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THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-FllIDAY, JULY G, 1900.
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thee tnut be signed, for publication, by the
writer's real names and the condition precedent
to acceptance Is that all contributions shall be
subject to editorial revision.
SCIIANTON, JULY 6, 1000.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
National.
rrcsMent-Wii.tiAM McKINIXY.
Vkc-lVsldent-TIIKODOKK ROOr.VKt.T.
State.
Congresmtn nl-I.irgc - (.AM'SIIA A GROW,
llOIIMItT II fOKItlir.tlKlt.
Auditor (Icncral-H, II. IIAIIDESDKIIGII.
County.
Congrcn-WII.MAM CONNr.I.Tj.
Judcc-oi:nuni: si watsov.
frherliT JOHN II, rV.I.LOWS,
Triawnr J. A. MKANTOV.
lll.lrict Atbiriic.v-WlI.UAM II. I.KWIS.
rrotlionnt.ir .JOHN" t'OI'KIAND.
Clerk of CVmrts-TIIOMAS P lUMELS.
Ilciordtr rf Denh HMII, HOW.
Hotter of Villi W. K. I1KCK.
'ury CommlHlooer EDWAKU n. STL'IIOES.
Legislative.
First District THOMAS J. linYNOI.DS.
Second District JOHN SCIIEfKIt, .lit.
Third District EDWAHIl .TAMES, J1I.
Fourth District P. A. PIIH.DIK.
Inasmuch as It Is Bryan who will
hao to take the pounding ho had a
perfect right to name the conditions.
A Study In Political Insanity.
PUTTING ASIDE all the little
prejudices or kinks of Judg
ment prone to develop In a
partisan view of things, and
looking at the Kansas City proceed
ings as wo would look at any non
political occurrence of similar magni
tude and importance, what do we see?
The country Is prosperous; Industri
ous men have good opportunities either
to sell their labor or Invest their sav
ings; the condItlonn which affect thn
everyday life of the American people
and which nro subject to human regu
lation through the processes of gov
ernment are, upon the whole, favorable
and encouraging. The prestige of our
country Is higher than it has ever been.
Not only the studious of all nations
but most of the population of the world
look today with respect upon the
American national emblem and real
ize that It stands for one of the gre'tt
world powers. The American abroad,
in virtue of this widened appreciation,
commands a measure of respect new
in the annate of foreign travel.
In fact, If you were to draw an
average of the situation as it
stands today in respect to those fea
tures of national and personal life
which are Influenced by the policies
carried into effect from Washington
and were to compare it with similar
averages for prior four-year periods
since the foundation of the republic, It
is not an exaggeration to say that ttvj
average of today would be quite likely
to represent high-water mark In Ajiioi
ican achievement, development anJ
prospects. Certainly it would be near
the top.
Yet what do we see at Kansas City?
Satisfaction over this happy result?
Pride In the expansion which has
brought it about? Confidence in the
rulers and In the councilors who have
participated most effectually In this
great epoch of American advancement?
Serious, sober and Intelligent applica
tion of intellect and Judgment to the
problems which are In the van of this
wonderful development? Not for an
Instant. The language Is wholly of
fault-finding and denunciation; the
tone Is pessimistic; the style dema
gogic; the air surcharged with envy
and discontent. The appeal from be
ginning to end is directed to those at
tributes of man which respond to agi
tation and exaggeration nnd which
yield to class prejudice. To stir up
strife Is the intent; to bring on a state
of popular feeling In which men, fol
lowing their passions rather than
obeying the dictates of their seasoned
Judgment, -vs 111 upset the existing con
servative order of things and enthrone
the fallacies and fanatics of Populism.
In mirsuance of this plan tho Kan
sas City gathering gives tumultuous
ovation and commits Its Implicit al
legiance to a young man of mushroom
growth In the politics of our countiy,
a growth resting upon no substantial
demonstration of statesmanship or ex
ecutive capacity but wholly upon nat
ural cleverness In speech, deftness In
the turning of phrases expressive of
social unrest, and psycholOKlcal antl-
ttrtfo for tho theatrical In public af-
f-Hrs. In So doing It emphasizes that
itt emotions have command over Its
htse sense, for if it were to consult
tl$ latter, as its saner leaders have
vfinly advised, It would discover that
nfSng"such a line of political ferment
the Democracy has not tho ghost of a
slyew of carrying the next presidential
election,
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The sand bag of Richard Croker will
never be able to make a permanent
corpse out of David 13. Hill.
