p. 9 | The Glory Is Departed by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 9, 1902

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

The Glory Is Departed

By Editor

It seems pre-eminently fitting now (it was not a score of years ago) that the German Emperor should present a statue of Frederick the Great, and the President of the United States should accept it. If the government were not far on the road to imperialism, it would never have been offered. That it is offered and accepted shows that the old-time democratic spirit of the republic has departed. We are not condemning or justifying President Roosevelt; we are merely noting an incident in the long stretch from republican simplicity and principles. From the true American view-point of the last part of the eighteenth and the first part of the nineteenth centuries, the time since is rapidly painting in large letters upon the escutcheon of State and people, "Ichabod"—the glory is departed.