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Show I Alexander Hamilton BBj Speech by Hon. Samuel W. McCall, Member of Congress. H 9 "It Is proof that Alexander Hnmll- H b ton has taken his place among what H L vve call thu Immortals when moro H ' than a century and n half nfter he H came Into the world and more than M i a century after ho left It his birthday H ., la cclcbiatcd In bo many places H 'h throughout the nation he did so much H I to establish. In a strict bensc, It U H f ' the beginning and not the ending of a BBJ ! career which wo rommemorato to H I night. Tlio beginning Is enveloped In H . hope and fear; It has nil tho chnnea H of failure or success, while the Mid H ! has tho certainty of achievement; tho H J dangers li.ivo been panscd, and the H ! completed record is spread In tho BBl clear light Lcrd IloBcbcry said upon Al the hundredth nnnlvorsay of tho death Al of Hums that It was perhaps more BBJ fitting to celebrate tho end and not Bfta the beginning, for 'the coming of BBl these figures is silent. It Is then M passing that we note.' And ct we find ourselves tonight as If wo stood H on tho day of the birth at Nevis fit BBfl led with the spirit of prophecy -ui'l looking forward, tracing tho full BBJ flight of the spirit until It came to BBI Its rest. Wo feel the fresh hopes of BAa the coming and gathering shades of BBB tho going, the dawn and the sunset and all the gldiy that lies between BBB them, and we seo, too, tho walkings of tho great test of time, tho estimates fl of the later generations of men. So BBB -when we celcbrato tho beginning we M celcbrato It for what came after; wo celcbrato tho llfo and tho deeds of BAB the statesman, not merely as thov M were unrolled but as they appear in M the light of their lcsults . M "When men deal greatly with the H eternal human problems, so far as H such problems may bo eternal, th"y BAVj aro apt to Involve their fame In al BAVJ most eternal controversy. They put H It on tho ebb and flow of the over- H shifting tides of opinion. Sj stems of BAV government are fundamental In their H Importance. They involve questions BAVJ upon which men always havo differ- H ed and probably alwajs will differ. BAVj Those differences aro greater wheio H a s)stcni Is not tho slow growth of BAVj rentuiles and adapted by tlmo to con. BAVj dltlons, but Is a creation contrived at BAVj ono tlmo and set In motion by a stit H glo group of men. It was Hamilton's BASj fortune to bo Identified with basic BAWJ theories and basic policies of govern- BAWj ment perhaps more closely than any BASj other statqsinan In our hlstoiy. Al a BAS time when we had no leal I'odoiul authority and the affections of sv BAVJ large majority of our people were ecu BAS tcrcd upon the states, hu was tho ASBj very, genius of iuitIoiuillt He, mo'c BAS than any othed man, was the aggros- BAVJ slvo champion of a cents al govern- BAV ment strong enough to establish with ASBj certainty a ical unity among tlio BAVJ States and to put an end to the din- BBS coidant policies, the weakness, and H even annichy which then existed Ho i breasted the pride of p.itilotlsm held K toward 111 small nations He shocked BASJ the prejudices of men nnd achieved BHfl a political hostility which has not H, even now wholly dlsappcaicd Am) B then in that most ei ideal time when BBB tho Constitution was to be put In tip- BBB eration as a practical mechanism, H when tho invention, which was only m i.un iitiiivi, 1113 IV lit) CJCJIltt'l U'U 111 I tj H, a living Instrument and the1 new ami H untried svstom was calletf upon lo H meet the most delleato questions it BASj foreign pollcv 'and almost Insuper BASJ able tllf I lenities in our domestic af- BASj fairs, Hamiltou was piccmlncut in BASJ tho pan he took In setting the wheels BASJ of the government In motion and BASJ starting the new nation In the tight BASf direction. It requited two generations BASJ to win foiglvencss for the command- BASf lug part ho played to secure a nation- BASf allt.v which should havo no amblgu H ity about it Until the civil wni had BASfj defined tho nation to be what Iluinfl- BASE ton dcslied to make it In tho flist in- BASf btnnees, and what he strove to muko BASE It In Washington's admlnlstintton, the H estimates of the character of his work BASK wero almost equally divided between H violent nbuso on tho ono side and s BASK violent panegyric on tho other Thus S more than that of any other of out BASS statesmen his famo has been in dan- S gcr of partisanship both from frlcnJ BASS BASS "In what may we best see the ihar BASS acterlstic quality of his statesman B Bhlp? To my mind It Is In his swift K aid unerring comprehension of com- K plcx and difficult situations and the B surprising rapidity or bis genius In BpB providing a remedy Uo was not aM what might bo called a political phil H osopher; at least ho wasted little time B In evolving abstract theories of