The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-27

greeted here not only by your mayor, not
| only by other men standing high, but
you, general Cunning to General Joshua
l.. Chamberlain) to whom 1t was given,
at the supreme moment of the war. to
win the supreme reward OF soldier.
All honor to the man and may we keep
ourselves from envying. because to him
came the supreme good fortune of win
ming the medal of honor for mighty deeds
done in the mightiest battle that the
nineteenth century saw-Gettysburg. Cap
plau-e)
Tribute to Soldiers.
II see everywhere / stop-in Maine. as
in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and
Connecticut, men who, in the time that
tried the nations worth. rose level to
the nations need and offered up life
glaGly on the nations altar, the men who
fought in the great civil war from 81
to IS. They have taught us much by
their life ever since They were soldiers
when we needed soldiers. and they were
the best kind, and when the need was
for citizens in civil life. they showed us
they could give the highest kind of citi-
zenship. Not merely ii they give us a
reunited country, not merely did they
leave us the emory of the great deeds
they did to be forever after an inspira-
ton to us. but they left us the memory
of the way the deed was done. Now,
General and you tpointIng) who wear
the but ton. when you came down to the
root of things in wartime. you had to de-
pend upon the qualities of manhood which
had made good soldiers from the day
when the children of Israel marched out
of Egypt Rifles now instead of bows
he, h,Yt he hnh ind he da ic
important than the rife itself.
so with our laws. We need good laws,
We need a wise administration of the
law. an upright and fearless administra-
ton of the law. But the best legislation
ever devised by the wit of man and the
best law that was ever put on the stat
ute books will not avail to save us If
the average man has not in him the root
of right living. (ApplaEse).
Dissertation on Hysteric.
THE Army of the Potomac could never
have seen Appomattox had it not been
for the spirit that drove you from the
office and the factory and farm to take
up the burden of war, and you went to
war to stay until you saw it through.
cloud applause) They did not conquer
in war by Mysteries. Doubtless you will
remember that after Bull Run there were
some excellent people who thought the
war was over 0aughter), and over the
wrong way. 1t was not over Three
years and nine months had to elapse,
and then ii got over the other way. ZAP
plause).
about the worst quality you can have
In a soldier is mysteries or anything APP
preaching it, and it is pretty nearly the
worst quality in civil life. We need in
civil life the plain. practical, everyday
oh Of admit in theory
to be necessary, which when we all prac-
tice viii come mighty near making a
State perfect. Brilliancy Is "A good thing.
So is genus. Every now and then the
chances come to render some such great
service. but normally what we want is
not genius. but the faculty of seeing that
we know how to apply the copy DOCK
moralities that we write down, and as
long as we think of them only as fit for
the copybook there is not much use In
us. We need in our public life, as in our
private life, the virtues that every one
could practice If he would. We need the
will to practice them.
There are two kinds of greatness that
can be achieved There is the greatness
that comes to the man who can do what
no one else can do. That is mighty rare
kind. and of course it can only be achiev-
ed by the man of special and unusual
qualities Then there is the other kind
that comes to the man who does the
things that every one could do but that
every one does not do. IApplause.) To do
that you first of all have got to school
yourself to do the ordinary commonplace
things
Roosevelt in War.
"Now. General, l was very little time
in my war: you were long time in
yours. I did not see much fighting, but
| saw a lot of human nature. | recollect
one young fellow who came down to join
a cavalry regiment. He was filled with
enthusiasm, thinking he was going to
look all the time like my friend who
welcomes me over there (pointing to
man dressed in khaki uniform, mounted
on a dummy horseO who welcomes me
and whom l want to thank for coming
to meet me. After three days the young
man came down to me and said: Col
onel l wish to make a complaint, sir
| came down here to fight for my country
and the Captain has put me to work dig
cling kitchen sinks naughter)
Il asked the Captain about it and he
said Yes The Captain was large man
from New Mexico and he explained to
that excellent youth that he would go on
digging kitchen sinks and that when the
fighting came he should have all the
fighting there was, nut at present MS
duty was to dig kitchen sinks In other
words, he had to do the small duties
that were done and thereby best fit him
self to do the big duties that might come
in the future.
so it is with us in the work of every
day citizenship. ] believe that this ma
ton will rise level to any great emergency
that may meet it. but it will only be be-
cause now, in our ordinary workday life
in the times of peace, in the times when
no great crisis is upon us. we school our
selves by constant practice in the COM
monplace every day Indispensable duties.
so that when the time arrives we shall
know that we have learned Alright the
primary lessons of good citizenship.
thank you (Applause)
In drive to points of interest about
the city the President stopped at the
Longfellow mansion where he inscribed
his name on the guest register.