The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-22

VI tuC AlCAduuCI. "a VI
indomitable courage, courage
which guided and after which his
loyal soldiers patterned. man
whose insight, astuteness, sagacity.
farsighted wisdom, whose versatility
as a statesman, immutable in appli-
cation, whose impeachable scrupu-
lous integrity heralds his name
down through the resounding CEN
turies as commander, a general, a
monarch. proving himself to be in
vincible, infallible as an organizer
and director Of many notable mill
tary expeditions, and whose abilities
as a wise monarch were curtailed |
only by his untimely death, at a
| period in his career when he was
beginning to perfect his vast realm
into one of unity.
A man who with lavish hand en-
riched those and gave to them life
of luxury, who were faithful to their
trusts, man who exacted the strict
est obedience to orders IN the line of
duty, man whose capacity for en-
joying the excitement of a licentious
life was terminated only with the
depletion of his once powerful, and
for several years, seemingly mex
haustible physique, which however,
finally gave way and opened to his
remains an early grave, thereby
fastening those quarrels attending
the accession of his successor to the
throne of the greatest power the
world had then known, the newly
formed nation>conoeived by the re-
sourceful and fertae brain of Alex
ander.
1t is beyond the scope of compre-
hension the difference which would
have prevailed had Alexander lived
, to fulfill his mission. Whether
healthy militarism in international
relationships would have prevailed
had he lived and ceased to conquer
! and subdue the remainder of the
e world, whether he would have made
and recognized impartial laws grant
8 ing to men equality and justice
: and to his domains impartial taxa
e ton. whether he would have caused
broader feeling of democracy, and
f the spirit of brotherly good will tc
Y have prevailed, so as to maintain q
r harmonious peace assuring universal
e. democracy to the world, thusly
j. thwarting and exposing to the ligh
f. of day the coward, the voluptuary
j. or whether he would have been con
# tent to rest upon his laurels, appoint
d ing sattraps to direct the affairs o
IS his nation, we do not know, but be
lieve by reason of his depleted vital
n ity his conquests would not have
1t continued long, and that he woul'
l. have confined himself to wise di
Of rection of the affairs of state which
Of with his superior intellectual &C
le auirements, must have promulgate
D. a nation with laws for the worl
er forever after to pattern after, thu
IN gaining the esteem and approbatio
in of a world permeated with sicken
ul ing commercialism on the one han
na and on the other, indulgence, luxur
lie and unearned ease, and in the win
Ial ming change those qualities or hav
1y prevented them from gaining a foot
n hold, incidentally preventing th
nd evolution of that class, the priv
ed legged few with their interests.
In its original form, this pap'
no was of too great a length to mal
asst use of it in the allotted time {
ais that made haste to change its forr
as omitting those events, a general su
Ich vey of note worthy historical even
dy of the thirty -one Dynasties Of u