gov- BBVB emment. Hut ho brought his mind to BBVB hear upon exact conditions, and In B dealing with them ho showed hlmse'f BBaB to bo the greatest pradlcal statesman B Amorlca has ever produced. The bar K est outlino of his work will sliow Its BBH remarkable character Hb "When called to the cabinet ot EBj Washington, it was not to admlnls B .flBk. ter an cxlstluK Institution but to BK BBBBBi one It was necessary that tho BbBBbBBBBK government should have Income, that HfLw,.,' . BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBt It should have fixed the ways ot collecting and paing out mouay; myriads of details wero to be provided provid-ed and grea tflscal policies to be adopted In tho five years when Hamilton Ham-ilton was at Hi. 3 treasury ho cstnb llsl'cd that Institution for all time. The most convincing arguments used In tho campaign of ItsbO against tlio silver monometnllstn that waB put forth under the name ot blmetallsm wcio drawn from Hamilton's report upon the mint, In which ho established establish-ed tho double standard. Ills funding of tho debt against n powerful opposition oppos-ition cieatcd that marvelous thing, the ci edit of the United Stntes, mid thu assumption of tho state debts gavo a most needed strength to na-tloimlltj na-tloimlltj Ijj lending public creditors to look to the national government In stiad of to I lu binte HU report upon up-on the b.ml. lemilfs today i a nod el foi a sound banking J.vstem lu his loporl on manufactures he mail;-ed mail;-ed out such an iudus'i'ial tuition as his country flnnlly came to be. "Hamilton wns, in fact, Washing ton's prime minister and took the lending pait In tho Impo.tnnt wor.c of tho other department When the unr camo between Circal Britain and franco there was a popular clamor almost 'Tcslstlblo in favor of our taking pan In tho stiuggt.1 I'pdcrMr. Jefferson's policy wo should havo been swept into the vortex as an ally to Franco. Hamilton was, under Wash Ington, the aggressive forco which brought about the resolution ot neutrality neu-trality and saved us from a war that would have threatened our independence. indepen-dence. Ho hud leveled at him the tnunt terrible in thosu times that ho wiib a friend of England. Hut when English ships began to carry our commerce ho Instantly mado ti report to Washington recommending the fortification of our harbors, tho raising of troops, nnd preparation for war. No country ever had a truer or a more vigilant friend, nnd when her Intel ests wcio threatened ho was ready on the instant to champion them against I'lance or England or the world. "It was a fortunate thing that there weio then two schools to combat each other the school of Hamilton and tho school of .leffcisou hut It was even moro foitunnto that tho school of Hamilton had absolute dominion during the flist. eight ycnis. Nothliu less nggicsslvo and strong could have coped with tho appalling difficulties diffi-culties of that time It was necessary that a haul Impact should be made upon the governmental chaos In aider ai-der to sat tho now orb grandly mov. lug Hail the opposite school doinln ated at tho beglnnlg, Its motion must have been feeble nnd erratic, and It Is doubtul whether tho government would havo continued for n gcucia-tion gcucia-tion "I have spoken of the attitude ot Mr .leffeison toward neutrality Mr .leffeison was a groat philosopher, an unrivaled politician, but lie was dream and contemplative, where Hamilton was practical and dlreet; and It was not strange that he r.no ly agreed with tho policies ot the latter lat-ter Tho difference lu tho mental op- VIHUUliB (II IMU l' I11V11 ttitB uuu stuiitly showing ltfelf, and It is well Illustrated by their dlveigcnt vIovvb upon l'rnnce. Mi .lefferBon for the five eais preceding 1790 was In Franco as our minister. Hamilton was novcr there lu Ills life, nor, In deed, nuvwhero outside of A m elk' a and tho West Indies Two jeais be-foio be-foio the rtench Revolution Jefferson mado a tour of Fiance, carcfull In vestlgating social and political conditions, condi-tions, and he wroto very amiably and phlloboplilcallv about them Hut, ks Mr Oliver sajs, ho passed over tlio ciust of the lava without reporting an) sign of danger, and even after the fall ot the Ilastlle ho did not ap pieclate tho gravity of tho crislB Vol Hamilton, before tho nows of that fvont had reached America, wroto a letter to l.nfavcttn forcibly pointing out tlio elements of danger in the French situation As Tnllcvrand said, Hamilton 'divined Europe.' Ills Biiro penetration and bis colcrlty of action reminds one of nothing so much as ot Napoleon In his early campaigns, wheen ho astonished men by tho energy en-ergy of his genius. "Hnmllton had In him very llttli of tho mere political theorist, of tho kind of man who will unravel theories theor-ies of government whllo jou wait, who will open up beautiful vistas but when jou ask for a remedy will bo