| Show I Henry Henry BY Cabot SAVOYARD Lodge 1 Lord Bacon asserted that a full lull man conference a ready Lady L Ladyman ady man and writing an exact man The senior senator from Massachusetts has haa read much conferred much anti and writ written written written ten much He is recognized as us the scholar in politics Not so able as DS John Sharp Williams nor so brilliant as E W V Carmack he has read more than either of them and doubtless car carries carries carlies ries lies In his memory more of or the history and the literature of ot the human fam lam family ily lb than any an other man now in public life He will never be rated is as great greata reat reata a man as Sumner but as a senator he serves his country better than Sum Sumner Sumner ner ncr Indeed Sumner in politics sub suh subtracted subtracted from the happiness and the tho weal of the American people Henry Cabot Lodge at the age of 25 21 was that fearfully endowed individual young a reformer an idealist a scholar rich a college professor a lawyer a historian a sentimentalist By the narrowest margin marin In Ia th he escaped the that en engulfed engulfed engulfed gulfed the Adams family young youn John Andrew young oung Lloyd Garrison young Sherman Hoar young oung George Georg Fred Williams young oung Josiah Quincy and old Josiah Walker Theodore Roose Roosevelt Roosevelt velt volt Mr lr Lodges pupil was another Republican youth who had incipient Mr Lodge Is a Yankee of the blue blood a grandson of ot the Hartford convention and the prose laureate of the Puritans There was an old Quaker poet in New England and a very e excellent ex ellent Ot oot he vis s too tao t o but he knew scarcely as much about politics as NIcodemus knew it f the sec see second second ond birth and yet he had the sublime temerity to call Daniel Webster Icha Ichabod ichabod bod for the greatest and most patriot patriotic ic speech Webster ever made Lodge was waa with the Quaker in that dispute put If Massachusetts had followed the I counsel of Rufus Choate and Robert Rober C Winthrop it would have been a great deal better for our ur country Henry Cabot Lodge was born In O OIn in the city of Boston He was wali wa graduated graduated graduated from Harvard at the age of or 21 and four years ears later he emerged from the famous Harvard law school i t 1 grad graduate graduate nate after which he was admitted to the Suffolk bar where many man of or the greatest lawyers the world ever sav saw had pleaded but lawyers like Ilka poets are born not made and 3 foon FJOn ion discovered that at the bar a man ilk tik Caleb Cushing or Ben Butler or Ellhu Elihu Root or John G 0 Carlisle or 1 John C Spooner or Philander Knox or 01 Joseph JosephW Jo ph W Bailey would make him look like and feel te l like thirty cents au very verv wisely he be abandoned the th profession for fol literature He is a very ery laborious man mOon and las has a genius for hard work worl He has infinite patience for tor research and Henry Henr Cabot Lodge would be an emi eminent eminent nent historian If Ir he were not such suc l a bitter intolerant partisan advocate The best thing he has ever done is his History of the English Colonies in America and that is as partisan as one of or John A Logans stump speeches For example when telling about the Salem auto da fe he the recriminations re that a witch was sent to the ducking stool in Virginia and another bound in to leep lepp her spells off the cows in Pennsylvania He Indulges severe animadversions in denunciation of slavery at the south but never hints that Massachusetts gathered Immense gear ne negroes negroes negroes groes on the coast of Africa to sell sd them th m on the coast of ot Virginia Eman Emancipation Emancipation in New England he traces to the benevolence of the Puritan charac character ter its deep religious convictions or orsome Orsome orsome some poppycock like that but John James Ingalls another r Yankee Was waa far nearer ne the truth in this declara delara declaration dc lara tion The conscience of New England never was thoroughly aroused to t the tho Immorality of ot African slavery until it ceased td tO t be profitable and the tho north did not finally determine to destroy the system until convinced that its continuation threatened not only their industrial Independence but their th lr po political political supremacy Exactly Exa And it f slavery slave had ha been as profitable In New England as it was supposed to be in the cotton c states stat s this blessed moment slavery would be In the green tree In this glorious union of ours land of the th free and home of If the brave Lord Macaulay shrewdly analyzed the Puritan pu character when h u I he said that the Puritans did ild not nor II ob oh object object to because it was was wis tor torture torture ture to the bears but be because It gave gage a I II I pleasure sure to the men who engaged erl in Jo it If Ie one will read all Henry Cabot Lodge has written