Palmer and Buckner, men whose lives and records demonstrate such debased currency. It is evident that the framers of the Chicago platform cared very little about the rights of the people or the powers of the state and federal governments under the Constitution. They put into the platform just such planks as were necessary to consummate a permanent alliance and ultimate consolidation with Populism and kindred organizations, and enable them to court the support of all combinations that do not hesitate to use violence to attain their ends, and of all the discontented, unrestful, and desperate, who are held in order only by the restraints of law. Mr. Bryan has attended to the work laid out for him in the platform, and has secured his nomination by the Populists, the middle of the road Populists and the Silver party. When the majority that dominated the Chicago Convention is judged by the platform they adopted, and the character of their allies and supporters is considered, and when it is realized that the views of that majority, their allies and supporters, are the views of Mr. Bryan, and are the views which, if he is elected, will control the administration of this government for four years, enough and more than enough appears to cause every right minded Democrat to turn with disgust from any idea of supporting a candidate, whose election would inflict upon the country such an administration. If Bryan is elected or if he is not elected there can be no doubt that those who support him will find themselves when this campaign is over in a consolidated party controlled by the principles of the Populists and led by Bryan, Altgeld, and Tillman. It is wholly immaterial what name that party may bear. It can have nothing in common with the Democracy. Populism and Democracy are entirely unlike. Their principles stand out in direct opposition to each other. The Populist demands that the government be revolutionized and be made a centralized paternal institution. He demands that the government shall own all the railroads and telegraph lines, advance money on crops, pay his mortgage, and, in short, wipe out his individuality and relieve him from the responsibility of taking care of himself by caring for him as a father cares for his child.

On the other hand the Democrat demands that the Constitu

tion shall be maintained as it is; that there shall not be any centralization of power; that the government shall be administered as Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson administered it; that it shall protect him in the enjoyment of his inalienable rights, his right to life, liberty, and the acquisition of property; that it shall leave him to take care of himself, to stand up in his own individual right as God made him, free, independent, and selfreliant, with full liberty to go and come as he pleases, to pursue happiness along the ways of his choice, and to possess and enjoy the fruits of his labors, always provided that he shall not trespass on his neighbor. The Democrat who is swept along into the consolidated party that the present supporters of Bryan will hereafter form will then find himself no longer a Democrat, but a Populist. Those Democrats of New Hampshire who no longer ago than last May, in a Democratic State Convention duly assembled, joined with perfect accord in declaring allegiance to Democracy and sound money, and who since have changed to the support of Populism and a debased currency, must have seen and learned enough now to make them feel that they are where they do not wish to remain. Such a sudden and radical change in popular sentiment is appalling, and leads to doubt as to the stability of institutions upheld by the popular will. We understand, however, there is a reason for it and that no such unexpected change of attitude in reference to principles where there was no possible chance for a corresponding change in actual belief and conviction could have occurred without a cause. Honest Democrats indorsed the platform and nominees of the Chicago Convention when its work was first promulgated because they trusted that convention as the regular Democratic body authorized to declare the principles of Democracy and name its candidates; but now, when it is demonstrated that their trust was betrayed, and that if they continue to support the work of that convention they bid good-bye to Democracy and go straight to the Populist camp, they must, as honest Democrats, look elsewhere for Democracy. They cannot go to McKinley, for Democracy is opposed to what he represents. They must go to the work of the Indianapolis Convention. They will find there a Democratic platform, and for candidates they will find

Palmer and Buckner, men whose lives and records demonstrate that into their hands the Democracy can commit with safety the great trust of administering this government. Let the present campaign terminate as it may, the Democrat who votes for Palmer and Buckner may be sure that he votes for men who ought to be elected and that he is helping to form the nucleus around which four years hence the Democratic hosts can rally and by restoring Democracy to power give to the country once more the blessings of a Democratic administration.

THE NEW EDUCATION OF WOMAN.

ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE GRAFTON AND COÖS BAR ASSOCIATION AT PLYMOUTH, N. H., JANUARY 29, 1897.