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Colonel Bryan's Obligation.
OT ONLY as a matter of
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force of logic, Colonel liryan
K , will cast this fall a ballot for
WJUlarnJiIcKinley and the straight Re
publican ticket. He recently said;
"We'I be willing to take the votes of
nll'the. 'people who have not had their
shrtre of prosperity and leave the Re
publicans the votes of the people who
hafe ha$ their share."
In lSSS'Jtr. Uryan mado return to the
tax; collector In the Fifth watd of Lin
col, Neb,, that his entire taxuble prop
erty was worth, for purposes of taxa
tion, only $270. This year he returns
It as worth $4560, or more than sixteen
tlnfes tjia value pf four years fjgo, It
Is an illustration of the Republican
doctrine of sixteen to one,
Mr. Bryan came by this Increase of
wealth honestly. He earned It by hard
work. lie. has talked and traveled and
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traveled nnd talked since the early part
of 1806 an no man had ever done before
or doubtless over will do ngaln. We
congratulate him upon tho fact that
his phenomenal energy of lung, lip nnd
tongue has won hucIi generous and
stimulating recognition. In this respect
his example Is a valuable Inspiration
to tho youth of our land and a shining
demonstration of the opportunities
open to deserving American citizenship.
Yet we ngreo with tho esteemed Chi
cago Tlmcs-llnnld that It commit")
Colonel Uryan by tho terms of his own
conttuct to vote for McKlnley nnd an
other four yeais of Republican piospcr
Ity. Wo nro pleased to notice and to com
mend the enterptlsc of tho Times In
offering to Its newsboy canvassers cash
premiums' of from $5 lor tho best re
turns down to a 5 cent allowance for
each now subset Iber. Tho laborer Is
worthy of his hlte, nnd It takes hust
ling to win.
An Important Question.
IN THESE stirring dnys when
evsry portion of tho globe seems
to be In consultary to futnlsh
tho most exciting news, tho noed
of a well edited newspaper In the fam
ily circle Is especially noticeable and
Imperative. The Ameilcan people
have expanded in their news Interest
even more tapldly th.ui they have ex
panded In territorial responsibilities.
The Philippines, South Africa, China,
India these places, once hardly
thought of, nro no longer mere names
on the map, but biuy renters of vital
human intetest, tho nws from which,
as dally chronicled by the wonderful
enterpti.se of the Associated Press, Is
awaited as eagetly and devoured with
as much avidity as Is Mie news of tho
Immediate neighborhood.
Not within the memory of living mon
has there been a time when the circle
of American contact with the world
at largo was so wide as It la today
or so vitally endowed with electric pos
sibilities In commerce, politics, diplo
macy and evangelization. The boy or
girl privileged to grow up In this
stimulating atmosphere of cosmopoli
tanism needs for purpot3 of dally edu
cation in respect to the stirring
topics of the times tho best and most
reliable newspaper which money can
buy, and If we measure the value of
that newspaper In its Influence upon
the character nnd mental attitude of
Its leaders the very oest paper avail
able Is by all odds the cheapest,
whether Its casn cost Is one penny,
two cents or three.
It is a time, therefore, when the par
ent who takes an Inferior paper be
cause it Is cheap or because It Is
flashy, demagogic and sensational,
commits a wrong upon tho children bo
fore whose eyes It go.s; and the im
portance of a wise choice in this ro
bpect deserves to be emphasized by
every conservative and order-loving
influence In the community. The press
is undoubtedly tho great and gi owing
medium of distributing information
nmong the people, and It Is vitally con
sequential whether the press nhall be
encouraged to descend to sensational
ism, with scorn of truth, decency nnd
high principle, or encouraged to culti
vate a sense of Its moral i expansibility.
This Is a question which each com
munity must answer for Itself. It Is
going to be, as the news Held gtows
In size and Intensity of humnn Interest,
and as the grand army of newspaper
readers gains In membership, a ques
tion of Increasing moment to the wel
fare of the Ameilcan people.
