The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-08

Inent Their shameless and insidI,ous attacks ON
Tree institutions are infinitely more dangerous
than the revolutionary teachings and
Paetices OF comparatively few visionary and
misguided men and women in our large cities
~ - not such men as these, but the great multi
.uae engaged In active and hardy pursuits who
constitute the real strength of the nation. They
are not enemies of law and order they do mot
envy or hate those who have acquired property
py honest methods, they bear their full share
OF tne public burdens, and so long as the powers
Oh the nation are not perverted to their injury
.of the enrichment of few, they will rally to
us defense with unselfish and devoted patriot
IsH. Inelr energy and courage have not
Deem deadened by ease and luxury There
can be no prosperity without public tran
quillty, and the people will not long remain
tranquil under well founded belief that the
corrupt use OF money prevents free and honest
expression OF their choice of men and measures
III pubic opinion cannot be honestly expressed
In authorized ways, our elections will become
expensive and useless meckeries and free gov
eminent will exist only in name Let us
not be deceived by mere forms Radical
changes in government may be effected without
perceptibie change in the mode of adrninistra-
ton. Some of the worst tyrannies the world
has ever known were maintained under popular
forms.
Men like Grant. who have sprung from the
people, with strong and resoluta character. un-
spoiled by luxury, clear minded and level
headed, able to see men and things as they
really are, undeceived by outward show and
conventionality, are worth more to our nation
THAN all ITS mere cunning, self seek king politi-
clans, its political theorists, or its plutocrats
In war and peace these qualities lie at the
foundation of all true character. nation not
only needs such men, but they are indispens-
able to 1t. In times of peril it may perish with
out them
lt is not improper at this time TO call atten-
ton to baneful influences and practices which
lower our national standard and, unchecked,
threaten disaster. Engrossed in the cares of
business and laborous occupations, men seem
Inattentlve to the requirements of citizenship,
out they 90 not consciously and williully shirk
It's duties and responsibilities, when they are
clearly seen and fully understood. They may
De SLOW TO act, but when danger becomes immi-
nent they will assert themselves again as they
nave IN the past. They will not allow the re-
pubic to perish from neglect. The sentiment of
patriotism is still strong in the people 1t is
neither dead nor short lived. It grows and
strengthens with honest appeals to it, and it
may be appealed to with confidence for the vim
d1catien of good measures 1t increases with
every draft that is made upon ii, and while it
may become silent through neglect, il does not
cease to exist. Its voice may be UNDECIDED for a
season, and may be drowned by the nosier
tongues of greed aud selhshness, but 1t
Will be heard again. IL patiently sub
mlts to any aflronts, and quietly endures
many indignities. But in its temporary silence
1t gathers accumulation of energy, and
when the limit OF its endurance has been
reached, its commanding voice breaks forth on
the startled air, trumpettongued, and against its
mighty tones no other voice dares lift itself. 1t
was so when our last war swept over the land.
The spirit OF patriotism which was then reused
from an apparent slumber became dominant
and pervasive 1t extended everywhere. and
touched everybody. 1t reigned supreme. The
ordinary interests OF men were subordinated to
1t. The war did not create it, but reused
1t into action, gave it direction, and fur
nished scope and opportunity for the
assertion of itself. In our armies, and behind
them, it was moral force of tremendous energy
urging them forward and onward until the SUI
premacy OF our cause was finally established.
Our country was settled by men who sought
land which they might love as their own, and
pledged their lives and fortunes for the main
tenanee OF its institutions. Our republic was
founded in the patriotism of the people, and
their love of country was strengthened by
the struggle for its defense against foreign
aggression. The Revolutionary war was a
test of the popular patriotism which
had been previously implanted, rather than
development of It, The patriotism which was
ablaze in the speeches OF Adams and OTIS and
in the intrepid conduct of Warren, was steady
and fervent heat in the bosoms of thousands
whose names unknown to history. AS a
people, we have inherited the patriotism of our
Revolutionary sires, and thejinheritance has not
been sQuandered or dissipated. Because it is
voiceless among the busy multitude, in the
marts, on the farms and in the workshops, we
must not think it has ceased to exist, for these
were the sources from which our patriotic
armies were filled. 1t is not the noisy and
blatant sort of patriotism that finds an easy out
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best, it is a stronger and more self-denying
passion.
The vast majority of the people patriotic
and sound to the core. In them is our MAIN
stay and chief dependence. Our confidence in
their steady and unfaltering love of country,
which is Indifferent about any show of itself,
and speaks only in its acts, will never be mis-
placed. 1t was this sort of patriotism that was
personified in Grant
In letter regretting his inability to be
present President Harrison paid this trib-
ute to General Grant:
He was q tower OF strength and confidence in
the crisis of our civil war; He redeemed the
failures of other men, revived the cour-
age of the faint and disheartened gave his con-
fidence to a matchless army, and received
in return its mistaken faith. Revealing
to his soldiers their inyincible power, he,
more than any other leader of the war, realized
that when an army paused to recruit and reor-
ganize an opportunity was given to the enemy
to do the same. If his battalions were shattered
and weary he did not forget that the enemy
were in as bad or worse plight, and followed and
struck against them.
The sculptor of the statue is Louis Re-
bisso, of Cincinnati. 1t is of bronze,
eighteen feet high. and represents General
Grant seated on horseback, both animal
and man in position of rest. The gen.
eral grasps field-glass in his right hand,
with the glass resting upon his thigh, as
after taking careful survey of the field.
1t suggests as a whole concentration of
mind, confidence and self-reliance.
A Monument to General Sherman.
CHICAGO, Oct. THE secretary of the
Army of the Tennessee, of which General
Sherman was so long president, met here
today committee was appointed to