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The Objections to a College Education

In the current number of the Forum the
drawbacks of college education are ex-
amined with singular candor by DIR. CHARLES
+. THwING, who is himself Harvard grad
uate, and now the President of Western
Reserve University. The objections to a
college training are first stated with as
much force as they would be by an acute
business man, and then an attempt is made
to answer them.
In the first place it is pointed out that a
college may injurc men through fixing the
habit of doing only that which Is agreeable.
This habit is promoted in two ways; first.
by the relaxation of discipline, and, secondly,
by the great range permitted in the choice
of studies. Some American colleges 20 fur
ther than others in these directions; but in
ALL the student has much more liberty to
shape his life for himself than he used to
have. DIR. THwING says that he asked a
man who graduated forty years ago, and
whose son is now student in the same in
stitution, whether the college was as good Il
ore rs it had been in his own day. The reply
was mo" for the reasons that the men were
not Obliged to get up in the morning, that
they could study what they might choose,
and were allowed to cut recitations. In other
words, the college was now taking but little
pains to train its students to do what they
do not like to do. To DR.. THwING the
criticism seems we'll founded that a college
education tends to encourage a love for the
agreeable, and the avoidance of difficult and
unpleasant duties. He, for his part is evil
dently thankful that Harvard College, when
he knew It., still made men do some dis
th hnf Ia hn ina oft
ing that boys need, If they are to face and
overcome the arduous conditions of life.
1t Is also admitted by DIR. TIMING that
the tendency of IL college education is to
train the students judgment at the expense
of his energy. A college teaches student
to see both sides of a question, and his clari-
fled and broadened vision gives him such
knOWlsdGo Of difficulties that he is less in
The sun., 1896-12-16

IRON a Correspondent Of thc Sun.
Dec. 4-First white frost seen at Arran C. I. !.
G. II. X. In waKula Co., Fla. Dec. 7-sweet
potatoes not yet dug In Wakuila Co.. Fla. Dec 7
The small planters are now busy making up sugar
cane In wakulla Co., Fla. There is great need or
sugar refinery here In wakulla Co.. Fla. Gov.
Mitchell & Nat Il. Walker were OUT OH u fish yester.
DAY, Had luck. IT'S nnc Sport. wakulla People
all chew tobacco. Wakula needs goodly number
OF VIDE awake families TO settle her midst There
is a good opening In this part OF the country for
GARY farm. Why don't some enterprising capitalists
come down h're establish Canneryr There is
good opening here for it. etc. Also; Why viii a
man persist In wearing his soed cothes visiting on
sunday q put ON his clean clothes on Monday 10 20
TO workl Why will women dip snunf A lit.io boy
of 8 yrs. got bis hand badly smashed yesterday be
tween the rollers OF sugar MILL amputation will
be necessary. Jim Bowies-colored- his wife
for walking home from church with Town Bug
Mr. G. d. W. Betton OF Tallahassee died suddenly
yesterday, etc., etc.
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never cease to extol their own peerless orators
and statesmen, the Hon. HEz LuNo. the lion
hearted and lion-voiced HEz LuNo, and tue Hon.
PoTTsEY GRuBBs, the finished. melodious, In
spirinR, imperial PorTsEY GRUBBs. an eye OF
lightning and voice Of FIRE. Texas smiles proud
ly at the Hon. ToBE SoRUTcHINs and the Hon.
CYCLONE DAVIS, double rose of eloouence, n
double star of wisdom. Missouri points an
afectionatc finger at her boast, the Hon. CRUDE
S1NKENzooPER. North Carolina has her Col
BALBOA COCKTAILS; South Carolina has the
Hon. JUMP SourZzER. Everywhere great Popu-
list orators, each as worthy as MIR. ALIENS
friend to bo considered the greatest Populist
orator. can be found and will be found; and
they will not allow their laurels to be taken
from them. Mr.. ALLEN has prepared trouble
for himself In assuming the duties Of judge of
elocution.
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II we may trust fully the news from Fort
Smith, the DAWES Commission, after con-
tinuous and almost disheartening failures
for months and years in its labors among
the five civilized tribes OF the Indian Terri
tory, has just achieved brilliant success
Under the authority of Congress, it has
been trying to persuade these tribes to ac-
cept severalty allotments in place of holding
lands in common, and ordinary territorial
governments in place OF tribal authority
It's efforts, however, have been repulsed again
and again, tribe after tribe being approached
In vain with persuasions, promises. and
warnings. Wherever the DAWES Commits
sion went, it found interest and race in
stincts allied to thwart its work. Those
who profit by the tribal system and the ten
ure of land in common, and those who cling to
inherited ways, were joined against them.
In its report of Nov. ls, 1895 the Commits
sion declared that so long as the tribal
power remained in the hands of its posses
sorS all further negotiations with them
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SUN BEAMS.

