Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-04
"OLD HICKORY"

Andrew Jackson stands in the front
ranks. Every voter in Rosebud county
and in fact all Montana should study
the life and character of Jackson,
! revere his memory, emulate his virtues
and honor his matchless name. No
feeble words of a country editor can
add one cubit to his stature. We could
not do justice to the worth and work of
jackson cen though we possessed
words as numberless as the stars and
the tongue of d Demosthenes to launch
them. Shakespeare intimates that
some men were born great, some achieve
greatness, while some have it thrust
upon them. Jackson was not born
great, nor did he have it thrust upon
him, but he achieved greatness by his
own rugged brain and strong arm.
Altho' not Washington or Jeffer-
son, he stood by the republic they es-
tablished and single handed and alone
came down on the monstrous money
power of his day like ten ton pile
driver hitting hot custard pie. Intel
lectualy a giant, in moral courage a
Daniel, he was as natural as nature.
Jackson never learned the art of mine
ing words or using language to conceal
his thoughts. Those thoughts were
whirlwinds and he spoke and printed
them from the shoulder. AS a man,
statesman, soldier and patriot he
placed his name among the eternal
stars to forever shine in splendor with
the greatest men of earth and time.
Belonging to the same democratic
school with Jefferson, Jackson believ-
ed in and trusted the common people,
In his judgement they constituted the
true nobility of the land. In every
washerwoman he saw a queen. When
he met the sunbrowned toilers of forest
and field, factory and mine he greeted
them as uncrowned kings of the repub-
lie. There was not enough money in
in the great round globe to make him
crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
one solitary inch. He believed that
the rich and the powerful could look
out for themselves and was unalterably,
emphatical1y. eternallv and everlast-
ingly opposed to any and all schemes
of government by which special favors
were conferred upon the few.
Jackson was a genuine Rough Rider
and real hero, and not tin horn SOL
dier and royalty-aping broncho buster
like Roosevelt. The strenuous life
that he led makes Teddy's "stren-
uosity" look like thirty cents worth of
dog meat at the Chicago Union Stock
Yards.
Jackson could not play basket ball
or ping pong but he could hit bead
at a thousand yards and shading his
eyes see farther than pigeon could
fly in a week. He couldn't talk French
but he took several post graduate
courses in the language of liberty. It
is doubtful if he could lead the german
at a modern day inaugural ball but he
knew how to lead an army to victory
and kick seventeen kinds of immortal
ichor out of the British to czarina' s
taste. Jackson developed and abnor-
NAL hatred of England, altho that fact
is not a surprising one. The British
murdured his two brothers and killed
his dear old mother by the exposure
and hardships to which she was SUBJ
jected. After the death of his mother
young Jackson was taken prisoner and
came within an ace of losing his own
life by refusing to clean the boots of a
brutal British soldier. Jackson play
ed even with the British however at
New Orleans. Packenham was the