The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-12

honesty be ttitethted III ~ y y eYer ~ -
become i practical Sfoteels
M. Rockefeller Error.
II i reoent lecture u HE Sunday school ''l
children MI. Rockefe llsr rem arkedl TN that
our great country has grown 20 lie pr'e pres
enc strength from the strength OF q S few
Puritan fathers who hrst settled hs s9Ft
ut was this spirit u the Pilgrims, said pal 9!
.ho--nthis love Of truth, respect for y
the desire for right living which laid the p
massive Foundation 81 the Tilted States ~
The Pprltans made the beginning wh TAT
X was we should keep It as u was IN IN
tended" II E5i
Mr.. Rockefeller mixes his Pilgrims I! and Nd
his Puritans In d manner to show t mar
Ne Il not familiar with the subject. The ne
Pilgrims ana the Purtans we're no, Io'5 n n
same Ear from IL Tho Pilgrims e cams me
In 1920 and settled at plymouth. The The
5Puritat,s game later and settled ut Bo o''
ton rho Pilgrims were separatIslt's' ana ana
I came to America. AZ they had previously Gus
fed from England to Holland, IN !, s t'aI'
81 religious re edorn. But the Purita ms
were members Of tbs Es tabllshed Cn huron
and history says that they came hi t.'s
not 10 escape persecution, but to p erses-i
cute ana to impose their vieVs { upon OF,
others. X They were arbitrary. b. blsot 'e'u
and intolerant and they n1ercil'essly
dashed those who dared oppose them EN-, Is N
religious affairs. It was Puritan lea
Intolerance and persecution that Or dro '''
Roger Williams to SMassachusett II me e.
puritan FATHERS did nothing towards
laying the Foundation Of the United states.
But for the good sense and mod eration %, o.
their neighbors, the Pilgrims, their c 2s't
fony would have failed and persisted e' iro -
the face Of the earth We owe much to
the Pllgrlms, but little to the Puritans,l
of whom Mr.. Rockefeller boasts. 5as
g But. concoding al this to the q rims ~
Mr.. Rockefeller m1isled his Sunday schooi
Children when he told them that the = Mas I ~
! s,achus etts settlers laid the lions Of
the United States. They had 9 part y ~
the work, but fthe bottom foundations d m.
had been \ laid already at jamestown,
thirteen years before It is false to say
that the New England ers made the Re-
public. The Cavaliers III OF the South
wrought as CALAMITY as the Pilgrims OF
the North, and IN fact, gave to the Am
lean Republic It's noblest cllaracteristtc:--l}
that indescribable,m any-sided virtue call
ed chlyalry. Mr. r ockoteller may be inter
ested to know that one Of the most beau
tlful tributes to&southern5! oharacte i was
paid BY a New Englan der, the late "a. e., Sen
ator Hoar, OF Massachusetts. In q speech
at Old Point Comfort, not many years
before his death, he said: III II.
THE people OF the! South have some
qualities which I cannot claim In an equal
degree for the people among whom "
self dwell. They have an aptness for
command which makes the Southern gen-'$,
tleman. wherever he goes, not peer
only but .princ They have O love owe Tor
home; they have-the best OF them. and
the most of|htme INHERITED from:the great
race from which they came the sense
OF duty and the instinct OF honor, as & no
other peoplesion tho face .of 81 the earth
They have, above all, and giving value to-
all, that supreme and superb constancyt
which, without regard to personal 5ambi-S
ton, and without yielding to the stenlpta-
ton OF wealth, without getting tired and
without getting diverted, can pursue u a.
great OBJ jeot, In and out, year after year.
and generation after generation. & .a5 a.
Plainly, Senator Hoar was quito willing
to ledge that those who settled In
the South also had q part in laying the
foundations and giving, g trengtl and char
acterSto the ssRepubllc:. D ,sss M