The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-02-01
SENATOR MoRGAN's CAREER.
More Than Anyone Else Responsible
For Nicaraguan Canal.
NDVIINeT IOsI.J
Neutrality-suspicious. Nears ago. uh


Washington.-Many years ago, when
John c. Calhoun was the apostle of the
cotton states and preaching a doctrine
which, if not the germ, was the baby
plant of one of the most tremendous rev
olutions and one of the most gigantic
wars in the history of man. he visited
Alabama, where ne found two ardent
young disciples-one William J.. Yancey
the other John 7. Morgan The first was
perhaps, the most brilliant public man OF
his day, greater Bryan as party lead
err and even more loved and trusted by
the great nullifier than Hevne or Nc
Duffe or Jefferson Davis. He died head
ing faction in the revolutionary govern
ment his eloquence had contributed with
so great potency to create.
Morgan went to the field and bore him
self stout soldier. Later he helped to
rehabilitate the south that he had fought
for so gallantly and loved so devotedly
and for more than TWO score years he has
been IAN ambassador from the sovereign
state of Alabama in the senate of the
United States to employ his own defi-
milton. He has been very conspicuous
member of that body, pillar of Amer
lean citizenship, an eXemplar of American
craftsmanship. Alabama has been repre-
scented in the senate by King Pickens
the Clays, Fitzpatrick, Clemens, Houston
and Pugh. 1t is only candor to say that
all of them dwarf before the name of
John 7. Morgan.
The name of John T. Morgan will ever
prise to construct an isthmian canal, con-
Meeting the two great oceans, as the name
of Clinton is with the Erie canal, or the
name of Benton is with the Pacific rail-
roads
1t was in 1871 that Morgan first entered
the senate Allison, Jones or Nevada and
Cockrell were there before him. Stewart
had been there before him. and Hoar
ability, he has the strength and the char
acter that tenacity and indomitable
courage give to the public servant. While
Hoar was reading Chaucer. while Turpie
was reading Plato, while ingalls, was
reading Victor Hugo, while Thurston was
reading Montague, while Vest was read
ing Dickens while Lodge was reading
John @. Adams while David B. Hill was
reading the newspapers-while these were
so engaged, Morgan was reading the
MESA ges of the presidents of the United
States. the treaties ratified by the United
States senate, and musty documents from
which even industry would shrink. In his
crosS-eXamination of c. p. Huntington,
who swore he had labored fourteen hours
a day devising schemes to promote the
Pacific roads, Morgan declared that he
worked eighteen hours every day. No
one who knew him doubted the statement.
There never was a more intrepid man,
mentally, morally and physically, and
these are qualities as essential to the
great debater as great intellect and elo
quent tongue
Clay and Calhoun made the war of
1872 Calhoun and Douglas made the
war with Mexico And John T. Nor
gan, more than any other man, made
the war with Spain. All the others only
echoed him He found the facts and
the precedents and preached against
Spain as Cato preached against Car
thage-Spain in America.
Wherever and whenever mighty work
is to be performed the instruments are
there fashioned by destiny for the labor
Elizabeth of England, William of Orange
and Henry of Navarro curbed the power
of Spain and gave q mortal blow to n
dominion that was not fit to be- Hamp-
den and Cromwell throttled hereditary
absolutism in England. Mirabeau. Dan
ton and Robesplerre obliterated ole
France. Henry and Jefferson lighted the
eternal fires of liberty in our land, ana
Washington secured what they pro-
claimed. Lincoln and Grant crushed the
patriarchal system of our south and
brought that section and that people un-