Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-05-30

viewed the parade from the front of the
art institute. The weather is clear and
cool.
WI AT GRANTS TOMB.
Chinese Minister Extols the Great-
ness of Grant.
New York, May 3O.-Memorial serv-
ices We're held today at Grants tomb, an
interesting feature of which was the adj
dress by WI Ting Fang, Chinese minis
ter.
Minister Wu graphically described the
career of Gen. Grant as a citizen. SOL
der and statesman, his remarks show
ing close study of the subject. Moth
ing shows more clearly ne said, "the
high estimation in which Grant was
held by the world at large than the
spontaneous outbursts of enthusiasm
with which he was everywhere greeted
when he made his famous tour around
the world. Princes. potentates and COM
mon people alike We'd with one another
in paying him the homage due to great
rulers. Cities opened their gates to wel-
come him at his approach. His progress
from country to country was like tri-
umphal procession. All this was a sig
nificant tribute to his character and his
fame. 1t must be remembered that he
was at this time only private citizen.
but everybody recognized the greatness
inherent in the man. In no country. ]
dare say. did Re receive a warmer well
come than in the old empire of China.
The career of Grant was Just such as is
calculated to fire the Imagination of
the Chinese. Statesmen and generals do
not come from exclusive stock is one of
our favorite sayings. We Chinese have
a great admiration for men who have
risen by their talents from humble be-
ginnings TO be acknowledged leaders OF
people. Such was Grant" Minister Wu
then alluded to the friendship between
Gen. Grant and Ii Hung Chang and
said: After Grants death Earl Lii gave
instructions to the Chinese legation at
Washington to bring every year, as is
done this day. an offering of flowers to
the generals tomb on Memorial day as
token of his enduring friendship
DEPEW'S GRAFTON.
AT the Hall of Fame Senator Depew
delivered the grafton. He said in cart:
The bringing out of the nineteenth
century was accompanied by shouting
and hallelujahs over victories which
had subdued the powers of the earth,
the waters and the air to the service of
man; and an equally beneficent evolu-
ton In human rights. 1t was a happy
Thought which moved the donor of this
Hall of Fame in the midst of those re-
joicings, to found a temple to enshrine
the memorials of the architects of this
triumph: the supreme intelligences
whose labors and initiative have caused
the nineteenth to stand cAt high, con-
spicuous and unapproachable in its
granduer among the centuries
There has been the broadest catho-
licity of judgment and no passions or
prejudices of sectionalisms, parties or
oresds among the judges. The action
OF the tribunal is remarkable exhibit
of the disappearance of the bitterness of
the civil war Tho a large majority of
the electors were from the north, Gen.
Lee is placed beside Gen. Grant, and
Lincoln received every vote from the
south save one.
The gentlemen upon whom has de-
volved the first selection have found in
the wide field open to their choice. only
twenty-nine whom majority thought
fit to fill the panels of this hall. There
may be disappointment and mortifica-
ton that after 300 years of settlement
in our country and 100 of national life
the harvest should be so small. But our
situation was unique and original. We
We're not conquering people absorbing
and adopting civilization, arts and ac-
cumulations of subject nation.
THE tributes here are all, save that
to Jonathan Edwards. to the genius of
our first century. We can compare
those names with the greatest of all
time and without boasting but upon
the sure results of the most critical
analysis of the elements of fame proud
ly claim place in the front rank for
our military and naval heroes. for our
statesman and jurists, for our authors
and inventors, for our preachers and
philanthropists. We are yet to prs duce
the picture. the poem, the opera or ora
torio worthy of the great masters. For
those there must be the background of
centuries mallowed by time and tradi-
tions.
"If the Viking could come from his
yalhalla, the Arcopagite from beneath
the temples of Athens the arbiter Ele-
gantiae from the ruins of Rome, the
Medieval knight from his armor, Fred
erick from Pottsdam, or Napoleon from
Invalides to view these heroes they
would have only contempt for this de-
velopment of democracy. The inventor
of the application Of steam to naviga-
tion, OF the electric telegraph and OF
the cotton gin. the artisans who were
in their time and in their world the herd
or mass born to bear the burdens and
work for the luxuries OF their masters,