Ogden Daily Standard | 1902-02-08 | Page 4 | The Good and the Bad Section

AND tau PAD abe san francisco examiner wants a national chamber of horrors to supplement the work of monuments which glorify men and this is the argument which that paper makes when a man devotes hh life to the bervice of other men and when his serj acs arc recognized which does not always happen it la customary to erect a monument to him after death A great fighter a great lawgiver law giver even a great writer painter and sculptor have their monuments the monument idea is a good one the young man who sees a monument is told eliat the gentleman in bronze or marble posing with his hand in his bosom or mounted on a steed with a flowing bronze tail worked for his country he freed the slaves or the english or did something worth while the young man decides that he would like to have a statue himself like that and is inspired to try to earn the statue we would suggest here class of statues namely statues or holding up to public execration men i who have wasted their talents and devoted their lives to evil doing it would not be a bad idea to have at washington a national chamber of horrors allegorical statues should fill this chamber they should hold up to public execration the national villain of different classes from a benedict arnold down to the man who steals a dozens railroads and ruins a hundred thousand families in eastern countries they still judge the dead and pronounce judgment for or against them those simple easterners live in awo of iho judgment winch cornea after death lasiy ot them behave in order that verdict may be found in their favor perhaps como af pf our first class scoundrels would give up dishonesty and public plunder if they realized that examination of their after death by a cold jury would insure them a resting place in the national chamber of horrors the ordinary wholesale knows that lie cant have A in his honor anyhow ami ho is not enough to try for it he might however be vain enough to iek to avoid filling a niche in jibe chain of horrors and ho might OM down his at least toward the end of hia career this suggestion ia offered gratia to c thoughtful appreciative publia