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lie will do both. His vise to supremacy, or more correctly,
bis contiunncc in the leadership menus nothing but failure
for home-rule. The Irish parly can never by its own power
secure home-rule. The English liberals arc needed; but
Gladstone will never treat wilh Pnrncll. Gladstone must trei t
with a man that can command the respect of honorable and of
icspcclable people. If I'arnell is defeated, it will not be until
the Irish party has become badly demoralized. I'arnell is ton
able and unscrupulous a man, and withal, possessed ol too
many advantages easily to be worsted. He will never give
up until completely beaten. It remains to be seen whether
McCarthy and his followers can even discomfit him. In the
meantime whnt is to become of poor Ireland. Her only hope
left seems to be the God of the oppressed and of the forsaken,
lly His might deliverance ofttimes comes after times of dark
est despair. t '
The Canada election has excit:d much interest and spec
ulation in the United States. The point at issue between the
two parties in Canada, was with respect to the business
relations to be maintained with the states. Sir John A.
McDonald was opposed to reciprocity with our nation. The
conservatives favored England in trade relations; the liberals
desired to enter into closer business connections with the
United States. They wished above all things to free the
Canadian hen from the unequal competition wilh the United
States hen, that the McKinley hill had established. The
election returns show that the liberals have made good gains,
but have not won a victory. Reciprocity with Canada,
accordingly, is not to be. So much of Secretary Maine's pet
scheme has failed. He must now look for success to l.ntin
America. The failure of the liberals to win a victory
for the reciprocity idea suggests the question whether this
result will have any effect upon Blaine's chances for victory
in 1892. Since he has brought forward the idea of recipiocity
so early, there is plenty cf time to secure sonic considerable
measure of success or failure for it; and so Mr. Maine is
under the necessity of bringing h:s idea into practical opera
tion for trial. This he has failed to do with Canrdn. Will
not this failure lessen Maine'.-, chances by as much ns his
scheme for reciprocity thereby lacks completeness? That
seems probable. Furthermore, as any part ol the brilliant
secretary of state's plan lails, he is by that much more forced
back to protection. Yet reciprocity is a virtual concession
to free trade ideas. Hence, Secretary Maine, if 'his plan of
reciprocity does not materialize, will be compelled to be a
high protectionist in spite of his bold endeavor to secure free
trade through a scheme of an alluring name. If recipiocity suc
ceeds, soon the question will be raised, why not extend its
benefits? What then will Mr. Maine and the republican
party fnvor? After setting out upon this path converging
into the highway of free tinde, where will they go? There
can be no halting. Return would be rcdietilous, if not
impossible. Will the republican party, if It shall live, yet
become a party favoring unrestricted trade? Surely the
new path points thitherward.
EXCHANGE.
' The Sibyl coming from Klmira, N. Y., is a well prranged
monthly edited by the senior class of Klmira college. It is
a very good cxponjntof the enterprising and rustling abilities
of the before mentioned class. The paper is nnc of the hcav
icst on our list and is no cheaply gotten up thing, bu gives
evidence of a large and substantial support. In the Febru
ary number are two very good ond rather expensive photo
graphs of scenes in Kldrige park and its surroundings. It
must require considerable money to support such a paper,
edited and controlled by one of the college classes.
Miss Kale K. Morhart will represent Ohio in the inter
state contest with an oration entitled "Materialism." As the
returns come in we learn that there will, in all probability, be
several ladies in the contest this year. This fact will certainly
add interest to the contest and relieve it of a certain kind of
sameness that wns noticeable last year.
"The Civilization of the Anglo-Saxon" is the subject of
the oration that will represent the stale of Kansas at the
inter-state contest to be held at Dcs Moines sometime in
May. The winning orator, John I. Gaines, gained a great
victory in the state contest, and Baker university may well
feci pi oud of him for he met and defeated six representatives
of college oratory. He won by a very small per cent, how- .
ever, he being one fourth of one per cent above the winner
of second place. The Baker university Index prints the ora
tion in full.
The ex-editor of the Unit has a novel way of conducting
an exchange column, which must be original with him lor
we have not seen anything like it in any of our exchanges.
The matter is arranged in a sort of a story commencing at
the head of his column and continuing over nil the space
allotcd to hint in the paper. As he writes he weaves in what
he wishes to say in regard to his exchanges, occasionally
working in a piece of poetry so as not to be too prosy. In
this manner he gives a lively touch to the "cold" facts, and
makes them more interesting reading. There is, perhaps,
too great a tendency among exchange editors - to fill their
columns with facts without any coloring whatever.
This should be avoided ns mueb ns possible, and may be
done in vai ion-, ways. Hence there is a chance for some
original work on the part of ye exchange editors.
The Earlhamilt seems to be laboring under the impres
sion that there is a "universal wad that literary societies arc
rapidly dissappearing." It believes this is the case, more
generally' in colleges where the fraternity clement predomi
nates, and says the question for the future will be, "Shall
the literary society or the fraternity be dominant in the hit
lire college?" It is true that in colleges where fraternities
arc in the lead the literary societies arc fought and kpt
down as much as possible, but we would ask how many col
leges there are in which the fraternity element predominates?
Very few when compared with those in which the literary
societies hold sway. We do not think there is any reason to
fear the fraternities. The barbarian cause is advancing
much more rapidly than tliopposition, and we have no hes
itation in predicting that our side will always remain In the
lead. The number of men desiring literary work will remain
greater than the number desiring simply the companionship
of "a few of the best of us."
The Collegt Stiittt-nt devotes about half a column in its
exchange department to a dipping taken from the Cdlltgt
Echo. The substance of this article is to the effect that "Bob
IngcrsolPs talk be led unheard, his writings unread, and that
he be boycotted from the attention of scholars." The
writer of this article must either be a very radical Christian
or he is trying to g.un the car of a certain class of people.
While we do not believe as Ingersoll does we would not
have his articles suppressed for that reason alone. Such a
course would be in direct opposition to the broad principles
of our government: "Kive and let live." "All men arc cre
ated free and equal." All men "are entitled to life, liberty,
and property." Each of these rules and many more that
may be inferred from every page of our written law would be
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