they
are cast. Mr.. Hoard's habits of thought
unfit him for the discussion of this sub
ject at time when men of comprehen-
sive knowledge and profundity OF thought
are giving it attention. There is no other
man in the state who can get superb
cial knowledge of subject as readily as
can Mr.. Hoard, and no man can make
this surface wash appear more like the
genuine metal. Ready in speech and
fully as quick to assume to know what
he does not, he is entirely out of place as
political speaker in campaign de-
handing solid argument. He has never
formed the habit of studying anything
| with view to its mastery. His mind is
not of that order. His reputation for
ability rests on the quick growth of shall
low soil. His speech of Tuesday night
was hardly fair index of the mans
mind as he is capable OF better things.
An acquaintance of some years with
Major lockwood during which his con-
ceded ability as mathematician was
| fully recognized, led to the belief that he
| would say something on the tariff ques-
ton which had in it the merit OF thought.
1t was known that his partisanship was
often so intense as to cloud his Judgment
l 70 ~ ha fan
that the solid south would be introduced
as part of the stage paraphernalia. In
| the latter particular expectation was
fully justified. But the analytic work OF
the mathematician, the carful study of
facts, their relations and incontestable
| conclusions were noticeably absent and
one could not help exclaiming, "What
a noble mind is here oerthrown" by the
necessities of partisan politics and the
| narrowing tendencies of the editorship of
local paper!
Major lockwood devoted some time to
Judge Kirwan's participation in the cam
paign and attempted to reason from
the matter contained in dodger an
nouncing Kirwan's speech in Green Bay
that the democratic party is in fact for
free trade! What lofty premise on
which to base syllogism! Should Mr..
lockwood feel like meeting Mr.. Kirwan
on the stump to discuss the tariff ques-
ton as men of intelligence should and as
he is doubtless capable of doing, he can
likely be accommodated. But he will
find it necessary, in such an event, to
draw his inspiration from higher source
than the utterance Of job printing Of
fee at Sturgeon Bay.
Col. Burchard took wooden blanket
and talked at it and of it. He intimated
that democrats did not know how to
calculate what the duty tax on articles
of domestic manufacture is, if it were
granted that the duty was added to the
tax of the foreign made article, while he
could; and then with the pride which
comes from the consciousness of superior
knowledge, stated his method, something
with which the ordinary pupil 13 years of
age in any public school in the state is
fully familiar.
And now one word as to the treatment
to which Manitowoc is subjected by the
central committees of both parties in the
state Manitowoc is modest in the way
of pushing its men to the front as cam-
paign speakers. There may be picked
at hazard ten men from either party who
can, wholly unprepared, make better
speeches on the only question in issue
between the parties to-day, than the
average speech delivered this fall in the
city excluding Cameron, Guenther and
Schilling. 1t is assumed that Manitowoc !
people know nothing of the real issues of
the campaign and we are treated to a lot
of argument in an advanced stage of de- |
composition.
No better preparations were ever made
for speakers than were those of Tuesday
night. The speakers should have risen |
to the occasion and not assume that they |
had visited SLEEPY Hollow" and that |
the people would be thankful to be fed |
on trash and buncombe uteranee, being |
unused to healthy intellectual food. |
When the labor party sends man of
Bob Schilling's ability to Manitowoc it |
would seem as if the two old parties |
would be spurred to emulation and fur
nish us something which would show /
that we are not regarded as a collection
of ignoramuses.
THE Milwaukee Sentinel of Saturday
furnishes table of statistics designed to