Show The Value of < flnexperience An esteemed Republican contemporary is gracious enough to say that President Clevelands inexperience which was known before the election ought to induce a lenient consideration of his mistakes As Mr Cleveland has made fewer mistakes mis-takes than any President for the last quarter of a century in the first seven weeks of his Administration the generosity gener-osity of our contemporary is remarkable Indeed it is questionable whether people peo-ple will not be disposed to reverse the old and to talk of the value of political inexperience in-experience instead of the value of experience ex-perience It happens that the inexperienced President has in nearly all his own actions I exactly met popular sentiment and won popular approval I Would a statesman of long experience have done any better How many can I be named who would have done as well Have not inexperienced statesmen as a rule made more successful > re idenfs than those experienced in national affairs I af-fairs f Lincoln had no national experience Yet coming to the head of the government govern-ment at a most momentous crisis how few mistakes lie made Andrew Johnson had enjoyed the experience ex-perience of years in national matters and his Administration was in hot water all I I the time I Arthur had no experience except as a local politician and made a tolerably satisfactory sat-isfactory and suc essful President Look at the present Cabinet When Secretary Whitney was appointed appoint-ed we were told he had no experience Yet he proves to be so excellent a Secretary Secre-tary of the Navy that criticism is disarmed and even his political opponents concede the value of the change in that department depart-ment Secretary Whitney sets about his work in such an unpretentious businesslike business-like manner that one might well believe his life had been spent in gathering experience ex-perience to fit him for the position Mr Manning never having held an office in his life was appointed Secretary of the Treasury Instantly the cry was raised that it would never answer to put a person so inexperienced in charge of the financial interests of the government But he made himself at once familiar with the duties of the office grasped all its ramifications thoroughly and promises prom-ises to be quite a success Mr Lamar was known to be a scholarly and able man and he certainly was not without experience in statesmanship But everybody exclaimed that he was utterly unfamiliar with details and would be plunged in his books while the Interior Department was running itself Well Mr Lamar turns out to be the most capable capa-ble and industrious member of the Cabinet Cabi-net and allows no one to excel him an complete mastery of all the details ol his complicated office PostmasterGeneral Vilas Then came He was a local orator from Wisconsin inexperienced in national affairs How could he be expected to manage the Post I Yet Mr Vilas lias Ollice Department I so far made no mistake and already proved himself a valuable Cabinet olhcer Secretary Bayard on the other hand l had enjoyed large experience in public affairs lIe had been trained by an experienced ex-perienced able politician his father For fifteen years he had by study and practice prac-tice made himself familiar with public questions and public men He was one of those Democrats by whose experience the inexperienced Presidentelect was expected to profit Yet singularly enough the only mistakes made during Administration weeks of the the first six or seven istration have been made oy the Secretary ° f State Does not this show that after all experience have its disadvantages perience may selfconfi it not inspire too great May feeling that the opinions of dence a j tlOn to act disposition others have no value j a on ones own perhaps poor judgment without considering the views orjudgment other members of the of the people or of the CabinetN Y World |