of and concerning the Puritans and then read Mr lr Gas GolS kells hells account of the accusation con conviction conviction conviction and burning of a witch at Salem and then strike an average he will get a pretty good likeness lIk of ot cos co lonial Massachusetts i I am not indulging in wanton criticism criticism cism of Henry Henr Cabot Lodge I admire him for his talent for his learning for his industry and for his absolute sin sincerity sincerity It Is but natural that he should believe that a New Englander of the pure stock is made of a little better I clay than other Americans Just as it itis itis itis is natural that a Virginian should hold that the old dominion has a monopoly of all the blue blood in this hemis hemisphere phere pher p er Henry Watterson says that the are worth the Puritan I and the cavalier combined and Sena Senator Senator tor Lod Lode e says Daniel Webster who for tor a century was supposed to be bo was in truth of Puritan stock English visitors to our country who pretend to be educated are under the delusion that intellectual America is hi bounded on one side by the Penobscot and on the other by Long Island Sound Such historians as Senator Lodge Henry Adams and Morefield held Storey are responsible for or that impression Impression impression sion They are of the New England that erected a monument on Bunker Hill to immortalize a military defeat They are of ot the New England that swelled the roll of or the revolutionary army with the addition of corn cornstalk cornstalk cornstalk stalk militia who never smelled vii vil iI Iambus saltpeter They are of the New England that has taught old England that the American union is of unadulterated Puritan parentage 1 I do not blame them for tor this The south that fought Kings Mountain the Get tY burg of ot the revolution did not even preserve the muster rolls of the heroes of that glorious and momentous vic vie tory none of ot whom got on the pension roll nor has haa the south taken the slightest pains pans to tell history that Bouth Carolina under the lead head of or Moultrie Marlon Marion and Sumter shed more blood for tor our Independence than was spilled in all New England and Benn Tillman Tiilman is of opinion that not one of ot Marions rough riders ever made acquaintance with the pension roll that was padded with Massachusetts militia After teaching at Harvard Mr Ir Lodge went into and was twice a member of the legislature In 1886 he was returned to the Fiftieth congress and in 1888 he was reelected That was the first Tom Toni Reed congress The speaker gagged the minority and then unseated enough Democrats to give ghe the Republicans a practical working majority Then it was that Henry Cabot Lodge came to be a 8 figure in 1890 He brought in a bill to make it ille Jile illegal illegal gal for tOr the cotton states to return a Democratic majority One of the pro provisions provisions provisions visions of the measure was that the federal Judiciary of the south should do a stunt In politics the intention of which was to make South Carolina Mississippi and Louisiana reliably Re Republican Republican Republican publican and certain districts in other southern states also republican Speak Speaker er Reed Jammed the thing through the house and it went over to the senate where Mr Hoar took it in charge but hut about that time 16 to 1 became tam clam clamorous orous for and that fine old fellow William WIIlIam M Stewart of or Ne Nevada Nerada fad vada a went to the aid alil of ot Arthur P 1 Gorman German and the outcome was the death of ot the force bill and the birth of the Sherman silver law The Lodge force bill was designed to vitalize the fifteenth amendment Tho The effect of It if enforced would have been to put three states and communities of other states under the political dominion of ot the negro It was has the highest st compliment over ever paid to African slavery for tor the argument was that two or three centuries of slavery had so exalted the southern negro in inthe Inthe inthe the scale of civilization that he was now not only fitted for political part partnership partnership partnership with the white man but that In South Carolina Mississippi and Louisiana he e was vas of right entitled to t the ownership and the possession of o more than fifty per Pr cent of the capital of the firm B But t then Mrs Stowe toe towe took Uncle Tom born and reared a southern negro slave and put him In the class with Victor Hugos Jean Val VaI Valjean jean and Charles Dickens Sidney Car Carton Carton Carton ton And so it will wilt be observed that the highest eulogies ever pronounced on African slavery in our cotton states s came from a Massachusetts historian and a Massachusetts romancer But the south would not have sub aub submitted to the Lodge force bill It would have required an army ten times as big as the United States army then was to enforce it and the south was grimly resolved that if iC it was to 