ecently said in a public address--that the North and
the South were both right, because each believed itself
right. And such is to be the verdict of history. We were all
patriots settling on the field of battle a constitutional
question that could be settled in no other way. Public
opinion is already moving, and moving rapidly, to the mark
of that final verdict.

With the interment of Confederate dead at Arlington much bitterness
disappears. The comradeship of death is unassailable by the arguments of
the living.

PLACE IN PUBLIC LIFE ONLY FOR PICKED MEN.

The Self-Made Have a Hard Time,
Those Born Rich Are Mostly Useless,
Says Speaker Cannon.

Somebody asked Speaker Cannon this question: "What would you say if a
young man of intelligence, education, and force, undecided as to what he
should adopt as a life career, should come to you for advice?"

Of his reply, as printed in the New York _World_, we quote the salient
passages, answering the further query as to the advisability of going into
politics:

I should say yes to the young man of intelligence, culture,
and efficiency, if these things were crossed with
patriotism. In the main those who go into public life are
picked men, and by just so much as they are picked men they
are ahead of the average. This is a fact in spite of the
oft-repeated assertion that the representatives of the
people are only of average grade.

If among a dozen young men, each of whom should decide to
devote his life to the public service and should qualify and
work hard and conscientiously for it, one--just one--should
get himself into public life and sustain himself with credit
to himself and benefit to the country, I should consider it
a great return for the effort put forth.

The man who has to make his own way, who is without a
competency to start with, and who enters public life these
days before he has saved enough to live independently of his
income as a public man, has a hard time before him.

Hard Time for the Poor Man.

The young man who has never earned his living for himself,
no matter what his advantages of circumstances or training,
is sure to make many mistakes through ignorance of hard,
practical life. Not personally having the same needs as the
man of the people, he doesn't know what to do or how to do
it.

Young men who enjoy t