Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-04-12
PHRASE CAUSES
WAR IN CAPITAL
Washingtonians Differ Over
Inscription on Jones
Memorial

htotitPtiOh WI JOuNS
Memorial
Washington. u. c.. April 90. Ia
tLe o. ldst Oi all the DEBATES and bick-
er.nrs on the tariff and appropriate
bills and all the tumult and shouting
100 politics Washington Is finding
time 90 have some excitement over
a matter OF Interrogation marks and
exclamation points. The burning
issue Is how the inscription on the
John Paul Jones statue 10 Dee erected
ia Potomac shall be pmctuated.
Whi'e a cryp, suitable 10 receive th.
body Of he groa. naval hero L. being
prepared a. Annapolis the capital 4
seeking also 10 SCI 40 monument.
and. o. course. the 'f.tr8ul
are casting about Tor 4H4lle
lines 10 be inscribed 600 be
pliu,h According to the Washing.
ton idea. public memorial hat
was not al plasierod Attn Inscriptions
would be no memorial az aI 500 %
course The usual collection may 20
expected on The Jones statue
The controversy Is over the ceIe.
brated reply OF Jones' 20 the inquiry %
The Scraps 10 ho vas ready 20 sur.
rende. n win he recalled that ihs
Bon H1mmo Richard was an un.ea.
worthy old Indian merchantmen When
sho VAS assigned 10 Jones bv tle
French government and her equip
ment aas $50 oliclassed hy that OF
tte Scraps that The Only chance oi
ihs American commander was 10 fight
a' close range So dom0ra.iled we're
ar..r ar .Hc Bon ilomme Richard that
ln .aH'r officer .ust hls head and 10.
.cl.rf 70 .0HIo 0r $50 OF British lr.s.
orer H09 HH FOB tear down N. .o.
ors rI u.Ff have emuara. e1 ,.a
American commander uI more bad
u1' Lieutenant Ul'. sei fHom or uar.
o.. OH. H., '0 sato their lives Many
Of DIS Hal been s.lcuced 'Ho .n
tire - of ..s t,sos were hot
aRs 1n. He ship vas aare when
Jones # boiled hy Captain par .r
with D.. demand DO 700 mr.n
der"
Question Or Exclamation
ln DIS oRu account of tho ha'..e
lonca state. that his reply was some
thing Zoo 'b.e effect q do NOT. bu {
Intend 20 make you surrender" Lieu.
tenant Dale who also wrote an ne.
count 90 tho battle. ascribed 10 Jones'
The more spirited reply Surrender
] have just begun 20 fight
u is over this world famous phrase
that the second battle RACES The con.
testants do not hesitate 20 substitute
The words OF Dale tor those Of Jones.
for The phrase Is more striking. but. in
the opinion Of the critics. the wri'er
OF the inscription proposes 10 weaken
the reiort by means OF second rate
punctuation Ignoring the peculiar
punch and force of The exclamation
point as compared with the quotation
mark he proposes that Jones reply,
Yankee.llke. begin with question,
and then he would FIRE second
rhetorical barrel by exploding am *
clamation point az the end Of me sen.
tcnre
Thus. waving aside Tho historical |
accuracy OF the Jones quotation. u
would stand thus
Surrender have only begun 20
fight"
Instead Of thus
Surrender ! have only begun TO
Eight"
Not very much. 70 he sure. on which |
20 start a toud. yet. on The other hand.
enough TO make things hum a little
when one has nothing else 10 do Old
Doctor Johnson tore open me literary |
heavens Of his time for less things
than this. and even should the coutest
end disaslrously for somebody. the
flow would be ~ tears rather than q,
blood
Majority for Question MARI
The exclamation point agitation,
have put up their case 20 ih. au.t,-i.
ties in charge and has. been r-,,.-,
Informed that they do mo-, v.u rr.
question marks appears zoo h.,,a.
iory ~ the delegates and ,t.-. it,.
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