The Sunday Oregonian., June 29, 1902, PART THREE, Page 18, Image 18

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THE .6UKDAY OBEGOKIA PORTLAND, JUNE 29, 1902.
SUMMER OUTING AT LONG BEACH
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HOUSANDS of people at all potnt
the Northwest are preparing for
a Summer outing, and doubtless a
large proportion of these pleasure-seekera
will visit Long Beach some time during
the season. In natural advantages, this
glorious stretch of beach, 23 miles In
length, Is unsurpasfioH anywhere on the
American Continent. At low tide, the
sand is firm and almost as smooth as a
billiard table, making a most delightful
drheway or ideal path for blcycjes and
automobiles. From the beach ships can
be seen at almost any hour of the day
gracefully sailing on the bosom of the
great Pacific Ocean, bound for some dis
tant port or completing a long journey
that perhaps has been fraught with many
dangers. Many ships unable to weather
the etorm have at different times been
cast high and dry on the sands of Long
Beach, and these wrecks excite no little
curiosity from visitors, and the hulls of
the vessels are badly disfigured by the
tireless eouvenlr-hunter.
Tho climate 'at Long Beach loaves noth
ing to be desired, never too warm, and sel
dom too cool for comfort. The Ufeglvlng
breeze from the ocean soon dispels any
lazy feeling and is a relentless foe of ma
laria and kindred diseases.
Fishing is one of the many pastimes en
Joyed. Rock cod -and torn cod are caught
from the Tocks, and are found very palat
able. Clams and crabs are found at all
points on the beach, and every morning
hundreds of men, women and children
may be seen digging out these toothsome
delicacies.
Shoalwater Bay, a couple of mljca from
Long Beach, Is the objective point for
hundreds of happy picnic parties. This
bay Is famous for Its oyster beds. Safilng
boats can be hired for a nominal sum and
a landing made at any one of the numer
ous hady nooks on the banks of the bay.
CROMWELL AND LEE
DIVERGENT VIEWS ON
RECENT INTERESTING
New Tork Times.
Good matter of controversy is pro
vided In abundance In Charles Francis
Adams' oration before the Phi Beta Kappa
Society of the University of Chicago.
"Shall Cromwell Have a.Statue?" Is the
title chosen by Mr. Adams for his ad
dress: shall Robert E. Lee have a stat
ue? is the question he discusses. He an
swers with conviction In the affirmative.
JThe bronze cfllgy of Robert L Lee,
mounted on his charger and with the in
signia of his Confederate rank, will from
its pedestal in the Nation's capital look
across the Potomac at his old home at
Arlington even as that of Cromwell domi
nates the yard of Westminster upon which
his skull once looked down."
Cromwell, Mr. Adams recalls, died in
165$ in that palace of Whitehall from
whose window he had sent Charles I forth
to execution. First buried in "Westmin
ster Abbey, the body of the lord protector
was two y ears later exhumed by vote of
the Convention Parliament and hanged at
Tyburn, where the trunk wag buried un
der the gallows, while the head was set
on a pole above "Westminster Hall. More
than 205 years later the verdict of 1651 was
reversed, and "today the bronze efllgy of
Oliver Cromwell, massive In size, rugged
In feature, characteristic in attitude,
stands defiantly in the yard at that "West
minster Hall from a pole on the top of
which twclvercore years ago the flesh
crumbled from its skull."
From this dramatic reversal of opinions
once deemed settled and immutable Mr.
Adams argues a like reversal of the ac
cepted verdict upon Leo and his cause.
Cromwell was a traitor to his King, Lee
to nls Government. "Within a few months
of .Lee's death, Charles Sumner, describ
ing him as one who stood high In the cat
alogue of those who have imbrued their
handc In their country's blood, handed
him over "to the avenging pen of his
tory." Mr. Adams attempts his rescue.
"We condone and applaud the rebellion
and the treason of Washington, of Crom
well, of Hampden and of William of Or
ange. We approve the acts of all rebels
but our own. Secession may have been a
dreadful mistake, but it was honestly
committed by men who slncereby believed
that the Union was a compact dissoluble
for cause by the states that had entered
Into it. Mr. Adams rightly characterizes
Nall the arguments about state rights and
secession, however, as quite beside the
point. The appeal of the South was not
to constitutional right, but to the inalien
able right of 'revolution, to the sword
Virginia, at first refusing to eecede, was
IDEAL SURF BATHING AND NUMEROUS OTHER ATTRACTIONS
THAT MAKE THIS RESORT SO POPULAR -
where lunch can be enjoyed in the shade
of Immense trees or under the pretty foli
age of wild berry bushes.
