Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-24

me owner 70 pe SO punied up with prize as
values OF things H. becomes a harm and
not a benefit.
Duty OF Educated Man.
There are few things LEES desirable than
the arid cultivation, the learning and re-
hnement which lead merely to that intel
lectual concelt which makes a man In
democratic community Ike ours hold him
self upon the weakness which he mistakes
for supercilious strength. Small r. the use
OF those educated men who IN after life
meet no one but themselves. and gather
in parlors 10 discuss wrong conditions
which they do not understand and to adj
vocate remedies which have the prime de-
feet of being unavoidable. The judgment
on practical affairs, political and social Of
educated men who keep aioof from the
conditions Of practical life, is apt to be
valueless to those other men who do really
wage effective war against the forces OF
basenesS and OF evil. From the political
standpoint education Is a harm and not a
excuse for refusing to mingle with their
fellows and for standing aloof from the
curiousy impotent spirit of fancisf super
iority. The political wrongheadedness. OF
such men is quite as great as that Of
wholly uneducated men; and no people
could be less trustworthy rs critics and
advisers. The educated man who seeks to
console himself for his own lack of the
! robust qualities necessary to bring success
In American politics by moaning over the
degeneracy OF the times instead OF trying
to better them. by railing at the men who
do the actual work OF political life instead
4 OF trying himself to do the work. Is a poor
creature, and, so far as his feeble powers
avail, Is damage and not a help to the
| country You may come far short of this
| disagreeable standard and stili be a rather
useless member OF society. Your educa-
| ton, your cultivation. viii not help you IL
you make the mistake of thinking that II
] Is substitute for instead of an addition
to those qualities which in the struggle
| Of life brings success 10 the ordinary man
| without your advantages
Privilege of College Training.
| Your college training confers no privilege
| upon you save as tested by the use you
make OF II 1t puts upon you the obligation
| to show yourselves better able to do GER
| tain things than your fellows who have not
/ had your advantages. If Il has served
TO be excused from effort in after life,
that you are to be excused from contact
with the actual world Of men and events.
ing. IL, on the other hand, you treat your
! education as weapon the more in your
! hands, weapon TO fit you to do better in
excusing you in any way from taking part
| In practical fashion in that struggle then
1t will be benefit to you.
| Let each OF you college men remember
In after life that in the fundamentals he
Is very much like his fellows who have
achieve results, instead of confirming him.
self exclusively to disparagement OF other
men who have achieved them, he mus
agreement with these fellows Of his. There
are times OF course when II may be tht
highest duty Of a citizen TO stand alon,
or practically alone But II this man'i
normal attitude-if normally he is unable
to work in combination with considerable,
1 body Of his fellows-it is safe to set hin
down as UNFIT for useful service in a dem
ocracy. In popular government results
worth having can only be achieved by mel
who combine worthy ideals with practica
good sense; who are resolute to accomplish
good purposes, but who can accommodate I,
themselves to the give and take necessar,
where work has to be done, as almost al
important work must necessarily be done
by combination Moreover remember tina
normally the prime object of political lif
should be to achieve results and not merel,
10 issue manifestos-save of course wher
the issuance of such manifestoes helps 4
achieve the results. 1t is a very bad thini
TO be morally cailous, for moral calious mes
Is disease. But Inflammation OF the con
science may be just as unhealthy so IA
as the public Is concerned; and II man
conscience is always telling him to do some
thing foolish he will do we'll to mfstrus
its workings The religious man who 4
most useful Is not he whose sole care 4
10 save his own soul but the man who's
religion bids him strive to advance decenc,
and clean living and TO make the world
better place for his fellows to live in; AM
all this Is just as true of the ordinary citi
zen In the performance of the ordinar,
!, duties Of political life