Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-26
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STATUES, ETC.
Washington. Iowa, Press.
x-GnN. LARA bee is a model Ci

STATUES, ETC.
Washington Iowa, Press.
EN- Gov. Larrabee is a model citi
zen.
; All his life he was Industrious
thrifty, sensible. and he became rict
thru foresight and the exercise of gooe
Judgment To get well off is one of the
minor duties and virtues.
And while serving himself to add
vantage. he was willing TO serve tbs
public with his best powers. For about
20 years his neighbors in Clermont
kept him in the legislature, and oui
statute books are full OF the marks OF
his sound work. That is the way &c
make good legislators, by the way
to keep an apt man ut it for years
letting his experience cumulate, and
not swapping him for an ambitious
amateur who wants to so to the CAPT
tai a term or two, that his envelopes
may read Hon. so and so. Larrabee
became a power in the senate because
| he was kept there and that was the
way we made Allison, Jim Wilson,
Gear Lacey, Henderson, Hepburn, and
others.
/ Because Larrabee became "a master
workman himself, he was a judge o:
good workers, and he had unbounded
admiration for such. He selected two
out of his ideals. and had the means
land the pride to make efiigies of them.
Last week he set in his town OF Cler
mont Il statue of Lincoln, and heroic
sized bronze statue of Dave Henderson,
eX- Speaker. and both We're unveiled on
the same day, with much appropriate
and eloquent speech.
1t was Il nice thing to do nice both
to the town and to the memory OF the
two men. And all the nicer in Col
Dawes case because he is alive to see
it, and to hear the soul swelling words
OF compliment and praise that were
said, and to express his sense of pleas
ure for the exceptional honor done
him.
Any one who knows what great
big OK soul swells in Henderson's
bosom,-the kindliest, manifest. hearth
est, simplest, most generous OF men,
can imagine how much such thing
would please him. He cried during
the scene, and was not ashamed, nor
needed TO be ashamed. 1t was the
prondest, tenderest day of his life and
Larrabee knew it would be- And that
was one reason why he ordered the
statue,-to make the colonel Feel
good.
TO make people feel good ought to
be added to the Ten Commandments.
We don't know a truer duty than that
The catechism taught, did it not? that
the chief end Of man is to glorfy Goo
and enjoy him forever For you to
enjoy. That seems sort of seltish--it is
broader TO give enjoyment TO others
as II is more blessed to give than tC
receive. Larrabee believes in raising
statues to his heroes while they are
alive that they may get some good OF
the image. What good does it do a
dead man to weight down his grave
with tons of bronze or marble Junk?
He doesn't know anything about it. He
can't cry, and throw his arms around |
the admirers neck and blubber out /
his thanks. We are ex post facto in
this monument and obituary business.
They ought not TO be post mortems. IN
mans or woman's obituary sh luld be 7
read to them while they are in good |
health. For it would please them. no
matter how fine lie it was The !
bigger the whopper the more it would |
tickle them! People have unlimited |
capacity for inflated obituaries and I
epitaphs. They can stand any amount |
of taffy in an epitaph. No matter how
lumpy with yarns" it is, down it goes. |
You can see it go down, like knots or
swigs OF water down the neck OF q
horse or COW. Men and women bolt |
They like them. relish
them. get good nutriment out of them.
We say it is a duty to make
folks feel good. Adulterate the goods
you give, as much as you please,-the
SUBJECT OF your eulogy, or monument
or epitaph, or obituary, or compliment.
will not make a wry face or sicken on
The stuff There are no knockout drops
in a compliment A lover tells his
solid" girl how beautiful she is: she
sucks it, tho she may be palmer than
1 swallows mud nest mortared on
barn rafter And she caresses her
over and tells him how noble and heroic
ne Is and the slob believes every word
IF it, 1t does 'em both good. They
nay know they are telling tibs but the
goes. The recording angel
snows it is tissue Of lies, but he is
Jesuit enough to know that the end
ustifjes the means, and instead of lay
ng out half bushel extra of coal or
IN S-foot CAD for their punishment, he
sets the lies down In the virtue column
DO good That it, make folks feel COOL.
.ven If YOU have to tell a humorous lie
,bout it, to see how much they can
stand.
But most compliments and honors,
,tc., are sincere. This bronze statue OF
henderson was cast In Larrabees