The Old-fashioned Teacher

Hun. A. D. Harían, in kis speech' in the Pennsylvania sonate, made a telling answer to the objection that women are . unfit to take part in government: "The time was, and not long since, that it was thought it would never do to give a wiuter school m the rural district to a lady, because she would never be able to govern the big boys. She might teach a small school during the summer moDths, because it would be composed of Uttle children, but a good, big, strong man would have to be employed for the winter months. And some of us here, who are quite young, can well remember this ideal male teacher, as he entered the school room the flrst morning of the term with bis bundie of rods, whieh he put up over his desk as a terror to all the pupila; and how, as a rule, he would try to find some fault with the boy who had been the ringleader in mischief the last session, so tbat he, the teacher, might give him a thrashing the first day, and tbus secure the government of the school for the term. But that kind of government has disappeared, and in its place there rules, instead, a gentle maiden, and her rule is perfect, (or it is the rule of love. "To-day this commonwealth has more than fifteen thousand such women, who are govern ing a million of our boys and girls, and training them for usefulness in life. " We admit their snperiority in this work, and yot we discrimínate against them by paying them at least thirty per cent less than we do male teachers, when they do the same work, and do it bettcr. "Should we thus discrimínate againBt woman ïf she had a vote? No, not for a day. We should not dare to do it. "Has this change in our public schools disgraced these fifteen thousand women? No, it has made them respected and honored everywhere. "Woman entered the telegraph office, and the vile language often indulgcd in by men disappeared. "Women are to-day sought for in the office, in the store, and all the departments of business were, brains, virtue and honesty are wanted. "It is to-day everywhere admitted that where the unjust discrimination of man has yielded to the growing civilization of the age, and allowed woman an equal race in any of the professions, she has proven herself worthy of the place. "I have no fear that if we giye woman libcrty, she will be less feminine, for woman eau never be unwomanly. She, like man, acquires character and selfcontrol in proportion as her sphere enlarges." Last week the republioan papers announced in large head-lines that Mr. Cleveland had declared his determinatiou to retire from office at the close of the present term, and to refuse a nomination in case it should be offered to him. The sensation hardly lasted over night as it was shown that he had made no such declaration. In faot he has said nothing that would lead to euch a conclusión. Mr. Cleveland is doing very well, and it is at least flfteen months before the convention will meet that is to consider the matter of nomina tion. He will then be renominated if he desires it, and elected against any man the republicans can put in nomination against him. A large majority of the republicans who bolted their Darty in 1884 burued the bridges behind them. ' They had no intention of going baok, and have no idea of doing so now, no matter who the republican nominee may be. They have been regular thiok and tbin supporters of the president and will not change so long as he is a candidato. The people of the country are satisfied with Mr. Cleveland. He has done better tban they had hoped or expected. The New York Sun is opposing his administration, hut the San opposed his election for a consideration ; t hen demanded the New York custom house to insure ita support. The New York World is opposing Cleveland becauso its editor was not allo wed to control the federal appointments of that state. The Louisville Couner-Journal is doing the same thing for the same reason. None of these papers, or none of the socalled democratie leaders are opposing the administraron for other than mercenar motives. Every two-for-a-cent kicker and growler from Maine to California is of the same stripe. Mr. Cleveland's is a thoroughly democratie administration, and has the endorsement of his partv, and from the present outlook everything indícate that he will be renominated and elacted. The democratie party will never repudíate the first president they have inaugurated for nearly a quarter of a century notwithstanding thore has bobbed up a certain olass of opposition that would never have been known had not Mr. Cleveland's opposition to their disreputable methods bronght them before the people. - Monroe Democrat.