Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-03-29
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS
FACTS AND OPINIONS GATHERED
FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
a REMARKABLE GRAFTON.

An mpasslontu eulOgy OF the sovereign
and the government against which our
ancestors, century and a quarter ago,
took up arms In rebellion was one of the
notable features of a forceful and elo.
quent address by Senator Hoar in South
Boston last Monday evening. The oc-
casion was the 125th anniversary of the
evacuation of Boston by the British army
under Gen. Howe. The Revolutionary
struggle, according to the distinguished
orator, was simply a protest against i'm.
perialism. He said that our fathers
under George III had the best govern
ment then existing on earth. "The yoke
of Great Britain on our fathers necks
was easy, and her burden was light" He
declared that the inhabitants of the colo
MES In l175 were a huuded times better off
than were the men of Kent, the vanguard
of liberty in England; that there was
more happiness in MiddleseX on the Con-
cord than there was in MiddleseX on the
Thames. The senator further eXtOlled
in glowing terms, with a splendid out
burst of rhetorical eloquence, of which
he is a consummate master, the bcnigniiy
of British colonial government. Our
fathers, he submitted, "enioyed every
thing that enters into the definition of
liberty but one. They had trial by jury;
they had magma charta and habeas
corpus; they enjoyed in general the
ancient rights of Engllshmen in freedom
and in honor; they had a king, the object
of their willing allegiance" But because
our fathers, although blessed above all
other peoples, were taxed without rep
resentation, they rebelled. That single
fact convinced them "that the govern
ment of one people by another is always
and under all circumstances bad govern
ment, and never can be, in the nature of
things, good government" We give the
senator's peroration verbatim, including
applause"
but they knew that there was no lib
erty where taxation exists without rep
resentation; where one people makes
laws for another people to obey, and
that there is, in the nature of things,
no liberty without independence. Gap
plause.) 1t was for that they fought.
1t was for that they died-some of them.
(Applause.)
at was for that that they drove Eng
land out of Boston. The evacuation of
Boston was not simply that one flag went
down and another flag went up over the
Province House and the Old State House;
that soldiers in homespun followed down
to the wharves other soldiers in red coats.
On the 18th day of March, l77G, republic
canism, under George Washington.
droYe imperialism, under Sir William
Howe, out OF Boston, never to come
back. (Applause.) And that is the les
son of this anniversary. loud applause
Washington Post.
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THE OPTIMISM OF PROSPERITY
Come easy, go easy" is the proverb
of good times. 1t is impossible at present
to arouse the people to the danger of the
prodigal eXtravaganres both in private
and in public life.
Take, for example, the appropriations
OF this past congress. They mean eX-
penditures during the next fiscal year of
$50, 000,0 900. And, as Senator Cockrell
of Missouri pointed out, this sum is
actually greater than our national eXpen.
ditures during the last ana most cxpen-
Sive year of our civil war. For, while
the nominal sum spent then-Sl ,297 .000,-
000-was great, it must be remembered
that the greenback was our only currency
at that time, and the greenback was then
worth less than fifty cents on the dollar.
OF the $50 900 no less than one
half-a sum twO-thirds as great as the
expenses of carrying on the civil war in
the year lS65-is gong for war purposes:
the big army, the big navy, the big pen
sion roll. And In 1865 we had more than
a million men in the field and about
2OOO vessels in the navy, bockading the
Southern coasts.
These figures are interesting, but will
not excite anybody so long as we have
"a full dinner pail Indeed, it is diff
cult TO say just what would cause this
people to "vlew with alarm when its
stomach is full and it has "steady job"
New York World.