We Enrich As We Educate

That the acqtïirement of properly is i:ot necessarily accompanied by a proportionate increase in intelligence and soundness of judgmentj is i'act wliicli ncedí r.ought to sustain (s truth but the personal observation of' evory thinking reader. Tbe kno'.vledge most Dftcessary to the management of' property, and usually acquireJ along wjth it, is, tbr the most part. of tba cbaractér of common sense, cur.ning or shrewdnesss. Süch knowledge is ahiajs subject to the influenoe of passion andprejudioe, and is often ovcrreached eitherby the chicanery of demagogues, or bj ra own self-confidence or distrust. The on!y uinvavering element in politics is composed of men whose conception of principie reachos above the trammels of circuísstance, whose sense of patriotism, who appreciation of statesmanship. are t intolerant topolitical sophistry añdscbeming self-interest. ïhes men aro found on]y among the educated of onr citizem, ml there they can be found in plenty. Wherever cducation and property (■:■' as acquirements, the lá'tter has anvaysboea a concoinitant upon the former: as attainments they sustain the almost invariable relation of cause and effect. The man of wealth s not gerierafly intelligffl' because he is rich, but rich ljecause he is intelligent; and at the other endofthf social seale wc find the situation the same; the lower classes are not ignorant becan they are poor, but becftuse they are iglW' rant. The atteinpt to puriiy suffrage by property qualiflcation is, tlien, to begi the wrong end ol' the difficulty, - is ar. ttempt to inodily causes by altering effect The endeavor must first be made to correct the source of our evils, the stres will then purify itself. Edúcate and we e" rich ; enrich, and we do nothing more. I"' telügent responsibility in the masses is tl ultimatum of suflrage reform, a consunimation whïch can be realized by education, and by it alone, education, diligent and comprehensiva education moral as veil s intellectual. No svstem oí' law can forcé instruction upon the masses ; such ai: ep can be reached only by making t-s atta:ament the price of privilege. A centurj exercise has endeared the electivo rigtó [l' evory Citizen, and lic witl make everj'f-' fort to preserve i t in his possession, or W regain it when lost. Education. witli tl modern facilities of free school systems. made the solerequireinent lor eleetive lw" city. will be at once acepted by all classes as the condition of free ballot, and egerly acquired as the price of liberal c1"' hip. Enthusiastic Youth on horse car- '' star over there is Mars." Unsympatbetic Driver- "Is it? Then the other one, I snppose, is pa's."