Arizona republican., 1898-11-17
ROOSEVELT AS A BIoGRAPHER
EXccrri.s and Comments Upon His
 Biography of Gov. Morris.


 Biography of Gov. Morris.
 ''JacObinism, socialism, communism nihilism and anarchism-these are thg real foes of a democratic republic" MT. Morris was called :he father O. the Erie canal, which he hoped to sec enlarged into ship canal.
 They persisted in relying on the weakest O. all weak reeds, the militia who promptly ran away every time they faced foe in ;he open" He says: "One of the good results of the war w3s ths.- it did away forever with all rellance Cn the old-time militia, ,hc most expensive and inefficient species of soldiery that could be invented" He had said previously of the militia in the army Of the revolutions: All ,ha, can be said is that their officers could never be sure that they would fight. nor their enemies that they would run away
 His GMonroe'sl appointment was an excellent example of the folly of trying 70 carry on a government on non partisan basis. Washington was only gradually weaned from this theory by bitser experience. It goes without say ing that in a well ordered government the great bulk of employees in the civil SCl NlNC. AIE I4Cl W iCSG lua-CllOIlS Sil t; merely 70 execute faithfully routine departmental work. should hold office during good behavior. should be ap- pointed without reference to their pcl- itics, but is the higher public servants. such as the heads of departments and foreign ministers, are not in complete accord wi,h their chief, the only result can be to introduce halting indecisiOn and vascillatiOn into the councils O. the nation, without gaining a single compensating advantage and without abating by one iota the virulence of parry passion. To appoint Monroe, an extreme democrat, to France, and Jay. strong federalist, to England, was not only an absurdity which did noth- ing toward recopciling the federalists and democrats, but an actual wrong, for it made our foreign policy seem double-faced and deceitful.'
 Here is a picture of Louis Philip with a glimpse also of a pharisaical temperance reformer:
 ''The bOurgeOus king was nCt a bad man, but he was very petty and con temptible one; had he been born ir q different station in life he would have been just the individual to take a prominent part in local temperance meetings while he sanded the sugar he sold at his corner grocery
 Virginia stands easily first among all our commOnWealths for the states men and warriors she has brought forth, and it is noteworthy tha. during the long contest between the nation alists and the separatists, which forms the central fac- in our history for the first three quarters Of century of our national life, she gave leaders to both sides at the two great crises, Washing ton and Marshall to the one, and Jef- ferson to She other, when the question was one Of opinion as to whether the Union should De built up, and when the appeal to arms was made to tear it down, Farragut and Thomas to the north, and Lee and Jackson u the south.
 MT. Morris wro-e to the Princess de Ia Tour that 1t Washington need ed nothing but houses, cellars, kitch- ems. well informed men, amiable wo- men and other little trifles Of the kind to make the city perfect
 Morris said: War was "a necessity for us for we were dwindling iEso race of mere spectators and driveling whereas ten years Of warfare would bring forth crop Of heroes and statesmen, fit timber out of which to hew an empire.
 A few years later the gallant ROOse- welt himself was to form part Of such a crop.
 Morris strenuously insistsd upon the need of property being defended from the masses; yet he advocated re- pudiatiCn Of the national debt, which he should have known to be quite as dishonest as the repudiation of his individual liabilities, and he was cer- tainly aware that the step is Q short one between refusing to pay man what ought to be his, and taking away from him what actually is his
 To federalist friends in Philadelphia Morris wrote: ''Lce Us forget party and think of our country. That coun- try embraces both partiss. We must endeavor therefore to save and benefit both. This cannot be effected while political delusions array good men against each other.
 He [Moirisl thoroughly appreciated the marvellous future that lay before the race on this continent. Writing in 1901, he says: As yet we only crawl along the outer shell Of our country. The interior excels the part we inhabit in soil, in climate, in everything. The proudest empire in Europe is but a bauble compared to what America will be. must be, in she course O. two cer- turiss, perhaps of one"
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