The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-11
By SAVOYARD



 not now recall a poorer one than Fair bankss.
 Beverfdge is transcendentalist, with little more patriotism than the law allows: but he Is no hypocrite. though he belongs to a party that has practical monopoly of that depravity. The princess dowager, the mother of George III, was not more anxious that her son be King than Beveridge is de- termined to be statesman, and George was a better King than Beveridge Is statesman. George very nearly ruin ed his, realm by his Kingship; Bevsr- idge would entirely ruin his country by his statesmanship if he had swing as full as George was allowed to have.
 He Is an indefatigable man, and works without teasing. He went en- tirely around the globe for material for a single speech--that on the Phil ippines. Tn the wilderness of language that oration is made of it is possible to find a passage here and sentence there that sounds like Ralph Waldo Emerson. Then you bump up against something that reminds of George Francis Train. The central idea is that the American Union Is as hot as Tophet, and they as would not get scorched would better give us rooTns It was delivered about the time oiir fried-meat statesmen first discovered that we were a world power. a thing we were even before Major General Andy Jackson bullied France over the spoliation claims. We had just licked poor old Spain for the sake of a set of contemptible scamps in Cuba and had acquired by mingled conquest and pur- chase the Philippine Archipelago. The question MT. Beveridge was debating was the altruism of power, the duty Of patriotism, and the wisdom of impe- rialism. I confess that there was lit- tie of 1t that I understood; but there Is no doubt that 1t served the purpose of making Beverldge the fancy states man of the day and lion in the salon of Mistress Leo Hunter. We know he was eloquent we hoped that he was wise. The speech was widely cir culated. There was a Beveridge Presi- dential boom. Young America came to Washington; not the young America of stephen A Douglas, that had noth- ing particular agin slavery in Missis- sippi, but the young America of Mark Hanna. that cllnched slavery in the Philippine Islands, For slaves they are and ruled by masters 12,000 miles away.
 And now Beveridge was a leader of the Senate, and, next to Mark Hanna, the most pointed out man on the floor. He was very busy man, solonizing at Washington and orating before Chau- tauquas all over the country. Words. words, words, oceans and oceans of language! Not one scintillatlng thought, not one atom of humor. Ev- erything profound and the despair of all the normal school cadets between the two oceans, who wrestled with 1t, and their name Is multitudinous.
 When I was a lad just emerging from childhood my father put in my hands The Arabian Nights Entertainment and therein I read cock and bull story of an Oriental monarch, who had three sons, all in love with the same girl, a princess of those parts and beautiful as becomes a princess. The king was at a loss to decide between them and ap- the world for a year and a day and upon their return he that had fetched back the most wonderful thing was to have the girl. When the time was up the three met and compared notes. One fellow had a rug that would transport one sitting on 1t to any part of the earths surface desired and do 1t in the twinkling of an eye. Another had se- cured a magic crystal, which put to the eve would discover your friends any where in the world and reveal what they were then doing. The third had an apple, which, put to the nose of any one sick, would restore him to perfect health. It was suggested that they take a look at their sweetheart, which