Ono navy bean plant at Forest Grove, Or, bore
GA beans this year
AZ Upton, Ind. jury has acquitted o youth
named William Ross. who killed his companion near
Aroma. by hitting him with q croquet maIlet.
I'm Clallam county. WASH, q mountain lion was
shot which weighed $50 pounds. measured ten fees
from tip to tip. and had four foot tail and whis-
kers eight inches long.
-one Kansas candidate wasn't bothered by cleo.
tion expenses last month. having been elected AZ
township trustee of Menoken without. he says,
spending penny
Whist players at A. D. Sweetsir's, Portland, Me-.
on a recent evening had the unusual experience OF
seeing two Marlborough hands Dealt in one game.
Marlborough hand contains no card above ninc.
Stealing calfskin from store at Augusta,
Me-. l3year-old boy took 1t another hide deal.
and sold TITO him. and managed a: the same
time to steal from the purchaser shcepskin. which
he boldly carried back the first sold TO
his first victim.
While cutting timber at Bethlehem, N H., n
man fell through a hole in the ground and found
himself In cave where there were household artt-
cles OF all sorts. cooking utensils gum and bur-
glars Jimmy. 1t had been occupied. evidently, NOS
long before. and the authorities were called upon
to start an Investigation.
-Madstones which said to have come from
the nav OF a Rocky Mountain goat than fifty
years ago and to have been applied to ]. 900 mad
dog bites. successfully in every instance except
one still in service in the OF Casey and
Lincoln. Ky. They owned by W. NJ. Dudderar,
whose father brought them from Missouri.
An Atchison, Kan. and her husband
separated and she went 10 Kansas City and was
employed a a nurse by the proprletress OF hotel
there. The patient died after an operation, and
when ner Will was opened II was found that she
had devised all her possessions TO her nurse ana
faithful old negro houscmaid. providing against
their losing tho bcqmcst through possible heirs. at.
law turning up by willing to any relatives who
might appear 81 each. The Atchson woman went
home for ons OF her children and returned aud as
sumed charge OF the hotel.
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Mr.. Choate and tho Senate.

