Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-08-29
PRESIDENT TO G. A. R.
Roosevelt Speaks on Necessity of
Living Up to Ideals.
PAYS TRIBUTE TO TIE SOUTI.
In Speech mt The Wi"rs. \. H.. He
Empha sizes Necessity OF All
Americans i,,'1 !i!.isG the
Spirit of ErI,i' t.i,uGd.

first time since lcnNi:," ON his tour of
aboard the train. He remained up un-
til late hour talking over Old times
with Bill S"wall. his former guide.
whom he insisted should accompany
him to Ellsworth and back to Bangor.
In all probability the president will re-
turn to Maine in October for hunting
trip.
Early in the morning at Kittery
Junction, Me-, the train was boarded
by General Ayling Of Concord, N. H..
Secretary of State Edward Pearson
and George II. Moses, representing
Governor Jordan of New Hampshire.
who extended the president welcome
to that state as soon as the train had
passed the boundary.
At Nashua the president delivered a
From that city his train continued to
this place. where he spoke at the
q. a. r. encampment now in session.
In the course of his remarks Mr..
Roosevelt said.
any American who has proper sense
of the relative proportion of things must
realize that to the men who fought for
the Union in the dark days of the civil
war there is owing greater debt of graf
itude than to any Others Great were the
deeds you did and vital the need Of doing
them, and many We're the lessons taught
the rest of us, both by what you accom-
plshed in the war and by the way in
turned to the work of peace with the
same spirit which had led you to tri-
umph on the tented fields.
During the lifetime of our republic each
generation has had it's allotted task.
Statesman ana soldier the man in public
life and the man in private life each has
had work to do for the nation. We have
moved forward swiftly or have stumbled
and halted according as the work as a
whole was well or i'll done. We have en-
countered many crises of Importance and
from time to time have been brought face
to face with great problems upon the
vightful solution of which much Of the
nations future welfare depended, but to
you alone it was given to face with vic
orous valor the one crisis in which not
merely the nations we'll being, but the
nations life was 1t stake. To you 1t was
given to solve the one problem which if
not solved Alright meant death for our
people. All of the work of the men who
founded this republic would have gone
for nothing had you not done your part
we'll
Fighters For Freedom.
1t was the craftsmanship of Lincoln,
the soldiership of Grant and the loyal
vaor of those who upheld the arms of
:he one and followed the sword of the
other which made permanent the work
Of Washington. of Marshall and their
cOmprerS. 1t would have protted little to
us or 10 mankind at large if the expert
ment Of free government by the people
and for the people had been founded up
on this continent only to go down in
bloody wreck on the question of slavery
You saved the Union and you freed the
slave and thereby freed the slaves mas
ter from the worst of all thralldoms
You did us the service of struggling in a
cause and for a reward in that war based
upon naught that was merely material
We pride ourselves, and properly so. upon
our great industrial capacity, our great
industrial skill. We need such success
and such capacity to make broad and
stable the foundations of our national
we'll being, yet there are things higher
than any possible material triumph.
We won in the great trial of the civil
war and came through the fiery furnace
unscathed; we sprang level to the height
Of our opportunity instead of sinking into
the gulf Of ignoble failure because in the
early sixties you and those like youth
the flower of youth and early manhood
had in you the stuff that knows how to
prize certain ideals more than material
we'll being, more than life itself. There
was no money reward for what you did.
There was hardly one of you who did
not during those four years receive far
less than he could have earned in safety
at home, but you Were driven to your
work by the lash of your own hearts.
You We're spurred onward by the lift
which only comes to a people of great
and generous soul. You felt instinctivelN
that there We're causes far greater than
ANYTHING that had to do merely with
wealth or bodily well being. You We're
willing to wager all for the prize of
death in righteous war.
Must Cling to Ideals.
We are now in time of abundance,
peace and not in time of war, but woe to
us if in peace we do not have ideals as
lofty as yours and if we do not live up to
them as you lived up to yours in the dark
days of defeat and in the golden glory OF
the hour OF triumph. Courage and 10y
atty, the stern determination to do exact
Justice the high purpose TO struggle for
the right and the common sense TO strus-
Gle tor it in practical fashion-all these
uuHlllltS We must SHOW IlDW III Jul ClNl
and social and business life as you
showed them when in the days of your
youth and lusty strength you marched
forth an army with banners and brought
back the peace that comes, not to the
weakling ana the craven but to those
whose proud eyes tell OF triumph tasted.
Among the greatest benefits of what
YOU did was the fact that you have also
left us the right of hearty and loyal COM
radesh.p with your gallant opponents who
in fighting for what they conscientiously
deemed to be right fought against the
stars in their courses. We are all loyal
Americans now-north, south, east and
west-all alike jealous of the nations
honor and welfare, proud of the nations
past and resolpsA that her future shall
stand even higher than her past.
Besides what you actually did besides
the reunited country, the undivided ma
ton which we have received at your
hands we have received also the lesson
of the doing of the deed. There is
great need now that we should show If
not in degree, at least in kind. the spirit
that you showed. We need, in order sue
cessfllly to face the difficult and complex
probems of our industrial civilization, all
the courage and loyalty and all the faith
and clear sighted sanity and purpose