The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-07

coinage than there can be double con duct in morals The baser metal will drive from the hints the dearer, just as iniquity will drive virtue from the heart that gives welcome to both. Mir Hyde and pr. Jeckyl could no more exist Tn the same personality than gold and silver can in the same mint at a fixed rate. Morgan, like Jupiter. here indulged a nod. ~
 But that is a dead issue-ptty that other and more vicious vagaries that now plague American politics were not buried with 1t. It was a calamity to the Democratic party and the public that John T. Morgan and Grover Cleveland did not understand each other and each put the actual value on the other that was his due. Perhaps there was too much of the bulldog in both to occupy the same kennel. Nor gan ought to have been Secretary of State instead of Bayard, and Morrison should have been Secretary of Interior instead of Lamar in Clevelands 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 scheme was 16 to 1 for every govern ment of North, South and Central Americas and the isles of the sea of the western 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 a President in accord with him ne would have been a dazzling Secretary of state as brilliant as Disraeli and as strong as Bismarck. 1t was in this project of -Americanism that Nor gan's imagination would not be de- nied; but 1t was always held in check by his strong common sense and ster- ling manhood.
 He was for an Isthmian canal be. cause he thought 1t necessary to the mower and the welfare of the republic. He was for the Nicaragua route pe- cause 1t was nearer and saved thirty six hours in a voyage from an Atlantic or Gulf port to a. port of California, or Oregon. or Washington. In case of war that saving of time might easily mean victory in either ocean. He Ia bored for years on this great project. His speeches in that behalf are evil dence of the mental and moral energies of the man. No one can realize how great he was until he has read ana digested those speeches and the reports on which he founded 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 conviction that 1t was a job. put up by the transcon- tinental 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 commerce time it became a leading factor as 1t is. and ever was. in war. To the weakest un- derstanding and most careless observa- tion 1t is manifest that the transcon- tinental railroads preferred the Panama route to the Nicaraguan. But the wine was drawn and. bitter as it was. Nor gan ouaffed it. .. cannot close without mention of Morgan's cross-examinations of c. P. Huntington and William Nelson Crom- well. He did not elicit the information he was in search of; but he carried 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 1t iH