JOSEPH H. CHoATE is q man whom we
respect and admire. He Is worthy to repre-
sent the State of New York in the Senate
of the United States. Indeed, there is no
important public Office in the country that
he could be induced to accept which he
would not fill with ability and honor.
1t is entirely right and appropriate, also.
that he should aspire to the Senate and his
friends may properly present to the public
and the members of the Legislature the
many and excellent reasons which exist in
favor of the candidacy of such citizen.
But are those supporters wise, whose chief
arguments in his behalf consist in their vio-
lent denunciations of an earlier candidate
In the f1eld2
If THOMAS G. PLArT were desirous of
seeing Mr.. CHoATE Senator. he would be
forced to remain candidate by such man
ifesto as was published yesterday by the
Citizens Vigilance League, over the sigma
ture of c. H. PARKHURsT.
This document proclaims among other
things that Mr.. CHoATE will not hesitate
to run for an elective Office for fear that
tainted chapters of his life will be ransacked.
and brought forth again to outraged pub
lie inspection"
The plain intimation of this is that Mr..
PLATT would thus hesitate and for the
discreditable reason thus indicated.
In the face of such an attack Mr.. PLATT's
political future depends upon the defeat of
Mr.. CHoATE.
The blunder. we believe, is not Mr..
CHoATE's, but is due to tho folly of his
professed friends.
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To THE EDITOR or THE suN-Sir: The writer has
just finished critically reading the Presidents
messag" and takes this opportunity of expressing my
admiration OF ita lofty patriotism and marveliousy
pure and perfect English. have read the first two
volumes of the " State Papers anI Messages OF the
Presidents" and none OF those messages. with he
possible exception OF Washngton's Farewell Address,
can be compared with the late one OF Mr. Cleveland.
Its wisdom reminds me OF Bacon so much thought Is
condensed Volumes could bc written on many OF
the Phrases and sayings. is written in that beaut
full. sonorous but yet flowing style. The dction is
superb. the composition elegant. Nothing Is left
said. nothing is said that is worthy OF an opinion
Everything of present events and future interest Is
discussed; brilliant intellectual meteors flash and
light up a philosophic mind md. with the able
ports OF tie able members OF his Cabinet combine
make this messag6 fixed star in the constellation OF
the masters OF the English language. 1t can be
lEcned TO an effort of Addison that is tempered by
hacaulay and De Quincy polished by Racine. i'm
proved by Goethe and Dante and edited by Shake
lpearr. WIILlAMsnl'RGH CLEvELLNDITE-
BROOKLYS Dec.
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was period Of about twenty years between,
the first and the last Of SHAMYL's wars; /;
there was period of very nearly as many
years between the two wars in which
MACEo was leader.
The resemblances between the campaigns
OF SHAMYL and those Of MAcEo strike one
upon many an occasion while observing the
operations of the man Of Daghestan and
the man Of Cuba The warlike genius Of
SHAMYL was not more eminent than that Of
MAoEo. SHAMYLs strategy and manoeu-
vring in the mountains were not more skill
full than MAcEos. The courage Of SHAMYL
In attack or defence never exceeded that OF
MAcEo. SHAMYJ's adventures, year after
year, were not more astonishing than those
of MAcEo SHAMYL would confront, as
would MAcEo, q force far superior to his
own. SHAMYL's conduct at Akulgo, when
his stronghold there was stormed by
the Russians, reminds us Of MAcRo's
conduct at his stronghold in the Rubi
hills when 1t was besieged by the Spaniards.
There is no feat of SHAMYL that equals in
greatness the march Of MACEo from the
easternmost to the westernmost province of
Cuba last spring in the face of an army
must be remembered, too, that MACEo held
his camp in the west for nine months,
within few miles of the Spanish capital.
and almost within sight Of an enemy
100000 strong, whom he assailed at every
opportunity, and against whose attacks he
made successful defence.
When SHAMYL first began hostilities
against Russia, he had but small force,
and it was yet a smaller force Of Cubans
that took the field against Spain at the
time Of the ten years war, In which MAcEo
participated. In the later operations Of both
warriors each Of them had much larger
army than at first. and each of them per-
formed deeds that will long live in the mem
ory Of men.
At last, thirty-seven years ago. after his
long career as q warrior in command of
the Caucasian mountaineers, SHAMYL was
taken prisoner by the Russians And
what a difference between the closing pas
sage in SHAMYL's life and that in MAcEo's!
Did the Russians assassinate their redoubt-
able foe when he fell under their power3
The Gar invited him to St. Petersburg; he
assigned to him place of residence at
Kaluga, and pensioned him till the end Of
his life, in the year 1871. The year before
his death SHAMYL made pilgrimage to the
holy city of Mecca, and he died at the holy
faith was buried.
The death of the great Cuban warrior,
ANTONIO MAcEo. the hero of liberty
Shame. assassin WEYLER Again. shame,
oh, perfidious Spain
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It Is said by those in the confidence of ex- Gov
ernor Ho66 that he Is now ready 20 wear plug hat
and have some visiting cards printed as soon as he
screws his courage up TO the level OF his convictions
-Sda AntohtO Express.
Tho gradual pIutocratizinG of this former foe
of the money power is an interesting process.
1t Is only little while since he was hunting for
trusts with club, making faces at Wall street.
and predicting that the commercial palaces Of
Chicago would be besprent with "the iivers and
lights" of capitalists II those emissaries Of
darkness didn't mend their ways. Plutocrats
scarcely dared pass through Texas while the
Hon. JAMES STEPHEN HoGG was Governor. He
was liable to lock them up. Railroads he seemed
to regard conven iences for the free trans
portation of tramps. He got out OF Office and re-
sumed the practice of the law. Nice fat fees
came rolling in. He began TO look upon the money
power more tolerantly. He endured IT, piticd
1t, embraced 1t. An excellent conversion. by
next summer this hammer OF the trusts. who.
few months ago, asserted that bicycle was
"a dromedary for dudes.' will be shooting
along the streets on a wheel OF gold.
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The Tariff This Time.

