New-York tribune., 1921-12-23
Ne,c York Editors Honor
Memory Of Wutterson
His tcrsatiIity, Vide Range Of
knnsciedge, Courage and
.fbilifv Subject of Comment

Editorial comment in this mornings
New York newspapers on the death Of
Colonel Henry Tatterson follows:
The New York Herald - Colonel
Watterson valued the past for its les
sons, but he never let it weight him down.
Tie was essentially an editor Of the day.
There was as much fire in the attack he
directed at the Hotcnzollcrns when he
was seventy-seven wears old as there
had been in the literary duels of his
youth. Even IN the last years Of his
editorship there was none who could see
more quickly the saiients Of an Issue,
none rho could pound them more ter
rifraly with the guns OF denunciation
and irony Of sll the great American
editors he was the most picturesque in
style. He invented more phrases than
perhaps any of his contemporaries.
The versatility OF the man was re-
markable. In two continents he had
met and known and studied everybody
worth meeting. He was welcome alike
in the political social and business
worlds. Scarcely topic could arise but
he had discussed it with its most
eminent advocates or opponents. Yet
none of these contacts ever disturbed
his own balance OF judgment. Great
ness interested but never awed him.
He had known more Presidents and
princes than any man alive, but to him
they were little more than interesting
human beings. Wherever be wert he
left bis own park-of kindness, OF
earnestness, Of cleverness; but the con
tact left himself unmarked. He re-
naincd the sano renry Wattcrson.
foi, ;c& ur,I rre.,fler1cO
The New York Timea-jn dwelling
upon the artist, We must not forget the
value as welt AZ the sttractiveuess Of
his work. IL took courage in 1872 for
Kentucky Democrat to advocate the
Liberal Republican movement. but he
was always courageous, even som netinle s
rash. He fought Democratic misgov-
crnment in Kentucky. He fought
Greenbackisr, and FREQ silver. His
service to revenue reform YES long and
notable. How lie used to thunder and
crupt against the Robbcr Barons, The
famoys dogma, a tariff for revenue
only,' he made SO much his own that
the authorship of It has been attributed
TO him. His temperament sometimes
got tho better If his sense OF hum or
or of realities, as, most consp,cuously,
in 1876 and 1892; beati rnemoria ex-
pectantes iudicium. But he was always
gallant, an active sympathetic
figure.
he " World-J journalism vas pro
fession to him which he treated with
distinguished respect, but politics waa
game to be played for the zest Of
playing it. One must not take it too
seriously and he must be good loser
as we'll as 81 good winner. Above all
he must not depend on it for his bread
and butter, otherwise one became
merely a gambler in government.
And so he went his way for sixty
years, lighting his battles bravely and
/ joyously, holiday soldier singing AZ
| he plunged into the thick of the fight
bearing no malice aud thinking as
| little evil as it is given to men te
think. When the> end came life owed
nothing. He had squeezed out tho last
drop of experience and could face the
Angel Of Death calmly and fearlessiy
az one who, like -Ahou ben-Adhenl, had
| loved his fel1ow-rien.