Show THE MAN WHO DOES I It cannot too often bo repeated that whether In the end Cromwells ambitions ambi-tions did or did not obscure the high principles with which they certainly blended yet he rose to supreme powerless power-less by his own volition than by tho irresistible march of events and because be-cause he was a man of the mighty days and equal to the days In this I world in the long run the Job must necessarily fall to the man who both 1 can and will do it when it must be 1 I done even though hf does it roughly or imperfectly It is well enough to deplore de-plore and lo strive against the conditions I condi-tions which make It necessary to do the job but when once face to face I with It the man who falls either in I power or will the man who Is halfhearted half-hearted reluctant or Incompetent must give way to the actual doer and ho I must not complain because the doer gets tho credit and reward President I Buchanan utterly disbelieved in tho right of secession but he also felt doubts as to Its being constitutional or possible to coerce a sovereign State I and therefore he and those who thought like him had to give place to men who II felt no such doubts It may be the highest duty to oppose a war before It Is brought on nut once the country is at war the mun who tails to support sup-port It with all possible heartiness comes perilously near being a traitor and his conduct can only be justified on grounds which In time of peace I would Justify a revolution The whole I strength of the English commonwealth I was In thf Independents Royalists Episcopalians Presbyterians extreme Levelers were nil against it When the Scotch declared for Charles II asKing I King not only of Scotland but of England Eng-land they rendered il necessary that either England or Scotland should be I conquered From Oliver Cromwell by Theodore Roosevelt In the April I Scribners i |