The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-02-03

myriads of details we're to be provid
ed and grea fiscal policies to b,
adopted. In the five years when Ham
ilton was at the treasury he estat
lished that institution for all time
The most convincing arguments uset
in the campaign of 1886 against thu
silver monometalism that was pu
forth under the name of bimetalisn
were drawn from Hamiltons repor
upon the mint, in which he establish
ed the double standard. His funding
of the debt against a powerful oppos
ition created that marvellous thing
the credit of the United States, and
the assumption of the state debts
gave a most needed strength to IA
tionality by leading public creditors
stead of TO the states His report up
ON the bank remains today Bg q II od
81 for sound banking system. ~
his report on manufactures he mark.
ed out such an industrial baton as
his country finally came to be.
Hamilton was, In fact Washing
tons prime minister and took the
leading part in the impoi tant WORK
Of the other departments When the
war came between Great Britain and
France there was popular clamor
Almost Irresistible IN favor of our
taking part in the struggle Under Mr..
Jcfferson's policy We should have
been swept into the vortex as an ally
to France. Hamilton was. under Wash
ington, the aggressive force which
brought about the resolution of neu-
trality and saved us from a war that
would have threatened our indepen.
dence. He had leveled at him the
taunt-terrible in those times that
he was a friend of England. But
when English ships began to carry
our commerce he instantly made a
report to Washington recommending
the fortification of our harbors, the
raising OF troops, and preparation for
war. No country ever had truer or
a more vigilant friend, and when her
interests were threatened he was
ready on the instant to champion
them against France or England ~
the world.
1T was fortunate thing that there
were then two schools to combat each
other--the school of Hamilton and
the school of Jefferson-but 1t was
even more fortunate that the school
of Hamilton had absolute dominion
during the first eight years. Nothing
less aggressive and strong could
have COPIED with the appalling diff.
culties of that time 1t was necessary
that hard impact should be made
upon the governmental chaos in or.
der to set the new orb grandly NOV.
ing. Had the opposite school domin.
ated at the beginning, its motion must
have been feeble and erratic, and 1,
is doubtful whether the government
would have continued for genera.
ton.
Il have spoken of the attitude OF
Mr. Jefferson toward neutrality Mr.
jefferson was a great philosopher, an
unrivaled politician, but he was
dream and contemplative, where
Hamilton was practical and direct I;
and it was not strange that he rare.
ly agreed with the policies of the lat.
ter. The difference in the mental op-
erations OF the two men was con
stantly showing itself, and it is well
illustrated by their divergent views
upon France Mr.. jefferson for the
five years preceding 1890 was in
France as our minister. Hamilton
was never there in his life, nor, in.
deed, anywhere outside of America
and the West Indies. Two years be.
fore the French Revolution jefferson
made a tour of France, carefully in.
vestigating social and political condi.
tions, and he wrote very amiably and
philosophically about them. But, AS
Mr.. Oliver says, he passed over the
crust of the lava without reporting
any sign of danger, and even after
the fall Of the Bastile he did not ap.
preciate the gravity of the crisis. Yet
Hamilton, before the news of that
event had reached America, wrote q
letter to Lafayette forcibly pointing
out the elements of danger in the
French situation. AS Talleyrand said,
Hamilton OWNED Europe His sure
penetration and his celebrity of action
reminds one Of nothing so much as of
Napoleon in his early campaigns,
wheen he astonished men by the en-.
ergy OF his genius.
Hamilton had in him very little
of the mere political theorist, OF the
LIND Of Y,av, ,pAn Mill ,,n.n,,at 49,.