| Show mir sniff ali IL NO jj kl lk 1 andrew jackson the prat first democratic president V who was occupying the white house home in R 1833 authors N note ote to io forestall those who say ay but thomas jefferson the first democratic president it may be pointed out that jefferson madison monroe and john quin cy adams were known as republicans or op democratic republicans leans and that jackson was wa truly the first democratic president Z 2 replica of the lion the first U practicable locomotive to run upon a permanent railroad track in america the lions trial trip was made at honesdale Ho pa on august 9 1829 and it paved the way for other railroad ventures which by 1833 were proving the practicability of g this form of transportation X X 15 3 A stage station and a stage coach which in 1833 was the principal means of transporting passengers pa and mall mail 4 Chi cagos skyline sky line in 1833 5 franklin D roosevelt the democratic president who will occupy the white house in 1933 after chrep republican administrations 6 the rall plane an entirely new form of high speed transport which has now nov been developed to a practical working conclusion it can be built over existing railways making jt a fast passenger service the passenger cars which are self propelled and driven by air screws fore and aft are streamlined stream lined and suspended A 40 t i 3 iv N R ay by ELMO SCOTT WATSON HEAD of us lies a new year 1933 although it does docs not mark the turn of the century nor nor yet re reaching aching the halfway half way mark both of which furnish a logical excuse for pausing to take stock to look back and to see what progress we have made socially politically economically and spiritually yet there Is ample reason for doing that very thing just now for 1033 will round out the he first third of the twentieth century and if there Is anything in history hist cry repeating itself the next third will be filled with events of the greatest signi significance fleance to the future of our nation certainly that was true during the corresponding period in the nineteenth century and a comparison and contrast of 1833 1913 and 1933 cannot fall to be of interest and perhaps perli aps of value to americans as they face the new year in 1833 there was a new type of president in the white house a democratic president andrew jackson was tits his name and his being there had come about through a political revolution its signi significance fleance hns been well appraised by the historian frederic austin agg in his hii volume the reign of andrew Jacks nn A chronicle e of the frontier in politics in the yale university press series the chronicles of america ile he writes jacksons election to the presidency in 1828 was waa correctly cornec aly described by senator benton as a tk lumpp of democratic principle and an na aa bertion of the peoples right to govern themselves jefferson in his day was a candidate of the masses and his triumph over john adams in 1800 was received with arent public guhli chalm apel alm yet the virginian was at juif an arf sort of democrat 6 he was as blayr never lp sense bense a manof man of the people neither madison nor monroe inspired enthusiasm and for john quency adams even new englanders Engla aders voted an ai from a steel girder 7 the th very latest thing in airmail planes 8 ono ond of the main groups of exhibition buildings for the chicago century of tion which will open in 1933 with th modern estic setbacks set backs terraces andl ditl for traffic ft f S 1 ezekiel webster confessed from a cold sense of duty y X jackson wasja no president before him the choice wabe f the Imai masses ies his popular vote in 1824 reveal revealed a nut not 1 only oil I y his personal popularity but abut the growing grolln power bower of the democratic elements to in the nation and tits his defeat in the house of representatives only strengthened his own and the peoples determination to be finally victor victorious the untrained self willed passionate freh frontier soldier came to power in 1828 as the standard bearer of a mighty democratic uprising which was destined before it ran its course cours to break down party organizations to liberalize state nod and local governments and to turn the stream of national politics into wholly new new channels it was futile for men of the old school to protest and to prophesy milfort misfortune U ne for the country under its new fiew rulers the people had spoken and this time the peoples will was not to be denied in 1033 there will be another democratic president in the white house obviously it would be futile to attempt to demonstrate any similarity between andrew jackson and franklin D roosevelt roosebelt Roos eielt for both the heredity and the denvir environment which produced the two men were v ere so diff different rent as to make any logical correlation impossible but since the forces which work to place men in positions of power and responsibility are invariably more imp important octant than the men themselves it more important that hat there Is a plausible similarity between betwee xi the forces which placed there two democratic presidents in the white house A century ago there was a political revolution after four decades of rule by the federalists and democratic republicans into which the federalists had gradually merged the election of last nov november ember had all the aspects of a political revolution after tw twelve elve years 0 of f republican rule and there Is something singularly appropriate to that election in professor words about the election of jackson it was futile for men of the old school to protest mid and prophesy misfortune for the country under its new rulers the people had spoken and this time the peoples will was not to be denied so po in 1933 1033 the Anie american rican people face the future under tinder a new administration not out only in their national capital but in many state capitals as well they have been promised a new deal for such was the slogan of the winning presidential candidate whether or not he be will be able to carry out that promise with all its implications to their satisfaction remains to be seen for granting him the utmost in sincerity and honesty of purpose the fact remains that factors over which he will have no control will shape the destiny of the nation during the next third of the century and those factors rather than the actions of one man or group of men will make the new deal whatever it turns out to be there can be no doubt that the principles of which andrew jackson was the exponent profoundly influenced the history of the united states during the third of the century which followed 1833 but they were merely political principles and their influence on our history was negligible compared to the influence of the social and economic forces which were set in motion during that time it was this decade which saw a new social consciousness being aroused in the nation for the first time men were beginning to question actively the right of one race to hold in bondage another race now new years day 1631 saw the publication of the first number of william lloyd garrisons liberator and within two years there had been organized the american antislavery society more than that the common man afman was beginning to become more conscious of his rights as a man and a citizen many of the states had rid themselves of the old property and tax qualifications for voters the property qualifications for off officers leers had been diminished or had disappeared and nearly all the state officers including judg judges es were being electea elected by popular vote instead of being chosen by the legislature or governor as had been the case formerly coincidentally with these social movements 1 ove ments were economic movements which were to revolutionize the life of the american people it wis was an era of industrial progress of internal improvements prove ments and of national development in a number of material ways albert Bus bushnell bnell hart the historian has declared that in the 20 years yeara 4 U Z e X 2 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 0 4 from 1820 to 1840 more laborsaving labor saving inventions were brought forward than in the whole history of mankind before the american manufacture of edge tools began the invention of machines revolutionized woodworking wood working platform scales were introduced the steam hammer was patented in 1842 the iron cook stove store was waa put on the market about 1840 friction matches invented in england in 1827 slowly began to take the place of the old flint and steel the first crude colts revolver was patented in 1835 to furnish power for cotton and woolen mills paper mills and other industries dams were built on the falls of the rivers in the eastern middle and southern states the methods of farming were changed by frn farm machinery in 1834 mccormick patented the thet first horse reaper the basis of the present blab orate crate mowers and re apers transportation began to undergo a change the steamboat made the salling sailing vessel obsolete and it pointed the way to the necessity for internal improvements such as canals but almost overnight there came the railroads to cheapen transportation stimulate travel and built up new states and cities then began the opening of public pr lands the rush into ane west its population increasing from to from 1820 to 1840 and the demand for diore more laborers bringing a strong current of immigration from abroad 11 so the young giant of the new world uncle sam got away to a flying start on the road of progress a race which has continued to the present time the year 1833 Is as good a year as any other from which to date this progress what of the year 1033 will the historian of the future write it down as another beginning of a new era of progress social political economic and spiritual progress we who live in this year cannot answer that question but if we learn an anything y tiling by the lessons of the past we can at least recognize some of the beneath the surface of everyday alf life which h may give a hint bint of the changes that are to be CC 6 by newspaper union |
