The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-07
BY SAVOYARD.

" y AhO. /
Which Milton held. In everything we
are sprung
| OF Earth'S beet blood"
| 1t was the design and the hope of
| Stevens and Butler, of Wade and
| Chandler, of Morton and Logan, to
turn the south into a Hayti and hold
1t as an asset Of the party of Great
Moral Ideas. They well might have
adopted the motto emblazoned on the
| vandal banner of Albert of Hapsburg:
ct am the friend of God and the enemy
Of man."
| Morgan was So years old when Ala
| bama gave him the station for which
God made him. No man OF our history,
who reached first place in American
craftsmanship, was so late taking his
place i'm the national councils Only
three other men received so many COM
missions TO serve in the body Morgan
| helped to make so iilustTious-he was
six times chosen a senator; Sherman,
Morrill, and Allison were the others.
! There were giants in the senate when
Morgan entered il. Morton, Edmunds,
| Conkling, Ingalls,, Blaine and Allison
were there on the Republican side. re-
| infOrced by Hoar the very day Nor
| led by Thurman, supported by Beck,
/ Garland, Lamar, Ben Hill, Whyte and
Eustis. Sherman went into the cabi-
net the day Morgan came into the SEN
ate.
Morgan was silent his first year, and
/ his debut was the splntering of
/ lance against the shield of Roscoe
/ Conkling. On Morgan's motion to re-
| fer a certain matter to a committee,
Conkling, with his air OF superlative
superiority. asserted that it was an
Extremely novel proposition" to which
! the Albanian, with that calm repose
that marks the cast of We're de We're"
| dryly remarked, Everything is novel
| here except the law of the land"
While Conkling extorted admiration
from every senator, he had but two
friends in the body-Hannibal Hamlin
and w. w. Eaton, the latter a Demo
crat-and from that day Morgan was
one of the most popular men on either
| side.
| Nobody but a senator who served
with him, and capable of estimating
/ his mental and moral qualities. knows
what a great man Morgan was. The
| labor he accomplished was simply stu
pendous, 1t was impossible for that
mind to be idle in his waking moments,
| and it was just as impossible for him
| to dwell on frivOlity- His writings
| and speeches would fill many large
volumes, and they will be a lamp
| to illumine the page of American his
tory if it's story is ever told by a
| Hume or a Macauley. Inferior to JEFF
ferson Davis as a dialectician, he was
| his equal in expression, and not below
| him as an American senator. Some
thought him too voluminous of speech,
| but the same was alleged against
| Thurman, and both were as luminous
| as they were fluent. Some of the finest
| epigrams in congressional debate are
TO be found in the speeches of John T
Morgan. He had Imagination, too
that torCh-bearer of eloQuence-and he
could make reason not only red hot,
| but brilliant.
1t was Ben Hill who spoke for the
south in the sectional debates subse-
quent to 1877, but Morgan also bore
| hand, as did Lamar. When the south
| ern question was retired to make way
| for economic problems, Morgan par
| ticipated actively. He was a silver
man, and supported the 10 to l vagary
| with all his might. He advocated the
Stanley Matthews resolution that La
mar and Hill opposed against the in
) stTOCtjoDs Of their state legislatures
| To the same understanding "bimetal-
| ISM" as the 16 to 1'ers defined it, is an
| imposSibility. 1t never existed any
where, though IL was for centuries the
/ law of the land everywhere. There can
\ no more be a double standard on COIN
age than there can be double conduct
I i'm morals. The baser metal will drive
from the minis the dearer, just as in
I 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 fixed
ratio. Morgan, like Jupiter, here in
dulged a nod.
But that is a dead issue-pity that
| other and more vicious vagaries that
now plague American politics were not
buried with it. 1t was calamity to
the Democratic party and to the pub
Cleveland did not understand each
| other and each put the actual value
| on the other that was his due. Per-
haps there was too much Of the bull
| dog in both to occupy the same ken
mel. Morgan ought to have been secre-
| tary OF state instead Of Bayard, and
| Morrison should have been secretary of
| interior instead of Lamar in Cleve-
| lands 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 hemisphere
for America. His pet coinage scheme
was Is to l for every government of
| North, South and Central Americas
and the isles of the sea of the west
ern world. He wanted a pan-America
for finance and for tariffs. He was the
stoutest champion the Monroe Doctrine
ever had and he snapped the cords of
the Clayton-Bulwer treaty as Samson
broke the green withes. With presi-
dent in accord with him he would
have been a dazzling secretary of state,
as brilliant as DisraeH and as strong
as Bismarck. 1t was in this project
of pan-Americanism 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 il necessary to the
power and the welfare of the repub-
lie. He was for the Nicaragua route
because il was nearer and saved thirty