Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-05

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OF Abraham Lincoln; but 1t is an in
fnitely better thing for US In our lives to
pay homage TO his memory In the only
way in which that homage can be effec-
lively paid, by seeing to II that this re-
pubhcs life, social and political, civic md
With wit the ideals Which Lincoln preached and
which all his life long he practiced.
The greatness Of our forefathers must
serve not as an excuse to us for failing
TO DO our duty in return, but as spur 20
make us feel that we are doubly recreant-
recreant to them as well as recreant to
ourselves-if we fail to rise level with the
standard they set. To the men of Lincolns
generation the supreme gift was given to
be true to themselves in a great national
crisis. Theirs was not the life OF ease and
life Of comfort. For their good fortune
but supremely well worth performing /
envy no man life Of ease, and / feel little
but contempt for him 4 his only, ideal is
our feeling of admiration for the men who
have difficult work to do, but work emn-
emily worth doing and who do IT well. CAP
plause.)
same Old Problems.
The problems that face, us as a nation
today are the problems which Lincoln and
the men of his generation had to face Dit
ing them; but the spirit in which we ap-
proach them must be the same as the
council, his followers in war, approached
these problems, or else this nation will
fall: It will not fail 1t will succeed
because we still have in us the spirit of the
men of 81. (Applause)
We are a nation with a domain such as
no republic in the history of the world has
even approached. For veal or woe we
cannot escape playing the part of great
1t we must. A small nation can play "a
small part; not great nation. Upon the
success of the experiment Of free gov
ernment conducted in a spirit of orderly
liberty here on this continent depends not
only the welfare of this nation, but de-
pends the future of free government In
the entire world (applause). 1t behooves
US not only to exult In our privileges, but
soberly to realize our responsibilities.
publics of antiquity went down the re-
publics of middle ages went down, al
though tried on a much smaller scale than
our, and although in consequence the ex-
pertinent would have seemed hazardous
fundamentally the cause of the failure of
those republics could be found in the fact
that ultimat tely each intended to become
not member Of the whole people doing
Justice to each member of the republic
put to class; sometimes the control OF
the government slipped into the hands OF
an oIgarchy; sometimes 1t slipped into the
hands OF a mob; In either case the result
was the same; It was exactly as the ma
terial for the abiding welfare Of the re-
public were turned into government in
which the few oppressed the many, or IL
was turned into government in which
the many plundered the few Either form
OF perveTsion OF the governmental prin-
ciple spelled death and ruin to the coun-
try. II did not avail to have escaped
Scylla II wreckage came on Charybdis; it
Of ruin II ruin came at the other end of
the pole.
This government will succeed because It
must and shall be kept true TO the prin-
clples Tor which the men of Lincolns gen.
GRAFTON fought (applause). This is not and
never shall be a government of plutocracy
a government Of a mob. CAppiauseJ II is
q government Of liberty. by and through
is to be permitted either to domineer @ nver ,iS
the less well on or to plunder the better on
(Applause.) 1t is a government in which
and in return in which IT is to be seen that
he does not wrong his fellow. (Applause)
be tound IN q aDa 9S country Is
istration Of the law of the land. (Appiause)
It makes not the slightest difference
the form of cunning and greed on one
hand or of physical violence on the other;
in either case the law breaker must be held
(Applause) When any man undertakes to
enforce the law he is entitled. to the sup
no matter what form the law breaking has $
taken; He is entitled to the support OF all
worth his salt he will enforce the law
whether he gets the support or not.
At the conclusion of the presidents speech
luncheon was served at the executive man
sion to the presidential party. after which
the visitors departed for Decatur, Ill
LINCOLN, ILL.,, June 4.-Upon the arrival
of President Roosevelt here no little con.
cern was manifested by secret service men
attending him over the discovery yesterday
of dynamite near the railroad tracks over
which the train passed. No plot, however,
was discovered by the police authorities
While President Roosevelt was perfectly
safe and was giving a rousing welcome,
the officers closely guarded him and the
train.
More of an E1pansIOnIst.
INDIANAPOLIS. June 4-The presiden-
tial special arrived in Indianapolis at eos
tonight drizzling rain did not prevent
5000 people from gathering Immediately in
front of the Union station to greet him.
The Marion club, headed by Mayor Book
walter, acted as the formal reception com
mittee. Governor Durham was in the shed
| awaiting the president. Senators Fair
banks and Beveridge were on the train
The factory whistles and locomotives blew
| a greeting and there was a continuous burst
of enthusiastic cheers when the president
appeared. During the speech of the presi-
dent which followed, some one from an
| overlooking window shouted:
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men is for Roosevelt"
The president smiled and replied:
II know 1t. feel that Indiana is solid
| for me-"
Mayor Bookwalter introduced President
Roosevelt. who said:
| l have been from the Atlantic to the
| Pacific and now well nigh back to the
Atlantic and the thing that has struck me
more than all else wherever / have been
| Is the fundamental unity OF our people /
| went on my trip pretty good expanslonist
/ l come back a better one because have
| seen our people on the Atlantic coast in the
/ Mississippi Valley in the great plains and
| among the Rockies and on the Pacific
| coast fail to see how any man can look
at them and not see that inevitably they
/ belong to the expanding and not 10 the
| stationary races of mankind. Our nation
| cannot help IL. All that we can decide is
| whether We Will play that part we'll or IN
| and ] know you too well. my fellow coun-
| trymen, to doubt what your decision in that
| case will be This people has a mighty
/ destiny before IL and II can work out that
1 destiny only as II has worked out its
| destiny In the past. There will be no radi-
| cal or extreme action by our nation. We
| are for all our spirit Of progress essentially
| servatism, but II Is a conservatism not of
| timidity. not Of mere stolidity. II Is the
| conservatism of good sense. We do not in
| tend to be spuTred into rash action or to be
| frightened out Of action that is needed by
| the circumstances OF the case. The results
| Of the past five years have put us in a posi-
! tlon OF dominence not only on this conti-
\ entails upon us the acceptance OF certain
| great responsibility