The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-06
SOME LEADING EDITORIALS.
CHANGE THAT HAS COME WITH POWER

CHANGE THAT HAS COME WITH POWER
From the Harlequin. New Orleans.
The other day stood before the statue OF majestic Lee
In the sky few the free and far above in the vast
ie soarod IN majestic prions the buzzards Swift white
eccy clouds foatcd tho bosom of the breeze fragrant
with suggestions OF immortal liberty and Gods splendid
nrome And towering there superb grandeur stood stu
pendous his crossed his calm sweet lace radians
the ineaab nobility of Gods highest ereation-a man.
Aud az ooked at the face and poise it to what
hao OF immortal glory the history OF this great
country The of hope to the oppressed world
people who place principle above all the INFINITE treasures
entombed in the fertile womb OF Mother Earth ne ono
Nation great enough recognize that man is quite the most
mporant thing in the universe The rivers OF blood that
have shed for principles sake The tears ana near
ahebe widows and orphans that have been made for the
sake what conceived the right 1t seemed to me saw
this Lee standing side by side with the ustrious Grant re-
viewing the columns their comrades in gray and blue
ranke that cmorscess time more fell than war is today SO
pathetcally decuiating,
As looked upon this counterfeit presentment of the man
whoa type OF his timese conviction on the right hand Oh
God could not help compare it the bedraggled present
when poicy sits above conscience could hardly conceive
that the same country which had Graded Lee and Grant and
all the valiant heroes who fought on the one hand Tor the
liberation and the ohe for the sovereign rght
stateI could hardly conceive that the same land which
created these spirits of the world at present the
nursery ercenary soldier of the freebooter and the
obber of the nation which would he led thousands of miles
from home subjugac the savage at tie behet OF
rascally and dshonorabe rapacy. What had not these
giants undergone home brother to brother because OF
misunderstanding on principle? What outrages were their
psy today perperatng at the bea OF the
golden calf
Twin spirits are these Engshers and of America On
the same level do VIC snout In private quarres he is
ashamed If he possesses spark of manhood to take advan
tage OF superior beat smaller man and despoi nm
his goods We scupe not to do its nor does England
We profess admire each other aid and abet each other
knowing all while the stpendous fabric OF our essential
bascness On this side of the water permit that which
most essential the of England horses to be
shipped the English against those sturdy fighters
for home and God and Preside whom ought in every hber
our being in verify the children OF the
God of right England the petty caqucrs OF miserable
press exceptions profess in effect admiration
our the Philippines knowing all the while how
base
Can it be that the foremost nations of the world, the
nations whose bright intelligence and faith wresed from the
bosom of barharism all the advance have made against
unjust usupaonscan it be that are dallyng by the
waysde in verablc soth forgetul o. God deaf to the
prompngs OF all that distinguishes from the beast iii
wanonncss of power throwing our heritageour real
heritage? is the ecipsed perpetualy and have we
grown mad or drunk? Arc degenerates? Is there no
differentiation and the human monsters OF dead
day? Do we no longer respect ourselves?