The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-14

ON the other hand. THE SUN APP
plauded Mr.. Cleveland's attitude on
the money question and his brave
stand against the mob in the Chicago
railway strikes OF 1894, when the Pres
ident used troops TO proven; the OBJ
struction OF the mails by Eugene Y.
Debs and his followers.
Dana was - years old when william
]. Bryan--whom THE SIN had already
immortalized as the Boy Orator OF the
Platte---was nominated for the Presi-
dency in 1896. but the veteran editor
went at the task of exposing the free
silver fallacy with the same b,ithc
Vigor that he had shown twenty years
before. His opinion, printed in THE
Sun Of August c, 1896. is good en-
ample OF Dana's clear style:
The Chicago platform invites us to
establish a currency which viii enable
a man to pay his debts with half as
much property as he would have to use
in order to pay them now. This propo-
sition is dishonest. do not say that all
the advocates of the free coinage OF sill
Yer are dishonest Thousands OF them
! millions. if there be SO many-are doubt
less honest in intention, But ! am un-
| able to reconcile with any ideal OF in
| tegrity change in the law which will
permit a man who has borrowed hun
| dred dollars TO pay his debt with hun
| dred dollars each one of which is worth
only half as much as each dollar he
received from the lender.
Dana's opinions on political ques-
tons were more eagerly sought than
! those OF any other editor after Greeley :
death, and THE Suns political news
| was complete: yet with Dana, and
with THE Sun. politics was. after all
only one small part of life. The whole
world, with its facts and fancies. no.
| the political problems OF one continent
was the real field TO be covered.
Dana's Travels and Amusements.
Dana's curiosity was all embracing
| After THE SUNS financial success was
assured he went abroad frequently and
saw not only western Europe but Rus
| STA and the Leyant. O these he wrote
| in his Eastern Journeys" He knew
| a dozen languages. He Conversed with
! the Pope about Dante and with Rus
/ sian peasants about Tolstoy. His
| knowledge of Spanish. acquired early
! in lie. made easy his travels in Mexico
and Cuba. Everywhere he went h
talked OF freedom with its friends and
encourage them. He knew kossuth
Mazzini. Garibaldi, Clemenceau, Mart
and Parnell.
| At home Dana's amusements were
chiefly literary and artistic-the study
of languages, history and belles-lettres
the collection Of pottery and pictures
His Chinese porcelans were perhaps
the, hest in point OF quality in the
world,
II am persuaded" one critic said OF
them, that Mr.. Dana must have had
most profound instinct in relation
to the whole subject"
| After Mr.. Dana's death these porce-
lains. about 400 in number, were sold
at auction for nearly 100000.
/ In winter Dana lived in a large
house which he built in 1880 at the
corner Of Madison avenue and Six
tieth street, and which held the art
treasures that he began to gather in
the first days OF his prosperity. Here
he kept his pictures, notably some fine
! specimens of the Barbizon school, and
his books, which included some rare
volumes, but which in the main were
chosen for their usefulness.
Dana's happiest days were spent a,
his country place, Dosoris. an island
near Glen Cove, on the north shore OF
Long Island. There, around a large
old fashioned square frame house, he
made roads and flower beds and
planted trees from many parts of the
world. lie grew an oak from an acorn
that was brought from the tomb OF
Confucius. He knew Gray's Botany
almost by heart and could give an init.
mate description OF every flower in the
Desoris gardens. His interest in plants
was SO deep that once while travelling