THE SOBER SECOND THOUGHT.

Sober second thought led to favorable action in the First Branch of the City Council last night on the ordinance permitting the erection of a memorial monument in Druid Hill Park to Maryland Confederates. Even those members of the committee who had expressed the opinion that graveyards were the proper place for monuments and who joined in an unfavorable report on the ordinance came to the conclusion that they were wrong and voted in favor of the measure. All’s well that ends well, but, speaking of grave-yards, It may be remarked that officials who disregard public sentiment dig their own graves and erect monuments to themselves in political cemeteries. If the Confederate monument had been banished to the graveyard, those who were responsible for it would have found it necessary to order their own political gravestones.