The Republican leaders must sec as
clearly as other people the striking differ
ence between the circumstances under
which they will rearrange the tariff now.
and the circumstances attending the Nc
KINLEY revision in 1890. 1t is the un-
equalled difference between a surplus and
q deficit between the debatable need of
cutting down the revenue, and the unde-
batable need of making it greater.
The surplus of 1888, the condition. not a
theory" which drove Mr.. CLEVELAND frantic
for tariff reform, notwithstanding that Mr..
TnDEN advised its use for the preparation
of national defences, furnished plausible
reason for Chairman MCKINLEY's screw
ing of customs duties higher toward
the prohibitory point, where revenue
stops entirely. The present deficit, which
began when the danger of free trade re-
vision became imminent, and the belief now
that Mr.. TILDEN's advice had better be
needed, and that the country's interests re-
quire various considerable outlays, show
that in the unavoidable task of rearranging
the tariff, revenue must be considered first.
Since Mr.. MCKINLEY first attacked the
tariff, the fixed annual expenses of the Gov
ernment have been increased by twelve mil
lion dollars for interest on the CLEVELAND
bonds; $2G2 100000 has been added by
them also to the national debt, sooner or
later to be paid off and extinguished There
Is an annual deficit of many millions now
operating. There is the navy, the army,
and the forts, not omitting the interoceanic
waterway through Nicaragua, calling for
money for improvement and construction.
This does not mean, of course, that the
new tariff must be for revenue only. The
Republican party advocates the principle of
protection as both wise and constitutional: {:
and during the existing Administration the
Democrats have given the most conclusive
practical demonstration possible of their es-
sential agreement with the Republicans. As
protectionists, for example, the Republicans
have the right to put certain articles on
the free list. 1t is no violation of the pro-
tective doctrine to increase the protection
to woollen manufacturers by putting their
soIcalled raw material, wool, on the free
list, discrimination uncompromisingly
outlawed from tariff for revenue only.
But, fortunately Tor woolmen, the need of
revenue puts that device for protecting
wool manufacturers out of the question,
and insists that imported wool must pay
something into the Federal treasury.
Revenue is the prime need Of the day. So
widely understood and appreciated is this
IDENTIFY look to revenue as the hinge of his
success as President and Of Republican
power throughout the land.
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1t was great day Monday for the Hon.

1t was a great day Monday for the Hon.
WILLIAM VINCENT ALLEN, Senator In Congress
from Nebraska. and one of the longest and
largest special ana miscellaneous Populist elc-
cutIonists known to science. When he rnises
himself to his fullest height and drops him
self with his utmost power, the rafters have the
palsy. and the bones of WAsHINGToN, COLUMBUS,
and all the other statues In the vicinity Of the
Capitol are heard to rattle most lamentably. Mr..
ALLEN Is very grievous when he is grieved. and
he was deeply gricved on Monday, there was
q surplus OF woe. The Hon. GEORGE FRIsBIE
about Nebraska, whereupon Mr.. ALIEN made
some excited observations In denial. glanced
with scorn at the Massachusetts fo.Es. and in
serted the able but somewhat irrelevant opinion
that young man In Nebraska is the greatest
popular l'opulistl orator since the days of WEE
sTER and CLAY" Any opinion as TO oratory
expressed by an authority like Mr.. ALLEN will
be- read eagerly by the Populsts who are not ~
the Wntsonian or the Middle-of-t the Road
variety. and his standing as an elocutionist Is
deservedly high; but there will be wide dissent
from his view to the greatest Populist orator
since the time OF WEBSTER and CLAY. He has
been carried too far by Il feeling of State pride
or OF persona! friendship.
There are PopuliSt orators in several States
who have good reason to aspire to the distinc-
tlon which Mr.. ALLEN awards go summarily to
Nebraska. lThs Populists Of Kentucky Will
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The name of the Jacksonian Club Of

