The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-03-02
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cans.
The number for March begins the
seventh year Of the Forum, and for Its
seventh year several now enterprises in
periodical work arc announced: First
and foremost, the silver question. The
discussion OF the silver question has
reached its acute stage III Congress and
Is, in consequence, before public attdn.
lion in q more serious form than cycr
before. The March number contains
two papers on it-one BY Mr.. Bland,
who makes his best argument for silver,
and tho other by Mr.. Leech, director OF
the mint, who writes to show that in
case OF FREQ coinage, Europe would dump
Its silver on us. In tho following
months the Forum will publish tho most
thorough discussion'of this subject that
has been made, by tho foremost writer's
OF both continents. These articles will
be n special feature Of forthcoming
numbers.
Tho educational investigation into
tho work Of the public schools in the
several large cities OF the Union has al.
ready been announced, and DR.. J. NJ.
Rice, the special student Of tho most ad.
vanced school work abroad, is o en-
gagged in this task. His articles will
begin in M early number. In the March
number arc two noteworthy educational
articlcs-ono. by Mr.. Clarence King, on
THE Education Of the Future" wherein
no shows tho narrow limitations OF all.
our teaching and points out the yet.
undcveloped fields and methods, and
the other by Prof. John Earle, the
greatest authority on, his subject, on
1.-THE Study of English"
Another line OF special work laid
down by The Forum is an investigation
and discussion OF municipal govern
ment, which is confessedly the weak
place in our whole governmental sys-
TEN. Tho present number contains an
investigation made by Prof. Peabody, OF
Harvard, into tho municipal govorn-!
ment OF Dresden. The p~eculiarities
both rs warnings and as examples TINT
have been developed by interesting OK
periments in the loading American
cities will BIO explained by experts, and
indeed, the whole subject OF municipal
government will be gone over thorough
ly, with regard also to its bearings on
politics. on
Tho progress of the most important
arts and sciences will make a contin-
uous feature of tho coming volumes OF
The Forum, such us music, sculpture,
painting, architecture, the practical ap-
plication OF electricity, tho advance OF
preventive medicine, the progress of
astronomy. Another group OF subjects
old subjects that scientific progress
makes d perpetual intcrest-will DO
good country roads, and how well they
pay; scientific agriculture and its pos
sibilities; what the coming man will
eat and how he will cook it: and the
like.
Besides the silver question. the most
important political topics OF the year
ere likely to. be pensions, Immigration,
and the tariff, about all which the re-
suits OF fresh studyby the best equipped
men will be published. The Forum will
take an active and leading part in tho
political discussion OF the Presidential
campaign.
The great industrial and commercial
tasks Of the time will continue to be
among the leading topics-all to show
how We may at an early time win tho
commercial supremacy OF the world;
and in religion, literature, and social
science, tho most instructive phases OF
thought will BIO presented, as they have
hitherto been.
The especial development OF The
Forum will be in the direction Of origi-
nal investigation by experts I and
authorities into al! classes , OF subjects
OF the greatest concern to readers who
wish to keep abreast in their thought
and lives with the worlds progress:
and the aim is never to thresh over old
straw.
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