The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-22
PRESIDENT SPEAKS AGAIN
Continued from First Page.)

| kCUullHuGu lIOlll ElISt | d5C( splendor and fighting and bloodshed in 1 the war, and then had the experience at once of learning that the first thing
 you had to do was to perform common
 place duties, and perform them well. l
 remember one time in my regiment ! young fellow, who had come down to { fight for his country, complaining that 1 he had been doing nothing but digging 1 kitchen sinks Daughter and applause),
 to which the answer was obvious that l he was to go on digging kitchen sinks
 And the work of any man in the cam paign depended upon the resolution and effective intelligence with which he started about doing each duty as it arose; not waiting until he could choose the duty that he thought sufficiently spectacular to do; doing the duty that came to hand.
 That is exactly the lesson that all of us need to learn in times of peace, It is not merely q great thing, but an in dispensable thing, that the nations cit izens should be ready and willing to do | for it at time of need, and no prefer ence for that other quality could atone for the lack of such readiness to lay down life if the nation calls But in addition to dying for the nation you i have got to be willing and anxious to i live for the nation, or the nation will be badly off. (Applause) If you want to do your duty when the time comes for you to die the nation will be depriv- ed of valuable services during your lives (Laughter)
 And now, gentlemen, I am speaking in all seriousness; never see a gather ing of this kind; I never see a gathering under the auspices of any of the socie- ties which are organized to comment crate the valor and patriotism of the founders of this nation; I never see gathering composed of the men ready to have volunteered in time of war or who fought in the great civil war or in any of the lesser contests in which this country has been engaged, without feel ing the anxiety to make such a gather ing realize, feel each in his or her heart the all-importance of doing the ordi- nary, humdrum, commonplace duties of each day as those duties arise. Some of the effect of the day of battle is to be found in the aggregate of the indi- vidual performances of duty during the
 
 day of battle and the way in which nation will arise to great crisis is con- ditioned upon the way in which it's cit izens have habituated themselves to act in the ordinary affairs of the national life. You cannot expect that much will | be done in the supreme hour of peril by soldiers who have not fitted them selves to meet the need when need 1 comes, and you cannot expect the high est type of citizenship to be shown in the periods when it is needed, if that ! citizenship has not been trained by the faithful performance of ordinary duty What we need most in this republic is | not special genius. not unusual brilian- cy but the honest and upright adher- ence on the part of the mass of the cit izens and of their representatives to the fundamental laws of private and public | morality. which are now what they { have been during recorded history; and | we shall succeed or fail In making this republic what it should be made-I will | go little further--than that what 1t shall and must be made, according to the manner in which we seriously and [ resolutely set ourselves to do the task of citizenship, which consists of doing the duties, private and public, which in the aggregate make It up" Great applause)
 As soon as the president had conc1ud- ed the band struck up the Star Span gled Banner the audience Joining in. Benediction was said by Bishop Satter- lee, and Nearer, My God, to Thee" was rendered by the choir. Amid the most impressive silence taps was so,rded and the services were over.