Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-02
es-Internationalist

| o'clock and lasted daily till long after
| dinner-Mr. Hughes rose TO crown his
life of service TO this Republic. The gall
leries had been applauding every attack
| made from the floor upon the interven-
zionist activities of the United States.
Mr.. Hughes had sat and waited The
Hughes of 1916 would have spoken first
in the amplitude of his Righteousness.
The Hughes of 1928 sat and waited, and
sat and waited until the attacks upon
the United States Swelled to their cli-
max and exhausted the stored reservoirs
of the philosophy and vocabulary of the
attackers. Then. not moment too soon,
but not moment tardily, he rose.
Then Takes Command
On his face there was no mark of
fatigue. It was evening. but he was as
radiant as morning. He was smiling. Re
glanced at the galleries with no anger,
with no discomfort, with no reproof. He
stood erect, unembarrassed, wholly url-
apologize. positively commanding, and
yet utterly companionable. The effect
was incredible. He dominated the hall
by his mere rising. He seemed like some
sort of superhurnan natural phenome-
non. The smile across his strength was
as If some unyielding cliff had gone and
equipped itself with an irlgratiating but
not misleading rainbow.
He began to speak. He evaded nothing.
He narrated everything, just as II nao
been. lust as 1t would be. Where there
was choas where there was no e1ec-
tive government, there was bound 10 be
Intervention. The cure for Intervention
from abroad was the establishment ano
maintenance of effective government 81
home. Let that effective government III
the future! The United States wouio
bury Intervention In the past
Nothing could have been franker.
There was In it no abatement wnatso-
ever of the proposition that. one way or
another there must be national ana IN
| ternational law and order IN the neigh
| borf1ood of the United States
I watched the floor and / watched
the galleries, The galleries were crowd
ed with well dressed and entirely IRE
| sponsible people who knew only mat
| thew were against intervention. The
floor was occupied by authoritative
| Latin-A American statesmen VINO nao al
ready granted TO Mr.. Hughes compiete
personal moral respect. They greeIeo
| his rising with courteous applause. Inc
Galleries greeted IL with silence. Half
an hour later galleries and floor together
were cheering Mr.. Hughes, sentence
after sentence, In tumult after tunult;
| and an American statesman Tor the
| first time In our history had toto 10
| Latin America the truth and had re-
ceived In return an ovation.
Few Equal Triumphs.
Few equal triumphs of individual per
sonaI,tY can be found written anywhere
/ ON the roll of. recorded human time.
| The Hughes OF what we call the prime
| of life would have been altogether In
capable of It. The Hughes who accom-
| plished 1t was the Hughes who has
| known how so TO control himself and
| how so in general to live his life that
| the moment Of the sere and the yellow
/ would be for him the moment OF the
most lavish-~and the lightest-blossom
| ing.
! I see Mr.. Hughes sometimes walking
down the street in Washington on his
| way 10 some occasional business there.
! / like best 10 note him when he Is
walking alone We used TO say that he
had dignity. Dignity" Is now a some
what discarded word for him IL ID
said that he has put on sort of NAL
csty That would not be 50 difflcut at
his age and With his gifts OF body and
weights of Office. What impresses and
charms me ig that as he walks, all by
himself, he may frown like Joye, but
he passes TO grinning out Of mere love
of living~~~iike boy II Is In the boyish
Charles Evans Hughes that see the
best proof that his years have been
venerably spent.