A Fitting Monument

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 10, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 28.

A Fitting Monument.

And now the scheme is agitated of erecting a monument to Napoleon Bonaparte on the world's fair grounds in the coming exposition in St. Louis, to remain a permanent memorial. The special reason put forth is that the great Corsican sold the Louisiana territory to the United States for $15,000,000. A few years ago such a project would not have been thought of. Garibaldi, Lafayette, Kosciusko, would be fitting names for a republic to keep in remembrance; but Napoleon, the great imperialist, what has he done that a republic should remember him? One prominent journal suggests, “He turned a republic into an empire.” That is what is taking place now in this land; why not Napoleon?