AN OUTWORN SNEER
An Outworn Sneer By EDWARD ALSWORTH ROSS Author of "Sin and Society," etc. IN 1800, the average inhabitant of the United States had received eighty-two days of schooling. Alexander Hamilton had...
...In 1900, the average American had had 1,046 days of schooling—more than twelve times as much as his great-grandfather...
...Hence they joined to interpose an electoral college between the people and the presidency, and the legislatures between the people and the Senate...
...So did Roger Sherman when he said, "The people immediately should have as little to do as may be about government...
...So did John Adams when he demanded a separate representation for "the rich and the well-born...
...Yet Hamilton's sneer is still flung at him, and he is held unfit to choose a United States senator or pass upon an act of his legislature...
...So did Elbridge Gerry when he declared democracy to be the worst of all political evils...
...To the man who would succeed, a wishbone is not in it with a backbone.—Puck * * * ¶The prospect that the consumer will shortly be able to consume something is about the rosiest outlook upon the national horizon.—St...
...Louis Post-Dispatch...
...Alexander Hamilton had this sort in mind when he brought his fist down on the table and shouted, "The people, sir, the people is a great beast...
Vol. 3 • February 1911 • No. 7
