The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-03-06

were before. And our Portion Of the
worlds work, which destiny has laid upon
the younger and the growing races, is the
duty and labor of guardianship. We are
the executors of a trust estate in Porto
Rico, in Cuba, in the Philippines. That
trust we will execute as thoroughly as
Americans do everything. And SO Ameri-
permanent. The American flag in Porto
Rico viii float there as long as the repub-
lies government itself shall stand Amer
lean suZerainty over Cuba viii remain until
time laces that island more closely TO US
with more enduring bonds. Events call
for the conservatism of adaptability. Con
ditiOnS demand the moderation of the free
hand. The radicalism of ancient methods
has no place among new conditions: Re
member the parable of the wine in
the old bottles. What would we say if the
ancient mariner should step from his yes
sci of wood and sail and spars and ropes
onto the bridge of a 10th century ocean
liner. and declare that the steam which
drove it, the electricity which lighted it,
the steel plates, the copper bottoms and
all the method of modern shpbuilding are
sacrilege becaues he had not done in that
way? This hoary representative Of day
that is dead would not be considered con-
servative The board of directors that
would place him in command of Deutsch-
land or Lucania would not be considered
conservative Moderation means the pro-
gress of facts-not the daring of dreams on
the one hand nor yet the cOwardice Of
remniscence on the other. And so with
the dependencies of the American republic
American statesm must deal as practical
thought directed TO actual conditions de-
mands that they should deal. They must
not deal spasmOdically.
But in this great problem Of our DEEPEN
denotes. more even than in the surprising
developments of our internal economy, pa
thence is the word OF power and OF success
race cannot be transformed over night.
The methods of three centuries cannot he
remeded between sunrise and sunset. The
character of a people Is not TO be altered
even by the school teachers priceless work
in season or year. Let us not be in
haste. Let us have the serenity of the
situation. We are dealing with an elemen-
tai problem. racial problem. world
question. We must act, therefore. with
deliberation as large and n patience as
steady as the problem is vast and historic.
We must employ no magic but time. no leg
erdemain but that of steady and continu-
Gus effort unvarying and undsmayed.
There must be no spasms of extravaganza.
no spasms of retrenchment, no panic OF
retreat, no fury of advance.
So, fellow-citizens. we will go on in the
spirit and method Of Washington. practical
w. steadily, calmly, without prejudice and
without fear Whatever the future may
hold for the American people in internal
DEVELOPMENT or foreign dominion. that fu-
ture will be met with that thoughtful mod
Grafton which adapts means 10 ends. II
old methods suffice, those old methods we
will because they are approved II
we will use because they are ut hand. II
new methods are necessary, new methods
we will invent because the case demands
them. The fanaticism Of the old ill not
influence the American people. The fanat-
icism of the new Will not influence the
American people. The conservatism Of
adaptahility the calmness Of the appro-
pr:ate. the patience necessary for the dor-
Of the work in hand whatever that work
NAV be--these are the saving influences
which VII govern American action now
and hereafter. The discipline of the DAYS
work the balanced Judgment that accom-
plishes real tn ngS. the steady sanity essen
rial TO the settlement of actual situation
these are the councillors which now and
henceforth the American people VIII coz
suit. Neirker passion nor fear. neither
theory nor precedent neither imagination
nor impulse. shall corrupt in the American
character that orderly adaptahility which
has been the very soul Of American pro-
gress And before these influences Of light
every cloud that fear discerns on our hort
ION will dissolve: every impossible ocean
which Imagination sees in our pathway will
be safely crossed: every foe which foresight
beholds in the distance will be vanquished
and the dag which Washington unfurled
will foa. over ever-broadening horizons
Frightening every hour with increasing
glories Of actual achievement.