10 tobe tobe be ruled by the negro or the bayonet baronet ba net netI I it would choose the bayonet That I would have transformed our govern government government rn i ment m nt from a free republic Into a mil nill military Ita despotism And that was what this thid country thought about it for at atthe atthe atthe the succeeding election the south was solidly Democratic with the exception of three or four seats The Democrats would have elected the speaker if every southern Democrat had abstained from voting The New England delegation contained a majority of Democrats s The Massachusetts delegation had a majority of Democrats The Demo Democratic Democratic Democratic cratic majority in the house was more than twice the entire Republican mem mern membership membership a beggarly It was the completes political victory 1890 In our entire history when all the states voted The Lodge force bill the McKinley tariff bill and the Sherman silver sUver bill did the work and paved the way for tor the triumphant election of Grover Cleveland in iSO It was a disaster to the American people and andt to mankind when Mr Ir Lodge failed in his efforts to nominate Thomas B Reed for president In when the Republicans could have elected a a dog McKinley was partly dragooned and partly into the war with Spain Tom Reed was made of sterner stuff He could neither be fooled nor bullied In that respect he and Grover Cleveland were cast In the same mold There would woud d have hae been no Spanish war and Spain would have withdrawn from our hemi hemisphere sphere our friend The more than a billion the war and its consequences cost would have been kept at hore h r e to help develop our country which is scarce emerged in a comparative sense from embryo Mr lr Lodge was for the war and later for Imperialism He parted company with George F Hoar on that issue whose speech against expansion is the greatest effort that any statesman has been delivered of since Websters of ot March speech in m 1850 Senator Lodge is the author of our colonial policy and to do him jus justice ju justice tice one must confess that he im has maintained mal his position with consummate consUmmate mate ability and a lofty sincerity There never neer was but one argument in of our acquisition and retention of the Philippines and that is that it would lead head to ultimate federation of ot all aU aUthe the peoples and un unless unless unless less that results the Philippines wIl cost this country many billions mote more than the big war wr w r of ot cost It n Is not often otten that a eulogy over a dead congressman gressman co lv t to print but Mr Lodges eulogy of the late Senator I 1 Hoar is an exception It is an oration ration in the best sense of the word Perhaps it Is not equal to Tom Marshall on Richard Menifee or Richard on Henry Clay It is of a different or order order order der and with them Itis It s impossible to t compare it as an it cannot bo be compared with Lamar on Sumner for the same ame reason that It Is of so different an or order order order der Mr Hoar after ho made tb ac tc of the south was a It tie l man A grandson of R ge i iSh Sherman Sh and a son of Samuel Hoar ar lie was of the bluest blood of ot r Eng En I J F land and in congress until th thi last dozen years of his life his sentiments ts toward the south were as tow toward toward toward ard Carthage It was all due to his mistaken idea of the southern charac character character character ter The Hoar of 1875 hated Jeff Davis wit malignity of Moloch of 1895 admired loved loed aid hon hen honored honored ored Edward C Walthall as a brother broth r rAnd And it is scarce too much to say that about the finest tribute to southern character in fifty years fell from the tb lips of or George F Hoar Learned and wise as he was Mr lr Hoar was an old man before he learned I that George Rogers Clark was not he the I Clark who went with Lewis to the Pa Pacific Pacific ocean It only shows that New 1 England pays pa s little attention to the inc place in history George Rogers Clark was one of the greatest Ameri Amen Americans Americans cans As a military commander he wis W JS of the class of Marlborough and Wolfe WO e As a hero he was of the class of Rup Ruppert Ruppert Ruppert pert and Navarre of ot the white plume He saved the Northwest territory and was left to die of want Had he been bean of ot New England his monument would be Charles Sumner would have pronounced his Cabot Lodge would have writ his life Mr Lodge is one of the leaders of the senate His power is due to his high personal character his sincere convictions convictions his great greal talents his prodigious learning and his long experience Doubtless he has a life lease on his seat and if he has not he ne should have haveIt It W hi such men as he that have hae made mad the American senate one of the fore foremost foremost foremost most deliberative of all aU parlia panila parliamentary parliamentary history |
