The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-04
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put something like him; not Sir Henry Lee or Ditchley. but much like him. He was lawyer and loved the profess sion. He was a judge. and exactly what Sir Matthew Hale would have been In our age-upright from skin to | marrow. learned in the precedents. but subordinatins precedent and learning to wisdom.
 Had Pettus got to the Senate at 40 and remained there till his death, his would have been one among the very great names in our parliamentary his- tory. He was made for parliamentary and forensic debate. He was a good natured Ben Hardin, with all his giant intellect and vast legal lore. and with out his coarseness and his malice. He might have been. Ben Hill. less ruth less. indeed. and made irresistible by his sense of humor. in which Hill was hopelessly deficient.
 A great Englishman of letters con- trasted the powers of Voltaire, Swift and Addison as masters of ridicule, and each was superb in his sphere. In an- other essay he declares that the mock cry of Voltaire was the most terrible thing with which man or devil was ever armed. or words of that import Perhaps the greatest master of ridicule either House of the American Congress
 
 Kentucky. who served in both ends of the Capitol Proctor Knott provoked more laughter than anybody else, but he was the humorist; he was also the poet He left no sting. Even Duluth presented him . corner lot. Sunset" Cox bubbled over with wit and humor, but he did not so to the Spot" as Knott did. especially after old Ben Butler ran him through a thrashing machine and threw him into a hysteria Of chagrin. John Allen was a delight full humorist, and. though he plays on only one string. no one can deny that ne gets moe out of that string than most funny men get out of a full band. LIandis, of Indiana. is a dashing fellow, but he Is the epigrammatist, rather than the humorist. Speaker Reed could make the House laugh, but he was . wit rather than a humorist. He al- ways left a sting. There would have been what never was. since parliaments were instituted among men. if Thomas B. Reed. and John Randolph, of Roa- noke, had been contemporaries.
 In the spring of 1900 the Senate had the Porto Rico tariff under consider ation, and Mir. Beveridge made a won- derful speech on the subject. but sub sequently voted on the other side. Here is passage. words. words, words -alaMngwidge, aMug langwidge. langwidge: ment on which the American people have embarked is a movement of con- science as well as of power; of civili- sation as we'll as of commerce. It touches the shores of every sea. Di- rectly or indirectly. 1t affects all hu- manity. We so forth on a world ca reer; we must conduct 1t with a world statesmanship-a statesmanship that ha Ia yy yUn pass upon the peoples over whom our influence is extending and upon the world at large, as well as upon our selves.
 "Sir. administration of government means more than balance sheets, more than weights or measures. It means this, but 1t also means the weighing of sheets of the affections of the governed people. The American masses, in whose breasts dwell the purity. power. and hope of the republic and of the world. understand this we'll They feel and deeply know that We are henceforth the master people of the world. They doubt not that human progress is one vast and swelling har- mony which not even all the discords of history can destroy, and they mean | that in all that divine and splendid | composition the noblest, highest. pur- | est, tenderest. note shall be that struck | by the American people as the sov- reign power of earth"
 Old Pettus did not exactly under stand what the young man was .iriv- ing at, and after covering Gallinger | all over with ridicule for his ignor- ance of legal principles. here is now he closed on Beveridge. You bet the older Senators were delighted:
 MT. President: The Master once had to select a man to lead the chill dren of Israel out of Egypt \ and | the wilderness to Canaan. He | did not select an oratorNo. he selected | one of these men from Maine or Iowa. | and his name was Moses And he was a stuttering man, too. But Moses told | His Master to His face that he could not do it, because he could not speak | to the people. And what was the re- ply? There is Aaron. He speaks | we'll" And they took Aaron along. l not in command that was not allowed. | but they took him along as a kind of l a deputy; and when Moses on His Mas | ter's order went up into the mountain | for the Tables the orator left in charge | had a golden calf framed. And he put | all the people down to worshipping | the golden calf, More people worship the golden calf now than did in those days. But while Aaron and his people were all down worshiping the golden calf the man of God appeared. and he pulled out his sword and demanded to know ''who was on the Lords side" and the orator jumped up from his knees, drew his sword got on Moses's side. and went to killing the 1sraelites along with Moses. All these orators will do the same thing-the last one of them. We saw an instance of 1t yesterday afternoon.
 He was 76 when he got to the Sem ate, but he gained the respect of all his associates in that body for the strength of his intellect. the loftiness of his character. and the extent Of his Iearning Had he been bred to Parlia- ment. as Sherman was, lie would have attained to the very front rank. Even as 1t was, he reminded the Senate or he giants of the old order-of that old South that produced Davis ana rooms. Mason and Stephens, Breckin- ridge and Hammond.
 He has gone from the walks or men. but Alabama the South, and the Union will not forget to honor the man and revere his memory. He Is gathered to ,. sa+bars and assigned a home with