Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

and lofter aspects of life, consider our parks set
apart for the of the people by the city the State
and the nation. In the cities of this new country
the public Fairgrounds have had to be made, the
most of them and at high cost, whereas the towns
of the old world have into possession of theirs
for nothing often than not inheriting the
private recreation grounds of their rulers. And
Europe has nothing to show similar in kind either
to the reservations of certain States like the steadily
charging preserves in the Catsills and the Adron
dacks or to the amper national parks, the Yellow
stone, the Yosemite and the Grand Canon of the
Colorado some of them far larger in area than one
at least of the original thirteen States Overcoming
the pressure of private greed, the people have or
dained the preservation of this natural beauty and
its protection for all time under the safe guardian
ship of the nation and with free access to all who
may claim admission to enjoy it
In like manner the battle-felds, wherein the
nation spent its blood that it might be what it is
and what it hopes to be-these have been taken
by the nation itself and set apart and kept
holy places of pilgrimage. They free from the
despoiing hand of any private owner. They are
adorned with monuments recording the courage
of the men who fought there. They serve as
constant reminders of the duty we owe to the
country and of the debt to those who
made it and who saved it for us. And the
loyal veneration with which these fields of
blood have been cherished here in the United
States finds parallel in any country in
Europe, no matter how glorious may be It's ?
annals of military prowess Even Waterloo is
in private hands and its fields enriched by the
bones of thousands, titled every year by
the industrious Belgian farmers. Yet it was
Frenchman, Keenan, who told us that what YIELDS
men into a nation is "the memory of great
deeds done in common and the will to
complish vet more.
According to the theory of the conservation of
energy there ought to be about much virtue
in the world at one time as at another. Accord
ing to the theory of the survival of the fit
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than there was a century ago. We Ameri-
cans to-day have Our faults, and they
abundant enough and blatant enough and
foreigners take that we shall not overlook
them but our ethical standard-however i'm
perfectly may attain to it's at least as high
as that of the Greeks under Perices, of the
Romans under Caesar, of the English under
Elizabeth 1t is higher even than that of
forefathers who established our freedom, as those
know best who have most carefully inquired into
the inner history of the American Revolution.
In nothing advance more striking
than in the different treatment melted out to
the vanquished after the Revolution and after
the Civil War. When we had made our peace
With the British the native Tories were pro-
scribed and thousands of loyalists left the
United States to carry into Canada the in
durated hatred of the exiled. But after Lees
surrender at Apponattox, no body of men,
single indeed, driven forth to
live an alien for the rest of his days; few
might choose to 60 but compelled.
This change of feeling on the part of those
who were victors in the struggle evidence
of an increasing sensitiveness, an increasing
sympathy-which was the exciting cause of our
rush to the relief of Cuba. Not only is sec
tionalism disappearing, but with it is departing
the feeling that really underlies 1.-THE distrust
of those who dwell elsewhere than where do.
This distrust is still common all over Europe
to-day. Here in America it has yielded to