The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-09-14

eonsrscuous for his opposition 10 Llacoln's
var policy
Il IN forsaaase fer tie fac Of the raocu-
r.ens 20 MeCssl.an thss vii - unveiled
nexf Monday a. PhilsdeIphia thai the
people Of Ps1nsyivansa are not 80 utterly
inssnsibls 20 patriotic memories. 81 grossly
non-sympashssic vita loyal eond1ct and
capacity dursag the war for national
preservation ~ Grover Cleveland Hthey
we-s there would be no rnotumsnts
erected By Pennsyivnnia TO Hancock.
Meade and Mcclellan. Cleveaand's utter
inssnsibilsty 10 the inspiring memory OF
the struggle for the Union Vas more
than once illustrated By The presidents
aevoting Memorial Day" 10 o fishing
excursion or TO hunting ducks with
brass bsnd" Of obsecnious admirers The
president seems 20 view the various wsr
reuni0ns With 50 impartial IN ere that ne
are rather surprised that be does not send
= letter Of eongrstulstion to the annual
reunion Of QuzntrsaPs guerrilias in Mis-
souri, These genial persons we're the he
roes Of the eold-blooded massacre At Law
renee. Kan. August q, is65. and 81 thsir
reunions they boast Of acts Of cruelty be-
fore which the horrors Of the San Do
mfngo instruction grow pale. TIE fact
that Quautrell's guerrilIas were in the habit
Of shooting to death the Union sick and
wounded when they captured hospital
train would hardly cause any shock 70
temperament like that OF Cleveland. These
veteran brigands and military marauders
are Cleveland's constituents: they all
voted for him in Missouri in 1ss4, in fsSs
and in 1892. and would vote for bis election
20 third term"
In beautifuf contrast with Clevelaud's
dnII. cold, paehydermatou nature 10 ths
gallant. high-souled Gov. Mckinley, of
Ohio. When Cleveland was playing whist
seven nights in the week in the beer
joints of Buffalo. Mckinley. in. the flush
of early manhood. was fighting for the
flag; he was not Is when be began TO carry
Q gun and knapsaek; he came out of the
war q major, and the equally gallant ex-
Gov. Foraker came out q captain. with
reputation for gallantry that is recorded
by the late Gen. Henry w. siocum, sher-
mans right arm on the "March to the
Sea- and through the Csrolinas. Gov.
Mckinley, in his recent noble address at
Auburn, n. Y, defined patriotism
as the best politics. and paid
line but just tribute to the sacrifices
and sufferings Of the veterans of the war.
Gov McKinley's address contained no
word of partisan quality; he simply
sketched in fast colors the soldiers ideal
In 1851 IS Of conservation to country. The
patriotism Of ls61-65 was not limited by
historical utterance; ii was seldom
sternly acted, and every true man and
true woman comprehended the spirits
voiceless prayer Of those faithful, patient
young patriots who more than genera
ton ago ventured "iove aud life and youth
for the great prize of death in battle"
1t is true that the veterans of 1861 sur
rendered high ambitions. abandoned bust.
ness; 1t is true that the husband left his
wife; the lover his betrothed: il is true
that they endured hunger, thirst, disease.
hardship, wounds. death and imprison-
ment for the sake of millions yet to DC, and
today they have not even the thanks or
respect of the gibbering ghosts of men who
today sit and grin at the G. A. R.. ''the
last leaf" on the tree of our practical
patriotism. OF Gov. McKinley's noble In
spring address, which sets forth that self
interest and moral ideas save a state, the
New York Tribune saws:
Thirty years ago heroism was the habit
of every American whose life was worth
living. and the bravest soldier would not
have ventured to strike an attitude and
with word or gesture consecrate himself TO
his country.
THAT ideal of silent, self-sacrihcing
devotion TO country 10 old fashioned now.
A new generation has sprung up, which
dares 10 speak contemporary of the vet
Grams of the war A. mercenary pension
grabbers. 1t offers cheap incense at the
shrine Of a self-conscious political leader,
who is in q chronic state of turgid plati-
tude and osientatious conservation 20
principles and policies involving neither
sacrifice nor courage"