People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1895 — WANT TO DO LIKEWISE. [ARTICLE]

WANT TO DO LIKEWISE.

Statue of William Feon Revive* Interest lu One of Itojer W illiams. The placing- of a colossal figure of William Penn oa the Philadelphia city hall has inspired a proposal to perpetuate the memory of Roger Williams, in the same way on tho dome of Rhode island's new statehouse. It is now recalled that the Roper Williams monument association, started a fund thirty-four years ago to erect a memorial column 230 feet high on Prospect hill. Zachariah Allen in his diary of that time says with, amusing ignorance of the problem presented by the convexity of tho earth. ‘‘A statue on the top of this column would stand nearly 450 feet above tidewater. It would be conspicuous from Newport and Block Island, and I think from the statehouse in Boston.” Thus, it was suggested would the capital of the colony which disgraced its intelligence by the banishment of Williams, be forever doomed to find his figure still within sight. The association failed to raise money enough to put lip the column, but the sum was deposited in bank and has now increased to a considerable sum. There seems to be an impi-ession that the top of the statehouse would be an appropriate place for Roger Williams and the association is advised to transfer its fund to the state If the government will agree to thus honor him and will also bind itself to erect a statue elsewhere to another great Rhode Islander, who has been neglected, General Greene of revolutionary fame.