The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-11

front. ChGrleNagne was far more brilliant
rs he swept Europe with his victorious
armies; but he would have been helpless
IN the role of wearing out the enemy through
seven long years by avoidance of battle.
Cromwell exceed him in breadth of scope;
yet the lord protector would have quailed
before the task given to Washington when
he took the oath OF office as chief of little
nation that was bankrupt in treasury and
which was rent and torn by internal fac.
tons and jealousies. Napoleon founded a
great empire upon the ruins of the rcvou-
ton; yet it endured scarcely more than a
decade. The work of Washington, after
more than century, gives promise OF I'M
measured duration. Alexander, the Caesars,
Genghis Khan and Napoleon sought personal
glory in conquest, and Cromwell realized his
ambition in individual power and domin-
ion; but Washington looked only to the
liberties of his people and the perpetuation
of simple government whose greatness
should be established in the fruitful results
growing out of peace.
\ man of commanding presence, shapey
in limb and body, with most benign and in
telligent face and well-proportoned head
he was no less symmetrice IN character.
What weaknesses pertained to him were
concealed by his magnificent selt-control.
His temper was high, and there were occa-
s;o,s ,s az Monmouth whom il disnlaved
;tsolf in hot indionotion. but he curbcd it
| Ioforo IL wont hovopd tbe hounds of ripht.
cons wrath Tho unlicensed vituperation OF
| his enemies v.runa from him. sometimes.
o,rnast nrotest AGAINST their Injustice. vet
! 80 Tow wore those protests in the many
-. 81 IL soroi,, t,ioJ no that tbe nor.
| f,at solf.con+rol of thn man has uossed into
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! Gf s,,Io,d;d ,,bvsi,,o he lovad tLc cood
! tljrc. If Tho t,iJoi lint IN his Dnpplite he
,,t ,,,o,,o,, hounds and nnrtool in modera.
! lion of v,bot ,.,s so, bolorc him
p,, ~ ,,,,tl, ,,,,on,. Lig tostcs and
s,,,.,,,,,, li,,,,5 ,.e,o ,Io.o nf an .ristocrot.
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ii "' hn ins;yted thot tho rgbts of ali cIdsscs
! .Sa,,iJ to ,,s,,oof,1 ,Iil.a and thnt no Ian.
sLorlJ he nlorcd before 81 man who soupht
I;,.i,,,, ;o, Goo1,,so ~ Ills Lirtb ~, social
,n,;tion DonLtlcss tho richost man of his
ti,nn In America his manner of living was
si,nnro oItbongh ronarons 4 slpve.boldar.
ho de,ostoI tbe inst;t,Ifiop and ot his death
,,,.,,,,,,ittod bis "cbottnls " B,nve to dar.
;no Ln curbod tho snirit of bottle within
| Li, ,l fo,..od ,,o,c, and victory. nv 81 suc.
oaos;on of nnsto,ly movoments that were
,I,araot o,;,od ,bioG,, Lv evasion Of collision
Vii tho eremv Proud he was olfable.
eye, reserved all might ppproach him.
Those we're NOT Contradictions in his char.
aster. rather are thew evidences of the
majesty that WINS in him. which could shape
AMI controI disnosition 10 Che forming and
framing Of n nerfect man.
lie mioht have founded a monarchy. for
tba neonle were ready ia acouiesce in anv
Man of his NJ tbe close of the seven wears
yor, Wrought Inv his oenius to sueb happy
tarmination In such an event none would
hove Jnred to question his assumption OF
the lingly mower lie chose. rather to give
his voice 70 n government of the people,
whose rulers sbonld he chosen by their suf
c,oges or his own act he surrendered the
,e;1s of mower after eipht vears of service
when nv word he might have nerpetunted
himself i'm the adminisfration until the end
of lie dnys
Ue ,ns NOT without ambition. lint il wa,
If tbot snhIime Quality which makes seIt
subordinate to conntrv He was in ublie
ser,,ice nIrnost continnorsIv from l775 r.
I7o7 ,,ot in ali tbese ,,onrs ho lopgod fo, tl,
5 o,iot ond LanniGoss of HE homo an III,
e blt W. ',l, % Me- oa,'tr,, a,,in(