The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-24
HOW MANY ARE LEFT LIKE uI>Is
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Senator Hoar has spent over 80
years in public life, during which he
served four terms in the House of
Representatives and 81 years i'm the
senate. lie is dying a poor man His
loss VIII be the nations loss. but es-
peclally will it fall upon Massachusetts,.
Tor senator Hoar was peculiarly of the
type of man that has distinguished
mat State. A man of character. a
man to whom principle is dearer than
all the world; a man of the time when
men fought for something besides
money and the political power that
brings money; a man who was op-
posed to commercialism- true ideal
ism. He has had his faults mis- whims.
ms crotchets and his weakness. but
ne mas been true man, and. i'm his
passion for the truth, a great man.
Those who would estimate Senator
Hoar at his real worth can best DO
so by calling over the roll of the Uni
ted States Senate ana noting how his
colleagues measure up beside him
Here millionaire broker i'm Iegisla-
ton, here a dealer in franchises here
a huckSter in tariff schedules. here a
blatherskite swashbuckler, here a par
ty boss" past master in the art of
dirty politics, here a row of silent, wire
pulling, stOck-jobbin~ non-entities-
self? And in this "millionaires' club, :"
as it is sometimes called Senator
Hoar, with handful of men like him
one of whom, George Graham Vest
has but lately gone-has kept alive
and handed down to those who will
come after them something of the
dignity and the glory of the United
States Senate as the fathers of the
country conceived it.
N hn ,nlI Of hot y w -I-
how many of the men whose names
it contains could have uttered these
words, spoken by Senator Hoar in his
great speech on the Philippines in
May, 1909
l have sometimes fancied that we
might erect here in the capital of
the country a column to American lib
erty which alone might rival in hight
the beautiful and simple shaft which
we have erected to the fame of tho
father of his country. 1 can fancy
each generation bringing its inscription
which should recite its own contribu-
ton to the great structure of which
the column should be but the symbol.
And then he pictures the Puritan,
saying:-
l brought the torch of freedom
across the sea. | cleared the forest L
subdued the savage and the wild beast.
L
foundations of empire.
And then the colonial
/ stood by the side of England on
many a hard fought field l helped
humble the power of France. L saw
the lilies go down before the lion at
Louisburg and Quebec. | carried the
cross of st. George in triumph in
Martinique and the Havana. l knew
the stormy pathways of the ocean.
And then the Revolutionary
L encountered the power OF England.
| declared and won the independence
Of my country. / placed that declara-
ton on the eternal principles of JUS
tice and righteousness which all man
kind have read and on which all man
kind will one day stand. L afErmed
the dignity of human nature ana the
right of the people to govern tnem-
selves
And then the generation of the
war;
1 did the mighty deeds which in
your younger years you saw and of
which your fathers told. L saved the
Union. | put down the rebellion l
freed the slave. / made OF every
slave a freeman. and of every Tree
man a citizen and of every citizen a
voter.
And then he turns to the genera
ton of today
And now what have we to say?
What have we to say? Are we 10 nave
a place in that honorable company
MET w, enprlVe upon that column,
eve repealed the Declaration OF In de-
pendence? We changed the Monroe
doctrine from a doctrine OF eternal
righteousness and justice resting on