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Show 'v ,"7- , . JUTjKCARLVLE. a.-! Kpt"1 Hlsr..h.r .t 0Ut rramx.ll. An 1!"!''"'"''' and most characteristic character-istic letter ' Csrlyie's has recently appeared la 'u London Times, lie bud been eH'd to subsci Ibe toward the raising, at '. of a statue to the I'rotector. '"' nl adherence was qualified quali-fied With ""I ferocity for the people peo-ple who priwurncd to celebrate at the same lime fromwen ,n, kik nu,. son," th ri,,t railroad speculator. The projfrt 'or the Cromwell monument monu-ment lapsed, and St. lve waited until the other day for a memorial of Its greatest rlllzm. The dedication, the Times ricr(i. indent at-ioircs us. psssed oil without tlie "o-.-an of flummery flum-mery aid ie idle balderdash." Which fsrlyls deprecated. The biographer bi-ographer of Cromwell writes: "My private ainpl'lnn, rotife-s, is that the I present ren'nllun of Englishmen who hurt filled Ihelr town wllh such a set of il'Hc tallies' a were never before ir H by any people, ugly brazen I'giS'S (to mere roinniotiplnen adveutu fs lth tides on them, and even stcl'lmea to mere paltry scoundrels, scoun-drels, l'hy of Immediate oblivion only), ssdfwlio hive winded up their enterprises In the rlntue or memorial line by enUu rlblng tsr. onO In s memorial memo-rial for Klig Hudson-arc nut llkelv to do thcmsjlvca or anybody much good by setlln up statues to Oliver Cromwell. Crom-well. I ar they have forfeited the right to prtlend to remember Cromwell Crom-well In a public manner. Ciuinwell's divine sieniory, sad, slern ond earnest aa the gods, says virtually to them, 'Forget me and pass on, ye unhappy canal lis; carry your offerings to King Hudsos and strive to emulate him!' Nevertheless. I have privately resolved, If such s thing does go on, to subscribe my little mite to It on occasion, and to wish privately that It may prosper much better than I c-n with any assurance as-surance hope. I think It will be very difficult to avoid the Introduction of such sn ocean of flummery and mere Idle balderdash Into the .affair (If the 'public' are fairly awoken to It) aa will be very distressing to any one who feels how a Cromwell ought to be honored by the nation that produced him." New York Kvenlng Post, |
