New-York tribune., 1900-04-28
LESSONS OF GRANTS LIFE
WHAT THE CAREER OF THE GREAT
COMMANDER TEACHES = GOVERNOR
ROOSEVELT SPEAKS AT GALENA

ROOSEVELT SPEAKS AT GALENA.
Galena, Ill. April 27-Gran+'s birthday was OBJ
served here to-day, with Governor Theodore Roose-
welt OF New-York the principal orator Special
trains by the railroads, and the announce
ment that the Governor of the Empire State
to be present brought thousands of people into the
quaint little city, which for years the home of
the great commander. Nearly every business block
and h:.ndreds of private houses were covered with
flags and bunting
The special train hearing Governor Roosevelt.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris her son, Captain Sar-
toris her daughter Vivian Sartoris and other dis
tinguished visitors, arrived from Chicago shortly
before the afternoon exercises began at Turner
Hall After Introductory remarks by President
Spare the Rev. Dr. J. W. spensely of Albany
N Y, delivered the invocation. Then a song, In
Liberty's Name" was sung by a male quartet
Governor Roosevelt was introduced amid great ap-
plause- He spoke in part as follows:
In the long run every great nation instinctively
nentfy represents its own type Here in our coun
try we have had many public men of the first
popular leaders. We have also had great philos-
9Phers 2 who were also leaders of popular thought
devoted followers. and of them have at times
most of ali sr wede5 ye as he a
SIP away as the dust of conflict settles and as
through the clearing air look back with keener
vision into the Nations past, mightiest among the
Fsnry y qead oom the three great figures OF WASH
lIsCpH, Lincoln and Grant There are great men
also in the second rank, for in any gallery Of
merely National heroes, Franklin and Hamilton,
JtIterson and jackson would surely have their
places But these three greatest men have taken
the great men Of all times They stood supreme in
the the two great crises of our history; on the two
humanity and struck the most effective blows that
freedom undor the law; for that spirit Of orderly
liberty which must stand at the base of every wise
guard each from being wronged by his Fellows
II was no mere accident that made our three
Hlshuest men, two of them soldiers and one the
great war President II is only through work and
greatness The great man is always man of
mighty effort and usually The man whom grind,
only if they come hogoraby and it is those Who
fearessIy turn awaV from ny them ru when tbey have
no not been earned Tno in the long run deserve best
eat bread and though the sweat is bitter at times
oread that Is unearned unwon undeserved Amer
lea must nerve herself for labor and peril The
those who faced danger and overcame it, who met
difficulties and surmounted them not those whose
and dread were ever SH' far from them pe
WAR JUSTIFIED BY PEACE,
II the Revolution had been followed by bloody
not been supplemented by the adoption of the Con-
stitution if the independence won by the sword Of
stable and orderly Government which Washington
ny aed @ h IN obaos Of m W6 ad our %
to-jyes to'iI6 hay oS aepaisr and not for the ber
ternenL of mankind. So IL with the Civil War
peace they would not have been justified. If the
Great Silent Soldier. the Hammer of the North
had struck the shackles from the slave only, so
done, to rivet them around the @ wrists Of freemen
worse than in vain If the Union which many
men fought TO restore, were not now Union in
peace has made good the work Of war and North
and South East and West we are one people in
fact as well in name; one in purpose, in fel-
greet the new century. and high Of heart to face
the mighty tasks which the coming years will
Foremost Of all is the lesson Of tenacity of stub
were generals as brilliant as Grant. but no other
with his iron determination. This quality he
showed as President less than General. He
more TO be influenced by a hostile majority
in Congress into abandoning his attitude in favor
OF sound and stable currency than he was to be
Influenced by check or repuise INTO releasing % ms
Of unshakable strength TO which we are apt es-
~ ~ I,aIf4I u;bSiI H " 1eae+ afFord -
lose. It the only quality the lack Of which is
bl s9te N Of T eit acEenes 'T yoatv Of
and neuroticism in all their mild forms. The les
verance upon the course upon which the Nation
has entered is one very necessaTy for generation ion
policies Of the moment. There are not few pub
within Congress and without, on the stump and in
the daily press, who seem 70 aim at instability
effort is accordingly TO make the people move in
zigzags instead of in a straight line We all saw
this in the spanish war when the very, men who
said there was anything wrong in the Army and
another time branded as traitors everybody who
said there was anything right. OF course such an
attitude IS as unhealthy on one side as on the
other and Il is equally destructive Of any effort 10
do away with abuses.
POWER OF DOGGED PERSISTENCE
Mysteries Of this kind may have all the results of
extreme timidlty. nation that has the power
determined policy, come veal or woe, has lost one
to abandon the Philippines because we have had
heavy skirmishing out there, who think that
our rule IS failure whenever they discover some
sporadic upgrowth OF evil would do well to rernem-
suf4ered before rBe INV norniSs Tbar % fba tl1s 1
flashed TO the waiting millions that Vicksburg
had fallen in the West, and that in the East the
the low hills Of Cettysburg Even after this nearly
two years more were 10 pass before the end came
OF disaster never ceased The peace any price
men never Wearied of declaring against the war or
describing the evils OF conquest and subjugaton
worse than any possible benefits that could result
nately from unreasoning confidence TO unreasoning
despair; and at times they infected for the
Eighteen months after the began the State and
Congress elections vent heavily against the war
actually waged the Presidential campaign on the
bay 5eat the "T bndeag ws % thers
mistakes at Washington. The country was saved
fast and unshaken.
doggedness, the quality which found expression in
his famous phrases. Unconditional surrender and
mer He was master OF strategy and tactics
but he was also a master of hard hitting, of that
6Po9gb eTen Tees guard Wfe am Armed 6r39e }6e
in the field il never occurred TO Grant that any
He felt nothing but impatient contempt for the
weak souls who wished to parley with the enemy
There is a hne lesson in this 10 the people who
have been asking US TO invite the certain destruc-
the certain destruction of the islands themselves
+ BY II I on our m part PaF ahead I'D Of the
and of stamping out the last embers OF armed re-
way secure peace fight for 1t, and it