The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-06-27

THE Milwaukee Sentinel in comment
ing upon the retirement of Lord Rose
berry says: With the possible exception
of Carlisle, in this country, no public
man has lost, within the past year, IL 0re
IN reputation than Lord Roseberry."
This, no doubt, is a truthful reflection Of
public opinion. But this If not always
just standard by which to determine
the value of a mans work. Tie public
attributes the success Of reform to the
man nearest to it, when success is
achieved, when often the real work was
done by others whose efforts were elassed
as failures. The voice in the wilder
ness" which calls TO repentance is not
always heard throughout the land though
1t may have brought conviction TO mauy.
Gresham lost IN reputation because of
his policy with reference 10 the Hawaiian
revolution. Had he chosen to trample
| on his sense of right and Joined in the
| hysterIc demands for Hawaiian republic
| effected by violation Of international
| justice, be would have added Ia his pep
| ular.ty. And yet that act of unpopular
| honesty of which he vas guilty, may have
/ strengthened the sense OF Iigkt IN others,
| and the young student OF history by it
| may be led TO think that honest action,
even though it should bring obloquy and
! blame, is to be preferred to national
| grandeur built upon the idea that might
Is right.
| It must be understood that Secretary
| Carlisle has administered the affairs OF
the national treasury in troublous times.
1t was a period OF transit N. Laws de-
| signed for specific purpose had accom-
| plished their end and provision had not
been made whereby q change could be
lnaugurated by steady gradations. There
is not an act Of Carlisle, as secretary OF
the treasury, which can be condemned
or one for which at It's inception a sub
stitute could be suggested which prom
ised fuller success. whats done we
often may compute, said Robbie Burns
While it exists only in resolution critics
are dumb.
There died lately in this city a teacher
who taught English in his school in nc.
cordance with ideas worked out by years
of close thought, experiment and hard
labor. 1t was d system introduced with
varying success throughout the schools
of this county. Its fundamental princi
pie was that there is always a close re-
ation between the clearness of The
thought and the accuracy of the language
used to express that thought. The stu
dent was taught to be ever on the alert
to have his language expressive concise
aud grammatical. To do this lie sCcr
perceived that attention to the thought
was a sine qua non, and thought anC
language went together. Gov. HOARD
was so impressed with this idea of recCg
nIzing the close union Of language arc
thought, that he decided to suggest tn,
advisability of the legislatures doing
something toward extending this idea
There was nothin. definite formulated
It was a pioneer IDEA entering the forests
of prejudice and indifference. It led t
the Bennett Jaw, a measure not at all con
templated and really inadequate to the
purpose designed. But that law, malign
ed and hastily repealed as it was, ha!
done the schools OF this state incalculablt
good. English as she is spoke" il
our schools now bears It's mice con-
ments." There is no revolution, bu
there IS a little leaven which is steadil,
working, as is well shown by the create
attention given to language lessons il
our schools and the more general study
of literature by our teachers.
Hoard was crucitied. The people would
have preferred Barrabas to him at an,
time. He was the educational antichris
OF the period. He was a mountain o
iniquity, bigot and q know-nothng
Never was a suggestion offered will
more philanthroplc purpose and neve
did one work more detr1ment to it's pro
ponent.
s. The tencher who followed the system
IN this city was P. I'll. Hewitt. BY ~
means ali could have the success with /
which he had. He died idolized by every
one who attended his school and incurred
by all its patrons.
Gresham, Carlisle and Roseberry hav,
not added TO their regulations May the,
not have added to it as Hoard has, wht
has more reason to be proud of that httl
act of political suicide than of any othe
act OF his life?