| Show NOT TENA5LE Noting Senator Plaits Idea that the I body of President McKlnley should finally rest in the national capital on account of the universal love and reverence rev-erence In which his name is held by I clcnce the people Christian Work thinks f that 1 our great men belong to the Nation that their last tlngplaces should be accessible to the people but It adds that Jefferson and Madison are burled in Virginia Webster in Massacliuaetts Clay in Kentucky Llndoln In Illinois Harrison Indiana Scott Worth and Grant in New York and now McKinley McKin-ley in Ohio and thinks this ought not to be I says there is an impressiveness ness and ouggestlveness Involving an appeal I tt high and lofty patriotism In visiting the tombs of the great men of the country which may not be lightly ignored It thinks Congress should take hold oC the muter and In the Capitol itself a crypt could easily be apportioned and made beautiful jy art expressing itself in marbles and by the use of artistic Illustrations whloh would create a Worthy chamber for the Illustrious dead of the Nation It then proceeds to say that the dead require but little space that they never encroach upon the territory of others and it would require but comparatively small space to serve the national needs for whole generation And It adds Witness what has been done for Eng lanfls greatness and for fostering the national feeling by the conversion of n portion of Westminster abbey to the purpose of a national Valhalla why the Poets corner alone Is a national heritage priceless to the nation worth more to it than Trafalgar or Blenheim Let us now at this time most appropriate appro-priate establish our own national nmusoleum In the Nations Cnpitol I where people from the four quarters of I the globe may study the lesson of American greatness seen in the lives of her sons and where Americans themselves them-selves may contemplate the genius and greatness which have sprung forth from American soil and come to ripeness ripe-ness and fruitage under American skies skiesI I seems to us that the writer of the above does not take the loftiest view England is only about half as big as one of our States and It Is well enough for her to have a Valhalla for her great sons when their work has been finished But this Nation is made up of sovereign States and when any I Slate has a son that has Immortalized himself for his country and that non Is called away the Slate itself Is made I I more sacred by having his body repose within its bounds We do not need to I neel Impress Outside nations our Nation has gone beyond that What we need to Impress Is our own children and It Is much better for the children of Illinois Illi-nois to all see where Abraham Lincoln Is burled than to have his remains put away In a mausoleum In Washington which not one in ten of them would ever sec At the capital the two great burial places the Soldiers Home and Arlington are exactly right They are dedicated to the soldier and sailor dead No more fitting place could be found for Logan and Sheridan and Cook and Porter And the others sleeping I sleep-ing in the graves that arc not marked the sleeper by thousands ought to have the same companionship In death that they had when on the storm of battle their souls took their flight But Websters sleep is sweeter up beside be-side the sea that he loved so much than it would be In a narrow crypt at the Capitol Could Jackson have had his way he would have claimed thc Hermitage as the very spot of all the earth In which he wished to sleep I la so with the others and when WP think of our country we take In Its whole history and we note the sacred i spots In every State where the Illustrious trious dead are buried We think It would be well to tx the crypt in Washington Wash-ington and put there a tablet for each 9UI of the illustrious ones with the name and date of their birth and death but let their bodies sleep In the States on the soil of which they grew and from which they won their first honors I |
