The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-05

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money II brings.
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
tions about the transmutability Of en-
ergy; a country that has made the
best use Of FNulton'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 telegraphy; country in
which Edison's monograph and cine
matograph are popular and daily con-
tribute to the enjoyment of old and
young; where every car Is stopped
with 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 ham
ding cotton; where old Remingtons
tipping machine Is still holding its
own against all corners; where Roeb-
ling's type OF suspension bridgt is
gradually superseding the old tube
system: where 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, 1t 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 railway locomotive good for fif-
teen years; for quick traffic, for only
twelve years; and they design and
construct 1t accordingly. This they
do estimating that during that period
Improvement will have sufficiently ad-
vanced to make the use OF the old
type a dead loss.
On what basis an activity of yearly
KY milliards is OF a sudden found to
be unbusinesslike and possessing
merely business forms we gods might
know! ! certainly de- 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 II
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 ]. b., who !
proverbially stands for the fair and |
square, that those Americans are far
from being typical of the country or
its 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; II is rather
to Dame Nature, than to the educa.
tional institutions that such charac-
teristics owe their Inception.
Any United States lad from the pub.
lie school shows more gumption and
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 af.
fairs than Is the case anywhere else.
The higher article has better
chances In the Union, after all. as II
Is not squashed 80 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 unayoid.
able In any human center serving as
The dumping ground of all varieties
d human elements. to whom political
rights are granted even before tho
dement's themselves have been as.
simulated.
bribery In politics Is passably rare ,
occurrence outside Of the city conters.
Shere large unassimilated foreign
element Is generally to be met with |
Outside of the international readi. 8
less TO accept cigar properly offered
must emphatically state that ever I
'ince civil-service reform was intro. {
'uced under Cleveland no government 1
'fiicial of the United States is to be- {
'ribed.
John BigeloW Andraw uys,. :