The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1901-11-01
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~ ances concerning the fu-
| M ture policy of President
| Isl Roosevelt are undoubt-
edly TO be found in the
speech delivered by him at Minne1polis
on Sept. ., just four days before the
Buffalo tragedy which made him presi-
dent. 1t was carefully prepared adj
| dress, in which lie frankly outlined his
views as vice president on national af-
| fairs. His most positive statements are
in favor of reciprocity and the mainte-
nance of the Monroe doctrine. The text
| of this speech is as follows:
In his admirable series of studies of
| twentieth century problems DIR. Lyman
| Abbott has pointed out that we are a
| nation of pioneers: that the first colo
| nists to our shores were pioneers, and
that pioneers selected out from among
| the descendants of these early pio-
neers. mingled with others selected
afresh from the old world. pushed
westward into the wilderness and laid
| the foundations for new common
wealths. They were men of hope and
| expectation, of enterprise and energy,
| for the men of dull content or more
dull despair had no part in the great
movement into and across the new
world. Our country has been popu-
lated by pioneers. and therefore it has
in it more energy, more enterprise,
1 9TH
in the wide world.
THE HoMEMAkER BUILDS THE
| STATE.
| You whom l am now addressing
stand for the most part but one genera
ton removed from these pioneers.
You are typical Americans, for you
have done the great. the characteristic,
the typical work of our American life.
In making homes and carving out
careers for yourselves and your chill
dren you have built up this state.
Throughout our history the success of
the homemaker has been but another
name for the upbuilding of the nation.
The men who. with AK in the forest
and pick in the mountains and plow
the dominion of our people over the
American wilderness have given the
definite shape to our nation. They
have shown the qualities of daring, en-
durance and farsightedness. of eager
desire for victory and stubborn refusal
to accept defeat. which go to make up
the essential manliness of the Ameri-
can character. Above all, they have
recognized in practical form the funda-
mental law of success in American
life-the law of worthy work, the law
of high. resolute endeavor. We have
but little room among our people for
the timid, the irresolute and the idle,
and it is no less true that there is
scant room in the world at large for
the nation with mighty thews tina;
dares not to be great.
NO ENVY OF THE IDLE.
Surely in speaking to the sons OF
men who actually did the rough ant
hard and infinitely glorious work OF
. making the great northwest what Il
now is / need hardly insist upon the
righteousness of this doctrine. In YOU
own vigorous lives you show by ever!
act how scant is your patience will
those who do not see in the life of eff
fort the life supremely worth living
Sometimes we hear those who do no
work spoken of with envy. Surely thu
: willfully Idle need arouse in the breas
of a healthy man no emotion stronge
than that of contempt, at the outside
, no emotion stronger than angry con
tempt. The feeling of envy would hav'
, in it an admission of inferiority on on
part. to which the men who know no
the sterner joys of life are not entitled
Poverty is a bitter thing, but it is no
as bitter as the existence of restles
5 vacuity and physical. moral and intel
lectual flabbiness to which those doom
= themselves who elect to spend all thei
= years in that vainest of all vain pur
suits, the pursuit of mere pleasure as
, sufficient end in itself. The willfull.
idle man, like the willfully barpen wo
, man. has no place in n sane, health.
I and vigorous community. Moreover
g the gross and hideous selfshness fo
which each stands defeats even its owl
| miserable aims.
, THE HAPPIEST MAN.
Exactly as infinitely the happiest VIC
q man is she who has borne and brough
t ND many healthy children. SO infinitel
e | the happiest man is he who has toile
hard and successfully in his life worl
G The work may be done in q thousan
/. | different ways-with the brain or tn
Il hands. in the study the field or tn
q workshop-if it is honest work. homes
l. ly done and well worth doing. that
e all we have right to ask. Every fl
Z ther and mother here. if they are wis
will bring up their children not to shir
= difficulties, but to meet and overcom
? | them; not TO strive after n life of ign'
n be ease. but TO strive to do their dut.
first to themselves and their famllle
Il and then 10 the whole state. and tn
IT duty must inevitably take the shape
n work in some form or other. You, I'll
e sons of pioneers. if you are true
your ancestry. must make your live
ms W worthy as they made theirs. The
"A souc 1t for true success, and therefor
they did not seek ease. They kne