Long Beach, for almost Its entire
length, is dotted with pretty cottages,
white comfortable boarding-houses and
substantial hotels are found at all of the
principal points. There are a number of
restaurants, a first-class grocery store,
butcher shop and other places of business
near Long Beach station, and the prices
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS'
ADDRESS
swept along with the other seceding states
when tho first blow was struck at Sum
ter. Lee had opposed secession. He held
a commission in the United States Army.
But he wag first of all a Virginian. He
could not raise his hand against his rela
tives, his children, his home, and fol
lowed his state Into rebellion. Only a
few days after Lincoln had tendered him
the command of the Union Army he be
came the chief of the Confederate forces.
With the great historic: example of his
grandfather present to his mind, that
sturdy John Qulncy Adams who. In the
days of trial which led to the War oE 1812,
was loyal to his Government when Mas
sachusetts went to the very verge of dis
loyalty, Mr. Adams frankly said that he
should not have made Lee's choice. 'I
would have gone with the Union, and
against Massachusetts."
Then, as to the broad question of right
and wrong Involved" in the act of seces
sion,. Mr. Adams cites statements of mo
tives that have sometimes served tho pur
pose of Southern writers and orators. It
was not Intended to break up the Union,
but to perpetuate It. They looked for the
accession of. the great bulk of Northern
States to tho Confederacy. "Acting on
sufficient grounds," says Mr. Adams, "of
which those acting were the sole Judge,
proceeding in a way Indisputably legal
and regular, it was proposed to recon
struct the Union in the light of experience
and on a new and, as they considered, an
improved basis without New England.
This cannot properly be termed a con
cpiracy. It was a legitimato policy based
on certain assumed data, legal, moral and
economical." Of course, Mr. Adams asks
that the necessary premises of fact and
law be conceded. In this way he builds
up an academic conception of the rebel
lion as a phase of American history of
which future generations, purged of all
current passion, may take so calm and
lofty a view that the country will come
to the point of erecting In Washington a
bronze statue to ther noblest man and
roost formidable rebel bf them all, Robert
L Lee.
We cannot accept Mr. Adams' reason
ing, and we reject his conclusion, alto
gether. His parallel between Cromwell
and Lee is purely literary, without a par
ticle of historical sanction and devoid of
moral resemblance. The foundation fact
is that Cromwell turned traitor to cure
Intolerable evils from which his country
was suffering; to save it, not to split and
destroy it. The treason 'of the Southorn
rebels In which Lee became a reluctant
J accomplice was entered Into t6 defend and
charged aro most reasonable. In every
line of business at this beach the motto
of live and let live Is adhered to strictly,
and while tho season seldom lasts more
than three months, a fact that might
tempt hotel-keepers and tradespeople to
make hay while the sun shines, et at
Long Beach there Is no disposition to kill
the goose that lays tho golden e.gg. and
living is almost as cheap as In Portland.
The Breakers, the new hotel located
establish the right of secession and of
slavery, twin curses to the country which
could never be safe from destruction un
til they were destroyed. John Morley
saya of Oliver Cromwell that his revolu
tion was the end of the medieval rather
than the beginning of the modern era. To
end the medieval era was an Immense
j benefit for England, preparing the way
ior me reai revolution or. lws, out juce
fought in a cause which was the very
essence of reaction, intended to perpetu
ate as a right tho ancient wrong of slav-
frt."- ftt lVllVk AiXti 4ts. ntttAvsN rt VtA. Tn
public at tho tlmo of Its foundation had
begun to blmrh. Ho and his associates
fought to opllt the Unlorf. and the success
oi tnoir causo would have yielded at the
very best two Nations doomed to be for
ever second-rate and -endangered by mu
tual hate and Jealousy. That commer
cial supremacy which wa have won would
have been made unattainable, our Nation
al destinies would have run in minor chan-
nels. nnd everv Amprlran wnt.M fcnv ,h
the humbler and the meaner for what
they had done.