The retirement of Colonel A. K. JIc-
Cluie from tho wearing gilnd of active
dally Journalism Is announced. He has
earned a rest. No blighter or busier
pen has ever been employed on the
American press.
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The St. Louis Strike.
THE FORMAL settlement of
tho St. Louis street railway
strike piesants to thought
ful minds very little en
couragement for a repetition of such
an economic battle. Hours of labor
and amount of pay am unchanged.
Tho men of efficiency employed to take
the strikers' places w ill be retained
timing efllclency but vacancies as they
occur will be filled by those stilkers
whoso previous iceords were good and
who, during tho strlk, abstained from
violence. The company diaws no line
of discrimination between union and
non-union men but announces that It
will summarily discharge the union
man who tries to force his non-union
fellow woikman Into Joining tho union.
Recruits to unionism must be won by
argument and persuasion; coercion Is
hatred.
It has boon estimated that tho money
cost of till prolonged slilke to all par
ties In Interest, Indu'ln-; tho geneial
public, exceeds $30,000,003, but of courso
tho estimate Is merely a guess. Some
of Its factors can be ascertained with
approximate prlel.slon; such, for exam
ple, as tha wage loss of tho men while
Idle, the falling off in the company's
fares, the cost of extra police and
guards and the direct damage to prop
erty through outbursts of violence.
These factors nlono run far Into tho
millions. There Is, however, no means
of dlscoveilng how much loss has been
inllleted upon the Innocent thousands
of ordinary Americans, persons not
heard at the commencement of the
war, but who wero the first to feel Its
shock ufter the lines of transit had
been tied up and whole dlsttlcts of a
populous city given over to the arbi
trary sway of Infuriated mobs, whoso
temper was shown In tho public de
nuding of women for no other offence
than riding In the proscribed cars. The
aggregate of this loss, measuied In
money, must have been enormous.
Imagine Scranton for weeks without
means of public conveyance and In tho
grip of riot; then multiply tho result
by five and you gain some conception
of what St. Louis' experience must
have been, and all for whut?
Law and order have been trampled
In the dust; American chivalry has
been shamed; the freedom, the educa
tion, the high degreo of civilisation
which are our boast, has had put upon
It, In the heart of the American com
monwealth, where eastern culturo Is
supposed to meet and mingle with
western Aigor and enterprise, a stain
that will bo recalled for years to come
by unfriendly foreign critics, In the
midst of peace, within sight of schools
and churches, n whole city has had
thrust upon It, without Its election (al
most, until the deluge burst, without
Its knowledge) a carnival of fur" an
outrage at times suggestive of fren
zied Paris In tho main throes of the
commune, and all for what7 That the
war should end where It began, wages
tho same, hours of work the same,
neither union men nor non-union men
victorious, but both on an equal foot
ing, and tho company still holding the
whip hand.
In tho "current Issue of Harper's
Weekly a contributor says he regnrds
J he phenomena to which we nro being
treated at recurring Intervals In such
wars between organized labor and or
ganized capital for arbitrary domin
ance as presenting the most serious
nnd portentous problem confronting
the American people In tho twentieth
century. That It is a grave one does
not admit of doubt. Nor will Its seri
ousness diminish until the common
sense of the masses of our people;thelr
Instinctive and potential love for Jus
tice and fair play, finds means to lay
Its hands upon tho dogs of war nnd
hold them In leash while the orderly
methods of civil Judicature are In
voked to hear, try and Just dellver
nnce make upon the points In conflict.
If civilization Is powerless to devise
such means and compel their accept
ance without recourse to arms, It must
confess Itself a failure and govern
ment based upon It must collapse from
dry rot.
One man wns blown to atoms and
several others wero badly Injured by
tho explosion of 300 homo mado tor
pedoes at Passaic, N. J., tho other day.
The homo made product In tho mat
ter of deadly effects la certainly an
Improvement upon the imported infer
nal accompaniments of Tourth of July.
The men who taught the heathen
Chinese how to use modern firearms
were very quiet about It, but their ef
forts seem to have been more effective
in a, few months than all the years
of labor on the part of the mission
aries. .
