The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-11-29

With old Ben Franklin's lightning
rods all over the world; in a country
where Faraday has so beautifully
worked out Count Rumford's early no
tons about the transmutability OF en-
ergy; a country that has made the
best use of Fulton's first steamboat;
made the best use of Captain Maury's
studies and investigations of the Gulf
stream; has used for years Morse's
code Of biography; a country IN
which Edison's photograph and cine
matOgraph are popular and daily con-
tribute to the enjoyment of old and
young; where every car Is stopped
with a Westinghouse brake and most
of the houses are supplied with tele-
phones; where cotton spinners are
daily reaping the advantages Of Whit
ney's discovery: Of his gin in han
ding cotton; where old Remington s
tipping machine Is still holding its
own against all corners; where Roeb-
lings type Of suspension bridgt Is
gradually superseding the old tube
system; where a man cannot get any
distance without meeting with the
Buckeye harvesters, reapers and bind
ers, with hay tedders and horse rakes,
or steam drills-in the face of all that,
such a sweeping assertion as that OF
Charge II. can be explained only as
being due to ignorance.
AS to the durability Of American
machinery, it is found to be the d.
rect result of the processes used, and
the very American plan of work is the
very opposite of the continental and
English.
In the states they generally calcu-
late a railway locomotive good for f1f.
teen years; for quick traffic, for only
twelve years; and they design and
construct it accordingly. This they
do estimating that during that period
improvement will have sufficiently adj
vanced to make the use of the old
type a dead loss.
On what basis an activity Of yearly
KY milliards is of sudden found to
be unbusinesslike and possessing
merely business forms We gods might
know! I certainly do not
Most Of the larger business ven.
lures being organized as stock compa-
MES and corporations, competition Of
the sharpest kind being the habitual
order Of things, and all other factors
in what could be bought for money
being equal between the competitors,
that company gets the best Of it
which has the best and most talented
men at its head.
AS an abstract, obscure dealer in
abstract mental products under
stand and see how some American
men may have got into discredit, but
| would call the attention of J. B.. who
proverbially stands for the fair and
square, that those Americans are far
from being typical Of the country or
it's spirit. They are rather types Of
the original places they hail from.
No perfect scholar or man of really
good and delicate taste can ever be
made by education only; 1t is rather
to Dame Nature than to the educa-
tional institutions that such charac-
terstcs owe their inception.
Amy United States lad from the pub
lie school shows more gumption and
capacity Of doing something than
most of the foreign full-grown ele-
ment on landing.
The fellow educated in the United
States has more public spirit in him
and greater capacity for public az
fairs than is the case anywhere else
The higher article has better
chances in the Union, after all, as it
is not squashed so much as elsewhere
by the deadening effect of our mod
ern new shape Of slavery-that of the
socially received formulate Of model
figures!
The fearful corruption connected
with this political activity Is unavoid-
able in any human center serving as
the dumping ground of all varieties
of human elements, to whom political
rights are granted even before the
Elements themselves have been as
simulated.
Bribery in politics is passably rare
occurrence outside of the city centers.
where large unassimilated foreign
element is generally to be met with.
Outside Of the international readi-
ness to accept cigar properly offered,
l must emphatically state that ever
since civil-service reform was intro
duced under Cleveland no government
official Of the United States Is to be
bribed.
John Bigelow, Andrew White and