Twenty-three years ago, upon the 22d
of February, 1S79, the New York W6rld
published at the head of Its editorial $age
of that day this paragraph: "Washing
ton was once a rebel brigadier." Upon
the following day, February 23, tho Times
published an editorial article which we
may now permit ourselves to say was
from tho pen of Mr. Richard Grant White.
In considering the historical difference
between Washington and the brigadiers
of tha rebellion, Mr. White wrote:
He fpuspt agalnxt tho rule of a government J
in -waicn ne ana nia eountrjrnreh baa no voice S
they fought against a 6orrnminfc la uMch
they bad tnor than their Just proi6rt!on ot
repreBeaiatlon. and which they had controlled
almost fever tlnce it wa eatabllthed. lie fought
for principles, and upon a policy -which brought
about the "Union ot these states and the ffcrma
tion ot the great IttSpubllc -which is now one
of th6 fcreat powere of the -world and one of
tho beneficent fieencie of clvlilifetloh and hu-
man progress, they fought to break tip that
Lnlon. to destroy that Republic, and to estab
lish a society and a gavernftient based upon an
Institution accursed of God and tnan.
On that principle, on those historical
distinctions, we can safely leave the case
of Leo and his statue to be judged by
succeeding generations, however remote.
WAS1IIXGTOK A3TD LEE.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
In an address delivered In Chicago the
other day on the sUbJcat of "Shall Lee
Have a Statue?" Charles Francis Adams,
of Massachusetts, argued In favor of the
erection of a memorial to tho great Con-
federate at the National capital -and by
an act of Congress. He attempted to
draw a parallel between Lee and, two
other great reDols, Cromwell and Wasfi -
Nlngton. Cromwell took up arms against
Charles I. and. though Cromwell won.
the other side eventually .was recalled to
about six miles from Ilwaco, Is one of the
finest seaside resorts on the Pacific Coast.
This houye Is strictly modern, and the
facilities ottered to guests to secure com
fort and amusement of every kind- aTe
unsurpassed. The house is lighted by elec
tricity and nested by steam. The build
ing Is four stories high, has a frontage on
the ocean of 100 feet, and is 76 feet wide.
It -will accommodate 230 guests. Tho In
door games include billiards, pool, bowling
power after the great protector's death,
he was denounced as a traitor to his
country, his body was disinterred and
gibbeted at Tyburn, burled under the
gallows and his head was placed on
Westminster Hall. Washington, after he
had served In tho British Army, went
with hla province, Virginia, when it took
up arms against tho British King, and
thus was a rebel like Lee, with this dif
ferenceand this Is apparently the only
difference which Mr. Adams seefr-that
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There are statues td Washington all
over the country. Why, asks Mr. Ad
ams,.may not a time come when a statue
shall ba ere6tcd to Lee in the Capital of
tho Nation?
air. Adams' parallel Is defective at a
;"?' ?om x W "Pf " ,ucn
. "co raeinyies romwgu ana vvasningiun
wds in belhg a rebel. But Cromwell re
belled against the tforst government
whloh England had had since the days
of William Rufus. Washington rebelled
against pretensions never attempted to
bfe exercised in euch offensive shape In
this country until that time. Lee, 6n the
other hand, rebelled agdlnst IHft best gov
ernment whlch the world ever saw, and
confessed that fact in his hesitation
about resigning, and In his wish that his
state would refrain fram thfe treason
vrtilch South Carolina and a few other of
the Southern States had already com
mitted. Every Englishman, Too as well
as Liberal, now knows that Cromwell's
rebellion advanced the dduse of liberty.'
Every person In tho world, In England
and out of It, Js awaro that the success of
Washington's side was 4 triurhph for hu
mah freedom throughout tho earth.
Every sane person in the United States,
in the South as well as in tho North.
' &nw3 that Lee's lde, In its alms and
Ideals, was the side of reaction and bar
barism.
Lee was a brave, humane, sincere and
chivalrous man, Everybody will cdncede
this. But If Congress Is to erect a statue
to Lee at the capital of the Nation which
he attempted to destroy, whv not erect
one to Alexander H. Stephens, the Con
federacy's Vice-President, who was even
more averse at the outset to secession
than frcs Lee, and who weakly, llkfc Lee.
went to secession because a majority of
his neighbors that is, his state weht?
