The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-04-18
A Source OF Inspiration.

, lO see anu near TreSl(tGn
Roosevelt speak should be source
of inspiration to the young meh o
the country. particularly when ht
speaks as he did at Bismarck .o
the essentials of Il good and sue
cessful life President Roosevelt
spoke of the relation of the indi
vidual to his government, the ma
tion and the state. and showed that
no matter what laws be enacted
we must have good men and strong
men and true men in the battles
of business and politics. In this
connection the Journal of Mime
apolis has AN apt editorial in which
it says:
The president probably does net
realize the great benefit his tours
are to the people of this country.
especially to the young men. One
OF the bad tendencies of the times
is the loss of chat intense earnest.
ness that WAS the great character
istic of our Puritan forbears. The
stern old doctrinal religion of
other days had this advantage. at
least, that it made men grimly
earnest,
Men are earnest enough abotlt
business these days-per,laps too
much so--but they are dangerous
ly Indifferent to many other mat
ters, as, for instance, public duty
The presidents speecEes on his
tour are all stimulative of patriot
/ ism aud devotion to state. They
+, do somewhat more tla,n that. for
they everywhere have the effect Of
stirring young men to exert them
selves to make the most of every
talent they have
AS he stands before his audience
this plain, simple, unspoiled man
is a living ILLUSTRATION of~the poss-
Utilities of a young mans concen-
tration on making the most T.
himself. He is only A years old,
came into life in a social class that
breeds parasites, that distinguishes
itself by entertaining monkeys at
dinner and wasting it's money in
frivolous display, a class that is
doing it's best to debauch the na-
ton. From this silly dolls play
the strong young Roosevelt broke
away to make a man Of himself.
By practicing the doctrine that he
now breaches, he has plowed his
way from obscurity to greatness.
When the friends Of his boyhood
were disporting themselves at
Newport, he was learning the rug
ged life of the west: when they
We're absorbing themselves in
Bradley Martin balls, he was
studying history; when they were
idling away their summers, he was
reforming the New York police.
While they were dawdling their
time away in the Nervousness of
society, he was achieving might
lily.
The inspiring speeches of the
president, spoken by one who is an
object lesson of his own teaching,
cannot fail to imbue thousands of
capable young men with intense
earnestness and spirit to glory in
struggle and hard toll. Everywhere
the president goes he feels the
fame of the best Americanism,
and fills citizens Of all classes and
all parties with a devoutly patri-
otic gl@dness that the republic has
in its presidential Office such al
grand young man.
-s>ss----
Tuesday when the Bismarck
excursion train left, the Wilton de-
pot a young man on the platform
evidently tried to add l:.,a q funeral to
the procession. Inimapking an at
tempt to batch the rods on the
hindmost coach he was thrown to
the track and 1e the hind I'D trucks
passed over his body knocking it
fiat. Had he not fell directly in
the track he would. quite easily
added another name to, the. list Of
accidental suicides. Hundreds
hay have cashed q in Lin IL that easy and II
Inexpensive way but there are al--, !
ways others who must be showed.
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