Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1895 — Matthew Arnold’s Democracy. [ARTICLE]

Matthew Arnold’s Democracy.

The Century. " During Matthew Arnold’s visits to this country, there were few things in which he manifested so eager an interest as in the conversation of our laboring men as overheard by him from time /to time. Frequently he repeated to me sentences which had reached him in the! street, upon the train, or at the railway stations, ask,' ing/-“Is not 'such intelligence uncommon amongst your working people?” Upon my replying in the negative he would say, “It is surprising; you would not meet with it in England.” A democrat by conviction rather than by temperament, urging democracy as only method consistent with the human instinct toward expansion,” he was yet an educator, and believed in equality upon a high, not upon a low plane. Like Rugkin, he demanded of men their best, and with less than their best refused to be satisfied. .J. 11l , ■ The Pope is at present in perfect health for one of his years and physical fragility. He works many hours a day with astonishing assiduity. He rises at 7, and after a short time in prayer performs mass in his private chapel. He then returns immediately to his study and works till 11, at which hour he receives »his secretary and other persons to whom I he has granted an audience. I Mr. H. O. Havemyer receives a sa’ary of s7s,Ob<i a year as president of the Sugar Trust and 125,000 a year as trustee.