| Show I 19 91 3 3 T I m Y l erk j ti r rv 1 v i il im I m l erk j ti r rv v ij y hr Sat 2 I s I. I I b rk Y w f Y F s r r rr r r I 1 w no I By ELMO SCOTT WATSON A 11 of ot us lies ills a U new lIew jear year lar H II r Although h It does dos not murk mark the turn of ot the century nor yet ft reaching the way half mark l f ML d 1 k both hoth ot of which furnish h a R lo logical lr 1 excuse Ul for tor pausing to take stock tOlk to look hack back and to see sc I what progress s we wo have made socially politically economical economically nl ly Iy II and nil spiritually yet Jet there Is ls ample reason for doing that very cry thing Just now For Tor 1013 1033 1 1 4 s will round out the first third r of t the Twentieth century and If It there Is anything In history repeating Itself the next third will be hI filled with events dents tl eliis of ot the greatest to the future of ot our nation Certainly that was true during durIn the corresponding period In the Nineteenth century and oud a R on and conI cont contrast con con- t I trust tract of ot 1833 1831 and 1033 cannot tall fall to be he of ot Interest Inter i. i I. I est pst and perhaps of ot value to Americans as liS they t face tale the tile new year r In 18 1513 there thero was a new tji tn typo of ot President In III Inthe Inthe the White louse House a R Democratic President Andrew Jackson was waa his name and his hili 1 being there had come cOllie about through a R political revolution Its significance has peen been well ap- ap h by the historian Frederic Austin OIn Ogg O In his volume The Reign of Andrew Jackson Jackson- A Chronicle of ot the Frontier in Politics In the Yule Yale University Press series The Chronicles of ot America lie Ie writes Jacksons to 10 the Presidency In ISS was us correctly described by hy Senator lk BInton as ss asa liSa a triumph of ot democratic principle and an assertion assertion as os of ot the peoples people's rl right ht to govern themselves themselves' themselves themselves' them them- selves selves' Jefferson on In his day was a candidate of ot the masses and his triumph over John Adams In Jn ISO was received with great public acclaim Yet iet the Virginian was at lit best hest an aristocratic Fort sort of ot democrat he was walt was ne never In the fullest sense a n man of nf the people Neither Madison adl on nor Monroe Inspired enthusiasm and for tor John Adams even eu New Ne NeI I Englanders voted vOled RI ae a RII I 1 1 Andrew Jackson Jackon the first firt Democratic PresIdent Pres Pres- Ident who was wai occupying the White House Houie In 1833 Authors Author's Note Notes To forestall those thole who say aay ay But wasn't Thomas Jefferson the first Democratic President It may be pointed out that Jefferson Jefferon Madison Monroe and John Quincy Quincy Quin Quin- cy Adams Adami were known as u Republicans or Republicans Democratic Democratic Republicans and that Jackson Jacklon was wu truly the first Democratic President 2 Replica of the Stourbridge Lion the first practicable locomotive to run upon a permanent railroad track In America The Lions Lion's trial trip was wu made at Honesdale Pa on August 9 1829 and Ind It paved the way for other railroad ventures which by 1833 were proving the practicability of this form of transportation 3 A stage station and a I stage coach which In 1833 was wu the principal means of transporting and mall mail 4 4 Chicago's In 1833 1033 5 5 Franklin D D. D Roosevelt the Democratic President who will occupy the White House Houle In 1933 after three Republican administrations 6 B. The an entirely new form of high speed transport which has now been developed de de' developed to a practical working conclusion It Itcan Itcan Itcan can be built over existing railways making It Il a I fut fast passenger service The passenger cars car which are self propelled and driven by air screws fore and aft are streamlined stream and suspended from a steel girder 7 7 The very latest thing In airmail planes 8 One of the main groups of exhibition buildings build ings Inge for the Chicago Century of Progress exposition exposi tion which will open In 1933 with their modernistic modern setbacks set terraces and multi multi levels levels for fort t traffic ra Hie q Ezekiel n Webster confessed ld from a n cold old sense of ot duty Jackson was as III no nn President before him the choice of ot the Ihl masses III Ills popular vote In 18 1821 I revealed repealed not nol only his hiM IM personal I 1 but hilt the Ihl growing power pO of the democratic elements In the till nation nod hI his defeat In the house of or only strengthened 1 his own and the Ihl peoples people's determination to bo hI finally ous ors The untrained II willed self t. t III 11 passionate frontier fron frontier tier soldier came to power pO In to 8 ISS ns as the niba n I Inn bearer e r er a of t If a n mighty g gIng I m t I democratic Ic ii 1 Ing Ins which was vita destined before horl It run ran Its course to break down party to 11 e II 71 eta state Io and lI local governments O ft nil to tn turn the Ft stream ream of tit national I politics Into t wholly holly new channels It was II futile for tor men of Ih the old olt school to protest to 10 prophesy misfortune for tor the country under tinder Its new rulers The peo pie hm lUll I spoken and this tune time the peoples people's will willIIS was not to 10 he be denied In W 1 I there will be bo II another Democratic tI President In III the White House Blouse Obviously It would be hI futile to attempt to demonstrate any similarity between Andrew Jackson and Franklin Frank tin lin D. D for tor hulk both the Ihl heredity and the environment which produced the Ihl two turn mIll were so fO different as to make any logical correlation I Impossible hip But since e the forces which work to place men In positions po of ot power pr and responsibility are Invariably more Important than the themen themen men mIll themselves Isn Isn't t It more amre Important that there Is a n plausible similarity between the forces which placed there therl two t Democratic Presidents In the Ihl White Mouse