Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-16

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The New President
Theodore Roosevelt's sun has risen
on prospect which to him must be al
Turing, despite the wretched events
which have made his promotion to the
Presidency possible. The opportunity
which the assassin's bullet has created,
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epoch and the history of at least the
next three years OF the United States
will depend on how lie obeys its sum-
mons.
Roosevelt's elevation to the Presi-
dency is n grim bringing to naught of
the schemes Of coterie of politicians
who have considered themselves very
shrewd. The outcome once more re-
minds us that human calculations fire.
quently do not provide for the play Of
the elements of chance, or, us some
might say, of Providence. Roosevelt
was sent to the Spanish-American war
with an eye to representing his pro-
motors later rs a Presidential candi-
date. The glamGr of the Rough Rider
incident just barely sufficed to sqeeze
Teddy" into the gubernatorial chair of
New York. So far Thomas Collier
Platfs plans worked well.
Roosevelt MS willing candidate
proved more tractable than Roosevelt
as Governor of the Empire State. Once
seated in the executive mansion at Al
bany, our friend Theodore began re-
Winding Plat and the other conspira-
tors Of the days when the Governor
was only police commissioner of New
York City. Roosevelt suddenly devel-
oped ideas on the taxation Of the Van
derbilt and other enormous corpora
tons in the State. Thanks to the law,
"Teddy" had only two years in the
gubernatorial office and then Plat de-
MED him a denomination and as solace
secured for him the nomination for
Vice President on the Republican tick
ct of 1900.
Mr.. Plat and his confreres reasoned
that as Vice President Roosevelt would
be forever shelved, no Vice President
for many years, except in the cases of
the assassinated Presidents, having
succeeded to the Presidency. This
would insure that man Of Roosevelt's
dangerous tendencies would be practi-
cally buried although apparently hon
ored with the second highest Office in
the gift of the American people. The
scheme worked nicely until an anar-
chist appeared OH the scene and then
again it was demonstrated that the
well-laid plans Of men, like those of
mice, gang aft aglee."
Apparently the favored child of des-
tiny, Theodore Roosevelt has wonder
full opportunity hand Time will tell
how he will utilize it. Without Ques-
ton the future of the Republican party
will depend upon his career, and at this
view circumstances indicate that he
will have to be very cautious to avoid
creating an issue which will be his own
and his party undoing. = Johnstown
Democrat.
1 Anarchy and the Public School.
/ OF all the manifold explanations that
have been made of anarchy in America
the most unique by far is made by a
correspondent of the Baltimore Sun,
who places the responsibility upon the
public school. The writer holds that
popular education creates discomfort
with social conditions and thus engen-
lders an enmity to social order. He
shows that the spirit of social discon-
tent is most pronounced in the Sta. es
where system of compulsory educa-
ton has been established. Writing Of
the advocates of the public school he
says:
"These gentlemen should be inform
cd that compulsory education has been
in full force for many years in most all
the States of the North and West,
where anarchism and socialism thrive,
while in the South, where only two
border States have dead-letter compHl-
sorry education, they are comparatively
unknown 1t might he supposed that
the illiterate mountaineers of the South
would furnish large quotas to the ranks
of the revolutionists; but they are I'M
known as either anarchists or social
| lists"
He then quotes writer in the North
American Review, who claims that the
three million tramps and hoboes who
prey upon the people to-day are the d.
rect product of education. He further
cites prominent Massachusetts So
cialist, who says Of the public schools:
"Ihey are proving the stepping stones
to State socialism, which is the step
ping stone to voluntary cooperation,
and ultimately the dream of the philo-
sophical anarchist. Children that have
been taught in them are now demand
Ing State food, clothing and shelter up
onathe same grounds that they receive
State education. They are making their
graduates dissatisfied with the drudg-
cry and monotony of ordinary daily la-
Dor. They have given the colored race
an opportunity for advancement In the
South, are making them dissatisfied
with their lot, and are forcing OIL So
luton of the race problem"
There is just enough of truth in this
charge to make 1t startling. The fact
Is, the murder of Mr.. Mckinley has
staggered the civilized world and is
liable to cause Il reaction against those
principles of liberty and equality which
are the especial fruit of our present
civilization. Reason, however, will
soon resume her sway and 1t will be
seen that while popular education and
the freedom of discussion may have a
morbid effect upon unhealthy minds
their abandonment would be far more