The Irish standard., 1906-12-15

1t is not difficult for one who studies
the origin of some OF these popular
phrases to conclude that there is
nothing new under the SUM-"
+ Beauveau Borie, one Of the directors
Of the Iehtgh Valley Railroad Cora
pany, might have imagined he was
getting off something original when,
during the coal strike in December,
1902; being told by a. newspaper re-
porter that the public might want to
know something concerning the pro-
ceedings of the special board meet
ing, he retorted: "well let them go
to h.; it is nobody's business what
was DONE" But the elder Vanderbilt
put this doctrine much more succinct-
ly long before. when he said: 1.-The
public be id" a.:
Grover Cleveland Is commonly cred
tied with several phrases which did
not originate with him. No one 1laa
yet claimed credit for his "innocuous
desuetude" phrase, but when he said
'it is a condition which cofronts us
not a. theory" it sounded very much
like something Disraeli had said in
1s4S.- When Mr.. Cleveland referred to
"the cohesive power of public plum
DER lie reminded one of something
John e. Calhoun said in 1886, towit:
"A power has risen UP in the govern
ment creator than the people them
selves. consisting OF many and variou.
and powerful interests. combined into
one mass, and held together by The
the banks"
To Lincoln is generally attributed
the phrase, government Of the people,
by the people, for the people" He used
that phrase in his Gettysburg speech
in 1868, but at Boston in 1850, The
erode Parker described "the Ameri-
can idea as demanding "a democracy
that is g. government Of all the peo-
pie. by all the people, for all the
people, In 1880 Daniel Webster used
this phrase: The peoples govern
mont, made for the people, made by
the people, and answerable to the peo-
ple.''
In 1866. Lincoln said: with malice
toward none, with charity for ALL
but in 1888 John Quincy Adams said:
In r1o 0rSf W p11 ind S4TVSp
no malice or i'll will to any human
being" OF course Lincoln put it much
better than John Quincy did.
Henry Ward Beecher is credited
with saying: "a man in the right
with God on his side is in the major
ity though he be alone" But Wen
dell Phillips put it much better when,
long before Beecher spoke, he said:
"one on Gods side is a majority
For years Abraham Lincoln has been
credited with the saying: You can
fool all of the people some of the time.
some of the people all OF the time, but
you oan not fool all of the people all
of the time The Washington Post
is authority for the statement that
Representative Shocks. Of Ohio, called
upon the congressional librarian to
say where this Lincoln quotation
could be found, and that Assistant
Librarian Spofford replied that
the sentence does not occur in any of
Mr.. LincoIn's writings. Mr.. Spofford
said that MIR. Nicolay. I4inooln's secre-
tary, told him (srofyorD that Mr.. Ln-
coin did not Use this phrase. but that
P. ~. Rernum, the great circus man.
was the author. William Pitt ke1-
loEg, however. declares that he re-
members distinctly hearing Mt. lin
coin deliver this phrase at a meeting
at Bloomington, IT.. in May. 1886. Mr..
Kellogg saiys that Mr. Lincoln used
this phrase frequently In his speeches.
hut that he remembers particularly
that at Bloomington Mr.. lincoln said:
"No one can long be deceived by such
spphistrjes; you can fool all of The
people some Of the time. some OF the
people all Of the time. but you cannot
fool all OF the people all OF the time"
In 1895, the republican leaders
sought to poke fun at Mr.. Bryan be-
cause he had used the expression, "ths
dollar before the man." But they for
got. or did not know, that in a. letter
written to certain Boston republicans
in April 1859, Abraham lincoln COM
planned OF those who, he said, "held
the liberty Of one man to be absolutely
nothing when in conflict with another's
right OF property" adding: Republic
cans, on the contrary, are for both the
man and the dollar but i'll case OF
conflict the man before the, dollar"
It was, too, William Mckinley who.
arraigning the Cleveland administra-
ton, complained that Mr.. Clevelands
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