Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-07-26

Multitudes of Well-meaning people
are honestly divided as to the wisdom
Of bodily punishment in schools. There
is general unanimity of desire that the
| country's youth shall lack none of the
benefits afforded by our educational
methods, but the question will obtrude
itself whether these may or may not
be more thoroughly acquired by such
resort to painful measures at times as
| the obstreDerousness Of the scholar or
the particular need of the occasion call
for. Into this disputed problem it is
not incumbent to enter. Perhaps con-
sideration of it is rendered all the less
| obligatory from the circumstance that
if let alone there is prospect that the
general progress and inventiveness of
the age may bring about such a volun-
tary cessation Of corporal correction
that the subject of it's right or wrong
will die of inanition. What leads to
this assumption is late incident in a
school in Binghamton, N Y. A few
days ago the teacher who presided
over it's destinies caught pupil In an
| infraction Of the rules and simultane-
ously caught him by the neck. The
next move was over his knee, a posi-
ton additionally favorable to singing
castigation. The tutor was finely util-
izing the advantages Of the situation,
when centering all his energies in a
final spank he brought his palm down
on the lads hip pocket. This, as it
| olo 1o~
which promptly exploded. AS a result
| he is minus a finger or two and plus
| determination to keep in mind that
| the PRESENTS an age of applied science.
From such an event it is easy to reason
that If pupils are going to carry con-
cealed fireworks on their persons, the
| instinct Of self preservation, as natural
to teachers as to others, is likely soon
to cast the whole practice of bodily
punishment into innocuous desuetude.
An American, who has lived for
many years in England and mingled
with men Of many stations in life,
makes this statement: 1.-THE name of
Lincoln is one to conjure with in Eng
| land. Whenever it is mentioned there
| is a reverent hush in drawing room Or
at factory gate" There is no character
| in English history in the least like Lin
coin, yet the masses and the classes
have accepted him as the finest and
| highest type of American democracy
and republicanism. Englishmen are
not attracted by English qualities and
traits in American public men. They
prefer the masterful, self-made men of
the Lincoln type, with reserves of will
power and conscience which have en-
abled them to rise from poverty and
humor lighting up austere seriousness
of character There are Americans
who make the mistake of trying to win
favor in England by being un-Ameri-
can in their ideas and tastes. They
are always despised by Englishmen as
snobbish Americans who are ashamed
of their own country. Americans ought
at least to have as great reverence
for their Jacksons, their Lincolns, their
Garfelds and their other self made
statesmen as the English display They
should cherish the memories of their
great men Of the Lincoln type, and
should represent their country truly
when they go abroad by displaying in
their conversation and manners the
real fiber of American character. The
most significant utterance in England
when Garfield died was this: "All Eng
lishmen, apart altogether from the di-
rect influence an American President
may have upon their future, are keenly
interested in the only Englishman who
reigns by election; at heart solicitous
that an Office which half Of them feel
must one day exist in England also,
should never be lowered by its pos.
SCISSOR"