Show man and machine believers in progress are often als heartened to find that the many modern inventions to make life better have not changed mankind the human being Is the same creature that the very oldest writings portray and yet men go on contriving systems and improved devices and ad danced methods the last hundred ears have been rite in discoveries and inventions A cure has been found or every conceivable and a method has been found tor doing everything yet many ills remain many things undone the trouble Is we have learned to trust too much to system too little to human nature the true lesson to be drawn from a century of system mongering Is not one of discouragement but one of re dewed confidence in human beings of renewed willingness to throw the bur dent not on the machine but on man when there Is a railroad accident wa read much about nock signals and automatic switches and other devices A contributor to the atlantic monthly has shown in a series of articles that it ts the man that counts it Is not the system but the employed that wrecks the train or sends it safely through one of the hardest lessons that america has had to learn remarks youths companion Is that the substitution of democracy for kingship did not eliminate the evils of government this does not mean that democracy Is a failure but that democracy Is good or bad according as the members of the democracy are good or bad wise or foolish for the american who realizes this the idea of democracy becomes sacred imbres alve a glorious burden the amer lean who does not realize it but trusts that the republican form of govern ment will save him ts not fit to vote it Is men not courses of study that make universities good men not des r ideas or galveston ideas that make good city governments honest people and not methods of election thai choose honest senators men and not systems or machines that make the world |