Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1907 — PAPERS. BY. THE PEOPLE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PAPERS. BY. THE PEOPLE.

WHAT THE PEOPLE DEMAND.

By Gov. Chas. E. Hughes.

Ours is not and was not intended »to be a pure democracy. It is impracticable that the people should administer the government directly. They govern through representatives. For their protection they have by direct legislation created constitutions fettering the power of their representatives and establishing safeguards by which they are secure in their personal liberty and in the results of their thrift. W T e note with satisfaction the increasing sense of responsibility to the people on the part of those who represent them. Efforts to dominate legislation for

selfish purposes and attempts through the form of popular election to place In office those who In the guise of executing public trusts serve private interests, are less successful than heretofore. The people have become Intolerant of suOh traitorous representation. And it is entirely within their p<swer to put a stop to it altogether. Political leaders who have performed the function of clearing-houses for legislation, and.who-while posing as party workers- bars' served under a retainer of spe•claT’fnterests, careless alike of party principles or public justice, are passing from the stage. The people demand leadership, and parties need effective organization to advance their principles. But the time is rapidly passing when any one can long maintain a position of wide political influence who is under suspicion of maintaining a double allegiance.

GREATEST DISCOVERIES STILL TO COME.

By Justice David Brewer.

Some years ago Ix>rd Kelvin, that master mind of British.science, remarked to my uncle, the late Henry Field—l cannot quote his exact -words, but the substance of them was this: “Great as have been the discoveries of the past fifty years, those that are coming will make the next half century as far ahead of the last as it was In advance of the previous period. We are on the brink of dis-

coverles greater than have been dreamed of, and of high•est Importance to mankind.” I can see the forerunners of some of the marvels that are in store for us. What a weird thing is wireless telegraphy,'sending our messages mysteriously over the aea! The airship seems to be a practical possibility of the near future. The telegraph and the telephone already have enabled us to accomplish a valuable saving of time. Think what it means, this one thing of saving time in our human existence. It gives us more opportunity to think, to study, to work, to accumulate wealth, to carry on trade and commerce, and more time also to devote to helping others and promoting peace and happiness in the world. The merchant of the past was confined principally to his isolated community. The merchant of the future may deal with the whole world, reaching out into every -country, buying, selling, trading in faraway lands, carrying on enormous transactions that could not be undertaken but for the Inventions of science that gave his time at home and bring the other side of the world instantaneously to his door. We have affllionaires to-day and billionaires to-mor-row. Perhaps we Shall Have trillionalres next. Let us

have them if their wealth is used for increasing the welfare and the happiness of humanity. I do not view with alarm the accumulation of wealth,'because I believe that the spirit of humanity and the sense of responsibility is gtowing among us. '

YOUNG MAN’S SALARY NOT MAIN THING.

By. John A. Howland.

Thousands of young men are starting out in life with the salary magnet the only attraction to them. “A job” that shall pay sufficiently to meet his small necessities and pay for as many of the small luxuries of the time as the young man-feels more and more are parcel of his necessities becomes at once the young man’s objective alm. I have a business acquaintance who started

in life as a clerk in a general store in a small town, lie could have had more money in another store whose specialty was shoddy goods of all kinds. He decided to stay by the better man at the smaller salary, with the result that to-day in his own business, aggregating millions annually, he says that some of the basic principles of bls house were found in the methods of that country store where he first sold goods for an honest man. With the young man at the outset this question of salary seems all Important. To the extent that it shall not humble his pride to have to accept so little, this salary has distinct bearing. But as between $1 and $2 on the salary roll, many a young mgn. who in the beginning lived well on half as much finds himself in debt with twice the money in his pay envelope. He discovers suddenly that a salary of whatever size is subject to new perspectives. ;; j ~7 Considering the young man venturing into business as an individual, training for business, he Is fortunate if he shall have some level headed counselor who may help him see the full stature of Opportunity in sharp and lasting contrast to the petty salary of a day-.

WORK FOR THE EDUCATED WOMAN.

By Ambassador James Bryce.

There are two fields of work which the average educated citizen of the male sex does not find time to enter, but into which women have more time to enter. One is the cultivation of a thorough knowledge and a fine taste In literature—the habit of reading that which Is not ephemeral, the habit of study, the acquisition of a critical faculty which discovers and enjoys what is of permanent literary value. The other field includes the study of economic and social phenomena—

how to mitigate the contrasts of wealth and poverty; how to adjust more fairly the burden of taxation; how to deal with Intemperance, with unhealthy dwellings, with discharged criminals, with vagrants, with neglected children—how in various ways to help those who ne6d help. All these questions have a double side. They need to be studied in their principles as- a part of economic science. They need, even more to be studied In practice by getting into actual touch with the evils inherent In ' the growth of dense centers of population. And if the antagonism of rich and poor which exists in man/ parts of Europe is to be averted from American cities, It must be by keeping the richer people in close personal touch with the life of the poor.

GOV. C. E. HUGHES.

JAMES BRYCE.