The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-23

adoption of a reasonable measure of reci-
procity with Cuba. / am certain that the
adoption of such measure will be in the
interest of our people a whole Above
all, while acknowledging the highminded-
ness and moral sincerity of those of my as
sociates with whom on this point l differ,
1 yet feel most strongly that by every
consideration of a generous and far-sighted
public policy we are bound to prove to
Cuba that our friendship with her is of "a
continuing character and that we intend
to aid her in her struggle for the material
well-being which must underlie healthy
national development.
81 speak in the presence not only of the
men who fought in the Spanish war and
in the Philippine war, which was its after
math, but in the presence of the veterans
who fought in the great war, and more
than that 1 speak here in a typical city
of the old Northwest, of what is now
the middle West, typical State of our
Union. You men of Michigan have been
mighty in war and mighty in peace. You
belong to a country mighty in war and
mighty in peace-a country of great past,
whose great present is but an earnest of
an even greater future. The world has
never seen more marvellous prosperity
than that which we now enjoy, and this
prosperity is not ephemerial. We shall
have our ups and downs. The wave at
times will recede, but the tide viii go
steadily higher. This country has never
yet been called upon to meet a crisis in
war or q crisis in peace to which it did not
eventually prove equal, and decade by
decade its power grows greater and the
likelihood of its meeting successfully any
crisis becomes even more assured.
THE GOSPEL OF HOPE.
81 preach the gospel of hope to you men
of the West who in thought and life en-
body this gospel of hope, this gospel of
resolute and confident belief in your own
powers and in the destiny of this mighty
Republic. / believe in the future-not in
a spirit which will sit down and look for
the future to work itself out-but with a
determination each of US to do his part in
making the future what ii can and shall
be. We are optimists. We spurn the
teachings of despair and distrust We have
an abiding faith in the growing strength.
the growing future of the mighty young
Nation still in the flush of it's youth and yet
already with the might of a giant which
stands on a continent and grasps an ocean
with either hand Succeed? OF course we
shall succeed How can success fail TO
come to a race of masterful energy and
resolute character. which has a continent
for the base OF its domain and which feels
within its veins the thrill that comes to
generous souls when their strength stirs in
them and they know that the future is
theirs.
ton whose people were laggards or faint
hearted No great destiny ever yet came to
a people walking with their eyes on the
ground and their faces shrouded I'm gloom.
No great destiny ever yet came to a people
who feared the future. who feared failure
more than they hoped for success With
such as these we have no part We know
there are dangers ahead and we know there
are evils TO fight and overcome, but we feel
70 the full the pulse of the prosperity which
we enjdy. Stout of heart we see across the
dangers the great future that lies beyond
and we rejoice as a giant refreshed. as a
strong man girt for the race; and we go
down into the arena where the nations
strive for mastery, our hearts lifted with