Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-25

Tor some other honorary profession). as In
that capacity he might have rendered his
country essential service. instead of squan-
dering away seven hundred thousand
pounds sterling In wenching and horse
jOckeying"
Thus It will be seen that even then horse
racing was the sport of kings And there
is irony In the comment on her majesty the
queen of which many modern editors
would not be ashamed.
From another paragraph 1t appears Editor
Wilson had offended one of the many sub
scribers Of the Observer, but with true edi-
torial instinct he declines the issue. The
paragraph ID headed ITO d. b." and says:
Author of The City News Extraordi-
nary Is a friend to the public-a well -wisher
to the city--and cannot see with indiffer-
ence the stranger deceived to his hurt-he
is NOT the printer of the Impartial OBJ
server"
The leading editorial is a sound bit of
philosophy. and not at all inapplicable to
the present-day problems Of life. Editor
Wilson says:
II believe It has been the cause of much
pain to many that parents and instructors
have generally taught youth to think man
kind such as they wished them to be, rather
than what they were. and that happiness
might be found by any one who would seek
after it; from hence arises the surprising
disappointments that so many meet with in
their journey through life-disappointments
SO great as often to produce despair. II. In,
stead of this, they were to believe MANKIND
consistent creatures-liable to suffer every
pain and not certain Of enjoying any pleas
ure. That happiness was almost IKE
word without meaning-and that pleasure
itself seldom failed to open the avenue OF
regret: think they would enjoy more, Tor
they would expect less.
Although somewhat pessimistic, the one
hundred and ten years have not destroyed
the soundness of this argument
Another Boston PARTY"
contains n
tribution to the history of the United
States which must be of undoubted value
and significance The event recorded IS
nothing less than a second Boston tea
PARTY. which. so far as can be ascertained,
has heretofore eluded the vigilance Of his
torians Under the sarcastic heading.
American Prompt Adjudication, the foi-
lowing appears
"On Saturday. the 21st ultimo. reports
were circulated in the town OF Boston that
a sloop from Bermuda. then lying at Bos-
ton pier with a cargo of fruit and hidoS,
was Bermudian privateer; that she iand-
ed her men below the town and had secret
ed her guns, it was generally beheved.
for some clandestine purpose. Induced no
doubt by revenge, for the many injuries and
insults sustained from Bermudian pirates
some persons who had suffered adJudlcatlon
at Bermuda published hand bill intimat-
ing that the comedy of STRIPPING THE
SAID BERMUDA PR1VATEER would be
acted in the evening, in consequence or
which a vast number met on the end or the
long wharf, and having ascertained the
fact desired the captain and crew TO leave
the sloop, which they Immediately COM
piled with, they then proceeded to examine
and found several carriage guns, shot small
arms pixies, cutlasses and other warlike I'M
Elements, which they Immediately threw
overheard. They then cut down her mast,
lowed her into the stream. set hre 10 ner
and let her drift down to Charleston Point
below the town where she burned to the
waters edge"
Appended to this interesting narrative Is
the following comment: the theory OF whl I'm
would seem to be applicable to some OF our
twentieth century problems. as for instance,
lynch law and lynch lawlessness:
Such conduct is utterly unworthy or a
country which pretendS to a government
under its own laws and claims the beneht
of an extensive commerce Our sufferings
have undoubtedly been aggravated by the
unfeeling execution of the orders OF the
British ministry, in Bermuda; but private
vengeance directed upon suspicion, and
poured even upon guilty Individual
against law, is the disgrace and not the
glory of free people.
John Adams, Governor.
It further appears that John Adams. then
governor of Massachusetts,. became some
what indignant and issued proclamation
calling upon the magistrates. sheriffs and
citizens Ito use their endeavors TO prins
the offenders to punishment"
Among other interesting items are ac-
counts of wars in Europe, a copy from the
memory of the author) of the first treaty
between England and the United States.
prayer composed by 1.-The Patriarch OF tns
Pussian Church. under imperial authority
of Catherine, then Empress of all the Rus
sias; and lastly, a most severe arrangement
of the Senate of the United States for
agreeing to the treaty with England, GER
tam nara graphs of which are declared by
MT. T. Wilson, editor. to be ''monarchial."
IT appears that the Senate kept the terms
of the treaty secret until it became binding
upon the people and the country me I'm.
martial Observer concludes its comment
thus:
.SThis practice is borrowed from kings and
their ministers, and seems to imply dis
nosition to assimilate our government, IL
not in theory at least in practice, to mon
archy. Can it be said that the genius OF
liberty directs such councils? 1t smells too
rank of despotism for liberty to have any
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