Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-29
THE PRESIDENT
Continued from page H.

You saved the Union and you freed
the slave and thereby freed the slaves
master from the worst of all thraldoms.
Won did us the service of struggling IN
a ,.ause and for reward in that way
based upon aught that was merely ma
terial. We pride ourselves and proper
" so. upon our great industrial capac-
inv. our great industrial success. We
need such success and such capacity to
make broad and stable the foundations
of our national well-being.
There are things higher than any
possible material triumph we won IN
the great trial of the Civil war; and
came through the fiery furnace un-
scathed; we sprang level to the height
of our opportunity instead of sinking
into the gulf of ignoble failure, because
in the present you and those like you
in the flower of youth and early man
hood-had in you the stuff that knows
how TO prize certain ideals more than
material weIl-being, more than life it
self. There was no money reward LOT
what YOU did. There was hardly one OF
YOU who did not, during those four
wears. receive far less than he could
have earned in safety at home But
lash of your own hearts. You were
spurred onward by the lift which only
comes to people of great and seher-
ous soul. You felt instinctively tnat
there were cases far greater than any
thing that had to do merely with wealth.
or bodily well-being. You were wiling
to wager all for the prize of death IN
righteous war.
in
peace and not in time of war; but woe
b; nous if in peacc we do not have ideals
as lofty as yours and if we do not live
I'D TO them as you lived up to yours IN
the dark days of defeat and in the
golden glory of the hour of triumph.
Courage and loyalty. the high purpose
to do exact justice, the high purpose TO
struggle for the right and the common
sense to struggle in time of practical
fashion-all the qualities we must snow
now in our civil and social and bust
ness life as you showed them in the
DAVIS OF YOUR youth and lusty strength.
when you marched with arms and BAN
ners and brought back the peace that
comes, not to the weakling and the
craven, but to those whose proud eyes
tell of triumph tasted.
Among the greatest of the benefits of
what you did was the fact that you
have also left us the right of hearty
and loyal comradeship with your gal
. liant opponents who in fighting for what
they consciously deemed to be right,
fought against the stars in their
courses We are all loyal Americans
now, North, South, East and West-all
alike Jealous of the nations honor and
welfare, proud of the nations past, and
resoIute that her future shall stand
even higher than her past. We glory
in the great deed of any American, no
matter from what section of the land
he may come. and challenge him as our
own. as blood of our blood and bone Of
our bone. The issues that rent us
asunder in the past are dead.
We praise the Giver of good for the
outcome and now forgetting all diff
cuities in bygone days. we press for
ward. all of us throughout the nation,
high of will and confident of heart,
each to do his part in working out the
destiny of the mightiest republic upon
which the sun ever shone. Besides the
reunited country, the undivided nation,
which we have received at your hands,
we have received also the lesson of the
doing Of the deed. The iron times have
passed and there is no need at the mo-
ment for us to show the qualities which
steeled your souls to endurance, your
hearts to labor unto death. But there
is great need that we should show, if
not in a degree at least in kind, the
spirit that you showed. We need, in
order successfully to face the difficulty
and complex problems of our industrial
ty. and all the faith and clear-sighted
sanity and purpose which there are at
our command.
Above all we need to learn Alright
and then apply the great lesson of
brotherhood which you taught ana
practiced in the four grim years that
began with Sumter and ended with
Appomattox. In the old simple Amer
lea of our forefathers-the America
which still for our good fortune exists
in country districts-there was COM
parative freedom from certain dangers
to which the country as a whole is now
necessarily exposed. The growth Of
great cities and of individual and COR
porate fortunes-the tendency in great
cities to divide men into groups and
classes-naturally dimnishes the real
ization of that essential underlying
brotherhood, which ought to be deep
in the heart of every American. rich
or poor from whatever the form of re-
ligious creed in which he worships his
Maker
Standing on the threshold of the twen-
teth century and looking into the dis
lance of the future we see dark problems
looming UP before us, for the successful
settlement of which we shall need an our
courage. all our kindness all our COM
mon sense. We can solve these problems
Alright only If we keep constantly in mind
that each must work for all and all for
each; that while there cannot with safety
pe any destruction oi the power of indi-
Vidual initiative. yet that each individual
must have implanted in his being the
sense of the common interest of all in the
common good of all. In other words. we
need TO feel within us the sense of broth :
erhood.
Wei 1t was exactly this sense of broth
erhood which all of you showed \ very
short experience of campaigning and of
hghting taught you to prize Your COM
rades for their courage. their resolution
their fertility in shift and device during
the time of need. For the qualities 81
heart which made them loyal and faithful
to their friends as we'll as terrible Ia
their foes. During the years of Your SER
vice IN the army you cared nothing as n