The Topeka state journal., 1901-02-22
D. A. R. CELEBRATION.
Convention Is Addressed by Bishop
spaIding, of Peoria.

Washington, Feb. MRS Cnarles w.
Fairbanks, Indiana. 333.
Mrs Donald Mclean, New York. 20s
Mrs. Washington Roebling, New Jersey,
Mrs. Charles w. Fairbanks, wife of the
senior senator from Indiana, has been
Society Of Daughters of the American
Revolution The balloting for national
officers occurred yesterday, but the result
was not announced until this morning.
Although the question as to who Will sue
ceed Mrs Manning as president-genera1 of
the society has been the absorbing topic
of discussion at this congress, a compare
lively small number of delegates was
was called to order The result of the
election for president general was an
nOunced as above Indicated. A total OF
5S4 votes were cast, one ballot being re-
jected.
Washington opened the meeting with
prayer. In honor of Washingtons 5 birth
Independence and Miss Caldwell of New
York sang THE Sword Of Bunker Hill"
Bishop Spalding of Peoria delivered an
Character
He spoke in part as follows:
strive earnestly to lead a high and worthy
life, only those who are seriously in
tent making themselves wise. strong
and yirtuous are patriots. Words are idle
unless they are filed with meaning by the
deeds of those who utter them. A soldier
may die in battle for his country and be
only mercenary, but he who so lives to
make men thankful that he is their fell
low citizen is a patriot. BY making use
of the opportunities which liberty offers,
one may amass vast wealth and be an
self from within by overcoming ignorance
and greed makes US think we'll not only
characteristics of a true American are
good will, sympathy with the helpless and
ergy, courage and industry, and If we
love our country and desire to make its
institutions permanent we must labor to
cultivate these virtues IN ourselves and
in those whom are able to influence.
OF the word, and the love of country are
one and the same love. Nothing but ed
ucation, domestic, religious and scholastic,
can form the virtues which make patriots
Character is the man himself. 1t is pre-
cisely this moral growth which it is the
chief business of the school to promote,
and if it fail in this. it fails radically
"A characterless man is neither good in
himself nor good in his relations to any
form of the social environment If the
average of moral and intellectual culture
were his, We should be able not only to
procure the needs and comforts of life
with less effort, but we should have the
wisdom and strength to deny ourselves
tional force All the luxuries involve dis
sipation of vital energy and deterioration
of the quality of life; but among the lux
uries no sensible man will place the great
works of art which spring from the high
est activities of the soul and without
which our whole existence must sink to
could there be of the crude kind of think
ing in vogue among us than that uni
to place a great money gatherer on the
same footing with d great poet The one
Is a mechanical. the other vital man.
Riches are akin TO fear, to coWardice
and death, but the highest thought right
ly Expressed. is the fine essence of the
purest life stored up for all who are able
to appreciate and admire even to the re-
motest age. But however high we place
genius and intellectual culture as educa-
tionai powers, when there is a question of
patriotism we must come back to the
moral element in human nature. to the
sense of duty. The essential is not what
We know. but what we believe and love
and do with hearts.
The hero whose memory we honor to-
day was not A man of genius or of the I
best intellectual culture, but he was a
great character-honest. simple true dis
incOrruptible. He thought not !
Of private gain, nor of personal glo4v
nor OF the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of his country !
I1ght OF Inc people 10 govern themselves, !
he gave his time his wealth his life to !
make Such government actual and per-
rnanent- 1t had never occurred to hin, /
that Americans could ever seek 10 con- /
quer a people struggling for fndepend |
ence; to him who had Inscribed on his I
sslctor1ous oanner the Declaration of In (
AspSnuehce- tie could not have dreamed I
hat the extension of trade and. the en- /
slching OF trusts should ever be deemed |
0y Americans a Justification of wars and /
He had noble so1l. ne had
I great heart;z ne had honest convictions. |
le nad the courage of his opinions If !
n w ,lll compare MIN with Julius Caesar, he is
AltVgetnef INFERIOR in intellectual grasp /
ma power, but wholly superior. i'm charac- !
er, IN the qualities which make n man
wise, .sise, nelpful and benefcent. The one
)yerthreW a republic to build an ernnfra
4 ~ men quickly became the shame and ruin
u the world; the other founded a rapt1h-
N ~ y y mIaeh 4 /, mas Deen refuge and blessing
OF an lne victims of tyranny in the wide
No1td' tVH whose prosperity and confinl1-
1llee, an pure, gentle, loving and Chris
ian ian souls IN the whole wide world must