New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-17
THE "C4MPATGN or EDUCATTON."

THE GA HPIIbN OF EDt
On the 18th of May. 1891, the Cleveland
Democracy Club of Buffalo, opened new
clubhouse and the Hon. Grover Cleveland, its
patron saint. made what our neighbour The
SUM- would doubtless call the "consccra-
tom speech on the occasion. 1t was one OF
those characteristic speeches OF his on De-
mocracy' with which the public is somewhat
familiar in which he starts out with the I'M
pressivc statement that true Democracy means
the greatest good of the greatest number ana
proceeds to hammer it out and spread 1t thin
and cmbroidcr it with phrases and use up his
vocabulary on it, until at the end of half an
bour the bcwdered nearer has reached the
conclusion that the greatest number Is Num-
Der One. and that the duty of the Democratic
party is to make his greatest good its constant
aim. lie told his hearers that they had already
done valiant service in the campaign OF edll-
cation" and were surrounded by the trophies
of victory" and in closing said Leu us
then as we push on in our campaign OF cduca-
ton. especially impress upon our countrymeh
the lesson which teaches that public eXtraVa-
cance is a deadly, dangerous thing that 1ru-
eality and economy are honorable; thau inc
virtue and vatchfulneSs of the people are the
surest safeguards against abuses IN their "oN-
eminent and that those who profess 10 SerIc
their fcllow-citzens in public places must DC
faithful to their trust"
These romorks are not particularly striking
or original. They are supposed to relate TO
tho circumstance that the appropriations maze
by the Republican Congress which 1t was inc
chief merit of Mr.. Cleveland Admlns'la''o"
70 bring into power were denounced by Dem
ocrats as excessive. The final clause Is III inc
nature of n rciteratiOn of what he considers thc
first nrinciple of genuine Democracy, that no
ono but Grover Cleveland ever did or ever can
administer hubble Office as public trust. The
entire spcech is reproduced by "Tho
New-York Tines as pertinent TO ire
criticisms which have been passed upon
the present Democratic Congress by
Democratic newspapers and public men bc-
cause of appropriations more extravaganza IMAM
ifs predecessor Our contemporary commences
il TO the attention of Democratic members OF
Congress as strong appeal for economy al n
time when their action shows that 'heS arc III
danger of falling into the waSteiul and eN'ia'a-
CANT ways Of their opponents. Ana no uo"pV
it is thought that the republication Oh 'he
speech Just now, when so many democrats are
criticisng Congress for extIayagant appfopIla-
tions. will be help to Mr.. Cleveland as a can
ddate at Chicago. The idea is that the cam
naion of education is still on, and that Mr.
cleveland is still the leading pedagogue.
wear ago he was holding up what he called the
Billion Dollar Congress as solemn warn
inc against "a deadly, dangerous thing The
"campaign Of education had been carried on
acainst il. and the Congress now IN SESSION
was one of the "trophies OF victory" Inc
educators are pulling over its appropriations
inst at this moment, wondering where the edu-
cation comes in.
Now. there is certainly a campaign oil cdu-
cation going on all the time. But it is not Mr.
C,ovoland's kind of education. That gentle
man makes a considerable mistake when he
puts on schoCma'tcr airs and undertakes with
q few trite phrases to educate the American
people ND to something he thinks he has found
ont. He is a mushroom statesman, WIN a
great many things to learn himself, ana
shouldn't take himself for suniiower or
banyan tree His notion appears to be that he
somehow stands for date for the beginning
Of n period for a new departure new dawn,
or something or other in the calendar and that
the country must be educated up to him. Lots
of things have been learned by the people while
the campaign of education has been going on.
They have learned that all the pro-
fessions of the Democratic party are empty
and false, that it has no convictions on the
tariff or silver, that it has but one governing
princple-to steal whatever it can lay hands on
that with all its infusion of Mugwumpery ana
worship of Stuffed Prophets it is the same oio
concern. without honesty or capacity, an Or
ganized appetite" held together by the cohesive
power of public plumber. And right here IN
New-Yorll they have learned that Governor
and LEGISLATURE advocated by Grover Clcve-
land on the stump and enthusiastically sup
por,ed by the Mugwump press. are about as
bad lot of dishonest politicians As could be
GOT together. There is where the " campaign
OF educaton' comes in.