MONUMENTAL SIMPLICITY.

It has been stated that the reason the committee of the City Council does not report in favor of permitting a Confederate monument in the park or at Mt. Royal and Cathedral streets is not because of partisan feeling. The committee is of opinion, it is said, that cemeteries, and not parks or plazas, are the proper places for monuments erected to the memory of the dead. It is to be hoped that the City Council will not, acting upon this idea, order the removal of the Washington, Battle, Columbus and Wallace monuments to the graveyards. All of these monuments were erected to the memory of the dead.

Washington was dead when his monument was erected, the Battle monument was erected to the memory of those who were killed at North Point, Columbus had been dead nearly 400 years and Sir William Wallace 600 years when the monuments to their memory were erected in Druid Hill Park. The State of Maryland is now about to erect monuments in the Capitol at Washington to the memory of two of its citizens, both dead. Has a mistake been made and must they be placed in Mt. Olivet or Loudon Park Cemeteries? The Capitol has numerous statues, Washington is full of monuments to the memory. of people all of whom are dead. It seems they should have been put into the cemeteries.

It is a solemn fact that for brilliant discovery and magnificent achievement this City Council easily takes the cake. Another one will be elected in May, and perhaps that one will take a different view of the proper place for monuments.