The Topeka state journal., 1902-08-29

evils of the body polite will be made to
disappear, distrust him, for if he is
honest he Knows not what he says
Mankind has moved slowly up through
the ages, stumbling, hating, rarely by
leaps and bounds, generally by a slow
and painful procession The millennium
to succeed by showing exactly the quail
tiles which our fathers showed when in
great crises they succeeded.
There is no more possibility of rem
edying all ills, social, economic and po-
litical of the body polite by some patent
device now than there was such posi-
bility in 1875 or in 1861 Victory then
came to the men who showed the good,
ordinary, sturdy common-sense quail
ties. Abraham Linco1n-the spirit in
carnate of those who won victory in
the civil war-was the true representa-
tive of this people, not only for his own
generation but for all time, because he
was a man among men. a man who
embodied the qualities of his fellow
men, but who embodied them to the
highest and the most unusual degree oi
perfection, who embodied all that was
in the nation of courage of wisdom, OF
gentle patient kindliness and of COM
mon sense. And great, sad, patient
Lincoln led US to victory from 81 to
'65 because he did rot trust to any mere
trick or device, because he drove deep
down to the heart of thousands and
based his reliance on the fundamental
virtues of mankind. the old. old virtues
to show in facing the problems of to-
day. If we approach them in a spirit
of envy and malice toward our fellows
we will not only fail. but we will drag
them and us in common ruin. Shame
to US if we blink at the evils. Face the
problem and then approach it in
spirit not merely of determination to
solve it. but of hearty desire to solve IL
with justice to all, with malice to none"
At Manchester the president said: 1T
is about one hundred and twenty-five
years ago that Molly Stark's husband
had a sawmiH here. and it strikes me
you are a pretty good representative OF
Stark Major Sullivan. He had his
sawmill here, but when the country
called to arms he was going to do his
duty or Molly Stark was going to be
widow and those like you who have
done their duty in modern times in the
last few years have been showing your
selves tit representatives of Stark and
the men who founded our republic
And, gentlemen, we have heard good
deal of criticism about what our people
have done in the Philippines. Those
that went were our brothers. friends.
companions. There was occasionally
one of them that did something wrong
Well, we are not all of US immaculate
at home. There is every reason why
we should put a stop to wrong doing.
punish the wrong -doer, be he soldier OF
civilian, and where it has been possible
to get at any soldier who did wrong
he has been punished; but the fact re-
mains that you and those like you III
the Philippines have written a new
page in the honor roll of American his
tory, and shame to US as nation if WE
don't stand behind you and appreciate
what YOU have done.
And Just one word. This Is one of
those great industrial centerS, the
building up of which has meant that
building up of the material prosperity
of our country Now, there is always
certain to be some evil in any great
m n fnT rd n11r ot ario oil
ress has been accompanied by certain
evils. The marvellous success which has
produced such great corporate and in
dividual wealth has meant that certain
abuses have grown up in connection
with that indiviual wealth and in con-
nection with the corporations that are
the ordinary instruments of industrial
activity at present.
There are evils. Let's try to get rid
of them, but let's show common sense
in the effort. Let's devote our best
thoughts and best energies to finding
some method of getting rid of any and
all evils in the body, but let us, above
all things, beware in using the knife
not to handle it so that it will be dan
gerous to the community even more
than the evil attacked
AT Nashua the president said in part:
Mr.. Mayor and you, my fellow citi-
zens, men and women of New Hamp-
shire: am glad to have the chance to
be greeted by you and to acknowledge
one of the industrial centers the pros
perity of which has meant the prosperi-
ty of the whole country. But prosperity
itself never made any man happy. You
are not going to be happy without it,
but you are not going to be happy if
you do not have something else besides.
Prosperity must be the basis The ma
terial well being must be the founda-
ton. but on it you have to rear super
structure of kindly brotherhood, ali
striving for decency in public and
private life, or but scant will be the
good of prosperity. More than that, it
is possible by government to create
conditions under which men can become
prosperous. and it is unfortunat tely easy
enough by bad legislation or bad ad-
ministratiOn to paralyze our life as to
render it impossible for any one to be
prosperous; but all that government
can do is to create conditions under
which prosperity can come If individual
citizens lack the thrift, the energy, the
power and the mind to work, no laws
will make them prosperous"