The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-08-21

gone. These matters read aloud to oui
children at home and in the school,
with the active teaching Of what litera-
ture is in the language wherein 1t has
found it's highest expression, English,
English, English would give us
generation Of writer's and poets and
original thinkers as we'll. We learn 10
love and prefer cultured people by enjoy
ing their society. IL is go in the world
Of thought. We cannot aim too high in
the character Of literature We place be
fore our children but how can We expect
them to relish IL or love IT and prefer IT.,
/ IL we have done nothing to educate their
taste2 We might as well expect q
cannibal to abandon kreophagy and take
10 an oatmeal and vegetable diet.
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Lots OF Us are like child that can
only look on and make faces. We are
not really enjoying the game.
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The real offense that Admiral schley
is TO be tried for exists not in berecords
Of the navy nor in any acts OF that gall
liant officer who has become an inani-
mate target for all the poPiniays Of the
department. What is called the
sampson.schley wrangle is not over the
alleged disobedience' OF orders at the
battle of Santiago, but over an infrac'
tion Of the social code, the entente
cordial Of the petticoat circle, for which
Schley is TO be disciplined. The official
instructions 70 the court Of inquiry that
is to investigate schley is more Of an
indictment, a series Of vindictive accusa-
tions, than an impartial outline OF the
real inquiry. II means that the navy
department is constituted Of the same
material as the calico cabal that is bound
TO cruelty schley, and for whstP The
CONCEALED particles Of truth clustering
about the whole matter indicate that
IL is a question Of caste, that schley 10
democratic and has dared assert his
democracy while the navy is aristocratic
and is the backbone Of all the lingo
ginn fizz Imperialism. Schley recon-
mended young Morgan, one Of the
gunhersl helpers, one Of the grimy
horny handed men behind the guns,
for promotion TO lieutenancy. Samp-
son objected 10 the promotion Of man
below the level OF the aristocratic idea
OF a naval officer. A common seaman
is not supposed TO possess or be able to
acquire the polish, the social eclat,
the polite qualifications, required by ar
officer Of the navy. An admiral whC
iorgets himself and recommends such 1
hero Of the gun.deck as Morgan made
himself out TO be. when he handled {
ten inch gun alone after the rest OF the
crew belonging TO that piece were dis
abled, must expect the irowns Of th'
drawing room clique who want lily
white hands aud Chesterheldisn man
ners as a qualification for promotion
more than eyebrows burnt away AM
hands caloused In the service. Wors'
than this, II is the uniform testimony o
common sailors and petty officers tina
schley treats them with kindness anC
commoa courtesy, as II creuted by th
came God as himself aud In the emplo
Of the same government, and in thei
several capacities performing their dut
as patriotically as the greatest admira
schley relaxes not particle OF diseipln
but he acts towards the "inlerior" naya
caste as though they were just as goo
as the greatest society dude from th
naval academy which Of course his posi-
tlon should tell him they are not. Hi
democratic disposition was the real rsa
son why Sampson was promoted owe
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