Or, If some Confederate Is to be hdnored
in that way. w"hy not let It be Jefferson
Davis, the Confederacy's head? Then,
too. If Lee, the Virginian, deserves honor
i from the Nation which he fought to sub
! vert, what ought w do to the memory
of that other Virginian, ThomaS. whA
helned to save the Natlotl? If Leo was
right, Thomas must have been wrong.
j Both conld not havo been right. .Does
! Davis' memory deserve the same sort of
' treatment as Lincoln's at the bands of
' tho Nation which Davis attempted .io
and ping pony, white on the pretty and
.spacious lawns, auch games as, golf, Ww
tennis, croquet, archery and -other abase
ments can. be enjoyed to tha hart's con
tent. J". 1L Arthur, a well-known bal
neal man of Portland, Is la charge of this
house, and Is unremitting In his atten
tion to the patrons of the establishment.
The Portland, another well-managed hotel,
la located at Xonjr Beaoh station, and ca
ters .to a- most desirable class of trade.
Eugene Hanneman Is the proprietor, who
Js ably assisted "by other members of the
family in making life ealoyable under this
hospitable roof. Dances are a feature at
this house. Tinker's Hotel can be found
at the same point. Those who prefer
boarding-houses with pleasant surround
ings, will find Hackney's, at Sea Yiew,
and the Newton, at Newton station, most
desirable places. 2drs. Chamberlain also
conducts a ftrat-claes boarding-house.
There are a number of other desirable
places overlooking the beach, where ex
cellent accommodations are provided.
During Summer months, the trip from
Portland to Ilwaco on the swift and com
fortable steamboats of the O. R. & N.
system,. Is a continuous succession of
landscape, and river views, impossible
properly to describe. From the moment the
boat leaves the dock until it arrives at
Ilwaco, one surprise follows another, and
instead of feeling tired, the passenger
only regreta that the trip has ended. .Lov
ers -of scenery can feast the eye on an
ever-changing landscape until the boat
passes Astoria; then for 10 miles It picks
Us way across the harbor through a maze
of fishnets and. a thousand flshboats of
every else and kind. Usually there are
two men In each boat, who are husy set
ting out nets or hauling in tons of sal
mon, which they dispose of at the can
neries or cold-storage plants. These fish
ermen are a hardy set of men, exposed
constantly to the greatest danger, but are
well repaid for the labor performed, pro
vided there Is a good run pf salmon. The
steamboat passes within a few feet or
J hundreds of these boats, and the ecene
is one long to be remembered. The O. It.
& N. now controls the Ilwaco Railway &
Navigation Company, whoso lines extend
from Ilwaco to Nahcptta, about IS miles
up the peninsula. The train meets the
boat attho dock, and when the passengers
are transferred, starts on Its ehort jqur
ney. In former years, the delays along
this line occasioned a great deal of Just
censure, but since It has dome Into the
pocscrslon of the O. it. & N., defects in
the running schedule have been remedied
and the train service is all that can be de
sired by the most exacting passengers.
Present indications point to an Immense
Influx of visitor to this popular beach
during the Summer months, and a more
desirable place to take a vacation it would
be difficult to select.
overthrow and which Lincoln saved? If
Mr. Adams' reasoning be correct In the
Lee matter, Davis was as much of a pa
triot as Lincoln. Davis'. Stephens' and
Lee's rebellion, with the -destruction of
the 500,000 lives and the billions of dol
lars' worth of property which it caused.
Is a third of a century away, but dls
tancc does not alter its character and
will not excuse Its leaders, however brave
and sincere we may concede them to have
been. Time has assuaged the griefs and
AAAlftrl Trv nnoatiiMfl ttll T ! A n s?
Leo's rebelliocWd, but no decides or
I centuries of Ume can 'ever alter history's
Judgment that they warred against civ-
ligation and progress, and that they
themselves ttre teetotallv. wiekedlv and
everiastlngly wrong.
SHALL LEE HAVE A STATUE r
Chicago Tribune,
Charles Francis Adams says at lasfa
statue to Oliver Cromwell has been erect
ed In England. As the progress of
thought is mere rapid in America than in
England, Mr. Adams believes that In
much less than 2& centuries there will
be erected at Washington a monument
to Robert E. Lee, which, "will typify tho
historical appreciatl6n of all that goes to
make up the loftiest type of character,
military and civic and, above all, it will
symbolize the loyal acceptance of the con-
taemifinea flf Aeient nhrt tho mitlont nn-
Nmllding of a people under new condi
tions."