nebulous and vague. He had an Instinct for tho real difficulty; his eo would Instantly penotrato to tho vital point, and ho would politico down upon it as unerringly as nn caglo upon up-on its prey. For him to think was to act. "Nearly all men wero Impressed by tho grave perils that onvolopod tho country after tho treaty of peaco Most statesmen were overwhelmed by them, but Hamilton mado himself a mighty force In our deliverance by nt .... i once proceeding lo work for a central cen-tral government. Ho Is criticized for hnvlng proposed a constitution with strong centralizing features; but na It not Just such a government ns a great practical statesman would havo proposed to meet the evils of that time? Hy bis vehement stand It (3 probable thai the constitution vvaa given tho strongth that It finally had di.a has only to glance superficially atVtho condition of anarchy that per-vaded per-vaded the country for a half dozen ears beforo tho constitution was es tabllshed to appreciate the course of Hamilton. "There was nominally a contra' governtT'iit, but It had no real pown. It had made a treaty of peace lecog-nlzlng lecog-nlzlng our Independence, nnd It wa3 unable to cairy out its obligations In spite of Its agieement, States wrra lasslng laws in the veiy teeth of tho treaty, and I.o)allsts whom tho confederation con-federation had agreed to protect wer' hanrod and shot and beaten nnd robbed. rob-bed. I.nws wero passed by the dlf-feient dlf-feient states making it difficult fir Uiitlsh merchants to collect debts. Tho soldiers who had fought on the fields ot the Revolution were unpaid nnd dissatisfied; States wero levying tariffs against each other, wero disputing dis-puting with each other over claims, furbishing up their flintlocks, nn I somo of them were upon the brink f wnr. They were hopelessly In debt nnd had nothing resembling public, credit. Poverty wns general and trade and commerce wero near tho point ot extinction. 'The one unfailing resource usually usu-ally called Into play when public crad-It crad-It Is gone was still left; they could 1-"-suo paper money, nnd the printing presses were set In motion. There wni Indeed nn era of mngnificcnt prices. The farmer received $4 a pound for his meat, but when ho desired to bu.v a suit of clothes he was compelled to eairy his money with him In bales. This i'iato of things could not havo lontlnued much longer without civil' wnr nnd the destruction o four Independence Inde-pendence either by force from tho outside or as a result of our own ap- peal tosome foielgn nation to deliver us from anarchy. The only thing that could deal with this condition of chaos was .i central government which should have certain Jurlsdlc-J tlon over tho common concerns and l.o strong enough to stand before the woild ns n nation. Hamilton, with his practical statesmanship, dealt his blow at the vital point. Ho propose I o meet fully tho conditions that then exist' d; ho proposed to put f It bo jond question that the laws of the National (loves nmeut should operate upon Individuals and thnt states should not have the power to nullty national laws or national tieatles. Under tits plnn neither Mi .leffeison nor Mr Madison could have drawn up Vhglnla or Kentucky resolutions It. which the doctilne of nullification was Marcely veiled and which lent sticngth to the foioes of disunion If It hnd not been for Ills powerful ap peals aft. i the convention in his speeches and In the Federalist, It N probable that the constitution wr.uld I novel have beiu ratified, Just as It U piobab'e that It would never havo been adopted but for his effoits be-1 foio the convention was held 'Uo i. Jo told toda) that he proposed too a long a central government, lu lUC 118111- U! Hie IIUVUIUIHIII'UI WHICH il eenturv hns given us, It Is piobablu that he did, hut he was ver) frankly for the nation. Ilo had seen enough of Kl Independent sovereigns operat nig under n single confederacy. It tan nt least he said that no war would have been ncreas.u) in order to ad-Judliate ad-Judliate his meaning 'The Constitution has shown ltt sufflclene) to maintain n nation, lm cnusu It has been developing In the direction ot Hamilton's Idea It Is icitalu that as construed b) Madlsru and others of the great men of ttu't time, It did not clearly fix tho re lrtlous of the nntlrual government to the states. Tho Virginia and tho Ken tuck) resolution end tho Hartford convention lefloct the opinion, very commonly held before 1831, thnt tho states undo' fertain conditions might nsbumc to nullify national laws. It was left to the eloquence of Webslev to mnUo popular the Idea of union and the con plete ttipiemac of tho Nntlon-nl Nntlon-nl grvprnniont vlthln Its sphere to an-Imrto an-Imrto mliilt ns rf ii.cn to rally bchluJ Lincoln In support of that certain nationality na-tionality for which Hamilton had contended. con-tended. "Thero has boon an lmpoitant ex