Show SCHOOL BILL senator edmunds move for a national university at washing 01 ia provoking sume cerious criticism and more mirth among the newspapers of the country the general impression a few years ago waa that senator ingalls idea in abe same line was not substantially founded and senator edmunds seems to have contributed nothing of especial value to the scheme the fidgety apprehensions with which certain watchful statesmen observe abe movements of abe catholic church to turn be nations capital into a national breeding ground for may not be unworthy impulses the pious senators named are by no means alane in their distrait di straat of the eventuality ot the vigorous maneuvers 0 that gi gintic society there are many not near flo wise as edmunds or ingalls who have watched its progress with feelings of he deepest looking upon its mysterious fecundity as a cloud of the moat threatening character but we will venture to say that not a bakers dozen aside from the gentlemen named would out of their own brains have evolved such a monster of folly with which to combat the evil as this proposed national school the new york sun speaking of the matter pompously remarks that we have enough of colleges now this is not so new boik may have enough massachusetts connecticut pennsylvania may have enough but the nation at large would not though its present number of well equipped were multiplied malti plied several times the trouble with I 1 ha national school and probably the only serious one is that it would be inside the political machine the new york pott tersely observes that although doubtless be in many wai a outlet for government money the Bo verning bodt would be controlled by and be constantly tub led to aud la congress which would make it for self to keep their in the would probably noon araxe in it history and democratic political economy and democratic al economy and per tiep sw party geology and fancy mr george hoar or senator lanill or maine bun bane dollah moree having a voice in directing the teaching lu a have an the which allfie 11 inay tie laid down M a rule that no real ralty can exist unica 1 not soi clied by the A at so governed might be the alory of the country for the riche 0 in and collections are now extraordinarily great but political in every hon of thunder whom the or the governor 0 the alue to mould have a bould be in alie lone run A shame the chief difficulty with senator edmunds and his school of lawmakers la their supreme faith tn the healing qualities of national legi la tion like the reft of the long time hobbyists they perceive in their peculiar industry a balm for the entire category of human ailments their notions of lie powers of law have grown upon their imaginations to euch a mighty of wheels within wheels that there is nothing so petty in human transaction hat they would not endeavor to adjust it with a proviso nothing so complicated abstruse or attenuated that it might not be with a bill just give them fall awing at the legislative and it would not be long till we should not only have ft bill tor the regulation of our church contributions and a bill telling us when we must go to prayers aad the manner thereof as to at ie length and elocutionary delivery but by a bill we would masticate digest assimilate etc and by a bill would temper our though tB sentiments aad affiliations there are some things in human that stand very clearly outside of the pale of legislation some human interests and motives that law by the book cannot regulate and moreover it doea not need to the whims of an io grained fanatic it dont pretend to adjust several senators among whom benator ia conspicuous would leave fallen under sta treatment years ago A critic baa noticed the total of the word god from president Harri eona message lie declares it is the flygt instance of the kind in history |