Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-01-11

clature. lie made the case Of Hawaii
his quarrel, and so he made Cuba's case
his quarrel The most musty and an
Client state paper or public document
was hls delight and he waded through
piles Of them that would have put to
Hight any other senator. He dug out
the facts and though the speeches of
Cushman X, Davis and Of Henry Cabol
Lodge were more scholarly they never
would nave been the speeches they
were had not Morgan supplied the
facts, = nd this Is no dlscredit to them.
Did not burke do the same for the
greatest parliamentary gladiator the
world ever saw--eyen Charles James
Fox?
Morgan has no doubts lie Is the
very dehuillon Of optimism, intrepidity
and ten acity stephen A, Douglas de-
clared that VIC must be IAN ocean
bound republic" That is the doctrine
Of John r. Morgan.
For tNcnty-four years Morgan has
been a senator in Congress, and It is
not to lie supposed that he has par
ticipateG IN that long parliamentary
warfare and escaped scars. Even
Caesar had them. David Turpie was
senator from Indiana for twelve
years and he had the most terrible
tongue since John Randolph Of Roa-
noke lefl the scene, He was az pol
ished as Lamar or Sumner, could be-
as brutal as Hardin or Ben Butler and
as ssrdonic as Thaddeus Stevens or
John J. Ingalls, His sarcasm some
times stunned like q blow Of a meat
ak, sometimes cut like the thrust Of a
stiletto-the bludgeon or the rapier
were alike his weapon The old fellow
used TO sit silent for weeks, listening
ever observing always. A partial
paralysis Of the muscles OF the neck
caused a constant motion Of that enor-
nous head filed with a bucketful OF
intellect, and he was constantly chew
ing something. 1t was not tobacco, nor
was II tclu-nobody knew what II was
but II was a reminder OF a sheep
showing the cud. Certain It was that
eye saw everything and that mind OBJ
served everything. He was for the
canal, but IN answer 10 a week speech
Of Morgans he undertook to show thar
the canal could never be constructed
and that a harbor az Greytown was
simply cut Of the question, an impossi-
bility
Fancy this said IN one Of the most
raspnlg voices and tantalizlng man
ners ever given to man;
Mr. President, | thought | observed
in the remarks Of the honorable and
learned senator from Alabama, the
other day, a tone OF bitterness, at least
acerbity, when he made the reproach
against the people and the government
Of the United States that the lsthmus
still stands between the two oceans.
Mr.. President, the government OF the
United States aid not put that 18th
mus there, II was placed there With
out consulting the government or the
people Of this country Al
mighty God sir. does not require OF
men lmpossibilitIes, and men, them
selves must be content with a little
less dominion over the earth than the
Maker"
Nobody can measure the sarcasm OF
that who did not see and hear "urpie
as he uttered e; but II was little Nor
gan Needed t. He could give blows, ana
he could take them.
My dear sir you cannot run gov
eminent on conundrums' Turple roar
ed 20 Mitchell OF Oregon. who peril.
naciously interrupted him when he was
delivering an elaborate speech on the
Delaware contested election case. and
n one would see Junius eclipsed, let
him read Turpie on the Montana cas-
Perhaps Il was well for the Senate tina,
he did not have a clear ringing voice
like Frye's.
Wherever and whenever a mighty
work Is to be performed the instru-
ments are there fashioned by destiny
for the labor Elizabeth OF England
william Of Orange and Henry Of Ma
varre curbed the power OF Spain and
gave mortal blow To a dominion that
was not ~ 10 be. Hamp' m and Crom
well throttled hereditty absolutism
In England, Mrabeau Danton and
Robespiere ohliteratod old France
Henry and jefferson liehted the eternal
fires OF liberty I'm Our land, and Wash
lngton secured what they proclaimed.
Lincoln and Grant crushed The slay
cry system Of our South and brought
that section and that peonle under the
dominion OF the ideas OF the age.
And when the Pacific railroads We're
10 be constructed the men appeared
to do Il. One bleak winter night in
northern California four obscure men
met In a hardware store In Sacramen
10, II was not the tailors OF Tooley
street, though their undertaking APP
peared as extravagant az the proc
lamation OF that famous convocation.
They determined 10 construct rail-