The Washington herald., 1910-12-19
AT THE HOTELS.


Mrs. Frances Squire Potter, correspond
ing secretary OF the National Suffrage
Association, when recently seen in this
city. said that England had grounds for
her boast that her government is moro
democratic than that of the United
States
We must educate our rising manhood
and womanhood. We begin all right in
this with our glorious public schools"
said Mrs. Potter. But after the public
schools-what2 The young mea and the
young women drift into ways of their
own and eventually form the indifferent
majority that has been the prime cause
OF every fallen nations decline.
We should have instructors in the
schools who viii give men and women
a true appreciation of the political boss
and unity education in culture and in
dustry. Both sexes serving each other
and the country, with a fun knowledge
Of civic problems, would soon mean the
establishment Of the democracy OF our
dreams. Make the teachers economically
independent, that they may put all their
time 10 work and that We may not have
among them such as the one who re-
Gently said that an empire IN this coun-
Try will rise from the ashes Of the re-
public
THE stage viii also play its part As
in Hamlet, the acting Of the crime viii
show the criminal where he is at fault,
and The King rises" in recognition of
! his crime. will burst from the lips or
! Ophelia.
Compared with the English, the Amer
lean suffragist is ignorant IN the matter
tf.Fv TfarE.
woman is not a stranger to the actual
activities Of the political game on the
other side. II is nothing unique for an
/ Englishwoman 10 electioneer for any
party. Her strength and knowledge in
! these matters easily is apparent TO any
one who has watched Mrs. Pankhurst's
methods. The English movement If for
nothing else, has been a grand thing in
stimulating the universal movement The
growth has been sure. and nothing can
Withstand il"
It is the contention Of Terrence f. Cal
lagher, of Chicago, who is at the Riggs,
| that American history writer's have not
given due credit to the Irish people in
the upbuildng Of this nation.
! Il thoroughly agree with Judge Seaman
when he says that during the last fifty
years American history has been rewrit-
| ten By prejudiced or ignorant persons.
who have taken from Irishmen the credit
they won in the Revolution. the war of
1872 the civil war, and in American life
in general
At the head Of these Judge Seaman
placed John Hay. whom he accused Of
having been completely Anglcized by his
1 life in England. Roosevelt, he said, evi-
IDENTIFY had made his errors through ig-
norance when he wrote in his life Of
Morris twenty years ago that the Irish
Catholics in the colonies were loyal TO
King George.
IN contradiction Of this. Judge Sean
Ian quoted Washington a. saying at the
banquet OF the Friendly Sons of St Pat
rick. at Philadelphia. March Il. 1874. that
| if IL had not been for the Irish among
mis- soldiers he never could have kept his
army together at Valley Forge. He stat
ed that more than half of Washingtons
officers were Irish. and TO support it read
the names OF generals. col0nels and
majors who spent the winter al Valley
! Forge-Sulivan, Conway, Fitzgerald, Con-
nor Moylsn, Shea, McGaw, Crogan
Miles, Kelley and Burke.
I'VE know that Commodore Jack Barry,
| born and raised in Wexford, was the
! founder Of the American navy; that he
/ first carried the flag Of the Continental
! Congress. 10 battle on the oceanic VIC
/ torious battle. But there is not a public
school history in Chicago. probably nor
in the whole United States, that mentions
his name as performing that deed. We
hear Of the aid OF Pulaski and Kosciuski.
the Poles. OF Won Steuben. the German.
n.
French but not a word OF the Irish, who
made Up the bulk Of the army, Why,
even the troops that the King of France
sent over were Irish-Dillon's Irish Bri-
gade.'
DR.. William H. Goodwin. OF Portland.
Greg. who vas seen at the Arlington,
in speaking Of modern education, said
that educational dyspepsia is one Of the
most serious ailments schools and colleges
have to deal with.
Many pupils so 10 college because
il is a conventional thing TO do" said
DR.. Goodwin This is just like the
dyspeptic who goes 10 the table. not
because he wants to eat but because
every one else does. and he has been
brought up that way
The future welfare of the people of
this country demands that the land shall
be occupied and farmed by an intelli-
gent class of landowners. Otherwise
the problem OF furnishing food Tor the
/ increasing population will be a serious
one, being left in the hands OF an
( ignorant peasantry. II our system Of
( education is TO continue. il must benefit
| all classes of the people. There is no
kind OF work that the educated classes
should be unwilling to take part in
Z am getting tired, continued DR..
Goodwin. ''of seeing none but ignorant
! persons clean :he streets. I would like
10 sec the young people take hold and do
some OF this work. The high school
/ ought 10 get into touch with things OF
this kind in some way or another. They
should become familiar with the occupa-
tons in their neighboThO0d A young
man or a young woman should choose
! An occupation by actual contact with il.
7 would not have our children get
down on their knees and scrub. because
/ would not have any one do that. I
would have some sort Of machine do
that kind Of work. and would have the
pupils operate H. We have no right 10
| look down upon the work of anybody
who performs services which benefit
humanity.
Since the beginning Of me cold
weather In the North said James Y.
Mooney. of Galveston. Tex. who is at
the Raleigh, the railroads entering san
Antonio have been bringing homeseekers
by the trainload. These are principally
farmers from the Middle West and the
Eastern States. who come FOR themselves
to investigate the prospects for farming
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