The age-herald., 1898-02-23


 No one can employ it but It's yightful own- CT. He alonce can illustrate It's worth and enjoy its rewards. 1t cannot be inherited or purchased It must be acquired by in- dividual effort. It can be secured only by perseverance and sef-denial.- But it is as free as the air we breathe. Neither race, nor nationality. nor sex can debar the earnest seeker from its possession. It is not exclusive, but inclusive, in the broadest and best sense. It is within the reach of all who really want 1t and are brave enough to struggle for it. The ear- nest rich and the worthy poor are equal and friendly rivals in its pursuit, and neither is exempted from any of the sac rifices necessary for It's acquisition. The key to its title is not the bright allure ments of rank and station, but the simple watchword of work and study.
 Prize of Individual Industry
 A liberal education is the prize of indi- vidual industry. It is the greatest bless ing that a man or woman can enjoy when supported by virtue, morality and noble aims. But the requirement of learning in our schools and colleges seems so easy that we are apt to underestimate it's value and let the opportunity to win it slip by until regretfully we find that the chance Is gone. The rudiments must be ingrafted in youth or with rare exceptions they are forever lost.
 Life to most is a struggle and there is Mttle time for tine contemplation of the theoretical when the practical is pressing at every hand. Stsun duty monopoiizes our time. The coulmarld of oisf1eTs controls our preferences and often defeats our in- teqntionS. By steadily adheriDg to a firm purpose amid the activities of life we may keep in touch with Ae rature of the day, but to go back to tIhe classics or to gIap- pie with the foundations of the sciences is beyond tine power of most men when they m Chl1Gpn or profession. Ones medtal fight, often hand to hand conflict with obstacles and temptations, is a battle of his own, cam pajgn whose motive force is individuality rather than circumstances or luck. Work in the mental world Is as rylal as that in the physical world. Nor has any prescr1p- tion yet been found to take the place or application and ssaf-demal and personal struggles which have given to the world it's greatest leadeas and nob.est achieve nents
 The Public Credit
 Cherish the public credit" How much both of reelection and instruction is com bined in fthis sdanpte ak1mouition Of uhe father of his country. The United States emerged from the bitter arpf prolonged struggle of tine revolutionary war exhaust ed financially and with a hundred existing perplexities and difficulties which remained to be eoswed before tRle financial credit of  home and demonetrated abroad.
 But Washington kn1ew how to gather around him and place in positions Of the greatest trust the able financierS and economists, whose nanlfIs the country still venerate and whose great work it ebll enjoys Hamilton and Morris and GalAatin and others were successful in establish ing the treasury and inaugurating the financial operations of tGfs government upon principles which recognized that the
  nia,tionlal s1puior and tl1at whatever other as- sets wls might have or acquire, that was Indispensable, first, last and all the time, if we would cherish the public credit. We have been fully rewarded all along our his- tory by adherdng to this principles of Wash ingrton in keeping the public faith. Before half a century had PaI1=ed we Eild paid off our national ldlefbt and had a balance in the treasury. Ancst.her debt, the grSatesit In our history was incurred in the civil war for the preservation of tine union. But thds did net exceed the reE,ources or discourage the intentions of the American, people. There were tfloele who suggested repudia-- tiou, buf tllle people reaudilai,ed d thems and went oan unchecked, dischnrging the obli- gations of tine government in the cofn of honor.
 No False Teachers
 From the day our flag was unfuried to the present hour, no stain of a just obiaga-
 
 American nanne
 This must and will be as true in the fu- tuue as it 9as been in tine peEt Ttea'e will be prophets of evil ahl1 false teacfheTs Some part of the column may waver and wander away from the standard but thiere will ever rally around it a mighty majority to preg1.rve it sItafnfess and in honor.
 At mo point in ads administration does Washington appear in graGlder proportions than when he emunlci1ltes his ideas in re- gard to the foreign policy Of the govern ment: "Obslerye, gcod faith and justice toward all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with aM; religion and morality onjofn this conduct Gan it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it. It will be worthy of free, emaightenad, and at no distant period, 8 great nation to give to mankind the magnansmous and too unovea example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
 No earlier than a century from Washing toms death we turn reverentially to study the leading principles of that compreshen- siye chart for the guidance of the peopre It was his umfiinching, immovable devotion to these perceptions of duty which more than anything else made him what he was, and contributed so directly to make us what we are.
 Following His Precepts
 Following the precepts of Washington we cannot err. The wise lessons in govern ment which he left it will be profftable to heed He seems ito have graspe1 all pos sible conditions and pointed the way safely to meet them. He has established danger signals all along the paithway of the na- tion's march.
 He has wanared us against false lights. He has taught us the true philosophy of "a perfect unicn'' and shown us the graphic dangeas from secitioraalsm and wild and unrehsoraable party spdrit- He has empha- sized tine necessity at ala times for the ex- eucdse of sober and dispassionate tudg- med1t.
 Such a Judgment, my. fellow citizens, is the best safeguard in calm and tranquil events and risets superior and triumphant above the storms of woe and peril
 We have every incentive to cherish the memory and teachings of Washington. Hts wisdom and foresig ght have been conferred and vindicated after more than century of experience His best eubogy Is the work he wrought, his highest tribute is the great repaiblic which ae and his compa trfots founded. From four millions we nave grown to more tllam seventy millions of people, while our progress in industry, learning and the arts has been the won- der of the world. What tine future wlM be 7..>opJo ,,ruor ranrkalyes and that future