Show S No Death for Great Pioneer of Democracy racy Thomas Jefferson still survives has handed down clown to us e words as ns time the lust that Hint were spoken h by John Adams Let them be Le our text on on the one hundred and fourth annl- annl S s of the deuth of the two men At time the approach of the of the Declaration of Independence dence dente In 18 G the American people turned their eyes eJes and thoughts thought to two t aged fellow-citizens fellow Jefferson I the HI au- au author au author i au-i thor of the Declaration and lu IUS whom Jefferson himself had hael variously described as the pillar or of Its support ort c on the floor of of congress its ahle ablest t advocate ocate and defender our colos- colos colossus colos colossus sus sus our bulwark in debate The first had turned three eighty and time the latter Tas zas T as more inure than half wa way tray along 1 In his Ills ninety t n net car Although h It was vas well known that both were loCI luu lui feeble t to be Le Included In the Hie plans 5 which were ere forming for the lime public cel- cel celebration cel celebration 5 of that specially glorious lorio Fourth they the were present and upper upper- uppermost uppermost most In ever every mind und and the country looked with a certain awe upon those two living witnesses to the nations nation's birth those spared monuments of an historic past st Politics had divided and anel bitterly r estranged ed the pair but hut in their retire retire- retirement retirement retirement ment from ruin the llie political arena urena they had become retouched reconciled and ond had ll re- re returned returned re returned turned to their early curly esteem for each I h other when they the labored together together for Cor Cora fora fora a common end I always alwa's lowed loved Jefferson Jefferson Jef Jef- Jefferson ferson sa said hi Adams and mill of Allum Jefferson said only two years before he died Fortune had disjoined our affections but we re embraced re-embraced ell with cordialIty re recalled our ancient feel fI feelIngs feelings iD ings S and dispositions and e was forgotten forgotten but our first sympathies sympathies thies Adams Last Words Five days das before that fiftieth birth birth- lda iday of the Adams was WitS b by a n fellow tow In Quincy and II ID Invited el to join Iii in the celebration or of orthe the day It was plain pitta to be le seen that the nonagenarian nonn rould not accept the Invitation but Instead In he lie gave an his r calle-r tills this toast fur for the lie occasion I Independence Forever Fore The Fourth fame came While millions 1 of his Ills countrymen wore were Ing In tIm the day with Ith 1 pomp m mp and ami with shows gIH games s lS l'S sports guns gnus hells bonfires and Ill as us himself had hati ou on tile the t fir t Fourth 50 0 years eal fore before fore I tint and while tile the people of Quincy still lingered at atthe atthe atthe the banquet tuLle table where they had drunk his Ills toast their Illustrious neigh neigh- neighbor neighbor bor sank sack to rest from his long und and troubled life us the sun went down behind the Blue hills It was under those circumstances that he said salil us time tile watchers lq h by his Ills bedside under stood his ills last audible words Thomas Jefferson still survives Jeffersons Jefferson's Last Hours Jefferson really hind had lost that final race with his Ills friend of half a n century For Far he lie had die died near o'clock some flome six hours earlier As his Ills life ebbed his Ills last t l thoughts also were of the th Fourth The c evening before on oncoming oncoming oncoming coming out of a n stupor he lie inquired Is it the Fourth It soon will bo lie the doctor replied At 11 o'clock that night he lie milled n again aln and whispered inquiringly This Tills Is the Fourth Ills law grandson nodded a white lie and was rewarded b by a u sigh of I satisfaction All Ala I 1 Soon the mind of the sage a e wandered off to lo the stirring period of the II Bast nH Fourth Sitting up in hi bed he lie nt through the motions of writing and he was ns heard to mutter that the thc Com COlli Committee of Safet Safety should be he warned warnel A rebel and re revolutionary to the last Conse Conservative Conservative rog ress Ive John Adams erred In a u small wa way but spoke the lar larger cr truth when lie he said Thomas Jefferson still sur sur- survives survives vives Ives lie He survives even In unto this day when the count country marks the one onehundred hundred and und fourth fifty anniversary of the Declaration and the lie one hundred fourth of Its authors author's death Ills survival sUr is explained IJ by the last let let- letter let letter ter tel lie hie wrote on