The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-07

Run came along and the movement was the
other way, and then lot of the same men
who had been demanding at the tops OF
their voices that you should instantly go
on to Richmond said that the war was
over; 1t was done. nothing more to be ac-
complished- You and those like you dld
not think so. The men, North and South,
were built of a different stuff. The war
went on for four years, and you would
not have got to Richmond at all IL you
had insisted that you could only go there
by a patent device. That was not the way
you got there. You got there by setting
your teeth and making your mind up tnat
you were in TO see that fight through. Then
you had to face defeat and come up again,
and IL defeated TO try again, until out
of defeat you wrested triumph. You made
up your minds that you would win by the
same qualities which have made good SOL
diers from the time that the world was
young.
The men in blue and the men in gray
who fought in the great civil war had
different weapons and were drilled In dlI-
ferent tactics from the soldiers who fol-
lowed Washington and Greene and Mad
Anthony Wayne; who fought under Marion:
who fought at Bunker Hill; who fought at
Kings Mountain. You had different uni
forms, different weapons, different tactics,
but the spirit that drove you forward was
the same. IApplause.l
And now If ever this country should be
called, as L most earnestly hope and be-
lieve il never will be called, to face a Sc
rious foreign foe, the men that fight will
have high-power small-calibre, smOkeless-
powder rifles; they will fight in open order
instead of the old elbow-to-elbow touch
they will fight under entirely different tao
tics; under different conditions: but If they
win they will win because they had in them
the same stuff that their fathers had in
the civil war, their great grandfathers in
the revolutionary war. lApplause.] The
hs E gun SpGd p but tRe
got to remain the same as ever. lap
plause.1
WE NEED GOOD LAWS.
1T Is just so IN dealing with these prob
lens of citizenship. The changed con-
ditions mean that there must be change
In the laws; change from time to time in
the fundamental underlying law of the
land, which We call the Constitution. The
law now and then has to change, but in
the long run IL is the man behind the law
that counts. We need good laws; we need
the very best laws; we need the best con-
stitution and iced to amend it so as to
keep 1t what 1t is-the best constitution
But no constitution, no law will supply
the place in the average individual of those
| qualities which in their sum make up good
citizenship. 1t is just as 1t is in battle.
/ hate, and IL any national guardsman is
here he will appreciate what say. hate
to see our national guard armed with a
| black powder musket. 1 would about as
| soon see him armed with a cross-bow !
believe that for any man wearing the uni
| form which is Uncle Sans or may be
| Uncle Sans in an emergency the best
weapon is none too good. [Appiause.J But
/ IL you give man the best weapon in the
| world and he himself is a pretty poor sort
| of creature he will be beaten by good
| man with club. Applause and laughter. ]
Now 1t is just so in the field of civic
| life. If our average citizenship is low, no
| laws will save us. There are other coun-
/ tries with almost exactly our constitution;
| with very similar laws to ours, where
| nevertheless, the experience of free gov
| eminent has been almost failure. be-
| cause the men were not the same; because
/ they did not have the same stuff for citi-
| Zenship. In the last resort it must be the
high average standard of citizenship upon
| which we will have to rely in this Re-
| public. Something can be done by law;
| something can be done by honest and fear
less administration Of the law. but most
| of all must depend upon having the right
1 kind CT men; the right kind of women In
/ the country. We need more than intellect;
we need character-character which counts
most; that Is what counts more than any
| thing else in life [applausel character
| which counts for the individual in private
1 life, which counts in the life of the State
| character which we want to see in our pub
/ lie men when they tackle the problem OF
/ trusts or of anything else; character which
/ is fundamentally composed of many ee-
ments. but which must command these
| three-honesty first; / do not care how
| able a man is, if he is a scamp he is q
| danger; do not care how honest man Is
| IL he is afraid he is no good; honesty first
| then courage and those two qualities are
| not enough; Ii does not make any differ
| ence how brave a man is, or how honest II
| he was born foolish, scant will be the gooc
| you get out of him. We need, then, fol
| our citizenship character; character into
| which shall enter honesty, courage and tn,
saving grace of common sense. Zap
| plauseI T.
AT the conclusion OF the address the
| presidential party re-entered the train OF
| carriages and were driven over a route OF
| the principal thoroughfares of the city
The decorations were Of an elaborate anC
| festive order. All along the route vas
| crowds cheered the President to the echo
The party was driven to the southern por
ton of the city, where the special trair
was boarded and the trip to the South con
1 tinued