The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-10
CHICAGO DAY
 IS CELEBRATED
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this were not so, the machinery would break. Every hour, somewhere in this gigantic mass, new power is applied The impossibiiities of yesterday are the com monplaces of today. And yet under this speed and strain and pressure. our coun- trymen have not faltered, but have grown to meet expanding needs with a strength and wisdom that are the marvel of the age.
 A calm review of our career gives little cause for fear, but rather opens up those cheering prospects which are all aglow with confidence and hope. But confidence and hope are not enough. l have little faith in those whose songs are always pitched in accents of distress, but I have Jess in those who believe that great doc trines can be expressed in fervent halle- lutahs. There must be something more | than speech or fervor or solemnity. This is true in every place where accomplish
 ment Is the purpose and principle Is the guide. Politics is no exception. Gen.
 tility no more expresses its realities than
 bright uniforms express the dread reah-
 ties of war. Politics without principle is an imitation and a pantomime. It is no
 better when practiced by those who hope
 for ofIice than when followed by those
 who work to obtain office. Repose Is no nobler than activity. The man who hopes Is no better than the man who works. If there is no other difference between the two, the worker is the higher grade, and in every place where energy counts, will win, unless the people are mis1ed. The tendency sometimes ap- pears, to lose sight of principle and to belfttle those who stand for 1t. In that tendency Is a danger which Is under stated. In this country the fundamental stones are principle and endeavor. Upon these two has been reared structure whose grandeur has no parallel, and whose promise affords to the struggling masses of the world thtir chief hope Dreaming and Doing.
 Seldom in the history of the American people has dreaming been valid sub stitute for doing, But sometimes in the history of that people the stern warrior for principles sake has been set aside for those who from afar have recounted the glories of the strife. Tn times of peace, when the awful face of war Is for day withdrawn. the soldier may hobbie past unpraised and unattended, but the time will come again unless our natures are made anew, when the flash and stroke and solemn call will revive the tagging homage of mankind. when the say attire of the hero of a days parade will pass unheeded, and the multitude will turn with grateful and unan,moua remembrance to the rusty uniform. The true significance of things must not DC lost. Wars were never won except by blood. Principles were never planted ex- cept by sacrifice. Deeds that are written across the sky were not achieved by men reclining in the shade. The secrets of the ocean and the exultation of discovery never came to him who only wrote his name in the puddles which follow a sum-
 ner's rain. These things should never be forgotten. The realities of the world should never stand aside for phrases. The things that are. should hold the waking eye, and visions should be kept for sieep Gratitude should keep it's index finger on the man who did ands not upon the one who said. 6ophistry is pleasing com panion but dangerous guide. prom tse of a smaller favor yet to come will sometimes obscure the memory of a greater deed already done. All these things are true in every avenue we tread And politics. which at times Is crude and soiled, but which at best Is queen of all the sciences. Is no exception to this rule. If politics Is sometimes the scorn of so- her minds she owes her degradation no more to those who have befouled her with the roughness of assault than to those who by claiming virtues they never had. have gained her favor.
 The Settler Warriors.
 It often happens that in war the most glowing records of the fight are made by those who never left the suffers tent And when the war Is over and soldiers come together in organized commemora- tion of their valor, their spokesmen are not unlikely to be chosen from among those fluent brothers whose only warlike weapon WIS the telescope. And so it Is in politics. When battles have been fought and principles established by years of conflict and devotion. 1t too off, ten comes about that the highest decora- ton adorns the brow of him who. far from the heat of conflict, denounced the cause or gave secret comfort to its ene- mics.
 That disposition is wrong and its ef- fects are worse. No contest can be long maintained except by those whose soula are in it, and no principle ever settled deep in a human heart that did not make of him a partisan, ,Partisanship is noth- ing but conviction, and without conviction man wanders with neither star nor com pass. He puts to sea without a rudder and lands on any shore where the na- tives are kind and the climate Is serene The politician who is not guided by firm belief, will join any cause that offers him promotion and reward. He may cov- CT himself with the cloak of pon- partisan ship, but nun-partisanship is the disguise which ambition always wears when 1t travels under an assumed name.
 I never believed in man who did not himself believe in cause. I never trust cd A politician whose creed was so hu- mane that he embraced under 1t all men and all opinions. Whoever repudiates in small things the principles he professes in larger ones proves his insincerity in all. The soundness of a doctrine Is not deter mined by geography If 1t Is salutary for the country. every community and citizen in that country owe 1t support. 1t cannot nrevail in the broader field if It's friends desert if for A fancied benefit to local intaresta or personal amblLlons. A cause
 which means righteousness and progress in the world at large means the same thing in Chicago or New York. and who ever weakens that cause by aiding those who would destroy it. or tying the hands ot those who would sustain it, Is not It's friend.
 number which 1t covers Ihe train'ng or the church Is a sham unless 1t pervades tho communitv and the home. belief in a nartv is a sham If a man throws 1t ua1, ,,non the first offer of advantage | to himself.
 Plea for Partisanship.
 r,.s nav seem a plea for partisanship. an intend it. Every great chapter in Inc world has been written by a parti- san. Every great deed which courage and devotion could perform, the part- sap has done Every crisis that has