Blouse A century ur II ago O there was os wasn osa n a political iH revolution after four decades r of f rule by hy the Ihl Federalists Into which th the Federalists had gradually merged The election of ot last November had hall all the aspects of ot n II revolution after twelve years of ot Republican rule and there Is something something some some- thing singularly singular appropriate to tn that election In Irot Professor Ogg's s words about the till election of ot Jackson Jackson- It was futile for tor men of the old school to protest and prophesy misfortune for the till country country coun conn try under Its now new rulers The people bad spoken and this time the Ihl peoples people's will was not oot to 10 be denied So In lUKl the thi American a n people face the future fu tu tare ture under a 1 new administration not only In their National Capital but hilt In iii ninny many state cap talc as ns well They h have I been hn promised a n new nl dint deal for such was the slogan of time the Presidential candidate Whether or not nol he hI will willbe willlie be lie able to tn carry out omit that lint promise with lIh nil all Its Implications to their satisfaction remains to be seen For grunting granting him the time In sincerity and honesty of purpose the fact fill remains that factors over which be lie will viii have 1 no control will shape the Ihl of the IIII nation during the next t third of ot Ih the century r nm i those e factor rather than Ihan the actions of one man or group of ot men will make the new nt deal doal whatever r It turns out outto outto outto to lie hI There can be hI no mu doubt doutt that the till principles of or which Andrew Jackson was the exponent profoundly profoundly pro pro- I Influenced ed the history of ot the United States Stages during the third of ot the century which followed I 1 1811 Hut But they were merely merely- 1011 political II 1 principles nOt and their Influence on our history was as negligible nl compared to the Influence of ot the so so- II and economic forces which h were Ire set It In mn mo motion lion tion during durin that lint time lute It was this decade which saw law a u new social consciousness being betag aroused 11 In the nation For Forthe Forthe the first time men were wre beginning to question actively the Ihl right of ot one race to 10 hold In 1 0 snottier another race New Years Year's tiny day 1531 1 saw Raw 81 the publication of the first lt number of ot William d Garrisons Garrison's and within two years there ha had been ed th the American Anti Antl AntiSlavery Slavery try society More than that lint the Ihl common man was wn beginning to to become more conscious of his rights as ns a n man and a R citizen Many of till the states had rid rill of ot the old property unit and tax tas qualifications for tor voters oters the property qualifications for officers had been diminished or timid had dl and nearly nth nil time the state officers om errs cers Including Judges were being elected 1 by y popular vote ote Instead of or being chosen ho by the lege leg Ig mature or governor as had been the ease case for tor merly lUrly Coincidentally with these social movements mO were Irl economic movements mo which were to revolutionise rl the time life lite of ot the American people It was an era of ot Industrial progress of ot Internal Improvements Im Iw and of ot national development In a number of ot material ways Albert Hart lIart the historian has baa declared that In n the 20 SO years jears ears T 1 i a x r rr r 1 a Yb r f I r ti jya a r t 1 t i H z t 01 I y 1 b.- b. 7 V rii t 1 I f Y t l' l 10 It eM r J 0 Ls i. i r I k WB Mm 0 from ISU to IS IMO u Wore abut w Nt ui were brought forward rUf than in tilt the 1 hl history tur of mankind before The fie Th of ot 11 edge 1 tools toul begun the fie Invention of ur machines re ed re w d working platform scales were fl tl Ile II N steam hammer wn patented In IS t IS-t IS 12 the Iron cook stove store was us put PUI on 1111 the till market about IS-IO IS frie ion matches Inverted invented in l III In 1 i slow slow- slowly JoI Jo I ly I begun began to 10 take lak the IIII plate glare of or till the tae old 1111 flint lit and I steel the Ihl first I crude tops Colts re revolver rl oher was ivas patent intent patented ed Id In IS 1515 18 To Tu furnish for cotton ullon and woolen mills paper mills and other Industries dams damns were Irr hut built lt on the th falls of f r time the rivers III In the Ihl eastern middle anti and southern states The methods of farming were changed by hy farm machinery In k patented the first vise reaper th the basis of the present chili orate mowers and reapers Transportation began to 10 undergo a n change e The steamboat mute mUll the tI selling vessel obsolete and It pointed 1 the WilY way to tn the Ih necessity ty for In canal Improvements us ae annals JIll I t overnight there came time tl-e railroads to cheapen transportation stimulate travel Irn cl and built n nn nfl new Ill states nod Then Logan began the th opening of ot public politic lands the rush Into Inlo the I West t II its pop ilIa lion Ini from r N 1 to jn u from 1 1010 0 to ism 1414 and the demand for tor moro more I la timers borers bring mi n II current of ot Immigration from abroad So Sn the young joung clani of ot the New O world worl e Sam am got Jot u a away to In n R flying start on the till road of ot progress n a race rull which tins has continue 1 to th the e present time Time The year jear 1511 Is ns as good sund a n year n as s any ally other from whirl which b to date dale this progress pro What of ot the year will Ili the time historian n of ot f the future write It down clown as ns another of ot a 1 new flew of ot era Ira progress roMr 10 and spiritual progress We 1 who wIlli live uve In this hla year cannot answer tint that question lint ut I If we 1 learn by hy th the lessons 9 of ot the pa t we t ran can at least recognize some same of the th stirring s beneath ho tho surface of ot ever everyday day Ilfe which give a hint of ot may the mho changes that thai are lire to be bl e b ba J r |
