Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-24
SENATORS DEBATE LEWIS
POPULAR ELECTION BILL
Continued from Page Is.

session. AS 1t has occupied more or
less Of four days of the session sena-
tors desired also to get it off the
docket.
Senator Harper's Speech.
: Senator Harper delivered the fol-
lowing Washington day address:
"Mr. President sometimes think
we place Washington on too high a
pedestal. We elevate him to such a
degree that the plain people are too
apt to look upon him not as a man but
demi-god. like to look upon Wash.
ington as q man of flesh and blood, a
man possessing the same weaknesses,
passions, short comings, hopes, fears
and aspirations as you and possess
In some lines of his life work Wash
ington was not as great man as 9TH
ers who have appeared on the worlds
stage in the same lines. Measured by
the standard Of a Napoleon,a yelling.
ton, Grant or a Sherman, Washington
was not one Of the worlds greatest
soldiers. Measured by the standard Of
a Pitt, u Gladstone, a Webster, a Sew
ard or Douglas. Washington was not
one of the worlds greatest statesmen,
but measured by the standard of pa.
triotism, Washington was one Of the
greatest patriots the world has even
seen.
Washington was great in the at
tributes that make strong man and
a strong character. He was great in
honesty, in fidelity, in courage, in
Judgment and in steadfastness. Wash
ington has proven his greatness at
many a critical period in the history
of his country. Washington proved his
greatness at Braddocls's defeat when
he placed himself at the head Of his
Virginians and hurled back the savage
foe and saved the British army from
humiliation. Washington proved his
greatness when he accepted the posi-
ton of commander-in-chief Of the con-
tinental army, fully realizing the sacri-
flee and bardships that he would have
to endure. Washington proved his
greatness when on a dark winter night
he crossed the icy Delaware with his
ragged and bleeding soldiers and cap
tured the Hessian garrison at Trenton.
Washington proved his greatness at
Valley Forge when with his indomita-
BILE will and patriotism, he stilled the
murmurings of his freezing, starving
soldiers and prevented them from de-
serting. Washington proved his great
ness on the field Of Monmouth, when
he encountered the traitor General Lee
in full retreat, and in a towering rage,
cursed him and sent him to the rear,
and like Sheridan at Winchester, raj
lied the broken battalions and snatched
victory from defeat. Washington
proved his greatness at Yorktown,
when in the hour Of his greatest vic
tory he extended to the fallen foe lib
eral and generous terms Washington
proved his greatest greatness when at
williamsburg, he was put to the most
crucial test to which ever man was
subjected, when he spurned the offer Of
a crown or dictatorship and refused
to become Caesar or a Cromwell.
Washington has left us great in
heritance in his farewell address. This
paper is one among the greatest in
struments that has ever been written.
1t ranks little below the sermon on the
mount and Is Of equal Importance to
Magma Charta. II we. as people, are
guided by the precepts Of this great
paper, as a nation we will live on and
on forever"