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Show H EASIER FOR' THE SON. H In the telegraphic news we note this incidental item: H ; "Mrs- Orover Cleveland has sailed for Europe, for tho purpose Hj of visiting her son, who is in school in Switzerland." H The diBpatch has little Mews value on first glance,, but when H more -carefully considered suggests a quory whether the ex-presi- H dent's son, educated in Europe, is likely to accomplish more in. the H world than his distinguished father, who had only ancverydav Am-1 erican common school training and got that only after many hard knocks and rebuffs. r ( It is manifestly unfair to say that tho sons shall havo better opportunities than their fathers had. "Wc eannotin' r6ason deny them the fruits Of progress and development. One generation works for another. Solicitude for posterity is always before the man fighting fight-ing to achieve success. The tendency is for parents to do too much for their children, however, and leave them too little to do for themselves. them-selves. Having overcome Obstacles, they desire to make the way easy lor their boys instefld of giving them to. understand that they must open it for themselves. Poverty and adversity made Grover Cleveland apply himself in youth to things -worth while. There canb6 ndlhing better for any young man than the hard eircumbtanccs that force him to rely upon his own character. The son of Grover Cleveland may be more fortunate than his father was, but we doubt it. Sacramento Union. a Bmmm " mmmm w |