The Indianapolis journal., 1895-08-05

color our politics. On great financial
problems different parts OF the country.
and men everywhere hold different views
hensive for the safety Of the country when
crises arise. 1t would seem, last sum-
mer, during the riots In Illinois and IN
diana, as il the very fabric of the govern
ment were threatened. But you who re-
member Bull Run. Fredericksburg. and that
dark first day of Shiloh, counsel US 10 De
brave OF heart.
THE NEW DANGER.
mo doubt all the dangers which seem
now to menace us will in time be met and
taken care of. But not without constant
and patriotic attention to civic duties
Young men have been going forward in
this matter with courage and intelligence
in recent years. But there yet remains a
need for more independence, more interest
in public affairs. A government is not "a
government Of, by and for the people If
public office is sought only for spoils by
men without principle or character. So
that there will be no lack of opportunity
for the new generation if it reads rightly
the lessons OF the past, and looks forward
TO future of yet greater achievement
s'I have said that we of the newer gener-
alton would not have the issues of the civil
war forgotten. But new occasions bring
new duties. We must not look backward
too steadfastly, but forward A country
cannot run itself any more than a trolley
car or locomotive. A nation depends
upon the safe guidance of its admins
traitors, and these are derived not by
CHANGE, but through the intelligence and
foresight of the mass of the people. If
We are badly governed in this country ii is
because we are not attentive to our civic
obligations If the laws are not enforced
IL is because we do not want them en-
forced. and IL they are bad and vicious laws
the fault is still own. We need in the
Roosevelt type-young men who are cour-
ageous. and who know now to make the
ideal the practical and the practical the
ideal. He is of the kind of stuff that the
Sheridans, the Clusters and the fighting
McCooks were made of. If the heroic inn
pulse that accomplished so much for us
civil channels we shall surely see the re-
suit in an improved condition. of our na-
tional and municipal governments.
II have stood on the Heights of Arlington
beside Sheridan's grave. 1t was evening
Twilight lay along the distant hills and
lights began to flash upon the Potomac
was the medallion of one of the greatest
of American generals; below lay the gov
ernmental center of the Nation. the dome
of the Capitol rising against the sky like
the broad shoulders OF a giant. From
this point one might almost toss stone
down upon some of the great battlefields.
The thoughts that come TO one at place
like this are good thoughts and the emo
tions which are touched spring from the
deepest fountains of feeling. One may
view there the great incidents of our his
tory. and go hence with a tenderer ap-
probation of the cost and gains of war,
and with loftier ideals of government.
1T is true that we must constantly look
ahead. but remembering always the great
dead who make the present and the future
possible, for while
The living are brave and noble,
The dead are bravest OF ALL
"And we of these newer years must make
ourselves better and worthier of the work
which you Of the days of 1851 pass on to
us of maintaining and saving inviolate the
BON ia frrrn tn ha ronf
shrines. Bunker Hill and Concord, Gettys-
burg and Chickamauga, where men died
that we may live Let US declare anew
in the words of Lincoln at Gettysburg that
we here highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain: that this Ma
ton under God shall have a new birth OF
freedom. and that government of the peo-
pie. by the people. for the people shall not
perish from the earth" !"