Fort Wrangel news., 1898-09-14
EDUCATING PUBLIC MEN.

EDUCATING PUBLIC MEN.
 To educate man is to make him nlivr to his surroundings. II k to en- able him to give each fact or group of G.ets in his surroundings it's true place as regards is comparative importance. Yet il k commonly complained of in America that educated men are relnc- taut to take any active part in public life. If this be true, fl is terrible crit icism upon what passes for education. Au educated man must he alive to all the social interests around him, must know their vast importance to his neigh hors. to the race, ard to himself. Edu- cation must strengthen and yivity the motives which lead him to Use all his powers for the sane guidance of the community. All it shows him of the past, of the rise and fall of nations, of the price paid for the freedom he inher- it's. of the worth of that great partner
 ship in all sciences, all arts, all virtues, and all powers. which We call civil so. ciety, and of his own responsibility to God for the Use of vote, voice and in- tiuence, must quicken ill his breast the desire to serve his time and his coun- try. Other men may need the constant presence of symbols of the social order to keep in them the sense of citizenship. The realities of that order will ever be present to his mind. SD that, while he shares the popular reverence for these symbols. they will be less necessary to him than to most men. He knows that the State k the nearest of all his neigh borS. and has the He shoor's indefeasi- ble and uuceasing claim to his love and seryice-Skagit County Wash.l Times.
 The joint commission for the settle ment uf the differences between this government and the government of Can ada. has adjourned until September 20. The work of the commission is not going to prove so easy as many super ticial observers suppose. Ii k under stood that the Canadian government will demand, as a condition precedent to the settlement of tht international questions which have long pended be- tween Canada and the United States an agreement of some kind in reference to reciprocity This would not be so diff cult of solution were it not very evi
 +ba+ fLa iprocitt- VI, binh tbaU no willing to enter into Is not the kind of reciprocity that the American people for the past twenty years have dis cuSsed and now unanimously favor. Canada expects the United States to give them an exclusively preferential duty i'll our market. while they propose to admit our goods only upon the same condition that the products of Great Britain are admitted. The Canadian idea is that in our markets they are to have all advantage as against the rest of the world. while in their markets they will give Us only an equal opportunity to compete with Great Britain. The kind of reciprocity which the American people favor is the reciprocity which gives an equal advantage in the re
 spective markets in the countries which are parties to the agreement, and that this advantage should be exclusively enjoyed by each country. 1t will be a good plan for the people of the United States to give the American commits sioners notice that the Canadian policy of reciprocity will never meet the ap- proval of the American people.-P.-l