Evening star., 1902-08-28

erly 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
wellbeing. Yet there are things higher
than any possible material triumph.
We won the great trial of the civil war
and came through the fiery furnace un-
scathed- We sprang level to the height of
our opportunity instead of sinking into the
gulf of ignobe failure because in the early
sixties you and those like you-in the flower
| of youth and early manhood-had in you
the stuff that knows how to prize certain
| ideals more than material wellbeing, more
than life itself
No Money Reward.
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 were
spurred on by the lift which only comes to
a people of great and generous soul. You
felt instinctively that there were causes far
greater than anything that had to do
merely with wealth or bodily wellbeing. You
were willing to wager all for the prize of
death in righteous war.
we are now in time of abundance,
peace, and not in time of war. But woe to
us II in peace We do not have ideals as
lofty 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 loyalty,
the stern determination to do exact justice,
| the high purpose to struggle for the right
and the common sense to struggle for 1t In
practical fashion-an these qualities we
must show now in our civil and social and
! business life 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 and the craven, but to
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tasted
Among the greatest benefits of what you
did was the fact that you have also left US
the right of hearty and loyal comradeship
with your gallant opponents, who, in fight
ing 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 resolute that her
future shall stand even higher than her
past
At the conclusion of his address the Pres
ident returned to his train and started back
to Concord.
Lesson of the Deed Itself.
Besides what you actually did, besides
the reunited country, the undivided nation,
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 successfully to face the diff
ficult and complex problems of our indus
trial civilization, all the courage and 10y
atty, and all the faith and clear-stghted
sanity and purpose which there are at our
command.
Above all, we need to learn Alright and
to apply the great lesson of brotherhood
which you taught and practiced in the TOUR
grim years that began with Sumter and
ended with Appomattox- In the old simple
America of our forefathers-the America
which still for our good fortune exists in
country districts-there was comparative
freedom from certain dangers to which the
country as a whole is now necessarily eX-
posed.
The growth of great cities and of indi-
viduaI and corporate fOrtunes-the tendency
in great cities to divide men into groups
and Classes-naturally diminishes the real
ization of that essential underlying brother
hood which ought to be deep in the heart of
every American. Looking into the rists of
the future, see dark problems looming
before US. We can solve those problems
Alright only If we keep constantly in mind
that each must work for all and all for
each. In other words we need to feel in
our being the sense of brotherhood.
Had the Right Sort of Metal.
well, it was exactly this sense of
brotherhood which all Of you showed.
What you wanted to know was whether he
would stay put in time of stress and
whether his metal would ring true in the
supreme hour of danger. Well, that is eX-
actly what we want to know in civil life.
1t behOoves US to realize what is essential
and what is non-essential to the worth of
any man. In the lifelong struggle for
clean and honest government and for social
betterment we Americans must strive on
ward in the same spirit unless we are false
TO the ideals which have made our country
what il is.
we have lust brought to a conclusion
war in the far east-a war which sprang up
as SEQUEL TO our short struggle with
Spain. The army, which has done its work
so we'll in the Philippine Islands, has had
a task which was small, indeed, compared
with yours, but which, nevertheless, was
fraught with hardship and difficulty pecu-
Iiarly its own. The men who after three
years of painful, harassing, incredibly la
bOrious warfare in the tropical jungles
against 4 treacherous and savage foe, have
finally brought peace and order and civil
government in the Philippines, are your
sons. your successors. They claim their
share in your glory by inheritance, and by
their yalOr and their steadfast endurance
have added new luster to that glory. They
have been cruelty malgned. even by some
who should have known better.
Occasional Wrong Doing.
I'm an army, in the best army and espe-
well-nigh intolerable conditions as those
which confronted our troops in the Philip
pines. there are bound to be instances of
occasional wrong doing. The temptation
10 retailiate for the fearful cruelties of
savage foe is very great, and now and then
1t has been yielded to. There have been a
few. and only a few such instances in the
Philippines, and punishment has been meted
out with unflnching justice to the of
tenders But the real marvel is that under
such conditions there should have been SO
little wrong doing.
AS time goes on and get our proper
proportion of things these instances win be
forgotten, but there will remain for all
time new pages the honor roll of our
history because of what has been done for
the nation in the Philippines. Our officers
and men on the march and in battle showed
themselves not unworthy of you, the men
of the great war. They have added to the
memories of which Americans are proud
and by their labor they have brought the
peaceful light of civilization into one of the
worlds dark places. We feel that we have
a right to demand the support of all good
citizens for the army in the Philippines be-
cause of what it has done. and we ask it