the subject of the Declaration Uon ten teu deas dea's before he lie died May 1 a it be to the world what I believe It to he le to some parts sooner to others later and finally dually fi nu II to all all the signal of arousing men to burst chains under which l ignorance and su- su superstition superstition su superstition had per persuaded them tu to hind bled themselves es and to assume the bless blessings ss lags Ins and security of self government 0 All eyes ees are opened or are opening to tile the rights of man The general spread of the light of scIence has already laid bald open to er e every view the palpable le truth that the mass of a II I 1111 have lune not been heen born with sad sad- saddles saddles saddles on min their bucks backs nor a favored ored few few booted booted and spurred read ready to ride rido them legitimately h by the time grace of God Contrast In Characters Fifty years ears had not rusted the pen of iO 70 Contrast that sentiment which I the author of the Declaration offered for his last Fourth with Adams Allums toast and we find finel the key to the secret of Jeffersons Jefferson's survival To Jo ore Ole or e the da day commemorated a n fight that was ended end end- ended ended ed and a n local fight at that for for American Independence Thus the conservative e holdin holding to the past To fo the other the fight had only begun and H 1 would go on until the masS mas'S massof massof of mankind had won wom i Independence hind had burst hurst their chains and anil the whole world hind had achieved self government self Thus the progressive looking to the fu future t u re Jefferson believed as as s stron strongly I ns as in the rule of an nn aristocracy aristocracy racy but of a real aristocracy And Ancl right here Is where where democracy cracy has failed him him most often In it its prone prone- proneness proneness prone ness to accept the rule of mediocrity In letters to tu Adams he set forth Corth his views on ou this tills subject Nature has wisely provided ro nn an aristocracy of virtue and talent for forthe forthe forlie the direction of the interests of so- so society society so society and ami SCATTERED IT WITH EQUAL HAND IIA THROUGH ALL ITS CONDITIONS CO There Is also an artificial cial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth without either vir vir- virtue virtue virtue tue 01 or talent May Mav we not even say that the form of government go Is the best which provides Iles the llie most for tile lie pure selection of these natural ariosto Into the ollices odices In general they the the people will elect the really good goud and wise else It for us if the lie moral and physical condition of our oUt own cIt cIt- citizens cit citizens qualifies them their to select the able aLle and the good for time the direction of their government go t Had Faith In People Does Docs not tile the more mere restatement of that hl h hope mope of the father of Amer Amer- American American ican dC democracy sound to us like biting bl Iron irony a hitter bitter satire TIt The of the people to choose the he best t Is the kl keystone In the arch of the lie demo democratic cratic system How lIow often do we fall to live up to J Jeffersons Jefferson's belief in us usi I Yet the basis of his political philos philosophy ophy was his Ills trust In the people and the whole of his Ills philosophy ma may be in a few words chosen from his writing The will of the majority the the nat nat- natural nat natural ural law late of every society is the only sure guardian n of the lie rights of man eyen this tills may army sometimes err lint hut Its Us errors are honest solitary and E short hort lived People Responded T Jefferson was ans the first responsible loll political tI leader nn anywhere where to hazard u I transfer of government O from Its an- an ancient ancient an ancient base haH on the shoulders of the privileged few to time the broader base hase of a peoples people's will it is difficult for forus forus forus us to Itna Imagine lne now how hazardous It was u-as for Cor that political pioneer pioneer to stake all his ambitions Upon an appeal to time the yet untrained Inexperienced In- In Inarticulate In Inarticulate articulate inert moss mass to trust them to respond to Ideas and Ideals and without the stimulus of bands and torches torch's It was a 1 hold bold act of faith and the people justified It h by follow follot- following ing tats Ills leadership for 25 5 years e as they never have e followed another Perhaps the people would meet that test as ns well now if another Jefferson should J pay n them the compliment of so great a n trust in their heir common commonsense sense James James Morgan In the Boston Olton Sunday Globe |