The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-10

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pilgrim from afar first repairs when
he visits the capital of his country
hangs the great picture which define
ates the scene when the nation was first
baptized into immortal life. 1t was not
only the independence of America
which was then declared-it was the
dignity of human nature itself. When
Samuel Rogers visited the Dominican
Convent at Padua an aged friar show
ed him the famous picture of THE Last
Supper" in the refectory of the convent.
He said: II have sat at my meals before
1t for seven and forty years, and such
are the changes that have taken place
among us-so many have come and gone
in that time-that when l look upon
the company there, upon those who are
sitting at that able, silent as they are
am sometimes inclined to think that
we, not they, are the shadows"
As administrations, terms of presiden-
tial office, begin and end. as senators
and representatives come and go before
the silent figures in that immortal pic
ture, it seems to me that we are but
the shadows, while Hancock and JEFF
ferson and Adams and Franklin and
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%erating, still acting, still alive. All, Mr..
PRESIDENT shall we turn it with it's face
to the wall? Shall the scroll first be
stricken from the hand of Jefferson and
another put there which shall read:
'iGovernments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed-some
of them. Men are created equal-some
of them. Taxation and representation
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi-
ness are held in the Philippine Islands
at our will, and not at the will of the
people And then shall we turn the
picture with it's face to the wall, and
put instead of it a representation of
some great battle where the guns of our
navy and our army are turned on the
men struggling for their liberty at
uoilo.
Now, Mr.. President, cur friends tell
us that all this is emotion and rhetoric
and sentiment. They tell us that it
does not belong to the domain of prac-
tical craftsmanship, or to the conduct
to the affairs Of life; that these are the
things we think when we talk, and that
we are thinking of quite other things
when we act and vote. Well, the doc
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the most practical statesmen, of the
most practical generation that ever
lived on the face of the earth These
sentiments, wrapped in few sentences,
not equaling in compass the Ten Com
mandments or the Lords Prayer, am
plifying only little the Golden Rule
itself, have turned out to be a practical
force in this world of ours, The Purl-
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one brief, crowded century they made
England which had been trembling be-
fore SPAIN whose knees had smote to-
,gether before Holland whose monarch
had been the pensioner and whose treas
ury had been the tributary of France,
the greatest power the world had ever
seen. 1t is these that make world
powers"
Our fathers shod their feet with them
as with sandals. Borne up by them
they crossed the Atlantic, and with
their invincible might builded on its
sure foundations this temple that COW
ers the continent and whose portals are
upon both the seas. Is there any prac-
tica1 craftsmanship, is there any cum
ming of the politician, is there any
struggling for power, is there any seek
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pline which has ever wrought in all
history such things as these half dozen
little sentences have wrought? Are
there any statesmen in American his
tory, among the living or among the
dead, whom the people love and honor
as they do the men who planted their
feet on these truths, and who bore wit
ness to them in life and in death?
The one great lesson which sums up
the teachings of American history dur
ing our century of constitutional life
is the dignity of labor 1t is an unques-
tionable truth that no tropical colony
was ever settled, by men not born in
tropical chimes, for the purpose of find
ing work. There was scarcely ever a
tropical colony successful at all. There
was never a tropical colony successful
except under the system of contract Ia
Dor. That is to be set up enforced and
administered by the agencies of the re-
public of the United States, if we are
to succeed in such administration at all.
Our fathers taught us the priceless
value of national credit and to keep
free from the burden of national debt.
We have thought until lately that our
strength came in a large part from our
unsullied and unequalled public credit,
If we were compelled in self-defense to
enter into a contest with the strongest