Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-24
1 Do.. s,fuI Homage.

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Pure democracy and republIrauism
IN only reside IN a land where tie
Eecple themselves constitute a uni
'ed sovereignty, welded aud held to-
-ether by the immuta r!e principles
that must underlie every form OF
public and private liberty. The
CHRISTIAN religion unceremoniously
lenounces every form of the so-called
IN Of man worship. Nay, we have
every reason to believe that Jehov all
himself abhors and will sooner or
later punish the natrons that tolerate
it. When Peter declared to the as
sembled household Of Cornelius
that God is no respecter of per-
sons he only reiterated a moral
apothegm which has found an abid-
ing Judgment in the creed of every
religion that has swayed the minds
of men. Life, liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness, the three inalien-
able rights recognized by the fathers
of our Republic, cannot live and
thrive in land where a strict equal
lily is not recognized by common
consent among the masses of the
people. Washington declined to
receive from the millions who would
have bowed down in the dust to him,
any title which would have implied
the smallest approach towards the
privileges of an absolute or limited
monarch. By degrees, however, this
healthful restraint has been suffered
to waver and grow so materially
lessened, that in these latter days of
our national prosperity, the old
monarchies of Europe have already
begun to charge us with want of
faith in our boosted freedom and in
fidelity to the ornamental principles
of our political creed. Washington
was the only man who has ever been
called, by the American people, the
Father of his Country. This was an
exalted encomium but, in it's applica-
ton there was no implication of re-
gal honors. On the contrary, the
loved and dear relation existing be-
tween our first President and his
people was only typifed, in the
truest manner possible, by that al
most divine relationship which exists
between paternal regard and filial
affection.
When the children strewed flowers
in the pathway of Washington, at
Trenton, one little girl whose father
had lifted her in his arms that she
might the better look over the sea of
uncovered heads, exclaimed, during
a momentary lull in the deafening
acclamations, go papa, he is only a
MANI So it is that, out of the
mouth of babes and sucklings, truth
will come in it's simplest and most
unvaruished forms. Because q man
of sheer mediocrity has been lifted,
by the meress chance, head and
shoulders, above his fellows, in the
blind estimation of the vulgar popu-
lace, it is no reason that whole
nation should be convulsed by his
every movement, casual look or ges-
true, as if his like had never been
seen before on the earth. When we
ascribe honor or homage to the
really great and good, there is a
world of pride in the conviction that
his life has been one of spotless
integrity from beginning to end.
Jesus Christ 'loved" the young
nobleman simply because, after hay
ing repeated to him the command
ments, he could truthfuly excla i'm
from the bottom of his heart, " All
these things have l kept from my
youth up" Now this is the gist
of the whole matter, and, as we
view the question, herein is found
the reason why there are SO few
great and good people in the
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