The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-28

that every man could see who had the
oandor to look facts in the face; but
It's accomplishment brought tasks
harder even than the tasks OF war.
:. @Hostilities slaokened-were almost
wholly done with before another
spring had come. No more troops
came over sea. The ministry In Eng.
land were discredited and ousted.
Every one knew that the proud
mother country must yield, for all her
stout defiance Of the world But q
long year dragged by. nevertheless, be.
fore even preliminary articles of &C.
communication were signed; and still
another, before definite peace came
with independence and the full fruits
Of victory. 49,. 49, 81 -.
shadowy Powers Of Congress.
Meanwhile there was an army to be
maintained. despite desperate tncom.
petence on the part of the congress
and 4 hopeless Indifference among the
people; and government to be kept
presentably sfoot. despite lack OF mon.
ey and lack Of men.
The. articles Of confederation pro
posed at the heart Of the wartime
(November IL, Tito had at last
been adopted (March /. 17s1), in
season to create at least govern.
ment which could sign treaties and
conclude = wars, but neither soon
enough nor wisely enough to bring or
der out Of chaoB. The states, glad to
think the war over, would do nothing
for tho army, nothing tor the public
credit. nothing even for the maintea.
anoe Of order; and the Articles OF
confederation only gave the congress
written warranty for Offering advice;
they did not make ito shadowy power
real.
Washington kesps HE Command.
It was beyond measure fortunate
that at such q critical time as this
Washington still kept his command.
still held affairs under tho steady pres
sure Of hts will.
Hin successes had at last given him
q place Of authority In the thoughts
and affections Of his countrymen In
some sort commensurate with his ca
pactty. and his vision in affairs. He
had risen to q very safe footing Of
power: among all the people az the
war drew towards It's close, filing
their imaginations. and reigning
among them as securely as among hia
troops, who for 80 long had felt his
will wrought upon them day by day.
His very reserve, and the large dig
nifty and. pride Of his steady bearing.
made him seem the more like hero
in the peoples eyes. They could I'M
derstand man made in this ample
and simple kind, give them but time
enough to see him in his full proper
tions. It answered to their thought
of him to find him too proud to dis:
semble, too masterful to brook unrea
sonable faults, and yet slow to grow
impatient, though he must wait .
whole .twelve.month to SEQ a plan ma
ture, or coax q half-score states ia
get q purpose made good. And they
could not deem him cold, though they
found him self-possessed, keeping his
own counsel; for was not the country
full Of talk how passionately he wa.
like to act at = moment of crisis ant
In the field?
AFear,ess Leader.
They only feared to lose a leader
so reckless of himself when DANCE,
was sharpest. "Our army love theil
general very much one of his officers
had said, "but they have one thing
against him, which is the little care
he takes OF himself in any action;
for he had seen how Washington
pressed at Trenton and at Princeton to
the points that were most exposed
thinking Of his troops, not Of him
eeaf.
:. The spirit. of tight had run high in
Warrington the whole war through.
Even during those dismal weeks Of
1776, when affairs looked darkest, and
he had: but handful Of men about
him as he all but fed before: Howe
through New Jersey, he had spoken,
as If in: the very pleasantly Of daring,
Of what he would do should things
come to the worst with him. His
thought turned to those western fast
nesses. he knew so we'll, where the
highlands Of his own state lay, and he
spoke calmly Of a desperate venture
thither. Reed he exclaimed, to one
Of his aides, my neck, does not feel
rs though it was made for halter.
We must retire to Augusta county, in
Virginia, and, If .overpowered. must
pass the Allegheny mountains"
-. . Faith In His Army.
And when the last movement Of the
war came. it was still with the same
feeling that he drew his lines about
Corvallis I'VE may be- beaten by
the. English" he said; 1T :. Is the
chance of war: but there IL the army
they will never conquer
':.The .privates are all generals, but
not soldiers" the gallant Montgomery
had cried, in his hot mpatience with
/ the heady .militiamen he was hidden
command; but it was not 50 in the
presence Of Washington, when once
these men had taken: his measure