The Pennsylvania delegation does not
appear to have cut much of a figure at
Kansas City. James M. Guffoy Is sev
eial sizes inferior as a lender to M. S.
Quay.
It Is appropriate that ex-Senator
Clark of Montana should bo on hand at
the free sliver carnival. He has beet
as free with his silver as a man could
be.
Although dlfllculty may at times be
encountered at Washington, Senator
Clark has demonstrated that money
talks at Kansas City.
Tho ovation to Hill, like that to
Quay, simply Illustrates that the aver
age American believes In fair play and
despises spite work.
Otifline Studies
of fttiman Nattir?
Fidelity Wasted,
c unni.oN (iKM:iti. sir.nxnr.ito, 0f the
army, kijs Hut when he wis Roinu into
tho luttlu of Hull Hun tho Irish 'nream mijnr
c.f his reirlnunt came to him with a Mr bag
of gold coin weighing three or four pounds and
Mid:
"Doctor, I know tint I'm to 1" hilt en
tlulj, nu' I want jim to take care of this
money an' tit that it gits to tho ouIU folks
at Inline."
Thm was no time to rimomtrato or to nuke
an olhir arrangement, and droiinlnK the hag
into tho urruii s 1 ii the IrUhmin hurried
aw.iy to his place at the head of the column.
All tluoUKti two Hoody days Dr. bternherg
carried that lac if old with his surgical in
struments, and It was a Lurdcn and cmliarrsss
liunts to lilni. He trid to cct rid of It, hut
louldn't find any one willing to accept or eun
to hhare the rcponsiMlity, and he couldn't
throw It away for the sake of the "ould folks
at home."
Toward tho clow of the second day the mr
coon win taken prisoner. He lost his surgical
instrument! and his medicine case, hut clung
to the gold, and making a tult of hit necktie
and handkerchief tied It around his waist nett
to )U skin to prcent itn confiscation hy his
Upton. During the long, hot and weary
maicli that followed the gold pircn chafed his
llesh, and, hin waist hrcaine to sore and blistered
,n to cause him Intense suftVrlng, hut he was
hound taht the "ould folks at home" should
hau- the luneflt of that mcney, and hy the cv
irclie of gnat oaitlon and patience managed
to keep It until ho was exchanged xx-ith. ottrr
prlsonus and got hack to Washington Ihire
he found his riglmcnt In camp, and one of tho
first men to welcome him wj the Irish fr
gt.int mijor, xUio was to delighted W ham
that the doctor hid saied his money that lie
got .trunk and gimldcd It all away the first
night. Chleigo ltnord.
Meeting the President.
QXi: OF Till! president's duties which haxe
their painful side is the almost interminable
hand-hiking which accompanies a presidential
rmplion. lliid,s the phjslcal exertion re
quired, the monotony of the Hung must he
niariminie almost hejond endurance, unlcsi it is
hrokin, as no doubt it often Is, by some amus
ing Incident.
Winn Mr. Oleieland was at Wildon, N. t' ,
during his first term, a gnat crowd ihnok hands
with him. In the middle of the line was a
long, lankj iiiuntrjman, xvho took the greatet
Interest in the scene.
At length he reached the president, and
giaied him warmly by the hand,
"Well," hiiel he, "so jou are the president!"
"Yes," repllid Mr. Cleveland, "I am tho
president."
"Well," continued the old fellow, shaking
Mr. riexehud's hand like a pump-handle, 'Tie
xoted for inane a president In no time, but 1
nexer sceil one before." He paused a moment,
and looking the picshlcnt up and down and
fiom one side to the other, he exclaimed:
"Well, jnu are a whopper!"
The president smiled and the crowd laughed.
At another time Mr. C'kx eland wa receiving
a delegation of teachers at the xvhlte bona
"Dr. I.ueky, of 1'ittsburg," said the (ntro.
duccr, as a gentleman stepped forward to shake
hands.
It had been Intended that the other teachers
should follow In turn, but somehow a dilapidat
ed looking eild tramp had slipped Into line Just
behind Dr. I.ueky. As he shuflled up to the
prealelcnt there was a pause. Nobody knew his
name, and cxen the tramp seemed to feel tm
ha. assed.
