Europe and elsewhere, by Mark Twain [pseud.] [with an appreciation by Brander Matthews and an introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine]

EUROPE AND ELSEWHERE
as his. Men with such a quality of mind as Moffett's are
rare.
Anyone who discussed with him the things he advocated
stood a little awed to discover that here was a man who had
carefully thought out what would be best for all the people in
the world two or three generations hence, and guided his work
according to that standard. This was the one broad subject
that covered all his interests; in detail they included the movement for universal peace about which he wrote repeatedly; so
small a thing as a plan to place flowers on the window sills and
fire escapes of New York tenement houses enlisted not only the
advocacy of his pen, but his direct personal presence and
co-operation; again and again, in his department in this paper,
he gave indorsement and aid to similar movements, whether
broad or narrow in their scope-the saving of the American
forests, fighting tuberculosis, providing free meals for poor
school children in New York, old-age pensions, safety appliances
for protecting factory employees, the beautifying of American
cities, the creation of inland waterways, industrial peace.
He leaves behind him wife, daughter, and soninconsolable mourners. The son is thirteen, a beautiful human creature, with the broad and square face
of his father and his grandfather, a face in which
one reads high character and intelligence. This boy
will be distinguished, by and by, I think.
In closing this slight sketch of Samuel E. Moffett
I wish to dwell with lingering and especial emphasis
upon the dignity of his character and ideals. In an
age when we would rather have money than health,
and would rather have another man's money than
our own, he lived and died unsordid; in a day when
the surest road to national greatness and admiration
is by showy and rotten demagoguery in politics and
by giant crimes in finance, he lived and died a
gentleman.

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