The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-09
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or an engineer or serve well in any other
capacity on railroad long. if, 10 speak
technicalIy. he has q streak of yellow in
him. O-aughter) you are going to find
it out, and he is going TO bs painfully
conscious of il very soon. 1t IS a fine
thing for our people that We should have
the qualities il evidence before US in The
life work OF q big group Of our citizens
IN American citizenship we can succeed
permanently upon only the basis of stand
shoulder 20 shoulder in association by OF
ganization by each working for all. and
yet remembering that we need each SO
70 shape things that each man can devel-
op to hest advantage all the forces and
powers q { his command. in your organi-
zation you accomplish much by means
of the brotherhood, but you accomplish
il because Of the men who go 10 make
up that brotherhood
If you had exactly the organization.
exactly the laws. exactly the system and
yet were yourselves a poor set OF men,
the system would not save you. l viii
guarantee that from time to time you
have men 90 in, try to serve for the nine
months who prove that they don't have
the stun in them out of which you
can make good men. You have got to
have the stuff in you, and if you have
got the stuff you can make out Of it
a much finer man by means of the asso-
ciation-but you have got TO have the ma
terial out Of which to make Il. SO It is
in citizenship. We need sood laws, we
need a good fundamental law Of the type
that we call constitution. but back of it
an lies the nced-for the Lack Of which
nothing else can supply-the lack OF
higher average Of Individual citizenship.
That we have got to have. It is just as
SIS it is in war When wen went into
the Spanish war lot Of our national
guards were armed with black powder
muskets, a weapon which makes the
cross bow rather recent by comparison.
It always irritates me to see any of our
troops armed with such a weapon. 1
want to see each man have the best wea-
pom But # the man is d poor creature,
no matter how good his weapon is, he
viii be beaten by a good man with
club / want the best type OF weaken,
but I want the man behind the gun. 1t
is so in our civil life. in citizenship. l
want TO see a good frame work of labor
organization-want TO see a good frame
work under wise laws Of corporate organ
izations; 1 want TO see good laws on
the statute books fer all of US. I want
10 see our admirable constitution. when
ever the need comes, rendered still more
admirable, even if il is necessary to
amend it. But. remembering the impor-
lance Of all that, my friends. what 1
hope we VIII never forget is that in the
last resort the problem of good citizen
snip is the problem of producing good
men and women. That is the<fundsmen-
tai problem. All the organization in the
world the best development of the broth
erhood. will not make a coward or
shirk Of a good engineer or good fire.
man. and the best law, the best consu-
tuition Will not work but ii II we have
not i'm the average citizen that which
counts for more than intellect and stands
as far above intellect as intellect stands
above mere brute strength-character;
character that is composed of three ele-
ments-of honesty. Of courage and of
hard common sense.
The president told of his trip over the
beautiful fields of Chicamauga. yester-
day. ana drew a lesson Of the horseman-
ship shown in the armies of the North
and South. the men who compose the
armies. he said, possessed the require
ment of which good citizens are made.
He referred to the Inscription on the mon
ument raised 10y Kentucky 30 the Union
and Confederate soldiers from that state
who fell on that battlefield.
lie read the inscription as follows:
As we are united in life and they are
united in death. let one monument PER-
petuate their deeds and people. forgetful
oe an asperity forever hold in grateful
an the glories of that ter
rible conflict which made all men free
and retained every star on the nations
fag
THAT is a good sentiment, that IS a SEN
timent 10y which We can ali stand. And.
oh. my friends. that sentiment has its IN
DERIVING spirit. a spirit of brotherhood. I
firmly believe in my countrymen and
therefore. ! believe that the chief thing
necessary in order shat men should work
tcgcthcr IS that they should know one
another. that the men north should know
The southern: that the men of occupation
should know the men Of another occupa-
ton. 81 We may aIl realize that the
greatest advantages are superficial. are
unimrortant. and that we are and ever
must he kait together FRI one indissoluble
mass bv. common American manhood =
As the president concluded he was
roundly chcered.
GAIF SWEEPING LAKE