The name of the Jacksonian Club Of
Omaha must DO regarded severely ironical
for the institution has just dropped from its
rolls a number Of Democrats who committed
the crime of continuing to be Democrats and re-
fusng to support the Reputation ticket. Tho
notice TO the expelled members guilty OF being
Democrats contains n common but none the
less extensive lie. 1t speaks of BRYAN and
SEwALL as 1.-The regularly nominated candl-
dates of the Democratic party" The facts are
that the regularity" of the Chicago Conven-
tion was destroyed by extrusion of the regular
and genuine Democratic delegation from the
State OF Michigan; and BRYAN himself was at
the head OF contesting Populistic delegation
from Nebraska which would never have been
admitted to a regular Democratic convention.
Probably the so-called Jacksoniaa Club OF
Omaha lios about the regularity" of tho
Chicago Convention from habit rather than
from any immediate necessity.
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THE sUN, WEDNESDAY,. DEcEMBER 1e. 1855

would be vain. Its hopelessness and its an
ger were shown further by an astonishing
proposal to accomplish It's purposes by
force, beginning with the abrogation by
Congress Of existing treaties.
Fortunately that course was not author
lied. The bill introduced for the purpose
was left without action on it, and mean
while other work among the tribes was
found for Mr.. DAWES and his associates.
1t now appears also that they have taken
up again the assault against the Indian
political system, and unexpectedly have
made a breach at the Choctaw stronghold
which promises a victory all along the line,
The terms OF the arrangement with the
Choctaw delegates are said to be that a sur
vey shall be made, and town sites set apart,
and then all the rest of the land divided into
lots per capita, freed from taxes and not
subject to alienation for twenty-five years.
The terms are not unlike those of the sever
atty allotment law from which the five
tribes are now by law exempt. In addition,
tribal authority is to be continued "for not
less than eight nor more than ten years"
The formal agreement, drawn ND in ao-
cordance with these terms, is to be signed,
1t appears, at Muskogee on Saturday. Mean
while, flushed with their triumph. Mr..
DAWES and his fellow members of the Com
mission are now among the Greeks urging
them to follow this Choctaw lead.
It is not easy to overrate the Importance
of this initial success. The strength Of the
Indian position hitherto has been largely In
the union Of the tribes but with the Choc-
taws breaking away, there must be change.
This tribe and the Creeks are nearly equal in
population, and each nearly half as numer-
GUS as the Cherokees. Should they both
accept the severalty system and the other
agreements, the influence on the Cherokees
should be marked. Another cause of con.
graduation is that, IL these arrangements
are carried through, we may hope to hear
no further call upon Congress to break
treaties entered into with the red men, on
the ground that the end justifes the means.
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Maceo and ShamyI.

Perhaps the one warrior OF modern days
with whom the late ANTONIO MAcEo might
most fifty be compared is that proud chief
tain of the Caucasus, SHAMYI. who died
twenty-five years ago. In not few re-
spects the character and career of the Cuban
hero resembled those of the Lion of Dagh-
estan," although, let it be said to the honor
OF Russian Gar, the circumstances under
which SHAMYLs life came to an end in
Arabia were very different from those of
Gen. MACEo's death in Cuba
SHAMYL twice wased war against Russia,
as MAcEo twice waged war against Spain
SHAMYL was a champion Of his faith (;
MACEo a champion OF liberty The scene of
BHAMYL's exploits was among the Cauca-
sian mountains; that of MACEo's exploits
yves among tho mountains of Cuba There