The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1920-01-13

? Mr.. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
Of the Supreme Court hiss arranged
with publishers 10 bring out a col.
lection Of his addresses made from
1850 70 the present time. A man of
more varied and wide-ranging knowI-
edge has not sat on the FEDERAL
bench. and not only these addresses
before legal, civic and bookish So
cieties viii prove this; but the same
erudition not OF a strictly legal sort
IL used to adoTn his court opinions.
Let not the impression be gained that
IL In simply erudition, collated and
massed for didactic purposes. The
touch of the stylist is upon the work.
The form is prose. but the feeling
often is poetic. and always hu-
manistic even when most legal in
technical form Hence the plain lay
man covets the chance TO hear or read
him. so far is he from being a dry
as-dust." He had too witty. efferyes-
cent, imaginative, and sportive
father to become a prosaic. precedent
bound. lawbook sore of a jurist, as
Massachusetts, found out when he be-
gan to give judgments from her
bench. Besides be had the great
emotional experience Of fighting in
the war of '61-'65: and coming out of
Il he knew the life Of average men,
though born himself to the Brahmin
caste
Individualism may be conservative
or radical. and a journal in support
Of the latter type of thought IS soon
to appear In New York City. with a
former British Member Of ParIia-
nent. Francis Nelson, as one of the
editors. Recently he has lived in
Chicago. but there are those who
have memories Of him in connection
with theater and opera MANAGEMENT
in this country and in England
Long a convinced advocate Of taxed
land values after the preachment OF
Henry George. he did much during
his career in British politics to
further this propaganda and he has
cone IL in this country and in Can
ada since he came here in 1914. He
also is a fighter against secret do
plomGcy." Ills radicalism is OF the
nineteenth century British and
American sort. and he is hostile TO
the "servile state"
British politics. like American. arc
In a state OF fux. Leaders and the
rank and file are mobile. and new
1iiGnments impend. Sir +. Z. Smith.
hat was. now Lord Chancellor. with
the title Of Lord Birkenhead. is call
. ing for a new party to be called the
Nationalist" Winston Churchill
hints at the same need; and Lloyd
George is manoeuvering himself
where he can take advantage OF the
drift OF all the important Britons
who came 10 the United States dur
ing the war TO accelerate Anglo
American amity the present Lord
Chancellor was the most 'inept and
most infelicitous. and his stay was
even briefer than Lord Northclife's.
The statecraft OF Lincoln. on its
technical as well as It's moral side.
has been coDetantly cited by British
journalists and political leaders dur
ing the war as a model for imitation;
and now the Germans are reverting to
it for counsel to the allies in meeting
the demand for trial and formal pun
ishment Of the Kaiser that was. Lin
coin dealt. so they say. with Jefferson
Davis in a way that was both shrewd
and fundamentally wise. A Hohen-
ZOlleTn lndOe HldFlNT OF VIII maze
the task Of the German democrats
more difficult is their argument They
quote Carl Schurtz as an authority.
which recalls a man who had the good
fortune to die in due time. thus es-
Gaping much sorrow.
. Now and henceforth Il Is TO be
Col watterson. by the grace of
Gov Morrow. Il was thus that an
other militant Journalist. George Brin-
ton Mcclellan Harvey. won his
coloneIcy years ago when he was
Pulitzer renchmen at Trenton. y. J..
in the days when the Pennsylvania
Railroad named that States COVER
nors and United States Senators. II
does seem as If some Kentucky gov
ernor might long since have made
legal and contemporaheous what has
so long been colloquial and derivative
from the days OF the civil war and
reminiscent of the Lost Cause