The president mended the difficulty. He cite-
ded his hand, and with more than his usual
ceiillality, he said. In an encouraging tones
Huw are jou, my Irlendf Your name is
Dr. 1'nlucky, I presume."
I he old tramp a face relaxed Into a smile.
uuih's Companion,
Unterrifled.
C IlNATOinXKCr "JOK" IIUCKHURN la
" famed far and wide tor hla apparently in
eiebauitlhlc fund of anecdotes. "The senator
has an unconscious streak of humor and some
good stories are told on him which bo nexer
celled," said a prominent blue grass politician
tho other clay. "I remember when Mr. mack
bum was practicing law In Kentucky, which
may show that lie fears nothing. A oung
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The Populist nominee for Vice President
choice of the Democratic Convention
fellow come into his olhce, nnd, after allowing
some recommend itolns and 1'Xprc.sins a longing
desire to get work of sumo kind, was gixen an
opportunity to do something. Mr. Illackbiirn
handed him a writ and told him to go to a
certain house and serxe the paper on u tenmt
'.Vow, don't come back and ny jou couldn't
find him,' he cautioned, 'Xail It to the ehxir if
jou haxc to, but scre It.' The eager jming
mm started out nnd relumed an hour later,
minus his hat nnd colhr and xrlth his face
coxered with bruises nnd Ids clothes torn Into
shreds.
" 'Well,' said Mr. Itlackburn, 'did jnu serxe
It!' 'No, sir,' replied the battered emphixr..
'The tenant licked mo and told me to bring
the paper back to jou.' Plackburn arose from
Ms chair, and towering up with Indignation,
raid: 'Here, suh, take tint writ back nnd
serxe It on the tenant, suh, and tell him for mc,
euh, that by the eternal, suh, he can't lntlmi
date me through you, suh.' " Sr. Louis Repub
lic. Unquestionable Obedience.
jri)(lE FITZm:it M.D, of I.os Angeles, eonsid.
ercd one of the foremost Jurists on the
coast, is at the same time one of the mod par.
tlcular men In all things concerning the decorum
of the court room. A score or more of years
ago he w-as appointed hy the president to the
liench of the district that includes Pima and
Cochise counties He found, on coming to
Tucson, that formillt xeas almost unknown in
tho court room. If the dajs xvere warm the
nttomcxs nnd attendants dispensed xxith roits.
This to him appeared pnrticuhrly disrespectful.
He announced tint smoklnr in the coi rt room
xvould not be tolrrateit, and that coats must
be worn under pain of the court's di-plonsure.
The grand Jury was called. Among tho Juiors
summoned xvas a brawn miner, xxho appiared
in his usual costume, a dark blue shirt and
ox oralis.
"What do jou mean?" thundered the mag
istrate, "by appearing In this court room in
jour shirt sleexes? Where Is jour coat!" "At
home, Judge," mildly returned the Juror. "Then
go and get It. Not a word, sir!" glaring down
upon the man as ho attempted to speak. "(in
home and get yonr coat, sir, or I'll commit
you for contempt!" The miner went silently
out. He didn't return that day nor the next,
nnd the Judge, after issuing a liench warnnt
for him, snore in another Juror. About two
weeks thereafter the original miner, dressed as
the court demanded, ngiin stepped within lodge
Fltrcerald'R range of xlsion. To the Irate mag
istrate he tendered the explanation that his
home and coat xrcre both In Harshaw Moun
tains, near the Mexican border, oxer 100 miles
nxxax-, and that he bad but obexod the orders
of his honor in going home alter his coat.
Anrona Oraphlc.
Entr' Acte.
C ITTINO comfortably beside a joung lady of
twenty-odd summers ill the opera house
the other afternoon was 1, child of li or 7.
They had been watching txe'o acts of the p'ay
together and the cuitnin had gone down for
the second time. There xxax th-1 usual hum
of conx'crsntlon that sounded xcrv much like
nn afternoon tea. Hut the little girl sat
quietly leioklng at her older companion. Sud
denly there came a lull in the noise of talk
and laughter and for sexeial rowa around the
little girl could be heard to ask:
"What are jou to I'ncle 1M?"
