The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-10-06
Exp President View
Volume Of Recent Papers-by
the Late Benjamin Harrison.

the Late Benjamin Harrison.
Views of an Ex-President.' being re-
cent papers by the late Benjamin Harri-
son. IS the title Of a fine volume just is
sued by the Bowen Merrill company, OF
Indianapolis. The papers are COMPLIED bv
Mary Lord Harrison and comprise the
later lectures, magazine contributions
and addresses made BY 1Ir. Harrison az
ter his lie in the White House
Properly the volume opens with his lee
lures before Stanford University. There
are six OF these lectures and they deal
with the evolution Of the civic rights Of
the United States. They are remarka be
papers in that they cogently present an
Interpretation Of the historical develop
rent Of the nation politically, with a
o.rectness and simplicity that IS fascinat-
Ing 70 a student. adding 90 their worth
Is the constant thought that he who an
alvzes the historical problems which were
pro1ounded in the colonies and solved by
the forefsthers, recently occupied the
place chief in the nation for feeling deep
Is the complete wisdom of che magma
charCa OF our LOerte+the constitution.
OF the embryo republic the lecturer
said England threw her colonists much
upon themselves; ard the savage eject
lively co-opsrated in developing them into
strouE, self-reIiaur men. Both were cruel
teachers. but The product was that high
type CT American manhood that finally
oVercame both Then men and women
VINO came 20 these distant and dangerous
shores were individualzed by the very
act Of coming; and every incident Of pio-
ueer life had the same tendency. The
savage introduced a new human valua-
ton thar took no account Of titles or
ancestry. but only Of achievement-the
leader was the man in front. The Indian
wars exercised the c0l0lists in arms, IN
Produced into every cabin an effective
weapon. IN the use OF which even tse
boys became szliful. Ddrils the French
a1d indian war the colonies furnished
tV=1r--6-e thousand men TO the English
a-uy- The foot II The hunter was free.
Tor there were no game pr1servers or
Ean=-seepers In the American forests.
Indian also nightly stimulated
The community idea Organization. the
reEt lesson in clr civu development. he
enforced under fr.shufuI penalties Ev-
cry man heieh5or and every ual his
ueiehtors keeper was the condition Of
existence in the feeble and exposed set
Elements. The town meeting for consulta-
ton and the viIags block house for de-
ferse and safety were the ki1dergartens
OF the republic In the town meetings the
man vhe had something 70 say was
heard. without waiting for his betters-
though he were only the cobbler or q tru-
ant boy who had seen the prints OF moe
Casins in the adjacent woods
Further along the writer says: The
compact OF government made on the
NIay flower IS said To have grown our Of
the mItiaous disposition of a few persons.
not of the Leyden church. and probably
servants The Pilgrims had embarked
under a patent from the Virginia COM
pany, and these Hl-5isposad persons in
sisted that if the proposed landing, out
side the limits Of that company, was
made. they would De under no legal re-
srraint. The emergency was met 10y the
solemn covenant whereby they combined
into a civI body polite Tor our better
ordering and preservation. And by
virtue hereof they said, we DO enact.
constitute and frame such just and equal
laws. ordinances. acts. constitutions. and
officers. from time 10 time. as shall he
thought most meet and convenient for the
general eood Of the colony. unto which
we promise all due submission and obedi-
eacs Ee-e was an exigency. II the col
onlsts had been ~ Spain il would pos
sibl- have been resolved by choice of
captain with arbitrary powers, or bv
some aosd spirit Selling the leadership,
ba- rhey were English and protestant
Christians and 50 the compact Of gov
c--u4-t was democratic. OF the Nay
flower compact Judge story says IL was
X NOT Lhe first. az least The best auchen-
t--ata5 case Of an original social compact
Tor the 1stah lishme1t az D nation which is
O. ~ ro-.rd in the annals Of the world.
The end lecture deals with che colo
uia- charters and the development under
them -h4 third lecture is on che Arnari-
car colonies and Great Britain. The next
ea ry Attempts az Union The
l-z- al .The Confederation and the
lzs - the Institution Of state Gov
zr0u
are invaluable. and form
one tra tez- things in American liter
a1--e
Ctae- intensely inter-. sting su9iecJs dis
crrs=l are lirirarces ~ Law
Reforms a-1 rhs Obligation of
yVeasth Compulsory Dishonesty, and
the status of Annexed Territory
Az cannot ee 600 eh.y recommended
n -hs political st-l- The wcr IS OBJ
tanned ln Wichita - The Goldsmith COM