New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-23

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THE GOvERNORELECTs REMAINS
oo,one, Theodore Roosevelt. Governor-elect OF
New-York State. spoke next. Before cai"".
unon him Judge Rowland spoke OF Coiohei
Rooseve,t's meritorious services In the Lesis
,ature as Civil Service Commissioner. as
Police Commissioner as Assistant secretary Va
the Navy. and, finally, OF his achieVeH'eh.s d.
the head of the Rough Riders Wheh oo'o'o'
Roosevelt rose to respond. he was met WIFI d"
enthusiastic outburst that lasted for near!
minute The men on the floor cheereo' ""'''
the women above them waved the' "''N
chiefs Colonel Roosevelts address upon the
subject of "The State Of New-York,' was
listened to with the deepest attention. which, IN
view Of the somewhat serious trend OK MS re-
marks. was much more nattering than inter-
rupting applause. He spoke as follo"s'
Mr. President and Gentlemsn reme esn 0 as
peIhs HwYorker and then hearing explained
BY subsequent speaker that wss n0 was born
ont West Of New England parents 1t has nov 2, IN IN
the state OF New-York become fac' oi "o'e Il ''e
DNcn Y an ewes much to It's Dutch founders II
much puSa d to tne nn s" Saons lifetime help
hud m the composite type OF American a',,o ~
but "eS most H to what II has from the
Purans. TO what 1t has inherited OF tmsir pr"J
feW years ago re,d M writing in the ,%oIss
OF a most charming writer. but on Iment that in
Ibpis age we had ceased produce the beauty IN
art ana literature that signalized tne n thars
Crooce n ls q pity that We do not, put ,"eie al
things better than sond nna to
,ncse for the beauty loving beauty producing
Creek the Puritan who's work It w %sf e 'U of re
the continent and 10 FOUND the hs"'e'' ~ "
publics.
IN ONE HAND THE BIBLE.
,... cam. from n stock who carried In
49, nd the Bible and in the other the sword !
think that We of the present generation nave
awakened to a lveer sense or what we owe ','o'e
mon whose career typihes the SWORD III "oue,"
life. ~ what we owe TO the representative vi '"e
Regular Army and the Regular Navy we o"0
much 70 others In the past we owe much 10 our
,o,osr,on IN our Commonwealth builders; we owe
rros, 70 the men who risked their lives that the
honor Of the flag MAY be upheld ana VIZ ee'
from the Purtans the inheritance on n''e ana S' ~a
one vi, m recollect that no get OF virtues
is enough to save State; thai Nn , Tarp 90 "
nntton; composed merely Of merchants. merely Oh
couple OF days received letter from rom
friend an Englishman in the diplomats service vloT
abroad written from Turkey ana evening ing s up1
of T,irkey YOU could find all the virtues necessary
to make up great State. but each virtue ispia'eI
in one race that no one race was capn rae o.
rising to greatness That you see In me cohluer-
Ing caste in the ruler caste the quaii,ies o. lan
Of subjugaton; that you see in the subject enste
the qna, of % 81 but tna the
that rules had not the virtues or peace, ana me
ever this country loses either set OF virtues this
country Will assuredly go down. Ana aho.he t
the contests Of peace that come 10 you year by
year where the contests Of war come to you but
once in a genera tion-that the Puritan owes ms
success to the fact that he was both moral ana
practical 1t ought not 10 be necessary 10 say that
you need those qualities In combination IL
sometimes becomes necessary TO say Nv however
A WARNING GIVEN.
II we ever succeed in this country in arranging
n divorce between the two elements Of the body
polite. that side we shall see the nice.
cultivated wcll-meaning little men with good
morals and reccding chins. the little men who
mean well and cannot fight, and on the other side
the thoroughly efficient men who do not mean we'll
at all; II We succeed In developing into
those two distinct castles the day OF the end
ing OF free government this country IS not far
distant and | want you to remember that In tho
last resort one element Is pretty nearly as danger
the other to the community. The good man
who does not amount to anything the good man
ns counts for very little in the
community. In the present age we do not need the
tue that can stand the wear and tear Of rough con-
tact with the world. We need the virtue that can
how.
NOT SIGHTING MORALITY.
But, gentlemen when | praise efficiency do not
want to be underyood, by implication as
sighting morality The man who is efficient and
vicious Is simply unusually dangerous species OF
Wild beast. and the meanest OF all forms OF ad-
mlration Is the admiration for brute strength or
for mere cunning. which are devoted 10 evil pur-
poses. Nothing think. should make an American
more ashamed than what trust Is only the oc-
casional American habit OF deifying mere smart
..xIt.-
regard to the means by which the man gets on OF
to the result to which he trends.
Your ancestors-and my ancestors too. for. al
though your ancestors English and mino
mainly Dutch and Irish, still fundamentally We
ough, foI the same acn m E o,d he
OF the great formulative factors OF nations because
they warred with telling strokes. They had among
them men who were vicious and men who were
foolish but they succeeded because those who were
wise and efficient more numerous and gave
the determining mark to their CHARACTER
tans fought to put down tyranny TO establish the
first commonwealth in England; they made thei-
i hstN w1rred against what was evil but they had
in their midst the Fifth Monarchy men, and #
power to direct the Puriians the day OF the Puri-
fans usefulness would have been over
THE FIFTH MONARCHY MEN
You remember the Fifth Monarchy men. Some OF
YOU do. They thoroughly honest people, and
they wished perfection. They declined TO work for
what they could get because II was not perfect.
They wished the monarchy-i am speaking serious
w. gentlemen; | am speaking by using their own
phraseoloey The reason they were called the Fifth
1 Monarchy men was because they demanded the mon
archy of King Jesus; that they declined 10 submit
70 earthly powers; that they declined to DO the best
| nosslble because II was not the best
There Is always temptation to a man OF Puri-
tan character because Of the very fact thn ne ma
s,,ch good qualities TO let these good qualities lead
hin, astray He naturally has the defect Of his
! virtues Because he strives for righteousness he
is now and then apt to take 4 stand so extreme
that he defeats the ends for which ne works
Then he prldes himself upon the fact that he ~ In
advance Of his fellows. Sometimes he Is. and at
other times he is merely off to one side The ex-
| tremist f. not necessarily more virnous than his
his fellows He cannot be always right because there
| are always varieties OF him. each one OF when
] h. OF nr nineteen WRONG