The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-07-09

ffserdz in the body-uaaufbal Hamlfn
ard y " Eaton. the latter = Demo
c-at-snd from that; day Morgan ~ax
one Of the most popular men o. either
side
Nobody but . enator served
win him and capable ~ estimating hls
mental and moral qualities. know
What Z great man Morgan as The
labor ne accomplished VAS simply stu
penQogs II Was impossible for that
mind - be idle IL MS @4Atng moments
and II AS just a. uEoE<{ole for j.
70 DIS Ell on ~friyoIity Ills writings
and speeches would I'll uaus largr
volumes. and they viil b~ a famU 10
II9um!ns the page Of American history
i Is history - ever told oE q Hume
or a Macaulay Inferior - jefferson
Davis ~ a dtaIectlticia he @as his
equal IN expression. and not below
him as an American Senator some
thought him too ~yoluminou- 81 speech.
but the same vas alleged against
Thurman. and both were a. luminous
as they were fluent Some o. the
finest epigrams in Congressional de-
bate are to be found In the speeches
OF John r. Morgan. lie had magma
ton. too-that to~rch-bearer Of ejo-
Quence-and ne could make reason
not only red not. but brilliant
II was Ben Hill Who spoke for the
South in the sectional debates subSe
quent to 1877. but Morgan also bore a
hand. a did Lamar. When the south
ern question Nas retired 10 make way
for economic problems. Morgan parti-
clpated activity. He was a silver man.
and supported the 10 70 l vagary with
all his might. He advocated the stan
ley Matthews resolution that Lamar
and Hill opposed aS atnst the instruc-
lions Of their State legislatures. To
the same understanding bimetalism. -
as to l6 TO l'ers defined 1t. Is an i'm
possibility. 1t never existed
though il was for centuries the law Of
the land every Where. There can no
more be a double standard in coin
age tina there car be double conduct
in morals. The baser metal Will drive
from the minis the dearer, Just as in
Equity Will drive virtue from the heart
that gives welcome TO both. Mr.. HYDE
and DR.. Jekyl could no more exist in
the same personality than gold and
silver can in the same mint at a
liked ratio. Morgan. like Jupiter, here
INDUCED in a nod.
But that is a dead issue-pity that
other and more vicious yagaries that
now plague American politics were
not buried with IT. 1t was a calamity
to the Democratic party and to the
public that John T. Morgan and Gro
yer Cleveland did not understand each
80 ohN NoSbt b0N NfO oSNHoI N0AbO
on the other that was his due. Per-
haps there was too much of the PULL
dog in both to occupy the same ken
mel. Morgan ought to have been Sec
retar, Of the State instead of Bayard,
and Morrison should have been Sec
rotary Of Interior instead Of Lamar
in CleNeland's first cabinet.
The last fifteen years Of Morgan's
career he devoted entirely to foreign
affairs and the Isthmian canal. Here
was his best and greatest work; here
his wonderful and herculean labors.
His policy was the Western Hemis-
phere for America. His pet coinage
sheme was Is 10 L for every govern
ment of North. South and Central
Americans and the isles Of the sea
of the western world. He wanted a
pan-America for finance and for tar
IFS. He was the stOutest champion the
MOnrOe Doctrine ever had and he
snapped the cords of the C~layton-Bul-
WEI treaty as Sampson broke the green
Withes. With a President in accord
with him he Woul have been a daZ-
fling Secretary of State, as brilliant as
Dlsraeli and as strong as Bismarck. 1t
was in his project of Pan-American-
ism that Morgan's imagination would
not be denied; but it was always held
in check by his strong common sense
and sterling manhood.
-
He was for an Isthmian canal be-
cause he thought it necessary TO the
w and the welfare of the republic
He was for the N~icarauga route be-
cause it was nearer and saved thirty
six hours in a voyage from an Allan
tic or Gulf port to a port of Califor-
MIA, or oregon, or Washington. In
case of war that saving of time might
easily mean victory in either ocean.
He labOred for years on this great
project. His speeches in that behalf
are evidence Of the mental and moral
energies of the man. No one can real
ize how great he was until he has read
and digesteG those speeches and the
REPORTS on which he ounde them.
And then when the work was done,
when the fruit was in his grasp, it
was snatched from his hand. Morgan
went TO his grave In the firm con
victlon that it was a job, put up by the
transcontinental railroads because of
the thirty-six hours longer sail by the
Panama route. He was not mealy
mouthed about it. What his mind
forged that his tongue uttered. In
time it became a leading
factor as it is, and ever was. in war.
To the weakest understanding and
most careless observation it Is mani
fest that the transcontinental railroads
preferred h Panama route to the
Nicaraguan. But the wine was drawn
and bitter as it was. Morgan quaffed
it.
[ cannot close without mention OF
Morgan's cross-examinations of c. P.
Huntington and William Nelson Crom-
we'll. He did not elicit the Informal
ton he was in search of. but he car
ried moral conviction to every one
who heard and to all who have read.
What an advocate he must have
been before a box with twelve men in
it in a trial of a great cause at nici
prius. FullertOn's cross-examination of
Beecher does not equal Morgan's
landings of Huntington and Crom-
we'll.
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