Gilpin observer., 1902-09-04
RuusEvELi's ADVICE
WHAT WE MUST DO TO PROSPER
No Man Who Led Life Of Ease 10
Remembered In History-Men Need
HOLIDAYS and Should Work Hard
and Play Hard-victory Won by
Men Of Good Common Sense.

HOLIDAYS and Should Work Hard
and Play Hard-victory Won by
Men Of Good Common Sense.
Concord, N. H., Aug. 29-The Presl-
dents special reached Concord prompt
ly Mt 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon and
was greeted with salute Of twenty
one guns. Arriving at the stage from
which he was to speak, the President
received the greatest ovation of the
day. He said in part:
"There has never been man in our
history who led life of ease whose
name is worth remembering Now, un-
derstand me. Take holidays. l believe
in holidays. believe in play and be-
lieve In playing hard while play, but
don't make business of 1t. Do your
work and do it up to the handle, and
then play when you have got time to
play, and IL you are worth anything,
enjoy that, too. The heroic times In
this nations career were when 1t had
work to do and instead Of flinching
from the work, did it. And it did that
heroic work partly because, in addition
to the heroic virtues which can be used
but once in a generation, 1t had the
commonplace, humdrum, every day
virtues which stay with us year in and
year out. There Is need to do all the
ordinary, commonplace duties as they
arise, or we will be in no shape to
meet the crisis that calls for heroism
when that crisis arises.
1T is In the long run the man who
counts. Just exactly as in war, though
you have got to have the best weapons,
yet they are useless IL the men behind
them don't handle them well; so in
peace the best constitution, the best
Legislation, the greatest natural advan-
tages will avail nothing if you have not
the right. type of citizenship to take
advantage Of them.
About all we have right to expect
from government is that 1t will see
that the cards are not stacked. II 1t
sees to that, then we will abide by
the deal Now that is the spirit In
which to approach the problems caused
by the enormous Increase In our indus
trial prosperity, by the growing per-
plexity of our industrial system. We
use the word trust rather loosely to in
dictate sometimes large corporation in
which there is an element of monopoly.
sometimes all large corporations, espe-
cially II they do an interstate business.
Now 1t Is not necessary to say that
the farmer is benefited by the success
of the manufacturing center, just as
the manufacturing center must, in the
last resort, depend upon the welfare
Of the country for its success. We all
share alike In the upward movement.
That Is something that we want to re-
member, all our wealth and fortunes
are indissolubly connected.
III good times come we are all OF us
going to feel them, some more than
others, but, speaking generally, OF
course, all of us are going to feel them
somewhat II bad times come, while
some will suffer more than others, We
will all of us suffer somewhat.
'Now, the great problem that We
should set before us Is to keep pros
perity, to render its advantages less
unequal, to try to secure a greater
equality Of It's benefits, but, above all,
never under any circumstances to lend
ourselves to the leadership Of any who
appeal to the baser passions of man
kind. Evils have come through our
very prosperity. Now, II would be per-
fectly possible at any time to make 1t
unpleasant for the trusts-perfectly
possible to prevent big corporations
from making money? They did not
make any money in 1S93-and neither
did any one else Let us face the fact
that there are evils. 1t Is foolish to
blink at those evils. Let us set our
selves, hut temperately and with san
ity, to strive to find out what the evils
are and to remedy them.
''If any man tells you that he can
advance specific by which all the
evils OF the body polite will be made
to disappear. distrust him, for If he lie
honest he knows not what he says.
Mankind has moved slowly up through
the ages, stumbling. halting rarely by
leaps and bounds, generally by slow
and painful progression.
"The millennium Is good ways on
yet, and we are going TO succeed by
showing exactly the qualities which
our fathers showed when in great
crises they succeeded. There is no
mde possibility of remedylng all Ills,
social, economic and political Of the
body polite by some patent device now
than there was such possibility In 1776
or In 1861. Victory then came to the
men who showed the good. ordinary
sturdy, common sense qualities.
abraham Lincoln-the spirit incar-
nate 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 nll time, be-
.. cause he was man. among men, n
man who emD0dieu the qualities OF his
fellow men. but who embodied them to
the highest and the most unusual de-
gree of perfection; who embodied all
that was In the Nation Of courage, OF
wisdom, of gentle. patient kindness
and of common sense. And great, sad,
patient Lincoln led us to victory from
81 to '65 because he did not trust to
any mere trick or device, because he
drove deep down to the heart Of thou
sands and based his reliance on the
fundamental virtues Of mankind, the
old, old vritues OF mankind. A.
THAT .is the spirit we have to show
In facing the problems Of to-day. II
we approach them in n style Of enty