The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-15
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 making his doctrine clear to the appre- hension of common men, His arg Iments were not only for economic scholars, but for the great body of his country men. It is impossible to overestimate the value of that power to his genera tion. The doctrines he discussed are to be applied not by experts, but by the body of the people. Presidential cleo tions turn on them. Mass meetings and even mobs are excited by them We cannot escape them. They are dis cussed in tobacco shops or corner gro- ceres, as we'll as in college halls or in bank parlors. The workman demands to know why he cannot get work, and why it is that in one year three men are seeking one job, and in another year three jobs are seeking. one man. And if the truth be not uttered to the most ignorant audiences, you may be sure the fallacy and the sophism will be.
 He had none of the spirit which can find nothing but evil and degeneracy and decay in our national life-a spirit which does more than any other to cre- ate what it thinks it finds and to bring to pass its own prophecies. As nothing can be more injurious to a child than to teach him that he is base and wor- thy to be despised nothing can be | more injurious to a nation than to teach it such a lesson. The boastful, braggart, self-asserting temper which | belongs to nation whose place in the world, whose title to the respect of mankind, is not yet assured bad as it i is, is infinitely less harmful than the | spirit of an indiscriminate detraction. I The taking for granted that honesty and courage and nobility are the mo- tives of public conduct tends to elevate l public conduct to a higher standard 1 We may be willing, in admiration for his mighty genius, to submit to Car | lyle's note of despair and contempt; yet I believe Emerson has inspired hum dred heroes where carlyle has inspired one. The satirist's scourge, the critics sheer, or the pessimist's whine or moan, never exalted a nation and never saved a soul It is not that these men are possessed by an enthusiasm for lofty ideal. If it were we might bear with them. They have neither enthusiasms nor ideals. Whatever other qualities these walters may have, they have neither faith, hope nor charity. It is remarkable that man among whose great titles to distinction were those of author and soldier should be so indifferent to fame and praise. | "Lyke as ship that through the ocean l wyde
 | By conduct of some star doth make her way"
 he was constant to one bright and blaz- ing star, Duty,
 ''Of whose true fixed and resting qual-
 ity,
 There is no fellow in the Armament"
 I incline to think, after all, that irl the School of Technology will be his lasting fame. Dear pupil and friend, it has fallen to me, an old man, to do for you what you
 would have lovingly and kindly done for me- It is nearly forty years-it is
 but yesterday, it is but a watch in the
 nieht-since our friendship began
 From the time when I first greeted you
 A lad, rosy-cheeked, full of the golder
 blood of boyhood, and welcomed you tC ; the study of the law and the gladsome
 light of jurisprudence, till the day wher
 your country mourned your loss iron one ocean to the other, and the heavy tidings were borne under the sea tt
 carry sadness to the hearts of goo men in foreign lands, you have don, , nothing of which any friend could b, ashamed, and said or written nothins !. we could wish to blot. You have fallel
 at the post of duty. You died stand ing, The laurel bough was plucket while it was yet green, and burned be fore it withered. You were spared olt age. Your heart was full of hope, no of retrospect.
 l "Thy rising day saw never woful night,
 But past with praise from off thi worldly spot.
 What hath he lost, who such grea grace hath woon? Yoong yeeres for endless yeeres, ant hope unsure
 Of fortunes gifts for wealth that stil
 shall dure;
 , Oh! happie race, with so great praise run"