The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-07-21
Tiff WRITES ARTICLE
ON TRIP TO BOSTON

Alexander Hamilton and st. Clair were
involved. These 100000 were for
private speculation" and some old
wealthy families of today owe their
aff.uence to this great land deal we
may naturally suppose that the gentle
men politicians of that day thought
like the Hon. George Washington
Plunkett of Tammany Hall when he
declared that he wished but one in
scription on his tombstone: He seen
his opportunity and he took it.
Graft Before Today.
If we ponder over this we must
conclude that with all our modern
, graft, there is Others If we are
clamoring about the high cost OF
living" and thinking there never were
, such awful, awful times as ours, we
have but to run our eyes over the
pamphlets and newspapers of our
forefathers. In the good old days OF
"Jeffersonian simplicity they were
, grumbling about the l.igh prices, the
enormous taxes, the growth of luxury,
the decrease Of producers and the in
crease of consumers They were de-
nouncing "aristocrats" and, 'pitying
the people They were talking pan
t:socracy," which we now call social
ism. They were demanding equality
of property. They wanted to abolish
rents, interest and profits. They not
only wanted to repudiate the debt due
to France, but protested against pay
ing the arrears due the soldiers who
suffered and fought in the cause of
liberty. They had a debased and
rotten currency. Some Of the states
never paid cent toward the expense
of the general government. They be-
lieved in state rights. In view Of
these things, what are we kicking
about?
Tried for Smuggling.
In those days John Hancock, mayor
of Boston, was tried for smuggling.
He was narrow, pompous. vain and Of
fensively egotistical. He opposed the
ratification of the U. S. constitution
by Massachusetts until he secured an
iron-clad contract that he should be
the next Governor of his state, and
when he became governor he swelled
to such large proportions in his own
mind that to him Massachusetts was
greater than the United States and
he a bigger man than Washington.
When President Washington made a
tour of the New England states, Han
cock, of all the governors, alone re-
fused to meet the distinguished guest
at the borders and extend him a well
come. Washington entered Massa-
chusetts with no Official welcome and
spent a night in Boston with no Off.
cial recognition. Hancock thought it
Washington's place to call upon him,
for he was like that official in the
"Mikado,' Lord High Everything"
Never before was Washington so af-
fronted and never since has any pres
ident of the United States been so in
suited.
But Boston affords hundreds of
places which call up pleasant and in.
spring thoughts. If you despair, 90
to Frankhn's monument. erected to
the memory of his mother and father,
in the memory of his mother and
father. in the old Granary burying
ground, and read the beautiful tribute
paid by this illustrious son to his
parents. If you are skeptical 90 to
the Paul Revere House. the beloved
patriot The Ohio company and the
Hancock incident are but bubbles on
the surface. The cause of liberty lives
while we go marching along"