The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-20
He said in nart:


| Solitude is suicide. Society is life.
Men may exist, but they cannot live
| alone. BY irresistible attraction they
come together-the family, the tribe,
| and last, the nation. This Is the order
of development, and together in the
glow of the prosperity of the first city
| of the commonwealth may we consider
| for a moment our national hopes and
fears. Civic like individual life, is crit
| iCal. The end has not yet been reached
| and there are symptoms of possible
disaster along the way.
| The republic represents the world
| last best hope of lf-government. Tha
| highest and the best in history have
passed into it's institutions. Its terri
| tory is perfect. There is narroWness
| In Europe. States crowd before each
other and collisions are likely, but here,
what freedom and expanse! A benign
/ continent adapted to the expression of
| essential democracy The idea which
! our government embodies is the out
come of all the past
| The new and splendid territory which
| the inspired Genoese delivered to civil
| ization could neither be trusted to
| Spain nor France. And the game OF
empire was played for years until the
| English stamp was wrought by Provi-
| dence into the very texture. The out
ward relations of this country are as
sured. The continent Is not to be trou-
bled by foreign invasion or hostile
alarms. The two antagonistiC ideas in
herent in the original structure of the
! government fought their battle to the
| finish at Appomattox. Now no slave
! crouches underneath the flag, The re-
public enters, however, an era of 1ierce
and subtle dangers. Industrial forces
economic changes, indicate contests
| The love of gold fascinates us. The goo
| of condition chains the multitudes The
| fine harmony between the moral and
| material seems likely to be violated
We are seeking short cuts and adopting
hasty methods rather than following
those beaten paths over which commu-
mites have moved to conclusions.
Wall street must think of other cur.
rents than those which fill its channels
currents sweeping over wider areas
Our danger is in thinking too little OF
righteousness in considering eXpediency
rather than principle, and also in be-
coming hasty and careless in the choice
| of agents through whom this righteous
ness is to become incarnate. In Amer
lea the fittest only can rule. Officia
| places are for the best and the mos
capable, and when they are trusted tt
incompetency and corruption you char
ter the whirlwind and the hurricane
Our institutions require to-day, as new
er before, for their preservation, &
sane craftsmanship and lively cour.
age.
We may cherish hope for the repub-
lie, because God evidently has ordained
for it a high destiny. If this country
goes to the bad what Is to become o.
humanity? Gods thunderbolts have
eyes to see their way home to the mark
and sometimes these will play about thu
fates of our national progress, but th'
clear and open day will come. We be-
| lieve in the future of the nation also
because Of that clear, earnest Anglo
Saxon consciousness which Is at thu
center of its development.
Mr.. Baker, in closing, referred to thu
evidences of providential purpose in thu
eminent fitness of some of our presi
dents, and paid an earnest eulogy t.
the moral sincerity and manhood O
| Theodore Roosevelt,