EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - On reading the communication in your issue of yesterday one does not know whether to feel resentment at the uncalled-for insult offered to one of the foremost citizens of Massachusetts, or pity for the littleness of the man who must have listened to an extremely eloquent, manly and useful lecture, solely for the purpose of finding something to criticise. Our "Mugwump" is sorry "that Mr. Lodge could give us no better advice than that the doctrine of expediency should be our rule of life." There was nothing in the lecture which admits of such a construction. Mr. Lodge said, "Work for the highest and best measures, but when there is no moral question involved do not by insisting on the unattainable lose everything."
No honest, sensible man doubts that Mr. Lodge followed this principle when he supported Mr. Blaine in the recent Presidential campaign, although Mr. Blaine was not his personal choice in the convention. Whether there was or was not "a moral question involved," has nothing to do with Mr. Lodge's honesty. We have had quite enough of what Mr. Lodge calls the "merely negative and critical" man.
E. P.
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