The j'oung ladv could not help smiling al
though she blushed at the same time as she
answerer),:
"Whj nothing at all, except a friend "
The little girl xvas silent for a fexv moments,
and It xeas during another of those unaccounta
ble lulls that she was overheard saying:
"Haxe j-ou seen Uncle Ed's liorc?"
"Yes, Marj-," the joung lady replied with
some embarrassment.
"Well, did he ever take jou out riding!"
"Nn. Please be quiet, Mary. People can
hear j-ou."
"Well, that's funny," persisted the little Imp.
"lie tai.es his other plrl often."
And tho curtain went up for the third act.
Detroit Free Prcs.
Instructed the Queen.
A IIITIIEHTO unrecorded anecdote of the (Jueen
Is the following, sajs the Scottish Ameri
can: "One auturn afternoon, many jears ago,
Her Majesty was going out to sit on a hillside
and watch some of her relatives Ashing in the
rhcr below her, xxben she found that the had
no th'mble in her pocket, to could not xe-ork,
as she had Intended, at the sewing she was car
rjing. Turning oeit of her xvay to Mm Sj
rnund's shop, she bouuht the smallest thimble
there, which was, howexer, many sites too big
for her. There xx'as an old Pcoteh dame at
the counter, Impatiently waiting to make her
own purchases Not recognising the queen she
broke into the conxersatlon xxith a 'Hoots, but
its' a rare fuss an' faddle jou're makin'. lllow
intae it xveel, an' It'll tick."
That phrase, the latter part of the sentence,
amused Her Majesty Immensely, and become
quite a proxcrb In the rojal famllj'.
THE ROUGH BIDERS.
W. n. Curtis, In the Chicago Itccord.
One hundred and thirtv-elght members of
the regiment were killed on the field or died
of xroumls received In battle; 230 died of dis
caso during and since the war; tho death roll
last year numbered CS. So far a.e known, fixe
of the regiment are fighting In South Afnra.
One Is on the side of the Doers, one Is a num
ber of Izard Roberta' bod) guard, another Is an
officer In nn Australian regiment, and a third
la xrlth Iluller's artillery. Since tho 1st of
April the adjutant reports one rough rider has
died of disease, one had a xvill caxe In on him,
and four died with their boots on during al
tercations with gentlemen who drew their guns
first. A corporal of Troop L, Kort lilley, robbed
a railroad train In Arizona, a prixats of Troop
C la at the head of a posse that that Is hunt
ing for him In the Dill Williams mountains.
Quite a bunch of Hoosexelt'a boja are xvlth
IlulTalo'a Dill's xxild west show, drawing good
wages, Including Isabel, the Cherokee Indian,
xvho fired the first shot on land during the
Spanish war. lie xx-as In the adxance, and,
seeing a sharpshooter aiming at the troop
picked him off. Isabel comes from Muskogee,
and is a man of excellent character and good
education, having been graduated from one of
the Presbyterian missionary schools, He xvas
wounded eight times during the war. Major
l.lewellan xx-aa recently operated upon for ap
pendicitis, and the surgeons rilicoxercd two big
bullets while thej were caning him. When
he rexlxed from the anaesthetics they showed
them to their patient, who calmly obserxed:
"There are two more in there lomenherej did
you see anjihlng ef themf"
Wanted It from the Start.
"Poor thing!" exclaimed ono young xvcioin
at the theater. "Ihit girl Is beautiful, but
she Is xery deaf."
"How do you knowj"
"She has aat all through this French farce
without blushing once." Washington Star,
OF MINNESOTA.
Copxrlt-ht, Vsvi I'lx, Ijiiluth
with Bryan will withdraw il lie be not the
Terse Epigrams by
Theo. Roosevelt
Extracts from 11! Iteccnt Weslirn Speeches.
Wherexer tho tiag is, as long as there is nn
armed foe against it, the Hag stajs there.
Fundamentally, jou haxe got to haxc the
same qualities for tuecess In public life as jou
haxc In prlxate life.
As I haxe said before, ours was not a great
xxar, because it did not haxe to be, but we
were all ready to make it just as big as neccs-sarj-.
You can stop properltJ bj legislation, but
jou cannot do more by law for prosperity than
to glee exery American a chance to show hie
own thrift.
