Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1908 — An Apt Comparison by Leslie H. Shaw. [ARTICLE]

An Apt Comparison by Leslie H. Shaw.

Former Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw in a speech last evening to the Repnblican Club of Marshall, Mich., compared the Roosevelt administration’s task In enforcing tb« law to that of the country school master of 50 years ago, who subdued ap unruly lot of pupils by locking the door, nailing down the window and proceeding to “lick” each big boy In turn. The teacher opened a carpet baj and took therefrom a revolver,a bowie knife and a blacksnake whip. The chastisement proceeded, and, having finished it, the warlike pedagogue unlocked the door and dismissed the school. There were no lessons that day and the teacher unit, leaving the labor of school instruction to his successor. Mr. Shaw used this tale to bolster up his contention that it Is now time to re-assign the lessons without lowering the standard of discipline, but the successor of the man with the whip should possess nerve to meet possible outbreaks. However, Mr. Bryan is announcing, aooording~to Hr. Shaw, the unwise policy of a foolish Hebrew king,'“My predecessor chastised you, with whips; If elected, I will chastise you with scorpions. My little finger Bhall be thicker than my predecessor’s

thigh.” Mr. Shaw said that Mr. Bryan seemed to take the position that the knife Bhould ever be kept on the table, the whip regularly cracked and the revolver discharged through the open window morning, noon and night. t

•‘He falls to realize,“said the lowan, “that excessive, too frequent punishment Is as subvertlve of discipline as laxity. I wish to remind him, therefore, before he completes bis third letter of acceptance,that corporal punishment is neither the purpose for which schools are organized nor criminal prosecutions the end for which government are Instituted among men. Both are necessary at times, but It Is never wise to give primary st tention to either for auy considerable length of time.”