The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-11-29

justice and fair play and by DISPOSE
ton to help those who have not an
equal chance in the struggle of life,
rather than by the spirit Of avarice
and selrishness.
A year or two ago in Frankfurt. Ger
many, I was talking with a cab driver
about the government and institu
lions of that city He spoke of them
with the highest praise and ended with
the statement that it was a very good
city for die geringe Leute" the small
people, the class to which he himself
belonged. That was high encOmium.
Let it be true of us.
Want Historic City.
Sixth, we want our city to become
historic. Beauty art, literature and
public beneficienCe will do much to
make it so, but besides this we want
its blessed memories to be treasured
and perpetuated. There are not many
cities in our state today that have
more history. Vincennes perhaps and
COrydOn, can antedate us, but it was
here that the national road first enter
ed the state and the first incidents
of pioneer life occurred which attend
ed the opening of that great highway.
next year by some pageant to per
petuate its memory. But most of all
should we honor the great men which
we can claim as our own. 1t is scarce
ly more than a mile from our western
limits and it will be within the limits
of the future Richmond. that the van
ished town of Salisbury stood where
Oliver P. Morton was born. The place
ought to be hOnored by a monument
with an appropriate inscription. When
you pass through the streets Of the
Italian cities you see memorial tab
let's. Here Dante lived; Here Tasso
wrote his Jerusalem Delivered: Here
Garibaldi fought: Here Arosto was
born" We have a tablet to, our sol
diers in the court house. We should
have more. We ought to have one to
designate the place close to the st.
Mary's church, on Seventh street,
where the Quaker Mendenhall demand
ed Of Henry Clay that he should free
his slaves and where Clay's crushing
rejOiner may well have cost him the
presidency at the next election and
changed the destines of our country.
We ought to mark the place where
| John Findlay wrote his 'HOOsiers
| Nest" where Morton made his great
speech on reconstruction. Indeed we
ought to honor Morton in other ways.
! The plaster cast in the court house
will crumble. We should have a bust
of bronze in the New Morton park
with an appropriate inscription.
Let us do such things that coming
| times may hold our city in blessed
memory In conclusion let us so act
that our children may speak of our
city in some such words as PeriCles
spoke of Athens. in that great ora
ton which set forth the character of
the city that he loved.
| Lovers of the Beautiful
TN the political language Of the
| day" he said, we are called a demo
cracy. for the administration is in the
hands of the many and not Of the few.
| But while the law secures equal jus
tice to all alike the claim Of excellence
| is also recognized; and when a citizen
| IS in any way distinguished. he is pre-
ferred to the public service not as a
matter of privilege, but as the reward
| Of merit. Neither is poverty a bar, but
a man may serve his country what
| ever be the ObsCurity of his condi-
| ton.
We are lovers of the beautiful yet
simple in our tastes and we cultivate
| the mind without loss of manliness.
| Wealth we employ, not for talk and
| ostentation. but when there is a real
use for il. To avOw poverty with us
is no disgrace; the true disgrace is in
! doing nothing to avoid it. An Athen-
| ian citizen does not neglect the state
| because he takes care of his own
household; and even those of us who
are engaged in business have a very
| fair idea OF politics. We regard a
man who takes no interest in public
affairs, not as a harmless. but as a
useless character: and If few of us
are originators. we are all sound judg-
es of policy, The great impeachment
to action is, in our opinion. not dis
cussion. but the want of that knOwl-