Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-04-28
WORLD NEEDS SOMETHING OF
TINE SPIRIT OF GENERAL GRANT
PRESIDENT Says I'm ADDRESS
tBY THE ASSOCIATED pREss.l


Point Pleasant, O.. April 27.-The
The world today needs something OF
the spirit of General Grant, Presi-
dent Harding declared today in an
address at exercises commemorate
ing the one hundredth anniversary
of the birth here of the great mill
tary leader.
II sometimes wonder" the pres
ident said, "if the magnanimity of
Grant. the dogged, persistent, un-
alterable Grant in warfare-the
unconditional surrender Grant
would not be helpful in the world
today. The great struggle, which
we might reasonably designate to
civil war of western civilization,
and in which we so creditab bly, ana
helbfully participated, left people
and nations PROSTATE. hardly
knowing which way to turn for
restoration. | cannot help but be-
lieye that something of the spirit
with which Grant welcomed vic
tory, something OF his eagerness
to return to peaceful ways, would
have speeded the restoration and
fastened the return to prosperity
and happiness, without which
there can be no abiding peace"
Military Hero.
Mr.. Harding paid tribute TO
Grant as ''the military hero of the
republic; commanding figure in
the military history of the world;
the surprising example of magma
nimity of all times: the most strik-
ing example of the possibilities in
American life; the confident and
relentless commander in war, and
the modest and sympathetic petit
toner for peace after victory.
at is fifty-seven years since
Grant garlanded victory with mag
nanimity 1t is thirty seven years
since he laid down the wearied
photographers pen and made his
one and only surrender. His fame
is secure. The republic has not
forgotten and will not forget.
What of the republic itself?
1t will not be unseemly to say that
American example and American
conception of justice and liberty
since then have influenced the
world little less significantly than
Grants service to the union shaped
the course of our land.
"A score of new republics have
unfurled their flags and democra-
cy has opened new avenues of
liberty and made justice more Sc
cure. Civilization meanwhile has
made such advances that there has
seemed divinity pointing the way.
And yet that very civilization,
more advancing than entrenched
and in wars aftermath established
order has been assaulted and rev.
olution has threatened throughout
the world. In our own land the
enemies within have been more
than those without.
Greed and anarchy have menaced.
But q calm survey gives every re-
assurance. Twenty centuries of
modern civilization could not have
been builded on foundations which
are false. A century and a half of
American achievement
dates from the sacrifices of the
founding fathers, and their firm
structure was preserved by the pa
LAWS nilOItt vi AM
and will be held secure by the pa
triotic citizenship of the republic
today and the grateful Americans
OF the morrow"
His Fame Is secure.
Declaring at the outset that he
had pondered over the attributes
Of the character OF Grant. the
president said the union leader
looms majestic in the blend of
them all-his fame is secure"
In the supreme moment of VIC
tory with the union saved at un-
utterable cost, he seems to have
surveyed the many disappoint-
ments, the measureless sacrifices
and the indescribable SORROWS. He
felt the assurance of the nation
preserved and yet the one sweep
ing utterance from his great heart
was let us have peace"
Saw Union Follow Disunion.
Many years later. when his life
vas e5bing, and he struggled to the
md of his memoirs, all the Ameri-
AN people knew OF his brave fight
md the inevitable outcome.
He saw union follow disunion,
'ut it was not his to live to see
concord where discord
lad flourished. l wish he some
low might know that in the more
nan a third of century since his
ne and only surrender, the indis-
oluble ties Of union have been
more firmly riveted and in tho |
hared buIdens and triumphs of |
american prOpress wn have indeed
continued at peace at home. Geo.
graphical sectionalism is only a
memory new, and Mason and |
)ixon's limo remains only a histor-
cal record, where an ambiguity In !