Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-16

terest OF exact and equal Justice to all
alike. and such administration you Will sure
~ have while Mr.. Knox remains as Attor-
ney General In the Cabinet at Washing
ton.
Speaks at Banquet.
At banquet il the evening, responding
to the toast, Theodore Roosevelt" the
President said in part:
! think, gentlemen, that the average Amer
necessary 70 md That out is to know you
and that the differences that come up among
us mainly spring from failure TO know one
another; Sometimes that causes dinefehees
among localities; sometimes 1t causes dlI-
Ierences between employer ana employed.
between the men Of the town and the men OF
the country, between the men OK one occupa.
flon and the men Of another occupation, ana
most earnestly and feryeutly believe that
the best solvent for al such conditions is
bringing the people together SO mat one
SIDE snail get to understand the viewpoint
or the other. | don't say that that VIII pre-
vent all differences, but | am confident that
1t VIII minimize the causes OF difference,
and that II will make tlls differences Tar less
Af i don't believe that al considerable body
OF our people really wishes Ill Of any con-
siderable body of our people and when there
Is an appearance Of such wishing III am
sure that 1t springs from some fundamental
misrepresentation between the two sides. ana
that the best way of removing the diner
enee, be 1t real or assumed, is to try 10 get
the two sides together, and to try to make
each approach the meeting with the honest
purpose OF looking at the matter that Is
the cause of the difference from the view
points of both. And so, gentle men, | feel
that meeting such as those tonight, SUCH
a great assembage which ! had the honor
Of addressing lis morning, served one pur-
pose, the mos important OF ail-fhe pur-
pose OF getting our people toge her, the
bringing them ln contact. one with the 9th
err so that they may realize that the differ
ences that divide one from the other are
trivial, and that the unity among us ali is
fundamental.
Principle of Brotherhood.
Perhaps the most valuable lesson taught
by the civil war as + CARDS our civil life,
apart from the lessons taught In military
life, was that of brotherhood, Of unity.
Wherever | speak of men who have been
In the great war who have been In the
civil war, such as that body that We passed
in the course of the procession this morn
Ing, | speak of men, who have practically
applied for a number of years the principle
OF brotherhood and who could not apply
any other principle | mean all that the
principle of treating a man on his word
as man, with all proper charity for his
failipgs, bur with regard prin ariiy with
what is real as distinguished FROM what his
accidental qualities and characteristics were.
There are in this audience, there are in
every audience one speaks to, nlen who
have fought in the great war the men who
got down TO the fighting, to the marching,
to the long. wearisome months Of drudgery
in camp, who got TO put a pretty sood judG-
ment on their fellows that were next to
them, If IL was a fight, and who headed q
move forward, or to be sure that the men
next to them would move the right way.
They did not care a bit whether the men
next to them were bankers or bricklayers.
They wanted to know whether they would
stay put"
Now is that you in civil life? More and
more think, gentlemen as one grows older
one comes to feel that 1t is not the sphere
In which we perform the duty, 1t is the do
ing the duty that counts
Duty, Not Occupation, Counts.
/ do not care what the mans occupation
is, or what his standing Is. If be Ices his
duty we'll he Is a good citizen and Il nc does
not he Is not good citizen. Compared with
that fundamental question. the other ques
lions as TO the particular position he occu-
pies in public life, social financial. any 9TH
er way-those questions sink into absolute
insignitcanee.
Now, gentlemen. just one word The i'm
portauce OF anything that is said can be
tested by how nearly what is done after
ward corresponds with 1t. 1t is a very good
thing for us to meet together on the Fourth
of July. In order to remind ourselves OF what
our forefather did to refresh our memories
as to what our government really means /
ask of each man here that he prove his
truth by his e. leavor, that In whatever
line he may be. chat In whatever walk of
life he may be; that whatever may be the
line in which he does his work, he try to
act throughout the rest Of the year as he
talks on the Fourth Of July.