tension ot national powers by reason of enlarged construction, changed con dltlons, nnd tho great increase in the Importance of tho subjects to which those powers wero drlectcd .Somo of us think that dovclopent has gone too far. Through tho power of taxation, taxa-tion, tho regulation of commerce, and tho other expressed and Implied grants, and through the final supremacy suprem-acy which war has decreed ,tho cen tral authority has groatl? roduced tin practical Importance ot tho states. Thus the genius ot Hamilton aston tshlngly persists oven In that portion o this play which v.'as most generally disapproved. Thero has been with the lapso ot tlmo some shifting of sides, The most cxtrome cucioachments upon up-on stnto powers are somo times pro-ed pro-ed or sanctioned hy his theoretical enemies, who each year piously and with mnny prnyers render homage to his great political foe. Jctfcrsonlan In theory, they would carry tho centralization cen-tralization of Hamilton to practical lengths of which ho probably never dreamed. "Hamilton wns very Httlo of a politician pol-itician and certainly not n great par ty leacr. He was too direct and car-nest; car-nest; ho wns no master of Intrigue; nnd If ho could not manage men by nn appeal to reason ho could not manage man-age them at all. He could not cajole nnd flatter, not pietend to listen nnd sympathize when he did not believe. Ilccntlrcy lacked the pose. Ilo could not fado into the dim distance vvhju tho tlmo came for bearing an unpopu lar l responsibility .He wns ready biavely to avow what ho did. After his party, under his leadership, hau accomplished Its great work It win scarcely able to maintain Its organization, organi-zation, but tho results of his Ideas smvlved lu the existence and growtli of tho nation. 'Ha vvtiB a fervent believer In free government. Ho would have men breathe the mountain air of free institutions in-stitutions nnd develop by liberal law as povveiful and diversified state such as alone should occupy our superb su-perb domain. Ho would havo ill power proceed from tho people, but so proceed that It should not reflect meie Impulse and Immature opinion lending to bad government, and thir, mnko necessary tho reaction to a le liberal form. Tho checks and llmlat-tlons llmlat-tlons upon such hasty action as ho had so often seen tho states adopt ho believed wero necessary to tlio stability nnd bucccss of a frco government. gov-ernment. "His policies led to nn amazllng and mnny sided development. Instead of having a nation composed only ot cultivators, ho aimed to develop a nation na-tion of cultivators and artisans, of merchants and traders; ho content-plated content-plated a borrowing nnd a lending, an agricultural, a manufacturing, and a commercial state, In which all classes should contribute to tho good of tho .whole. Ho would not havo a sjstem under which the few could oppres3 tho mnny nor the mnny oppress the few, and to that end ho advocated representative rep-resentative government. " 'The ancient democracies,' he said, 'never possessed one feature of good government; their very charir ter was tyranny.' Under their s)stcm 'of direct government 'It becamo a matter of contingency whether th" people subjected themselves to b." (led blindly by ono t)rnnt or by an other.' In the Interest of real free dom and of popular rights ho bellev- 'ed profoundly in tho icpiosentatlve .8) stem. J "He ensil takes his place among the grentest statesmen of hlstoiy, but I Imagine he would have made an even moso superb nod classical figure fig-ure if he could at the same time have been a member of one or tho other of our Houses and of Washington's cabinet nnd have Identified with 113 policies his blending. of speech and action there Is something wanting full to season the famo of a r.tates man to our iuhciited tastes taste i which 1 think still Huge-. In us dc spite an aitlflclnl dlstilbutlon of the functions of our government. Tho executive thuiideis n niess.igo at ton gress fiom one end of the avenue and Congicss ioars hack Its answer In speeches from tho othct, nnd prob ably each a little moio loudly because neither p.utit'lpates in tlio entire transaction, tran-saction, and because tho wholo event is not centered lu ono place vvhcie tho leuders on each sldo contend for tlio Irkuo. Such a system woiild havo Inci cased the appeal which Hamilton makes to the Imagination. Ho undoubtedly un-doubtedly was a very great dobarei. Ills achievement in tho New Yoilt convention would alono establish that It Is true that events outside power-full) power-full) aided hlin. Statu aftor utile had ratified and while tho conventions conven-tions wns still sitting Now Hampshire furnished tho declslvo vote, and Virginia, Vir-ginia, for good measure, was added, It was haidly crcdlblo that New York then only tho fifth stato in population, popula-tion, should remain out of tho union, with Ilhodo Islnnd for