New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-02

man." who waved a flag over the Presidents
head that no other man in the State was strong
enough 70 lift.
AT MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL
President Roosevelt arrived at Mount Herrnon
School at 80 o'clock. The students OF the
school, each with flower in his buttonhoie
formed line from the roadway TO the Carriage
and cbaered him when he alighted. Their
cheers then, however were as nothlhs ~ INC
applause which met him when he walked out on
the chapel platform. With the endlhg Oh tiIe
cheers came the singing with a great volume
of melody of America" The President, intro
ducad as an old and loyal friend TO Mount
Herrnon spoke as follows:
Here, near the seat of the summer schooi TOT
Young men founded by Dwight L. Moody I'd -
u1alIy sneak on a subject suggested 70 me py CiS
life of Mr. Moody and by the aims soero IoI
through the establishment OF the summer
schools In such school. school Whlch Is 10
EQUIP young men to do good IN the Woflu' 70
show both the desire for the rule of righteous
ness and the practical power to give actual ei-
feet TO that desire it seems TO me there are Two
texts specially worthy of emphasis. One Is, Be
We doors Of the Word, and not hearers oHty,
and the other Is, Not slothful in business, Ter
vent in spirit, serving the Lord
A republic of three men is pre-eminently
community in which there is need for the actual
exercise and practical application Of both the
Inilder and the stronger virtues. Every good
Mace and is of use in the great scheme OF crea-
ton But it is mere truisIn to say that at Ger
tain times and in certain places there Is pre-
eminent need for a given set OF virtues IN our
own country with its many sided, hurrying
practical life, the place for clustered virtue IS
far smaller than the place for that essential
rnanI!ness which without losing its fine and
lofty side can yet hold its own in the rouSn
struggle with the forces of the world around
us II would be a very bad thing for this coun-
trv if il happened that the name of righteous
living tended to lose the robust. virile qualltles
Of heart mind and body, and II. on Ihe f;'a
hand. the men best fitted practically 20 achleEe
results lost the guidance of the moral law NO
one sided development can produce really go9d
citizenship as good citizenship as IS needed III
the America of to-day. II a man has not IN him
the root of righteousness If ne does not ptlieNT
in and practise honesty, if he IS not trulh tua
and upright clean and highmnded, talr IN ms
dealings both at home and abroad then tle
stronger he is the aber and more enerseuC ne
is, the more dangerous ne Is 10 tne uouy al
usually means only that dangerous cunning
which is far more fatal in its ultimate etecIs
to the community than open violence ltseI- 1t
is inexcusa BILE in honest people 10 defy mere
success without regard 70 the qualltles py
which that success is achieved. lndeed' tlieIe
is a revolving injustice, intolerabIe 10 just
minds In Furnishing the weak scoundrel VINO
fails and bowling down TO and making lie easy
for the far more dangerous scoundrel VINO sue
ceeds A wicked man who is wicked on idFse
scale whether in business or in politics, OF
course does many things more evil 20 the com
rnunitv than the man who only ventures to be
1
BILE the success of such man should be pre-
vented by law and, in any event, he ought TO
be made TO feel that there Is no condonlnS OF
his offences by the public
But virtue by itself is not strong enough, or
anything like enough. Strength must be added
TO it and the determination to use that strength.
The good man who is ineffective is not able to
make his goodness of much account to the peo-
pie as whole No matter BOW much man
hears the Word small is the credit attached to
him if he fails to be a doer also. In serving the
Lord he must remember that he needs avoid
sloth in his business we'll as to cultivate fer
Yency of spirit.
After cheering him to the echo when his
speech was finished some of the enthusiasts
touched off bonfire that sent its flames sixty
feet into the air and lighted the Presidents way
back to the hotel, where he had dinner and
spent the night.
1t has caused some surprise TO the Presidents
friends who have accompanied him through
Vermont that his trust programme. as an
nounced at Providence, Boston and elsewhere
has been criticised revolutionary and in
cendiary in certain quarters. So far as the
President and his friends see, there is moth
ing new in his present attitude toward corpora
tons. He speaks for the same principles, they
believe. as he SPOKE for in his Minneapolis
speech and his messages to the NeW-York Legts-
lature and to Congress. He has worked out the
details of some of his general schemes as then
announced, but has not gone beyond them, and
cannot understand why the mere fact that he
has become definite instead of general in his
utterances should be regarded as evidence of
radiCaliSm.