The American people rise nnd fall together!
it one falls all fall, if one pnpcrs all propcr.
For good good or for cxll xxe arc bound together
for all time.
Injustice nnd wrong-doing ruin the nation
that does it, and another thing does It exen
quicker cowardice, cring'ng and flinching from
the xe-ork of the xe-orld when the world's work
lias got to be done.
Don't think because a man is smart he can
profitably bo dishonest. An honest but timid
man is not much good. A natural born fool
xxho is honest is not worth knocking on the
head. lljxc horse sense- wltn jour honest)
No nation, nn matter how glorious its rec
ord, can cM unless it practices practices,
mind jou, not merely preaches clxic honesty,
clxie righteousness. No nation can perma
nently pro-per unless the decalogue and the
Ooldcn Hole are its guides In public as In
prlxate life. Don't get Intc that most foollidi
of attitudes of admiring men'if snnrtness un
accompanied by moral purpose.
The lesson to be learned if xxe are going to
make this republic what it ought to be is the
lesson of insisting that a public man's deeds
must square xxith his words, A public servant
must make good his promises, or he Ins no
right to appeal to jou for confidence or for sup
port. And xxhen we haxe learned that less in,
when we make It understood that no ability,
no capacity, nothing shall atone for the lack
of elementary decency in public life, then xx-e
xvill put this nation win re it should be, th
greatest nation on which tho sun has exer
shone.
I haxc n right tc appeal to jou, for I foiuht
xxith a regiment from the west containing many
men from the east men xxhose fathers x-ore
the blue, others xxho-,e fathers wore the gT.ij
a regiment in xxhich xxe knew neither easterner
nor xvestcrner, nor northerner, nor southerner;
no distinction of cned or race or ongin or
occupation, but in which xve trtatisl each man
on his xvorth as a man. And xxe could get
good xeork out of that regiment because cxerj-
man in It knew that if ho did his duty we
xvould stand by him, and If he did not do his
duty all the politicians In the land could not
saxc him.
We of the Hough Hldcrs are proud of our
colonel, our present genual, Leonard Wood:
proud of him not only becau-e wo retntniFur
huw he fnrmed us, lot onlj because we re
member how he led us In the fight at flu.asimas,
xehen most of us had not any Idea exai tly how
it felt to be in a fight (but we found out), but
xee are proud of him because he has been an
able and upright cixic administrator in Cuba;
because xee feel that our regiment has taken
the lead in furnishing the mrt of men xxho
must be 6int to the tropic Mcs that haxe bo
I'Ome ours, If we are going to do as xxe xeant to,
to make our rule a tlcsslng inched to thce
islands.
We are not to be excused If wo shirk our
work because It Is hard Look here, jou of
the big xar from 'fil to "(V, did jou haxe an
easy time! No, not a bit of it. Do jou
recollect marching until the blanket was too
heaxj-, and the following light xehen the blan
ket was too light? Those were the hardest
Ji-ars jou exer had, but those four jeais are
the jexrs rf jour lhes that jou are proudest
of, As it is xvlth the Indlxldiial, so it Is with
the nation You of Oklahoma founded this
territory, this ftate that Is to be, becaiist jou
came here not seeking a life of cas, but anx
ious to grapple with diihi tittles, and out of toil
nnd labor and peril to aehiexe the splendid ulti
mate triumph. So it must be with the nations
of the earth, with the nation that Is fit to play
Its part among the great peoples.
book at Chlni! China has not expanded, and
ncxer xxlll expand. It Is not thit kind of a
countrj-. A nation that does n"t wish to be
come the China of the present da) has got to
face anil do its work umotig the great people)
of the world. We can't Miilnk from It. We
ran only decide xehethrr we xvllLo It xvell or
111 nil 1 appeal to the people of the great
xvest, I appeal to the men xxho fought In the
civil xxar, and to their sons who cnino forxx-ard
so gladly to offer all that they had when the
nation e ailed again. Whateur their party I
rare nothing for their part) I nppeal to tlicm
to see to It that the nation does not shrink
from tills work; that the flag which has so far
been borne to honor shall be upheld (orexermore
as the flag of the greatest, mlghtiist nitlon
of mankind, a nation that shrinks from no duty
xxhen duty calls.
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