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The Highland Park News. Eybl‘ishcd h) the} mtprests nfv Highland Park, Higthxl and ‘Ravin‘m, cvcry Friday aftcruoqp by H, F. A. B, quns. 'l‘crms,‘ 51.60 per year; 50 cents fur six months, 30311135 for three months. Office: in News Building, 255 Central Avenue, .Highlapd Park. [llinuis. Entered a‘ ~the posv «Mice at Highland .Park, 111., as mound c1355 maner. Advertising rates nude known on amputation at Main“. LEWIS B. HIBBABD, H. F. ~EVANS, - I THE Park esGaped any fatality on the Fourth; but one man with his band blown 01f is enough. We are not going to preach 0r muralize; so long as there are foolhardy men and boys, such things will happen, and nine out of ten of them are among men. " 356943313126“ Baown MITCHELL of Idaho has our sympathy. She has been elected chaplain of the house of representatives of that young commonwealth. We , know by per- sonal experience the trials, the wear and tear of trying to guide the moral instincts of a legislative body. Mrs. Mitchell is an Illinois woman, a fam- ous daughter of Macoupin county, and went to Idaho under the aus- pices of the Baptist Home Mission Society. AGAIN we feel compelled to call the attention of our city authorities to the uncaredlor condition of the street near George D. Boulton’sâ€"s the same is all clogged up. It must be opened, and why delay. From 24 to 48 hours must pass after .every rain before wheelmen can pass along there in any safety or comfort. Wheelmen have the same rights as other people, though at times they are treated us though they were criminals. WE wish that homeopathic cow, tethered on Onshing lots 9 and 10, block ‘52, would not deal out such an unbrokén stream of good old-fash- ioned heroic aiioputhic dimes of hoL FRIDAY, JULY 9. ) â€" - EDITOR. ’ BUSKNESS MANAGER. lowing on her unwilling;r neighbors. We once summoned a physician for ' nu; whg wanted homeopathic ,« nt. When he came he said ho wa not exactly a homeopath‘ but he sumes “mixed his treatment,“ and gave the patient cuslor oil. We wish we had him here to operate on r that cow. ‘ ‘ THE HIGHLAND" PARK NEWS. THE bicycle ordinance should be overhauled, and its penalties made to range from $1 to-S‘ZI). Noiv its limits are $3. to- $3» It. would be cruel‘and unjust to fine a little boy, who saw lots of men and older boys riding on the walks on damp days, away from the business centre of the city $3, and then from $2 to $3 more costs, just” lwcause he was found on the walk on his wheel. W» want a little more common sense in” these uncommon places. Just one hundred years ago today died one of the greatest men of his age, and he lived m a period of Eng- lish histor} tirhen 'great men were not rare There were the two Pitts, father and son. the latter in many respects the greatest premier Eng- land ever had. There was Fox and the whole galaxy, men who make that period of English history brilV iiant beyond comparison. It was the glorioqs end of whigism. at «every setup of my progress in life, and at every turnpike I met; 1 was obliged to Show my passport." Put thus on his own mettle when the big Whig loaders controlled everything, and the big houses controlled the Whigs, there was little hope or prom ise for a young man without social, aristocratic and wealthy hacking. One of the first things about Burke is that he was born in Dublin and educated there. This natually gave a Hibernian flanor to the man, a sparkle of brilliancy to his wit, point and keenness to his satire, a pene- trating persuasive pathos to his elo- quence and a keen sense of the wrongs of the oppressed. His father was a successful lawyer, but the son turned away from the bar and bat- tled in life for himself. “I was not swmldleil and rocked and (landlud 1(HIM 1w sum-90d? ”0 001111]: R!) EDMUND BURKE. coukl hundreds of others who not. ,»_Did he aucceud? In time, as John Morley says. he was one of the most famous men of Europe. He had iookod the world square in the face, saw its real con‘ dition, its wealth and its Woes, its political rottenuess and perils, its pressing needsythe Outlines of re- forms which must come if Britannia was yet to rule the‘ wave, and Eng- land lead inthe future, as she had so far in freedgm's progress. In other words Burke saw his opportu- nity and his duty; he saw tho: former in the latter and, he saw what so many possible statesmen have not the conscience and moral fibre head, with manly loyalty, duty 5 behest. Burke had a cause one worthy: of his, or any human genius: wOrthy of any human heart or l1rai11.He saw the cause; his duty exposed and proclaimed it. He had of course the ability and tho genius for the work but what 18 most noteworthy is his loyalty and honesty; his moral obnx'ictions. He was not :1 political trickster 01‘ trimmer. His achievements will stand, so long as English history endures, as among the great ones of a wonderful age. He with Chathaxn and men of like spirit, saw the righteousness of the cause of the American colonies and pleaded it to a king who could neither appreciate or- understand it; to a parliament bent on compro misc and political bargains as though ever anything ill came from such coalitions; to a people slow but honest. The rulers of Britain turn ed a deaf ear to Burke's arguemente and appeals; they even sneered at his sentimentalisni, but an hundred years have proved a hundred times over that Burke was on the side of right and humanity and Grod's, the side which always prevails in the end. in Bancroft’e copious, elo- ‘ (pient volumes few men are more often and forcibly quoted. as plead- ing for the cause of the colonies than Burke and today the once struggling three millions now grown to aeventy ever victorious millions, lay their Chaplet on the grave of the bent statesmen who espoused and pleaded the cause because it was right,in the quiet country church yard at Bea~ consiield. ,m...â€"~u-rnmâ€"w-w (10