The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-06

figure stands beside the dead hero of
Mount Vernon.
Washington and Lincoln! We look
at them in this country alike. We are
incapable of looking down on Lincoln
because of his birth and bringing up.
We are incapable, if we are good citi-
zens, of the almost greater baseness of
affecting to look down upon Washing
ton because he was we'll brought up.
There are two things to be remembered.
There is Just that much of tenpta
ton before our people-a temptation
that is just as important to be over
come and thrust to one side-the tempt
alton to defy improperly the lack Of
material beings; the lack of success.
AS there is temptation to bow down
over much to success, there is also a
lack of appreciation. There is a little
book that has recently been printed,
translated from the French, written by
an Alsatian by the name of Frank
Wagner, who, if he is not Mason,
ought to be- 1t is called the Simple
Life" and | wish it could be circulated
as a tract in numerous quarters Of our
country The writer dwells especially
upon two sides-to the baseness Of pay
ing over much heed to material consid-
erations, showing what we all of us rec
ognize in theory or practice, that it is
just exactly as this is to adopt an at
titude Of hatred of those who have sue
ceeded as it is to adopt an attitude OF
arrogance toward those who have failed
and the fault is the same in each case.
The inability to put ones self in ones
brothers place and the inability to rise
superior to the nom essential OF a
mans career. To fiatter or to cringe to
the powerful are now vices in contra
distinction to one another; they are the
same kind of vice Indifferent manifesto
tons; the demagogue and the courtier
There are lessons to learn from Wash
ington's own career. Washington who
| fought to make a state out of fishers
and choppers and plowmen; Washing
| ton, who fought for independence and
put down disorder; who realized that II
could only be prevented from recurring
| by righting any wrongs that had caused
1t. Washington did his work not only
because it was given him but because
he possessed to marked degree the
qualities that every one Of us has in hin
if he chooses to develop them; because
his name was synonym for honesty
courage, common sense-the three quail
| tiles for the lack of which no brilliancy
no genius can atone, whether in mar
or in nation.
| Our system of government is the bes
in the world for people able to carr!
it on. Only the highest type of peopl
can carry it on. We believe that WI
ca1t-we know that we can, but we cal
do it only if each of US In his dealing
with the outside world carries into then
the spirit that makes a man good Ma
son-his brother Mason. If each of Il
strives to have the citizenship OF GU
country carried on In accordance wit
the basic principles Of Masonry, and
each of us shows according to his powe
and influence the homage to Washing
toms career and life that is paid b
the man with whom 1t is not lip loyalt
but with whom it is the spirit of tn
heart, that must bear fruit indeed.
Stewart l.. Woodford. former ministe
to Spain, delivered the concluding ad
dress.
The president was escorted to tn
railroad station and he left for Wash
lington at 3:49 this afternoon His de
parture was delayed a few minutes b
the late arrival of Mrs. Roosevelt fror
New York, owing to a wreck on tn
lroad near Jersey City.