General Lee was a great American.
,Civlc and military virtues adorned him.
He took up amis against his country, but
he did so reluctantly in obedience to his
sense of duty. When thft issues of war
wero decided against him he showed him
self even greater in defeat than he had
been In victory.
Americans unhesitatingly concede all
this, hut there are many who are unable
to see In tho belated erection of a statue
to Cromwell an argument for the erection
of a statue by the National Government
to General Lee. Cromwell sought to
make his country greater, n6t smaller,
and he succeeded.
Bis hand -won back the sea as England's dower.
His footfall made the Moor 6harg heart end
cower.
His words on Milton's Up spake law to Trance,
When Piedmont saw the she-wolf. Borne, de
our. If the cause General Leo had fought for
bad prevailed, instead of one Republic,
there would have been two hostile "Repub
lics. There would Have been a chain of
custom-houses and forts from the Poto
mac to the Mississippi.
"The loyal acceptance of the conse
quence of defeat" by General Leo was
most praiseworthy. But he was not the
only man at the South who deserved
praise for that reason. Others who be
lieved as firmly in the justice of the Con
federate cause as he dld.and whose for-
I tunes, wcrs ..ruined like, bis by. tho .down
fall of that cause, accepted uncomplain
ingly the new conditions and sought to
make tha best they could of them for
their country ant themselves.
Before erecting a monument at "Wash
ington to X.ee, one should be- erected there
"to typify the historical appreciation" of
the loyal men jof the South who were
"among the faithless faithful found." The
Southern man who believed It was his
duty to go -with hfs state may not be
censured, but the Southern man whose
conscience bade him go against his state,
and who obeyed his conscience, must be
applauded. Tho mountain men of the
South who stood by the Union of their
fathers, and fought against Lee, instead
of fighting under him, should have their
me moment. The loyal man of the South
was not so good a soldier aa Lee. He was
not so amiable and cultured a. gentleman.
But he had higher Ideals, for he could not
endure the thought of the partition of the
Republic.
TRIBUTE TO T7LTRA-SENTI2IBSTAL-ISM.
Brooklyn Eigle.
"Wo notice that Mr. Adams says that It
was the intention of the Confederacy not
to destroy the Union, but to perpetuate
It. That would excite a. smile, did he
not go on to say that they expected the
South would bo joined, by tho Middle,
the Border and the "Western States In an
other or in an amended Union that would
leave New England out. If the Union
as it was did not have to be destroyed
before that scheme could be effected, and
if that scheme, when effected, would not
comprise the destruction of the Union as
it was and the making of a different
Union, then words have no meaning.
The laws of nature would have been
against It as truly as was the purpose of
the people, the logic of government and
the results of the Civil War. The river3
that run to the Gulf and the plains tbati
stretch, hero and there braced by moun
tains, between tho two oceans, could not
thread two unions or two republics or
two systems of government without an
entail of tariffs, jealousies, vast armle3
for offensive and defensive purposes, and
all the consequences of complication, of
friction and of Jealousy which now make
Continental Europe, even among differ
ent races and nationalities, an armed
camp, a governmental puzzle and a po
litical kaleidoscope. Said John A. Lo
gan: "The men of the "West will main
tain their rights on the Mississippi to
the sea, if they have to hew their way
with their swords." They hewed their
way there. Said Abraham Lincoln, In one
of his messages: "The Father of "Waters
goes unvexed to the sea." Both expres
sions show that the Union was as much a
necessity of physical geography and of
commercial simplicity and development
as it was of political sentiment and of pa
triotic purpose.
Lee had been a larger Lee had he fore
seen this and had he fought for It. The
South had been a nobler and a better
South had it stood by this instead of
against It. The land had not been hlll
ocked with graves and wet with tears
DEMOCRATIC VOICES ON BRYAN
- Chicago phronicle.
Mr. Watterson is as much In error In
assuming that the Tilden Club meeting In
New York was intended- to place Mr.
Cleveland In the field again as Mr.
Bryan Is In hl3 assertion that It was a
"Wall-street" uprising.
No great amount of discernment Is nec
essary to grasp the fact that the New
York meeting was intended to introduce
David Bennett Hill as a modest aspirant
for the Presidential nomination of a united
Democracy. .
