The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-03-09
Praise for Henry Clay.

Editor The Washington Herald:
The Washington Herald announces to
day that at its meeting at the State De-
partment yesterday. the governing board
OF the Bureau OF American Republics
unanimously decided that a testimonial
shall be erected TO the Secretary Of State.
Elihu Root. IN the new building OF the
bureau. to commemorate his services TO
the Latin American republics in main
taIning friendly relations with the United
States and between each other"
II is fitting and we'll Mr.. Root has done
much and worthily. So has the cruise of
the battle ships. Let there be a memo
rial tc him who planned and launched
that undertaking and sent It forth against
a carping criticism. to clinch the work
he had sent his great Secretary. as fore
RUNNER. 10 lay the way. Let there be
one to Admiral Evans. who admirably
executed the cruise and with consummate
tact further won South American people.
The effect az the sight OF the worlds
greatest aggregation OF battle ships max
ing the circuit OF South American shores
and cities was wonderful and OF far
reaching good. present and future. In
welding America and South America in
union I'm general interests. involving not
only commercial intercourse. but the Mon
roe doctrine and its principles. which in
clude not only all OF the so-called Drago
doctrine. but any conceivable principle 10
preclude any further foreign territorial
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of continental America
by European or Asiatic power
But I did not start out 10 suggest me-
MORALS to the living; rather would
plead for the dead. the great dead, too
long forgotten already The heroes who
gave us our common heritage and its
blessed institutions are forgotten in the
praise and monument-making 10 the liv-
ing and 10 some others. not deserving. in
the play Of politics. But Of our fore
sathersl Their deeds are their monuments.
imperishable as the clarion voice encir-
cling the earth with But as for me- give
me liberty or give me DEATH" planting
freedom. or a way to II. on absolutism-
It is OF Henry Clay l would now SPEAK.
He stands before the world as the apostle
and the greatest advocate Of universal
freedom. It has been well said that God
sent Washington TO clear the field Of
tyrants and Henry Clay to I'll the treas
uA9 VI NLt NNAllAC VI AAtNNOAi. D1fn ana
Graded in the strife and blood of the
American Revolution. his parents pa
triots, hating tyranny, loving liberty il
seemed destined that he would sympathIze
with the greatest principles OF freedom
and be the leading champion OF human
rights for the age in which he lived He
was the first, and a long time the sole.
champion Of South American freedom.
He was always a champion of universal
freedom. voiced and personifed in 'I have
no commiSeration for princes. Ny SYM
pathies are reserved for the great mass
Of mankind"-a broad and comprehensive
sentiment. uttered in Congress. in debate
against SPANS tyranny over South
America.
Somewhere in Stubbs' Constitutional
History Of England VIII be found 1.-THE
historian has not yet arisen who can &C
count on principles of growth. or OF rcac-
ton, or OF alteration Tor the tides in the
affairs Of men," meaning that an age OF
progress. yet Of moral decline. and Intel
lectually OF blossom, yet bearing bad
fruit. cannot be explained by theories.
So 1t cannot be fathomed why America,
for years. needed not the CRY for free
dom Of the South American states. unless
to still the voice Of Clay, whose every act
was Of patriotism-''th patriotism which,
catching its inspiration from the immor-
tai God. and leaving at an unreasonable
distance below all lesser groveling, per