The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-05-26

lization around the globe and will, in
time, make of all peoples neighbors,
brothers, friends.
THUS he was, unwittingIy, no doubt,
one Of the agents of Gods great pur-
pose of the unifcation of the race
We are all such agents, small or great
If this Is not Soft we are not, igno-
rantly perhaps and blindly but still
surely, spinning our lives into the Mas
ter's design, whose pattern He alone
can comprehend-if we and all things
are not working together for good-if
life is but a breath exhaled and then
forever lost, our work means less and
10 worth less than that of coral insects,
which, from the depths, build ever
toward the light until islands stand
above the waves, permanent monu-
ments Of an intelligent architecture.
What His Conservatism Meant.
Work with real things-real earth,
real ocean, real mountains, real men
made him conservative. And his con-
servatism was real. Much that is ac-
mere make-beleve. Conservatism
does not mean doubt or indecision.
1t does not mean wise looks, masking
vacuity nor pompous phrase, as mean
ingless as it is solemn Conservatism
means clear common sense, which
equally rejects the fanaticism of prece-
dent and the fanatlcism of change IL
would not have midnight last just be-
cause /. exists; and yet it knows that
dawn comes not liz a flash, but grad
ually-comes with grand and beau
tiful moderation. So the conservative
is the real statesman. He brings
things to pass in way that lasts and
does good. Senator Hanna was a con-
ServativS
Working with real things among
real men also kept fresh his faith and
hope. No sailor of the seas, no deliver
in the earth, no builder of rooftrees
can be a pessimist. He who plants
doubts not our common mothers gen.
erosity, or fails to see in the brown
furrow the certainty of coming har-
vests. He who sinks a well and wit
nesses the waters rise understands
that the eternal fountains will never
cease to flow. Only the man whose
hands never touch the realities of life
despairs of human progress or doubts
the providence of God. The fable Of
Anteus is literal truth for body, mind
and soul. And so Senator Hanna,
dealing with living men and the actu-
alities of existence, had all the virile
hope of youth, all the unQuestioning
faith of prophecy. These are the quail
tiles of the effective leadership of men,
His Influence Lives.
He is gone from us-gone before
us. Strength and frailty, kindness and
wrath, wisdom and folly, laughter and
frown, all the elements of life and his
living of it have ceased their visible
play and action. Where said de-
spairing Villon, where are the SHOWS
of yesteryear?' Vanished, he would
have us believe Yes, but vanished
only in form. The SHOWS of yester-
year are in the stream, in cloud and
rain, in sap of tree and bloom of flow
er, in heart and brain of talent and of
beauty. Nothing is lost even here on
our ancient and kindly earth. So the
energies of our friend, and those of
all men, have touched into activity
forces that. influencing still others,
will move on forever
"As to the other life, we know not
fully what III is. hllt that IL is Wa
know. Knowing this, we who are left
behind go on about our daily tasks, as
sured that in another and truer exist
ence our friend is now established,
weakness cast aside as a cloak when
winter has passed, vision clear as
when at dawn we wake from dreams,
heart happy as when, the victory won,
we cease from effort and from care.
For him the night is done, and it is
-ritten that Joy cometh in the morn
ing"