| Show A PRESIDENTIAL ARCH Jirom Chicago cornos a proposition to erect at Washington a monument to the late President on a scale which would Involve an expenditure of from 53000000 to 4000000 The proposition Is for a memorial arch of dimensions so majestic that It would require the creation of a new avenue and embellished embel-lished In a way that the great arch I would seem but a fitting crowning glory It Is lit part n good Idea but In involve in-volve many features which would bo difficult or execution When a great pathetic national calamity comes the hearts of the people are mightily stirred and inudh softened Could an appeal bo made right then there ore no doubt a million of iron and women who would gladly contribute contrib-ute 55 iach for such a memorlo1 arch But thp feeling swiftly passes by No death could bo much more pathetic than that of Gen Grant No son of the Republic ever performed services so great for his country and countrymen but the struggle to get the money to complete his narrow home on the heights above the Hudson became In the end almost humiliating Then there Is no great monument in Washington to any President except the first one JefKreon has none nor Jackson nor Lincoln nor any of the others The capital of the Nation has become the prldo or the whole people IL directly under the control of Con greps that body appropriates much money annually to be expended Ln further fur-ther embelshtnfr the city the thought is to have It fifty years hence the most beautiful capital In tho world The country IB i rich The national taxes are not a great burden upCn the people Wo can do nothing for the dead what honors we bestow upon their memories are for tho living Why then would It not he good for Congress to order a grand Presidential arch on which would be embocged the munea of nil our Presidents with room lefjt for thoee who are to follow What an inspiration It would he for evciy boy who might look at it To have a niche there and hli name would not that be world dying to achieve That Is the proper thing to try to ac complish The other would fall There might enough secured to build to the late President an Imposing monument but not more Then great as were the services of the late President there Is no more occasion to build him there a great monument than there is to build one to Lincoln Make It a Presidential arch and make I it a modern world splendor |
