| Show ELMO SCOTT WATSON IE of the favorite beliefs of the american jp people probably because of the subtle flattery L of their intelligence rl rev aich it implies is that lincoln once said you can fool all the people bome of the time and some of the people all the but yon can t fool all the people ill the time although some persons confuse this quotation with P T bar ams the people like to be fooled ro bably ninety nine out of every hun ired who have occasion to quote tills algram believe implicitly that the cords are Lincol ns i but did lincoln ever really pay it lev W E barton ably the best GEN W T SHERMAN war a belll informed man on the life of lincoln oday whose investigations gave to the florid last year the truth about lin oens famous bixby letter recently set out to leum the truth about the fool the people quotation which 1 ald to have been uttered at clinton al 11 between the second and third boint debates with douglas hia con buslon in the matter as glen in an in a recent issue of the dearborn independent Is incorporated in the fol lowing statement to my mind the strongest negative Is not that so few people 1 earing lincoln gay those words but that if he really said them it clinton when douglas was not pres int he did not repeat apt a phrase n one or more of the five boint debates lie missed five excellent to use effectively an un lenla bly pat expression nevertheless I 1 incline to the belief that lincoln actually used those words t CORNELIUS vanderbilt i t the public be dam and at clinton the evidence Is far from conclusive but it Is not lacking in it sounds like lincoln and the occasion alleged la one in the kords might appropriately have beau used but if lincoln never this clever apothegm then it would almost to fool all the people all the lime fw all the people virtually believe these words to have been lin coin s I 1 if alie people remember that I 1 in coin said they coulden couldn t be fooled all the time because they like to believe that then lie public well abers that it vas once by a allt pr b bh because of popular poeju dice al street and roen of money alie public be damned phrase Is one over which there hus been much dispute it Is usually and erroneous il ascribed to commodore cornellus vanderbilt ander bilt and members of the family hae often dc nied that it was ever uttered by one of their number there has also been dia ute as to the circumstances under which it was uttered but the facts n the u are aliese ir william II 11 and erbit ot alie commodore 1 was on his way to Clil cago on a special train alie ABRAHAM LINCOLN you can fool all the people some of the time and conae of the people all the time but you cant foot all the people all the time late john sherman feature writer for the western union his death in 1025 then park correspondent for the achl cago tribune and his friend clarence P dresser aide park correspondent of the city press succeeded in board ing the vanderbilt ander bilt special when it stopped at michigan city ind tor water after the train was on its way they were admitted to sir s private car and granted an interview in the course of the interview mr sherman put this question to the rail road magnate do your limited ex press trains pay or do you run them for the accommodation 0 the public accommodation of the public 1 ex claimed mr the public be damned 1 we run them because we ADMIRAL W S SIMS we can start at once we mada preparations on the way have to they do not pay we have tried again and again to get the dif ferent roads 0 o give them up but they will run them and of course as long as they run them we roust do the same did general sherman ever say r Is hell according to one ver alon he made this historic declaration at a reunion of ills brothers brigade at caldwell ohio another says that he uttered it at the graduating exer dies of the michigan military acad ann cnn at orchard lake mich on june 1870 atie some Is only an abbreviated quotation theau th efu text of aich ie I 1 am elrd of war its glory Is all moonshine it iq only those who have neither a shot nor bieard the eariel s and groans of alie wounded chrt cry aloud for blood more xeng cance deo war Is hlll others main HORACE GREELEY go west young man oo 00 west tain that sherman never said it but that the was first nd by charles francis adams at the clr annual dinner or the canted crate veterans camp of new borte on january 20 1903 it has never been found in any of shermans Sher mans saying or writings so there you are horace greeley waa not the first to say go west young man go est 1 although history gays that he did the man who first said it was john L soule editor of the terre haute ind express in an editorial about the west 8 opportunities for young inen h declared that horace breeley could never have given a young men better advice than contained in the words go west young man thin wa stated merely as soule s opinion 0 what greeley might have eald but newspapers all over the country repeated the saying and credited it tc breeley I 1 anally tie famous calto of the new york tribune reprint ed scale editorial with this foot note hie expression of thie centi ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY you may fire when ready Grid leyl ment has been attributed to the edi tor of the tribune erroneously but so fully docs he concur in the it ches that he endorses indorses Indor ses most heartily the epigrammatic adrice of the terre baute naute express and joins in saving go est young man go west admiral dewey standing on the bridge of the olympia at the battle of manila bay and watching the on coming spanish fleet remarked egiy you may fire when ready grid ley so s history and it has be come one of our favorite quotations but in an interview published in the chicago evening post of october 29 1899 Is quoted as saying that the amerian policy toward aguinaldo Agul naldo should be straight from the shoulder plenty of force behind it that he did not tell gridley to alre when ready and that he does not want to be dent and it Is now known that lna did not stand before the tomb make GEN JOHN J lafayette we are herol on gesture and say la fayette we are here that arn ahn cocknel stanton of per stuff prowl before the tomb and ala incite la but it was soon onto the corn mandin and cien president allson in n speech before the I 1 rench cn cited it to pcr illing tie pi himself has denied eliat he said it he has denied that hia biter of fn an troops to general iichi was audo mudo in alie funn of the ills turc all that we have Is oars he did bay in 1017 many be beaten germany must he beitin germany be beaten aca a ISrl tIsh admiral asked admiral william S sims when tho first division of american could he ready fw bu lm ss lie replied f can ut once e made alons on lie dav or so the news t apers reported it at alie time tn e letter to the new york 1 dated I 1 21 1919 from london the admiral denied loly that the question was ciar him or that he ever made that reply |
