The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-25

est and attention of the reader from
the beginning to the end, Mr., Lodge
has statesman's capacity to deal with
and to Judge of the concerns of state
the enthusiasm of an orator, the lit
erary skill of a trained and practiced
writer and the industry of a thorough
historical investigator. If you have
time for but one of these biographies,
l commend to you that of Mr.. Lodge
as, on the whole, the best, although he
has to contend with such great COM
petltorS as Marshall and Sparks and
Irving. When you have read THESE
lives and Washington's own great ad-
dresses, you will have gazed upon him
as upon a photograph of his very soul.
You will know by heart the greatest
man in all history, the greatest Of the
few who have lived wholly for their
country and not at all for themselves,
and who, as a great orator says, appear
in human annals like five or six
lighthouses on as many thousand miles
OF coast To know Washington well,
is liberal education in the essentials
Of American citizenship, whether for
soldier. statesman or citizen.
Think how poor were his resoarcesi
either for his military operations or for
the great work in which he was the
leader, of constructing and inaugural
ing our institutions. All the paths he
trod had to be broken out by himself
and his great companions and associ-
ates. We find our path broken, mac
adamized, levelled, bazed by the sure
and safe presidents of more than a
hundred years, 1t is hard for us to
understand the difficulties which beset
Washington.
He had a weighing and balancing
mind. His intellect was like a pair of
accurately adjusted scales.
Washington's virtues We're the cor
nerstone virtues, not those which ex-
cite the Imagination or delight audi
ences in the portrayal.
THE virtues of Washington are the
virtues which we ascribe, in our hum
BILE conception, to divinity. It is not
fmpious to make this comparison. For
it is said we are created in the divine
image and are commanded to copy the
divine example. Surely we may claim
that the best example of humanity has
been able in some degree to keep this
commandment"
Mr.. Hoar ended by calling upon his
auditors who aspire to take hereafter
an honorable part in the service of the
country, to follow in life the example
and counsels of George Washington,
and to hold that man as the eneny Of
the country who shall counsel a de-
parture from them. He pointed out how
in the past any departure from them by
the people has resulted in disaster, and
how the people had come back to them
again, as in the case of the events pre-
ceding and following the civil war. So
he predicted it will happen in the fu-
ture if in any spasm of popular excite
ment or in obedience to any fancied
party interest the people for a time
seem to forget Washington's counsel.
to be led astray by the lust of empire
or passion for conquest, or to have their
eyes dazzled by false and tinsel mill
tary glory So long as the portrait of
Washington hangs in every village, and
his statues stand in our chief cities.
and his monument is found in every
state, and his life is on the shelf of ev-
cry home, and the detail of his great
| career is studied in every university.
and his image is in the heart of everv
youth, the people will come back to the
wise, sober and lust counsel in follow
ing which lies the path to true glory
and true safety. The American peo-
pie will never long go astray so long as
to every great question of national pol
icy or national duty, they know what
Washington would have said and know
what Washington did say.
After the lecture Senator Hoar and
Representative Walker, who accompa-
MED him, We're entertained by Mgr.
Conaty and the faculties of the ,luiyer-
sty.