Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-12-08
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ssRISING.O IF YOU PLEAsE,

ssRISING,o IF YOU PLEASE.
The esteemed and estimable Register has
''risen" to offer an amendment to our care
full and well considered description of the
Hon. A. Maxoy Killer, generally of New
Haven, and especially of the First ward.
We called him rising" politician and
statesman, and the Register calls upon US
to substitute the word "risen" for the
word "rising." It lucidly argues that he
has risen and that therefore he should be
described as "risen" rather than 'rising."
We appreciate the force of the Registers
argument and also the generosity of its
tribute to the conspicuous and influential
Republican politician and statesman whose
triumph we have helped to bring about and
rejoiced in celebrating. But we cannot
accept the Registers amendment, because
to do so would defeat the proper use of q
good word and nullify the judgment and
forethought which we fatter ourselves
were shown in the application
we made of it. OF course we
shall admit that the Hon. A. Msxcy Hitler
has risen to a certain height, and that it
is entirely proper to speak of him as having
thus risen. But it is much more proper,
graphic, complimentary and prophetic to
speak of him as still rising. ''Risen"
doesn't strike us as at all adequate when
used in connection with him. AS the
Register uses it it conveys a rather un-
pleasant implication that he has reached
the top, and having risen cannot be
properly spoken of as still rising. Does
the Register think or mean thisa Has 1t
not seen with approving eyes his steady,
uninterrupted rise in spite of the efforts
made to attach weights enough to him to
keep him downs Does 1t really think his
rise is over and that it Is safe to
speak of him as having risen
in the sense of having got
through risings We do not like to
think this to be the case, and we there
fore call upon the Register to withdraw its
amendment aud join us in describing the
Hon. A. Maxcy Hitler as a "risipg young
politician and statesman" Aud we call
the Registers attention to the freedom
and illimitableness of the word "rising."
1t doesn't hint that the top has been reach
ed. 1t does more than hint that that to
which it is applied is on it's way to the top.
Isn't this true of the Hon. A. Msxcy Hill
ler9 Why should he be described as
"risen," when he has only reached a
moderate height and is still flying, so to
speak: Does the Register think that he in
tends to stop soarings If it does the Regis
tor doesn't know him. If nothing hap
pens to him he will surprise it
by the way he will keep rising. He is
headed upward. He has tried his wings.
He has found they will easily sustain him
at the height he has already reached, and
he means to rise until he finds the air too
thin for him to fly in. OF course Mr..
Hitler will not think that this means that
we think he is bird.
We insist. The Register should imme-
diately withdraw its amendment and say
"rising." 1t cannot mean to imply that
the Hon. A. Maxcy Killers rise is ended,
and it Is not delicately complimentary to
say that he has risen when 80 much of hi-
total rise is still before him. 1t is more
courteous to speak of him being
on his way up and as in the active exercise
of his raising apparatus. If the Register
will join us in saying "rising'' now we will
agree that when it can fairly be said he has
risen far enough we will join the Register
In saying "risen"