Whatever else may be said about him, it
cannot be denied that Governor Hill is
a representative Eastern Democrat. If
New York Js to present a candidate to.tbir
Natlonal Democracy with any hope of
success, he must appear to have the sup
port of the party in his own state and sec
tion. The Tilden Club function developed one
fact very conclusively, and that Is that the
.Cleveland and Hill factions of the Demo
cratic party, long estranged, are willing
to co-operate hereafter.
It Is possible that one of these days cer
tain worthy Democrats of the Southern
States will put their feet under the ma
Jiogany and show a disposition to bury
past differences by suggesting Henry Wat
terson as a suitable man to lead a re
united Democracy two years hence.
In that case, would the distinguished
Kchtucklan consider it seemly or decent
If Eorae one in the East should proceed
In the name of an Ideal Democracy to pelt
tho gentleman thus favored with ancient
eggs and dead cats?
The fact of the matter Is that the formal
appearance of genuine Democrats as as
pirants for the Presidential nomination Is
a good sign. It shows that there Is life
and courage and hope in the organiza
tion. The Introduction of a New Yorker
docs not preclude tho Introduction later
on of a Kentucklnn, or even a Nebraskan.
In the meantime there is no call what
ever for such manifestations of wrath and
uncharltableness as those which have been
witnessed In the vicinity of Louisville,
Ky., and Lincoln, Neb.
If things have come to such a pass that
tho veteran Democrats of tha East, with
Gr6ver Cleveland appearing as a pri
vate In their ranks, cannot propose to the
Democrats of the Nation such a fighting
leader as Governor Hill without causing
a volcanic eruption of mud- In other sec
tlons of the country, we will have to as
same that too many Democrats need to
learn again the first principle of Democ
racy, which Is toleration.
The Baptism of Bells.
Gentleman's Magazine.
Bells were solemnly baptized like chil
dren a custgm which is still extant In the
Roman church. This is probably not a
primitive practice, and cannot be traced
further back than the reign of Charle
magne. It Is first distinctly mentioned In
the time of PojJe JohnXlir (9S3), when he
gave his own name to the great bell of
the Laterah church. Sleldan gives an ac
count of the ceremonial to be observed.
"First of all. the bells must be so hung
that thfe bishop may bo able to walk,
around them. When he has chanted a few
psalms in a low voice, he -mingles water
and salt, and Consecrates them, diligently
sprinkling the bell with the mixture, hth
Inside and out. Then he wipes It clean.
SUMMER
THE BREAK
New, commodious and elegantly furnished. The largest and finest seaside recrt
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t TPr BREAKERS,' Long Beach, Wash.
3t tickets fed hecJt baggaffG to BREAKERS STATION.
Cloud Cap Snn
The chief mountain resort inOregon.
Situated 7000 feet above sea level,
on the North slope of Mount Hood
Daily stages from Hood River, via
the Transfer & Livery Co. Through
tickets to the Inn can be purchased
at O. R. & N. or Columbia River
steamer ticket offices.
For rates, etc., address Mrs. S.
Langille, Hood River - r v
had this been appreciated Instead of hav
ing1 to be enforced. But that is no more.
Secession is no more. Slavery Is no more,
though, the race complications in gov
ernmental, Industrial and educational re
spects growing- out of emancipation are
dire and hard and dreadful.
Mr. Adams' proposition brings up all
these thoughts and other far better ones
that have sprung to expression elsewhere
than here. On that account, the proposi
tion Is welcome, but Its value will be more
in the fact of the consideration of the
protests which it stirs than on account
of any adhesion it is likely to receive, at
least In this generation, from any but
ultra-sentimental effuslonists.
AX IMPORTANT DISTINCTION'.
New Tork Evening Post.
Cromwell took a great part In a great
movement for the world's progress that
is, In the deliverance of his country from,
tyranny. General Lee. for all his admir
able qualities and these are none too
highly rated In Mr. Adams appreciation
did not stand for anything In the world's
advancement. The right of a state tq se
cede was not a principle which can be so
rated, and. Leo himself did not so consider
It.
These vital considerations are not over
looked by Mr. Adams. He admits that,
In forming one's Judgment of the men
who have filled conspicuous roles in his
tory, some other test must bo applied,
than the beliefs they held respectively.