Gentlemen of the Association:

We meet today on the fourteenth anniversary of our Association. We meet under circumstances which augur that our present meeting will be a fortunate one. I welcome you here and congratulate you that we are thus well met.

The first thing in order is an address by myself and I suppose something in the form of a written essay is expected, but I am not able to furnish it. I have a subject, however, that I have considered somewhat, and upon which I have intended to elaborate a written essay, but the pressure of other matters and a constitutional reluctance to overwork myself have prevented me from so doing.

I will state the subject I intended to discuss, the points I intended to make, and the grounds upon which I expected to support these points. This contemplated subject may be defined by an inquiry in these words, "What effect will the advent of the 'new woman' have upon the future of mankind?" I use the term, "new woman," in a good sense. I do not mean by it the stormy virago who denounces man as her oppressor, and announces that the women are going to discard their old tyrants and run things by themselves. If the vociferous band of female

iconoclasts execute their threats and entirely cut themselves loose from the men, the time will be limited in which they can make trouble. Soon their lives will be spent and they can leave nobody behind them to fill their places.

I refer to the women who are quietly and industriously availing themselves of the advantages that recently have been thrown open to them. The rights and responsibilities of married women have been especially enlarged, and generally the ways have been multiplied and broadened in which female influence can operate upon society. Women can engage, if they choose, in numerous employments from which they were formerly debarred. Even the learned professions have been opened for them more or less generally, and we have female doctors, preachers, and lawyers. The grand advance, however, that has been made in behalf of women is the movement which opened to them all the doors of education.

That movement must improve the race and greatly accelerate human progress. The physical, intellectual, moral, and religious training of women is to be as thorough as that of men. Literature, science, all branches of learning, are open to both sexes alike; both sexes are taught in the same instiutions, or in institutions of the same grade. What I refer to as the new woman is the woman that is being developed by the progress of the age; a progress of the race, of the same character as the progress that man has been making all along since he emerged from barbarism; a progress which profits the race, one sex as well as the other.

Evolutionary changes affecting the physical, intellectual, moral, and religious condition of mankind have succeeded one another constantly ever since the world began. As a result of these changes there has been progress. The discovery of the laws by which health is secured, pestilence averted, and disease successfully combatted have made it possible to establish sanitary regulations and modes of physical training that have done a great work in saving and prolonging human life, and in developing the stature and muscular power of the human body. Good illustrations of the progress that has been made in physical conditions may be seen in the limitations which have been placed

upon the spread of deadly plagues and diseases, that formerly, at recurring intervals, swept over the earth, scattering death and desolation in their paths; in the years that have been added to the length of a human generation, and in the superior stature and increased muscular development of the girls educated at our institutions, recently established, above their mothers. The intellectual condition of the world has in like manner improved.

Art, literature, and science have progressed. Enlightenment, culture, and refinement prevail where once were ignorance, barbarism, and brutality. Man has subdued, or at least partially subdued, some of the powers of nature, and so far made them subservant to his will that he has accomplished thereby wonderful results. He has put steam under the yoke and has thus secured an immense power for accelerating the march of human improvement. He has obtained such dominion over the tremendous potency of electricity that the brain grows dizzy as it contemplates what his further intellectual developments may accomplish.

Modern morality stands far in advance of the morality of the olden time. Numberless superstitions, which in former ages darkened the understandings of men and degraded them almost to a level with the beasts that perish, have vanished before the light of modern civilization.

The progress that has been made in developing the moral sense of mankind is demonstrated by the changed social position of woman. Formerly she was a mere slave, doomed to a life of ignorance and servile drudgery; now she is educated, is the equal of man, and clothed with all the rights, responsibilities, and duties that naturally appertain to her in organized society. The emancipation and elevation of the negro from his degraded condition furnishes another instance that shows the moral progress that the world has made. A little more than two hundred years ago it was not considered "that the negro had any rights that a white man was bound to respect;" now he is a man, a brother, on equality with the white man. The many salutary reforms that have been inaugurated and are constantly being inaugurated for the salvation of wayward humanity from the horrors of intemperance and vice in all its forms, prove that man