Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-28

porary ups and downs. and, OF course, II
any Of you are guilty of folly, from your
own folly nothing can save you but your
self. But IL You act as l believe and trust
that you will act. this state has a future
before it second TO that of no other state in
this great nation. (Applause.)
address you tonight on the anniversary
Of the birth Of the. great, silent soldier,
Ulysses Grant, and | am glad to have the
ence such as this In this great typical city
of the west on the occasion of the birthday
Of the great western general, the great
pay homage with our lips to the illustrlous
dead. 1t Is a good thing to keep in mind
what we owe to the memories Of WASH
ington and his followers, who founded
this mighty republic; to Abraham Lincoln
and Grant and their followers, who saved
1t. Applause) There is a president here
to address you this evening because, Gen
eral Henderson, you and those like you
proved your truth by your endeavor in
the years from 81 to '65. (Applause)
Homage that Counts.
Now, g%entlemen,I have said that it Is q
good goo taing to pay homage with cur lips to
better thing to pay homage that counts,
the homage of our lives and our deeds. IL
but the curses II they serve the men OF the
nation at present as excuses for Sinking
the problems of the day. They are bless
ings IL they serve to spur on the men now
to see that the men act as we'll in their
time as the men of yesterday did in theirs.
Each generation has its peculiar prob
allotted to II to do. Shame to IL II Il treats
the, glorious deeds of a generation that
went before as an excuse for Its own fall
ure. to do the peculiar task 1t hnds ready
to hand. We have not got such problems
as those that Blended nigh to crushing the
shoulders of sad, patient, mighty Abraham
Lincoln. But we have our problems. A
short while ago we had problems of war.
Now we have problems of peace, and upon
the, way in which we solve. those problems
wi. depend whether our children and our
children's children shall look back or shall
not look back to us with the veneration
which we feel for the men of the mighty
years OF the civil war. Our task Is a
lighter one than theirs, but It is an import
rise level to the STANDARD set US by our fore
fathers. You, In Nebraska, have passed
through periods of terrible privation, of
misery and hardship. They were evil times.
And yet there is no experience, no evil that
out of It good cannot come, II only we
look at 1t right. Things are better now,
condition that we face facts with c~oolness
and sanity, with clear-eyed vision that
tells us what is true and what is false.
When thing go wrong there is another ten
dency in humanity, to wish to blame some
of it's fellows, and that Is the natural ten
dency and by no means a wholesome ten
Where the Hope Lies.
There is always a tendency to feel that
somehow by some legislation, by the enact
ment of some law, by the trying OF some
nently better. Now something can be lone
by law. A good deal can be done by law.
Even more can be done by the honest adj
which knows neither fear nor favor, which
treats each man exactly as that mans rec
ord entities him to be treated; the kinL OF
enforcement of the law of which / think |
may promise that you will lave while Mr..
Knox remains attorney general. (Applause.)
But more than the law. far more than the
administration of the law, far more depends
upon the individual quality of the average
citizen. That Is under Providence. the chief
factor In working out the salvation OF any
OF the Lord Is heavy upon us, II the stars
war against as in their courses, II therd