| Show BO 00 MUCH FOR christopher it was certainly time lime that ihal something should be done far abe ll 11 memory of chi isto Iti it is lo 10 bo loped that the lie thirty guns gum fired off fur him on thursday in doston boston were some noine satisfaction satie faction to him they were discharged by uteri of of his who are anally proud that ha should bould liaro have been able iiller after it a search of only a few weeks to fiad a land where tile handorgan hand liand organ orgon had net er been bemid the italians il iliam ana ni a people have not prout tl much by this discovery not so BO much indeed as tile tie spaniard who go got t a potation by it which even now gilds their devey ill ray that colino bus bua was lorn born in anoa genoa entitles the italians to celebrate the great merit in antof of his lire life though why villy they exactly thirty hirly seven guns wo we jo do not inow columbus did nut bitcover dit cover the united that we partly found our solven bought boullit and gouged 1 lie mexican out of hadid ho daiil not even appear to ti know inow that there will was a continent here lie discovered the west indies chich lie thought were elie F east ast and ten guns would le be enough for them it its s lible that ho he dill did however hov revor ripen open the llie way to tho the discover di scovey of lie new world if lie ha had wit wailed red however else would have diabo discovered vered it perhaps some nod and then we might have been spared all the old french sod and wars war CON Coluni liui let tho the spaniards arda into tho the new cw world and their Us biffi uniformly bren been a curse to ie it if ho he had brought italians who isho neither at that ln howrd nor bioc lave shown haicl inclination to come should h hit had tho the opera operas and made it 1 j 0 by this thia time Q M b 11 j wait wa evidently eti dently a ferfon who liked tj ti sail hout about anatildo and dian didn t cilc much for I 1 I 1 perhaps it is ia not an open thing whether columbus col ambus did a good thing in first coming over here one that 1 we ought to celebrate with salutes an and dinners binnert the indians indian never thanked him for one party the tha africans africana had bad small ground to be gratified for the market lie opened for them here alere are arc two continents that had bad no use for him lie he led spain into a donee dance of great a which ended in her gorgeous ruin TUII he introduced tobacco into europe and laid the foundation for more tracts trace and nervous than alian abo 66 romans had in a thou and years lit ili introduced elie potato into ireland indirectly aid that i caused such a 4 rapid increase in creane creage of latin thil that the great gt eat famine was the result and an enormous enor mona emigration to new york hence benco tweed and hall and the constituency of the ring Julum Culum bua bux ij ia really fur far new york ile he in responsible for our whole ous oua experiment of democracy open to all corners the th best three in five to win we cannot tell yet how bow it is il coming coining out what with the foreign ere and tho the rod and alo wo men it is a great SEA stapo on which a comedy and tragedy in one place sit it being played with what denouement wi we cannot yet say if it comes out well we ought to erect a monument to christopher as high us as tile the one at washington expects to he be and we arc u it is is well to fire ere a 2 salute occasionally ilmoni Ilo casio oni nally is to anc keep 11 the arci mariner mariner in mind while we ar are 0 try trying ing our g great r eat ei experiment an and this hill rem rominda u that a he ought to have had bad a naval salute there is ie something almost heroic in tile the idea of firing off guns for a man who hue has been itono stono deaf for about four centuries it must have had a lively and festive sound in boston when the meaning of the aal salute uto was wag explained no one could hear those great guns without a quicker beating of the heart in gratitude to the great discoverer who vibo bad made boston possible we are trying to 16 realize to ourE ourselves elves the he import importance anco of the of october as an anniversary of our pe potential if any one want to ce low how vivid mid is the gratitude to columbus let him start out among our business houses with a a subscription raper paper to raico money for powder to bo be exploded in dishonor hm his honor and ye yet t columbus was a well meaning man mai and if be did not die discover cover a perfect continent he found the only one that was left Ijar furd courant |
