Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-02-11
PRIVATE OPINION
e. II. LIVELY CORRECTS SOME
HISTORICAL ERRORS

And Gives His Opinion Of Several Publi
Matters. The Declaration Of independence
Monroe Doctrine. ETC.. Discussed.
EDITOR HERALD;
If you will allow me would like tt
correct some errors have heard and
seen floating around in the newspapers
Clarke and Lewis, appointed by Thos.
Jefferson, to explore this Northwest
country to the mouth OF the Columbia
ETC., it seems there is some doubt that
Clarke's name is spelled with All Sc.
Some doubling Thomases have exploited
the idea that there never was an &C.
Modern writer's may maintain this pc.
sition. but it is TACT, nevertheless, that
in the original commission to Clarke and
Lewis by Thomas Jefferson the sc" is
preserved. The commission OF Patrick
Henry, when governor Of Virginia, issued
to his elder brother, General George
Rogers Clarke. the sc" is also preserved
The latter have seen. All old histories
in Virginia, referring to Clarke and Lew.
is, never depart from the old style Of
spelling Clarke with the irrepressiple
&C."
1t is said that the democrats are drift
ing away from "free ira lie policy" In
truth they are drifting" to a nade and
folily Of tariff for revenue only, depre.
eating the policy of extracting the money
from the masses to be boarded or inju-
diciously expended.
Booker T. Washington has been in
! formed that there is no color-line here in
the Northwest that it is as imaginary as
the line marking the equator. The
negroes understand what is meant by
color.line better than those who ignore
it. They are not color blind, and under.
stand the "hot talk" intuitively. No
white man would set aside the color-line
that his daughter might dance at negro
ball or marry the "fugleman" OF the &C.
casion. The leading negroes say they
don't want equality, then why force it
upon them? This action by Mr.. 2oose-
welt and his advocates is depicting the
Republican party daily. The majority
Of the South would today vote the repub-
lican ticket if its leaders would eliminate
it of the negro. This is white man g
country, and it cannot exist and arrive at
the acme of strong, united country,
''half black and half white" Men who
extol the darby for some imaginary or
real personal benefit TO them and think
70, this he should be the equal OF every
other man, is supreme nonsense. We
would be kicking against the pricks, as
it were, to attempt to elevate the colored
man on plane with the whites, mas.
much as he rests under the primal curse
that che shall be the servant OF SER
wants." etc. Mr.. VIM. J. Bryan, in re-
ferring to the Declaration of Independ
ence, calls it "the creed Of inalienable
rights and natural equality" When the
Declaration was made and adopted in
l776, everybody knows, and Mr.. Bryan
also, that the negro fresh from the Congo
Basin was not thought Of in this connec-
ton.
The "Monroe Doctrine" has always
been ascribed to President James Mon
roe, and which made him famous in his
day, is now credited to John Quincy
Adams as its father and promoter. Mr.
fIoar ia the author Of this view. Others
have said it was the result Of consulta'
ton between Mr.. Canning, the British
prime minister, and Mr.. Rush. the Amer
lean minister to the Court Of St. James
This reminds me that while MIR. Jeffer-
sou is considered the father OF Demo
cracy, yet his timely theories have beer
deliberately drawn upon by Mr.. Hoar, te
establish his opposition to imperialism
while Charles Emory Smith, the champ
ion of Republicanism, cited the fact thai
Mr.. Jefferson made the Louisiana pur
chase and hence he was an expansionist
The Oklahoma Journal, however, con
tends that the Monroe doctrine origina
ted in the fertile brain Of Alexander Ham
ilton.
Some Western papers contend tina
Thos. Jefferson, author of the Declare
ton Of Independence, was product o
the West. Nothing could be more alb
surd. He was Virginian and an al
umnus Of William and Mary college "a
Williamsburg, Va in anhsedanhs the old
est Of American colleges, and as Mr.. Ty
Ter, its president, affirms, in actual opera
ton 1t is second only to Harvard. Sh'
educated nearly all the great men VIII
participated in and gave character an(
direction to every department OF the gov
eminent during the revolution. She wa
the first college to have full faculty
while Harvard had only "a president ant
two professors. She is the history Of tn
commonwealth Of Virginia. and largel,
the history OF our common country. 1t
coat OF arms was received from the col
. lege CT Heralds at London, which date