Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-02-11

from 1904. Three years (l6lO before
the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock,
the plan for a college in Virginia was un.
der discussion. Yet, a Pittsburg pape,
some short time ago, slightingly referred
to civilian and Mary as little subur-
ban college located on the edge OF the
backwoods"; this came paper made q
most terrible blunder in giving credit to
a Pittsburg college for the paternity Of
the Greek Letter Society, Phi Beta Kap-
pa, when every historian knows that il
was organized at William and Mary, De-
cember 5, l776, the first Greek Letter
society in America. Among its early
members was Elisha PArmalee. a native
OF Massachusetts. He established q
chapter at Yale in 1882, and one at Har.
ward in 1888.
Andrew Jackson, president 1928, born
in South Carolina, near the line OF North
Carolina, is claimed to be Western
man the same OF Monroe and Lincoln,
both equally untrue. Lincoln was BON
in Kentucky, his mother having but q
short time before moved from South Car.
olina; Monroe was born at Oak Hill,
London county, Virginia.
While thinking of Thos. Jefferson, l
am reminded that Governor Mcbride
made speech in this city last Fourth Of
July, when he declared that no man
wrote the Declaration of Independence.
1t was the combined effort OF all the peo-
pie, English, Norwegians. Poles, Swedes,
Scotch and Irish the result OF the unit
ed wisdom Of the people; the very es.
eence OF the times evolved out OF the fit
ness and ripening condition of things as
they existed. The fame OF Jefferson can
Withstand all such puerile attacks, as it
did when the immortal paper was SUBJ
mitted to the criticism and endorsement
of men engaged in the great work of
building a National home for the op.
pressed Of all lands. In the preparation
Of that document consisted the sum total
of Mr.. Jefferson's national celebrity, and
acquired for him the s0ubriquet, "The
Pen Of Revolution"
Mr.. VIM. j. Bryan, who essays to walk
in the footsteps of Mr.. Jefferson, sees fit
to join hands with the Governor OF the
state of Washington, in the demolition
Of the author of the Declacation of In
dependence, which is dear to every heart
that appreciates the herculea1 eff;
made under It's sweeping inspiration in
behalf III boon Of Liberty, its accom-
plishment startled the world with amaze.
ment. Mr.. Bryan talks like one who
has been taught that "nothing IS new"
and for the first time airs sentiments he
has just learned, but which existed long
before. but not known to himself or the
many. Even Mr.. Byran knows nothing
but what he has heard or been told. That
Jefferson never wrote the Declaration OF
independence he declares upon the as
sumption of Governor Mcbride, in this
city last Fourth of July. !he same as.
sumption that the Monroe doctrine did
not originate with its author, is equally
automatic. What OF the principles that
first led the convention (by the Virginia
legislature) which framed the Federal
| Constitution, and saved the country from
anarchy through it's Trainer, Mr.. Madi-
son? What Of the principles which ac-
tuated Richard Henry Lee, author Of
the famous resolutions in Congress, June
9TH, 1776, "That these colonies are, and
of right ought to be, free and Independent
states?" None 'of these great exploits
according to the "orator Of the Platte"
and were known to the people long be-
fore. The individual abstract principles
which have brought Mr.. Edison into
worldwide distinction, would have lain
dormant to doomsday, had he not by
severe application and study, formulated
them that they might be blessing to
humanity, and so with the principles
characterizing all OF these gentlemen In
order to destroy the Philistines, Samp-
son.like, Mr.. Bryan pulls down the col.
umns of the TEMPLE, and in common
with others, he becomes a victim him.
self. If these principles were known be-
fore, the old countries Of Europe have
been unfortunate in not recognizing them
earlier. AS for all men being equal and
meritorious receivers OF sumptous bene-
fits, he should ask himself the question.
All men are not equal. and Mr.. Jeffer-
son never included the colored man, the
Jap or the Chinese. He wrote for the
benefit of the men with arms in their
hands at the time, battling against their
oppressors. The reverse might be true
with an Altgeld or an anarchist, but not
with white man. His remarks at the
Thanksgiving dinner by Mr.. Choate.
American Anbass 'dor to England, No.
vember 26, 1908, caps the climax on this
subject, and repeats Governor McBride's
Interpretation, as follows:
"The doctrine that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed with in
alienable rights, that governments were
institud amongst men TO secure these
rights, and that they derived their just
power from the consent Of the governed
this doctrine which stands four square
with all the world was not conceived in
the United States, it did not spring from
the American mind-aye, it did not come
go much from any mind as 1t was an
emanation from the heart, and it had
been in the hearts Of men for ages.
"Thomas jefferson expressed them in