her only company com-pany In tho north. Hut even then tho conversion of nn assembly which began be-gan moro than 2 to 1 against him was an extraordinary achievement, ills whole career as a wrltor and speaker speak-er demonstrated that his powers of reasoning and expression wero remarkable. re-markable. He would havo shown himself him-self In congress unsurpassed as a debater. de-bater. I doubt that he would rank so high as an orator. Ho did not havo quite tho requisite touch of lmagin atlou and tho genius of coloring. I question If there enn bo found In his speeches nnd writings passages which schoolboys learn with pleasure and which haunt nnci sweeten our memories memor-ies throughout our lives, passages su b ns aro scattered through Burke and Wcbstor, and that carry you uj-on uj-on an easy wing as does that one from tho Thinker Hill speech "Let It I risol let is rise, till It meets tho sun In his 'coming; lot tho earliest light of the morning gild It, and parting day linger and play on Its summit.' "In ono respect no statesman waa over mere fortunate than Hamilton. 1'iobably he would havo produced bis flnalclal nnd economic policies without with-out tho aid of Washington, 'but ho never would havo been able to put them Into effect Washington wns tho greatest man of his tlmo. Ho has been surpassed by many other men in some slnglo element of greatness, liut thero was novcr In any other man Btich n blending ot great qualities, each in its duo nnd exact proportions, and ho had a regular and balanced genius that makes him unique among all figures of history. In tho most trjlng times ot peaco and war ho had roWalcd himself to his countrymen country-men and they knew him ns ho wa3. Thus he had a degree of authority among masses of the people which wag probably never attained by any othjr statesman. Tho policies of Hamilton Ham-ilton were cnirlcd by tho magle of Washington's name, ami thobe policies poli-cies wero so out ot touch with the Ideas and passions of tho times that even the Influence of Washington was none too great. Washington know Hnmllton ns only ho could know one who, during" long )enrs of war, hid held the most confidential place upon up-on his staff. He knew Hamilton's strength and weakness. He know how to direct and restrain him. His marvelous mar-velous good sence could provldo tho needed touch to make tho difference between success and failure. Thcry wero no two gieat men. of history whose careers were mere intimntoly blended. What a fortunate thing their union wns for America. When wo regard tho ono wo are sure to think of the other. Wo look upon tho grandeur of Washlngton'B fame with the awe and reverence which a near approach to perfection inspires. Wo do not find In Hamilton that balanced greatness. But ho had creative qualities quali-ties In which he stands peerless among our statesmen. He survives today In tho very structure and fiber of tho nation and of its government And his countrymen oven yet feel the light nnd heat of his 'splendid genius." o i Do not allow vour kidney and bladder blad-der troublo to develop beyond the reach of medicine. Tako Foley Kidney Kid-ney Pills. Thoy give quick results nnd stop Irregularities with surprising promptness. Coop Drug Co. o NOTICE TO WATER USERS. Stuto Engineer's Otflce, Salt Lake City, Utah, January 15, 1012. Notko is hereby given that M. S. Urownlng, whose post offlco address is Ogden, Utah, has made uppllcntion in accordance with the requirements of tho Compiled Laws of Utah, 1807, as amended by the Session haws of Utab, 1009 and 1911, to appropriate twent) five (25) cubic feet of water per second fiom Sheep Crock, Cache County, Utah. Said water will be dl-voi dl-voi ted at a point which bears south 53 degrees 67 minutes cast 3,013 feot distant fiom the northwest corner of Section 24, township 9 north, rango a east, salt i.aKo oase and meridian, from whore It will be convoyed by means of a pipe lino fur a distance of C.OUu tcet nnd there used during tho period from January 1 to December De-cember 31, Inclusive, ot each )car, to dovelop power for tho purpose of electric lighting nnd propelling machinery ma-chinery nt Ogden, Utah. After having been so diverted and used, tho water will be returned to tho natural channel chan-nel of the stream at a point which boars north 79 degrees 37 minutes west 1,250 feet from tho east quarter corner of section 14, township 9 north, range 3 cast, Salt Lake baso and meridian .This application Is designated des-ignated in tho state engineer's offlco' ns No. 4117. All ptotest against the granting of said application, stating tho roasons therefor, must bo mado by affidavit In duplicate and filed In this office within thirty (30) days nfter tho completion of tho publication of this notice. CALEB TANNER, Stato Engineer. Dato of first publication January 24, 1912. Dato of completion ot publication pub-lication February 23, 1912. f24 o |