The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-17
FERDINAND DE LEssEPs.

What a pity it is that as famous man
as De Lesseps should have died with a
sentence of five years in prison hansing
over him And how much harder ut Is
TO be honest than 1t is to be famous!-
New York World.
1t is pity that De Lesseps had not
died while the glory of his achievement
in digging the Suez canal was undtmrned
by the discreditable speculations attend
ing the Panama canal enterprise But
as it is, the glory will outlast the re-
proach. Boston journal.
He will forever live in history as the
protector and builder of the Suez canal
His name can never be robbed of that
Fi.enchn1an carried out was, of course,
not original with 1lirn. 1t dates black ITO
the Ftolomes, if not to the Pharaohs.
All the more honor, therefore, to the
had merely dreamed of dohg!-Boston
Adveri5er.
This man saw Napoleon and Yelling
ton Immediately after Waterloo, and IN
his day he came in contact with many OF
the great men who made brilliant the
close of the last century, and all the
great men whose efforts have made the
nineteenth century the foremost in ma
terial progress of all the historic era5
And foremost among these men F'erdin-
and de Ilesseps viii stand in history for
his energy, forethought and unsurpassed
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES York Advertiser.
The name of this man will always be
connected with one of the greatest en-
cheering works of the age; great less in
the sense of presenting phenomenal and
untriel problems to solve than in that OF
the magnitude of its effects. TO render
unnecessary the passage around the
Cave of Good Hope to bring India and
the rest OF the east so much nearer 10
Europe, was like transforming the face
of the world, raising new c0ncinenES ana
sinking Old one.s.-St. Paul Pioneer Press
De Lessep5' proudest day was when he
stoad, on November rs. 1862 in the pres,
ence of the imperial rulers of France and
q brilliant encourage gathered from the
four quarters Of the world ana saw the
consunTn3'ton OF MS hopes dild toli ~
the oon,rnlngl,cg Of the waters OF the
Mediterranean and the Red Sea. It was
his mastery persuasive powers wnch
convinced Louis Napoleon OF 9ne prac,,
ticsbiHty OF the Suez canal and secured
Ei1e money for the enterprise. Minneap-
oils journal
The death of Ferdinand de Lessepss. at
the great age of SO, closes in dim eclipse
a career whose brilliancy at one, time
dazzled the world. Count no man happy
tin YOU see the end said a Greek philoso-
pher who had witnessed the vicissitudes
Of fate. The adage is as applicable now
as it was in the days OF the LyGlans = KING eng
of the parama project, and the scandals
which mayhap unjusly embittered the
closing years of the great lie, engineer, ano
chief OF all for his triumph at Suez.-
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Ferdinand de Lesseps, the man, is dead.
Lesseps, the genius of construction, the
man of great enterprise, the revolutlonist
Of commerce, died before, crushed beneath
the rush of the Panama canal. Broken in
pride. furnished in reputation, wrecked
in mind, the body has survived few
years the death Of the. character. For
;everal years his home has been to him
what Helena was to that other great
genius OF conquest, Napoleon. The death
If Lessaps comes to teach again the Oft
taught Lesson OF the limitation of human
geniuS and the temptings and dangers
hat attend it.-St. Paul Globe.
De Lesseps was destined to greatness
~ the constitution OF his mind. which
vas, like the minds of all great COM
lfianders from Alexander down to Grant
md Sherman, Of mathematical tendency,
ind by the sobriety and seriousness of his
disposition and the engaging qualities OF
ais personality. His tfiumphs began in
loyhood, and before the age of 80 he
lad achieved distinction that would
nave Satisfied men Of no mean ambition
When he conceived the plan of the canal
which crowned his years with undying
glory he had had experience enough with
Inc world ITO defy the dogmas of the pro-
fessions and trust to his own Judgment
New York Advertiser.