The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-04

ness. Young nerve, young blood young
brains-these and only these are equal to
those mighty tasks, and. therefore, over
all the land every great organization OF
industry, every great business establish
ment is searching night and day for the
most effective young men to serve and
nnally 10 rule them. That search will
md you IL you are the man for the deed
and the hour. 1t will find you if you are
student, sober. Industrious. earnest, hope
ful. 1t will find you If you so live that
each day finds you broader, stronger. great
er than you were on yesterday. But it
VIII not find you IL you moan complaints
against the industrial developments of the
age. IL will not find you If you curse So
clety tor not bringing your life's chance
TO you on golden platter. 1t will not find
you II your soul repeats that devils dog
ma that the world owes you living. The
everything. You yourself, and only you,
owe yourself your living.
"Democracy's hopeless messag e to young
men is doctrine OF cruelty as we'll as
of falsehood because 1t paralyzes youths
natural endeavor 1t puts in the mouths
of young men these words: Why strive,
since my striving is in vain? Why labor,
since Improvement is fruitless? And so 1t
converts the young manhood Of the Re-
pubic into generation of doless discon-
tents. And yet the fates of the day de-
clare the reverse. Most rich Americans
were poor boys forty years ago. If De-
mocracy says that that was possible then
out Impossible now, remember that the
new engineers of enterprise whom the old
masters to-day are putting at the throttle
ana the lever, are young men who yester-
day were poor boys, unaided except by
their own uncomfortable wills and master
ful minds. George w. Perkins, the right
hand OF Morgan, was an office boy whose
only influential friends were poverty, de-
termination and faith in humanity and
forty years of age. Charles NJ. Schwab
was puddler, whose only friends of in
huence were industry. ability. unconquer-
able perseverance: and Charles NJ Schwab
is only forty years of age. No newspaper
IN chicago could In a single issue print
the names of young men already coming
10 the front who yesterday were friend
less and helpless save for the great friend
and matchless help which every man has
within his own breast.
Last year the superintendent of a great
self a penniess, friendless boy who started
as freight handler at so cents a day and
who is now only fifty years of age) told
me that among the ten thousand men I'M
der him, he was searching for an assist
ant superintendent equal to the work re-
CURED. Said he: The question is not shall
L take Brown or Jones or Smith. The
question is where is the mans And that
is the question which industry and politics
and religion and all the world have asked
since the dawn of history and never asked
SO earnestly as to-day. Where is the mann
asks modern society. And the Republican
party would have you say: am he by
virtue of my good right hand / am he by
virtue of days of toll and nights of study.
L am he by virtue of a living hope that
never fails. | am he by virtue of obstacles
overcome, of problems mastered, of duty
done am he by virtue of arduous deeds
done hourly as the light of each days sun
racy would have you say in answer to that
eternal world question, Where is the man.
L am not he, and he does not live You ask
too much. You ask for equipment; L offer
you complaint. You ask industry; 1 offer
you words. You ask me to keep step with
ceaseless progress; and 1 respond that the
world moves too fast and ask il to halt
till 1 catch up. Halt till 1 point out to my
fellow-men their wrongs to me. Halt while
l explain my failure This is the spirit of
Republicanism on the one hand and of
Democracy on the other hand toward the
young manhood of the American Republic
at the beginning of the twentieth century.
What of the young man Absolom? asks
the voice of Democracy. Let him go to
work. answers the voice of Republicansm
Had Absolom been at his fathers tasks
he never would have been hung by the hair
from the branch of the tree until righteous
arrows smote the life from his traitor s
heart. See we a man diligent in business
he shall stand before kings See we a
man diligent in intrigue. busy with discon-
other men have achieved, his tongue shall
work his own undoing and his own hand
bring him to naught.'
NO CAUSE FOR FEAR.
Fear not the greatness of Industrial or
CARNATIONS. Fear only lest you prove not
equal to their magnitude and the vastness
of your own opportunity. The Republic is
great-the greatest in the world. It's re-
sources are great-the greatest in the
world It's railways are great. Its factories
are great. It's organizations of industry are
great-the greatest in the world. And the
Republican party says to the young men
of America: You also must be great men,
broad men-the greatest and broadcast in
the world Democracy is against greater
America; it is little America 1t is against
great railroads; 1T is for little lines. 1t is
against great organizations of industry: il
is for their destruction and return to the
little efforts of small concerns. And there
fore ii is against the greatness and strength
public. 1t declares that you should not rise
TO the majesty of your surroundings, the
vastness of the twentieth centurys de-
velopment, but that you should resist all
advance. halt economic evolution, disinte-
crate the mighty organizations of industry
which grow out of the development of the
American mind and the civilized necessities
of the American people. Separate and
fight one another-this is Democracys ad-
vice to the youth of the Nation. Unite, or
ganize. help one another-this is the advice
ton.
Greater America and Republicanism
little America and Democracy. 1t is no
new story. In the history of every ex-
panding race, its advance has been opposed
WITHIN itself. In England there were and
are little Englanders who ruin in
every forward march of the British Empire
that circles the world with civilization. In
Russia there were little Russians who re-
sisted the instinct of expansion and held
In check for half century the fight of
the Russian eagles. In Germany there
solidation of the German people. Where
are all of them now? History has effaced
their names from the chronicles of time as
nature destroys all trace of resistance to
her fecund and productive forces. So shall
1T be in America, and the children's chill
perialism is our death and not our life will
refuse to admit that their fathers advo-
Gated such a doctrine; and they will re-
fuse successfully because the world will
have forgotten the names of those who at
the beginning of the twentieth century re-
sisted the Republics world advance. So
shall 1T be and so has ii ever been You
cannot name the men who fought Jeffer-
sons purchase of Louisiana; they are for
gotten. You cannot name the men who
declared that the seizure of Texas and
California was the Republics doom; they
are forgotten. You cannot name the men
who detained against the folly of taking
Jefferson's works shall have grown dim.
his capture for the Republic of the vast
territory which is now the Republics heart
Will be his immortal monument When
Stewards irrepressibe conflict shall have
become curious phrase his acquisition of
Alaska will be his Justification When
William McKinley's name remains but a
beautiful memory and his internal coun-
sells shall have lost their interests under
changing conditions, the empire of the