Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-02
Swindlers Spies, Criminals, and
NObOdies Keep Remains Out
Of Westminster.
THESE HAVE NOW FILLED IT.
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Special ospondncc.
I OND0N june 22.-T viii not be
buried n Westminster" said Sir
Godfrey Ituoller. as he lay dying.
to his friend Pope, They do bury
fools there It was IN 1928 that Sir
Godfrey delivered himself Of this con-
temptuous opinion of those Inferred IN
Englands famous Walhalla but IT Is
worth recalling now for the reason It Is
largely because the abbey contains 80
many bodies and monuments Of those
whose only claim 10 distinction is the
fact that their dust lies there-a goodly
number Of them buried since Sir cod
frey passed oway--that cntombment
within It's walls has been denied to
stanley whose right to be numbered
among Engand's great and heroic dead
cannot be disputed Not bat what the
plous dean, with whom rested the final
decision, could still have made room for
the renowned explorer had he been 80
minded,
Had stanley penetrated darkest Afri-
ga with q Bible and bevy Of mission
aries instead of with a rifle ana armed
followers, undoubtedly his mortal re-
mains would have been welcomed 10 the
abbey for many lie there whose only
claim To remembrance was their emit
nently orthodox piety. As recently as
1889 Minor Canon Troutbeck. n member
of the ecclesiastical stan Of the abbey
ana Chaplaiu-in-ordinary TO Queen Vie
toria was buried I'm one Of the cloisters.
Think Of &C. Stanley excluded with the
intimaton that he was not quite great
enough to be deserving Of such an hon
| or, ana minor canon admitted as album
| dainty worthy of itl
No other place appeals so strongly TO
! Anglo-SaNon patriotic pride as West
minister Abbey II IS regarded as the
! sacred shrine of those who have done
most to make England great All who
enter come under the spell of It's magic
charm Within it's hallowed walls criu-
cism seems as sBcrilcgious az would be
structures passed on such wondrous
works Of ma ture q Niagara Falls or the
Grand Canyon Of the Colorado. 1T
seems wrote Washington Irving, "as
! II the awful nature Of the place presses
| down upon the soul and bushes the be-
holder into nOiseless reverence. We
! feel that we are surrounded by the
congrcgated bones Of the great men OF
| past times who have filled history with
their deeds and earth with their re-
noWn,
MANY MEMORIALS or THE UN-
WIN II l.
That is the way everybody feels-or
| feels that he ought to feel-about West
| minister Abbey. and the Transatlantic
visitor modcstly attributes his unfa-
/ miliarty with most Of the names he
| sees Inscribed on tombstoncs, monu-
mcnts and tablets to his own Ignorance
| OF things ne ought 10 know I'm English
history. But ps "a matter of fact among
thcea "congrogntcd bones" those that
carricd really great mon through this
world are far outnumbcrad nv tho osso-
| Gus relics of mrdlucrltlos and nobodies.
"Thc abbey writes the Row William
| j. Lofts one of the few historians of
j who dares tel the. truth about It, ,ls
r r1ta :" c,,nhrittne ,'' Va 'e''''' anu '"'''
The mouuary chambers OF the abbey.
| now 40 jealousy guarded that even
| stanley is refused burial there, were In
| tho past thrown open wide to an sorts
| OF strange and dubious folk. In this
| supposed shrine NJ the immortals meet
| the good and the bad, the great ana the
| petty, the noble aud the ignOblc the
| famous ana the infamousmuch ns they
| do in any ordinary graveyard. a motley
| gathering II would make II che ghosts
Of those commemoratcd I'm the abbey
| should assemble some night TO take
| stock ~ one another Unless sojoum i'm
| the other world begcts much greater
| charity than is found usually in this,
| there would be much smiling and fitting
| Of distinguished phantom noses and
| disguised eAoamouons of How the
| deuce came you hercy Wllheriorca
might end himself hustled aside by n
| pugiist PITT might Joe moved TO de-
| nDuufa % 1Ntfr0flU.r gUtIsnfNTN of state.