Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-16
GEORGE WASHING
lSratness Has Been Recognized
and Lauded Everywhere.

5natness Has Been Recognized
and Lauded Everywhere.
human trait of hero worship has
.aiantage that it often exalts it's
Into the clouds and cuts them off
lnaH sympathy by making demi-
them, No man Of modern times
inferred from idealizatiOn so much
Ellington. We all acknowledge that
q tie greatest of Americans, that
19tiSm vas Of the purest and his
9 Of the nOblest, and that we alb
owe our national independence
@12lnmate generalship. Yet the
~ paid to his greatness in these
sos the head rather than of the
2sr2 idealization has eliminated
.91 human heart from our idea of
"! laS left in place of the real
--;lon sort Of alabaster image or
%F- engraving. This is a wrong
Dim and to ourselves, but it seems
l,;N7n inevitable in view of the I'M
II greatness and nobility of his
Ia. Ills chief fault, so to speak,
being too perfect. He was SO
-''e The ordinary man that hero
I. Was bound to strip away all the
q human traits and leave nothing
IVY Oh daMIgod eXaled on a pedes-
T VorshiDed from afar of. In
!. .''S ,'IS unfortunate process has
"a, -'.aFal reaction, and the pious
!, s~ ~ 81 III Neems have been partly re-
] biographies which allow the
/, =. .5o az least a few human limita-
N r- Is.cadItIoes, 1t is even said
ny. .lE''a strong language at Lee in
,;. y. Monmouth, but men are
,@ s.-S books to disprove this evil
/, , r,.I .S could lapse into justifable
n % Ss For the present, then.
fr,. VI content with a more or less
>, :. oan was over justly idealized
/, s ,'N "eorse Washington. But
s,.- I country could not have won
s ,-..9.e' but for him it could not
B ~, ''S union. and but for him
,, nv, nave set its new government
lrt ne alone could bind North
3 and 9' get. lie embodied the
IN os nv ., virtues which won the adj
/ q, a., .ae arstere New England
u, w WEI. as of the aristicratic
ID ,,a ne mad the practical knowl-
5,2 .rs "a rare balance of Judgment
.s1s, ;r ,s:e with every emergency
E sr, ,a>,.e in every dispute. He
.ro. r r%IaI :, with the Virginians
ID rf Win the puritans, and could
%. r.;, Inspect and devotion of all
saa,t +,,,'Io !, reach of his unselfsh
ar. fos,, Character. Modest, GEN
b i., 'D,,cetuI, fearless, of absolute
>o.;, , s.. all pay for his price
a1sx o ssSE'iees, what wonder that
altar r~ I. to crown him king,
& pstia His panied and angry re,
I'd 1or t.$ c3nonized hero forever?
oap gasl the greatest of Wash.
Jo5, S J, was rendered as q
aairs Mag Adams and Congress said
Vos s.t Tree, and there left the
b Dec1o rsaS1on and his soldiers
eeal NJ ","llon of Independence a
,,atir, ~ a mere assertion. It was 8
d tra s'y small body Of heroes that
o.o r,aon and m nationality to the
r5tc5 i'3 s.. The feats of general
Z a eI,a Washington achieved this
IA, '' Teen surpassed in the his,
2tssffo mays Of his youthful but dan
and md to the French frontier ION On
Bss55oldF1o from the time of his warn ~
H. ea se. he showed an unusual
Hri%i r'1 Of war, lie knew f%,
ogoe Sr1s quickly as we'll as Grant ant
addso Sl never struck more re swift if.
h than ", IN his brilliant Italian
d nisb+ Washington did on that
sui In 1776 at Trenton. Nor