Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-05

long life who seemed to me to be Joined
by the heartstrings with so many men and
women wherever he goes as Dr. Hale. l
know in Worcester. where he used to live;
/ know in Washington. where he comes too
seldom and where for the last thtrty-hve
years / have gone too often. poor women.
men whose lives have gone wrong or who
are crippled in body in mind, whose
eyes watch for DIR. Hale's coming and
going and seem to make his coming and
going, If they get a glimpse of him, the
event they date from till he comes again
To and my little household there, IN
which we never count more than two or
three. his coming is the event OF every
winter"
The Nations Guest
At a Harvard banquet In this city a
year or so ago Dr. Hale speaking with al
NEST naive modesty, said: The great
value of college course is the comrade-
ship of the men. Throughout the land has
grown up association of workers whose
loyalty was aroused in their college days.
Why. it is not possible for me to go into
a city of any size in the length and breadth
of the United States and attempt to regis
ter at a hotel without some friend coming
up and insisting that my bag be sent up
to his house and taking me there him
self with the care and affection of
brother
No doubt the fraternal spirit among the
alumni of Harvard is powerful as in other
lection to Dr. Hale rests upon other
grounds than fidelity to alma mater and
comes from a wider band of loyalists, the
people of the United States.
AS has been pointed out by countless
readers, it is characteristic of Dr. Hale
that in his work he should often have
taken himself a theme. Such writer's
as Charles Lamb and Robert Louis Steven
upon their personality. Whatever may be
the subject matter it is self that is re
realed. Mr.. Hale courageously speaks of
How l Was Educated" of "Recolections
lege Days" of Formative Influences of
Family Flights of Memories of a Hun
dred Years" and yet no one is less an ego
list. His theme serves to reveal conditions
applicable not to himself merely, but to
his period he exposes, describes and
teaches through the medium of personal
figure. Always didactic never prosy, his
whole philosophy of life is revealed in his
papers, not that one may regard him. but
come genially and gCod-naturedly to prac-
tice what he believes to be wholesome.
Again to quote the senator: He has
done work of the first quality and in a
great variety of fields. In each he has
done work enough to fill the life and to
fill the measure of fame of a busy and sue
cessful man. l have learned of him the
great virtue of hope; to judge of mankind
by their merits and not their faults; to
understand that the great currents of his
tory. especially in a republic, more espe-
cially in our republic. are determined by
great and noble motives, and not by mean
and base motives.
In his very best work DIR. Hale seems
always to be doing and saying what he
does and says ex tempore, without pre-
meditation. Where he gets the time to ac-
quire his vast stores of knowledge or to
think the thoughts all like to hear
nobody can tell. When he speaks or
breaches writes he opens his intellectual
box and takes the first appropriate thing
that hand"
In Pursuit of Peace.
In his capacity of professor of Amer
lea" DR.. Hale has not labored merely in
the expression of generalities. The son
of an ardent wing, and a free-soi,er in his
youth, he has always been a republican.
Repeatedly he has said:
THE people is sovereign here; the peo-
pie is the fountain of honor here; the Press
dent is the servant of the people" But in
the broad field of his writings and his lect-
ures at Harvard at Antioch College, at
Chautauqua, at Hampton. Tuskegee and the
local industrial school at Manassas. DR..
Hale has never ceased to be a loyal sup
porter of the government. When Boston
grew FESTIVE during the Spanish war he
waited. silently trusting in the greater
knowledge, as he expressed it, of the author
tiles. Good. gentle virile and aggressive in
spirit he has never been a scold or ma
lgner of public officials. He has his heart
set upon large issues. lie is an originator or
great ideas. He sets in action germinal
forces.
AS early as 1889 in a sermon in this city
he suggested plan for an international ar
bitration tribunal. That idea was almost
completely carried out in the purposes of
the Hague convention of 1899. 1t is said
DR.. Hale ardently expects to see some great
cause peaceably settled by some such tri-
bunal. His preScience of coming grea tneSS
of his country, his range, his interchangeable
energy in the cause of brotherly love make
him almost the prophet of his race.
A Boston Tribute.
In Boston April 3. 1902. upon the occasion
of his reaching the age of four score, a
great public demonstration was made in his
honor In his Autobiography of Seventy
Years Senator Hoar says: when Dr.
Hale was eighty years old his countrymen
manifested their affection for him in
manner which l think no other living man
could have commanded. 1t WAS my great
privilege to be asked to say to him what
all men were thinking, at great meet
ing in Boston. The large and beautiful
hall was thronged with very Small por-
ton of his friends. If they had all gath
cred the city itself would have been throng-
ed / am glad to associate my name with
that of my beloved teacher and friend by
preserving here what ] said. 1t is a feeble
and inadequate tribute
The president of the United States
sage which he sent:
White House, Washington. March % 1902
My Dear Senator Hoar: | very earnestly
wish that | could be at the meeting over
which you are to preside in honor of the
eightieth birthday of Edward Everett Hale
A classical allusion or comparison is always
very trite; but | suppose all of us who have
read the simpler classical books think of
Timoleon in his last days at Syracuse
loved and honored in his old age by the
fellow citizens in whose service he had
spent the strength of his best years as one
of the noblest and most attractive figures
In all history. DR.. Hale is just such a fig
ure now.
We love him and revere him. We are
prouder of our citizenship because he is our
fellow citizen and we feel that his life and
his writings, both alike. spur us steadily to
fresh effort toward high thinking and right
living.
To have written The Man Without
Country by itself would be quite enough
to make all the nation his debtor | belong
to the innumerable army of those who
owe him much, and through you l wish him
Godspeed now.
Ever faithfully yours
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Speaking on that occasion Senator Hoar
said
DIR. Hale has done a good many things
in his own matchless fashion. He would
have left a remarkable name and fame
behind him if he had been nothing but a