Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-04
FIFTY YEARS ago
In THE STAR

Tor the past four weeks" runs IN ed
torial paragraph in The Star Of August
.. 1890, I'VE have been
General travelling in various SEC
Al, lions OF the country. In
APesny' Virginia. Maryland, Ohio,
New York. massachusetts. Rhode Island.
Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware.
thus having an excellent opportunity To
acquire reliable Information with refer
ence to the existing state OF politics there.
But q single fact In that connection I'm
pressed itself upon our mind, travel where
we would. namely. that the great mass OF
the people throughout the states named
above. except in Virginia. Pennsylvania
and New York. arc less interested In the
current struggle than ever before In
presidential contest. In fact. excepting
Virginia. Pennsylvania and New York. we
found none others than the politicians by
trade. now existing In considerable num-
bers everywhere, who seemed to trouble
themselves in the least about the matter.
there being no more popular excitement
anywhere on the subject than over their
ordinary state elections, II as much. The
flaming accounts Of great and enthusiasts
tic meetings OF all the parties at the north.
which their partisan newspapers are pub
fishing from day to day, are all to be re-
what they embrace being literally true.
This state OF things strikes US as boding
extensive political changes soon to occur,
the precise character of which Is not yet
to be OWNED by the shrewdest and most
far-seeing calculators. II It results IN q
better understanding between the two
contending sections OF the Confederacy
than now exists. and in slushing on from
the management OF party affairs the lob
byites. contract SPECTATORS, chronic ONCE
seekers and constitutional demagogues.
who have by degrees come too often to
monopolize the management OF the AFFAIRS
OF all the parties In great measure, to
the almost entire exclusion OF independent
and unselfish citizens from participation
In their direction, II will indeed prove a
Godsend to the public interest"
For many years visitors to the Smithso-
MAN saw. standing just to the east OF
the north entrance, a large
Jacks0n'S stone sarcophagus. the
~S history Of which re-
A00' manned 20 the majority .
my stery. In The Star Of August 80. 1890
is printed the correspondence relative to
this great stone. which had just been
taken from the patent ONCE to the point
in the Smithsonian grounds where II rested
so long. This sarcophagus was brought
from Beyrut, Syria. by Commodore Jesse
the year 1899. and presented to tho ma
tional Institute" by him as a resting place
for the remains Of Gen. Andrew jackson.
The sarcophagus was the repository OF the
remains Of the Roman emperor Alexander
honor OF resting during his final sleep In
this relic Of history, his letter from the
Hermitage. dated March n. 1915, standing
as one OF his most characteristic express
sions. He said:
at cannot consent that my mortal body
shall be laid in a repository prepared for
an emperor or a king. My republican
feelings and principle forbid II. Every
Dry OF our heroes and statesmen ought to
bear evidence OF the economy and SIM
plicity Of our republican institutions and
the plainness Of our republican citizens.
who are the sovereigns Of our glorious
union and whose virtue IL to perpetuate
1t. True virtue cannot exist where pomp
and parade are the governing passions. 1t
can only dwell with the people-the great
laboring classes, that form the bone and
snew OF our confederacy. I have
tai body beside that wherein lies my be-
loved wife, where. without pomp or pa
rade, 1 have requested. when my God
calls me to sleep with my fathers. to be
laid-for both OF US there to remain un-
til the last trumpet sounds to call the
dead TO judgment. when we. hope. shall
rise together, clothed with that heavenly
body promised to all who believe In our
glorious Redeember who died for US that
we might live and by whose atonement ]
hope for a blessed mortality"
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The following paragraph in The Star
which would surely not
Market be tolerated at this time:
The law Of the corpora
0"Ane' ton in relation to styes
is not violated by those in the Center
Market place; they are not within sew
enty-five feet OF any inhabited dwelling;
then again they were not constructed for
use as styes: they only became styes by
the acts OF the swine going at large there.
The dealers In the market, however, COM
plain OF these styes and OF the swine
also. The swine are fattened in the mar
ket place by the refuse thrown there and,
say some Of the owners OF the animals,
in this way are serviceable. But the deal
ers say they destroy not only the refuse
Of the market. but also q considerable
amount OF salable provisions. Before
any steps were taken for the removal of
all the refuse of the market Ii might
have been argued with propriety that the
swine were serviceable. But now, when
the men are paid to do this work. there is
no necessity for the maintenance of
drove Of swine In the market place to
the annoyance Of dealers and at a cost to
the corporation for the repair Of the area
turned into wallowing pools by them.
They are not allowed by law to go at
large; but are required. on the other
hand, to be kept in substantial incio-
sures. But IL appears that swine are
driven to the market to feed. the owners
claiming as a right the freedom Of the
market place for them. The fact that the
owners OF the swine are. some of them,
connected with the corporation, does not
give them a right to violate law, any
more than any other person"