Charles I and Cromwell believed equally
that they were doing God's service. Yet
they could not both have been right. Gen
eral Thomas and General Lee, both Vir
ginians, could not have been equally right,
the one serving the Union, and tho other
the Confederacy. The same must be said
of Admiral Farragut and Raphael
Semmes. After making the admission,
however, that such tests must be applied,
Mr. Adams occupies four printed pages in'
showing that they need not necessarily
be applied to the mere erection of a stat
ue. "Wo are all proud of the bravery of
the Confederate Army, their devotion,
their patience, their faith. There is no
finer feat of arms than Pickett's chargo
upon Cemetery Ridge. "Who would, erase
the word Gettysburg from a flag, whether
it were carried on one side or the other of
that fight? "The moral right, the spirit
of nationality, the sacred cause of human
ity, even," says Mr. Adams, "were on our
side, but among these opposed, and who
in the end. went down, were men not les3
sincere, not ies3 devoted, not less truly,
patriotic, according to their lights, than
he who among us was first in all those
qualities, men of whom It was and is a
cause of pride and confidence to say.
They, too, were countrymen!' "
Certainly! But that does not touch tho
question whether the Nation shall take
such public action in reference to -a. statue
of General Leo as shall signify Its appro
bation of what he did. This, as we point
ed out at the beginning, is either slurred
over by Mr. Adams or confused with the
voluntary action of Individuals. The real
question to be discussed Is not whether
General Lee shall have a.statue, but what
shall the statue typify when erected.
Kansas City Star.
Under existing political conditions in tho
United States, public interests are best
served by a comparatively even balance In
the numerical strength and popular pres
tige of the two leading parties. For this
reason all high-minded citizens, regardless
of natural preference, would w elcome a re
juvenation of the Democracy. They w oul J
gladly see a return of the high-plane ri
valry that once existed between the two
great political organizations of the coun
try, the strength of the one acting as a
check on the policies of tho other. For
these very good reasons the statement
given out by Mr. William J. Brian yes
terday deserves consideration.
Mr. Bryan has at least clearel the
Democratic atmosphere, even If he has
grievously disappointed those supporters
who had. hoped, that he would some time
hearken to the voice of reason on the sub
ject of Democratic reunion. To apoly to
him tho Illustration he used In ulswusslng
Mr. Cleveland, he has made the Democ
racy a "preferred creditor" by letting It
know the worst In advance. His state
ment has mad$ clear these facts:
That Mr. Bryan means to remain active
In politics, accepting any leadership that
may be offered him in National affairs,
and assuming such leadership when It Is
not offered.
That he will give no countenance to
those Democrats who could not conscien
tiously support him In his races for tho
Presidency, except on what he knows to
be the Impossible condition of confession
of sin, pleas for admission to the Bryan
ranks and: a term of probationary mem
bership. That "he utterly refuses to approve any
plan of Democratic alignment Jhat does
not Indorse as essential policies tho er
roneous doctrines that twice caused the
defeat of the party.
That he would rather be the head of a
losing faction or a defeated party than
to retire In order that the Democracy
might be led to victory by others.
That his course will be. as It has been
for some time, utterly selfish and disloyal.
Inasmuch as there is no hope of success
in his leadership or through his policies.
It Is also quite plain that If the regular
Democratic organization should as It
ought repudiate such a homeless leader
ship, Mr. Bryan would become the stand
ard-bearcr of the Populist party or head
a new organization made up of his remain
ing followers.
Under the circumstances, all who want
to see the Democratic party restored to
Its old-time prestige, with possibilities of
again securing the reins of government,
must, realize that they can have nothing
more to do with William J. Bryan.
and with holy oil describes on It the figure
of the cross, praying the while that when
the bell ia swung up and sounded, faith
and charity may abound among men; all
the snares of the devil hall, lightning,
'vlnds, storms may be rendered vain, and
all unseasonable weather be softened.
After he has wiped oft that cross of oil
from the rim he forms seven other crosses
on It, but only one of them within. The
bell Is censed, more psalms are to be sung
and prayers put up for Its welfare. After
this feasts and banquetlngs are celebrated,
just as at a wedding."
Singapore possesses a curiosity in tha
shape of a Chinese dwarf who Is barely 40
inches In height and Is endowed with a
fine gray beard.
RESORTS.
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