The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-04
LAST DAY IN KANSAS.
CONTINUED from Page one.l

The educational institutions that I
am addressing, St Johns. Wesleyan,
Bethany, all Of them, are paying heed
70 their honor be it said-that band OF
devoted men and women who take
charge of the public schools are paying
need, not only to the development o.
the body and mind. but to the develop
ment Of what counts for so much more
than either body or mind-the develop
ment Of character. (Applause.) ThaS
IS what counts in the long run-char~
acter- Let any one of you look at his
nelghobrs- Who is successful? The
man Of intenect2 Yes, if he has got
something more than intellect. But il
matters not how bright he IS, how bril- -
liant he is. If he has not got the stay
ing quality in him, if he has not got
the courage, perseverance, logged resO-
luton not to accept defeat then his in
tellect Will not bring him success. The
man mat wins is the man that has III
him the quality to which we allude
Wnen VIC say of man that he is not
only good man, but man
AS came here 1 heard some cheer
ing which made me feel a little as if
We're at football game. A little dis
lance back 1 was presented with
football by a representative of one of
the local teams and I said 10 them
there that the best advice 1 could give
to use in the great game of life is the
ADVICE upon which a good football
player acts-don't finch. don't foul. and
counts in life just as it does in sports
Do not finch. do not be afraid, do not
wait to have an easy time and sit at
home and wonder why the world does
not appreciate you. You are not going
TO win out that way. Go out and do
your work. In the next place do it
squarely; do not foul. do not wrong
anyone; live so that the men with
whom you are brought into contact will
feel that while YOU are able to take
Elfa Of salf
one win take care of you) you do not
wrong any one else. Then hit the line
hard; go at it; try to do your life work
on the assumption that it is worth do
ing, and if YOU do you win succeed.
In closing. just one word of thanks
and gratitude TO the men of the Grand
Army. Everywhere 1 go in Kansas
see the men to whom we owe it that
there is chance for me to be here at
all; that there is any country for us to
celebrate that there is any president to
come to any part of this country. That
is SO. We have gotten so accustomed to
the fact that we often forget its sig
nificance. If we We're now split up into
a jungling knot of contemplate little
commemorative (and that is what we
would be if it were not for YOU there
would not be one of US holding up his
head as a proud citizen of the nation
which is not only one of the foremost
in the world now, but of a nation with
an absolutely Hmitless future of great
ness, of service. and of Improvement
during the centuries to come. And 1 am
happy to say to you children. to you
students of an older growth, that 1 do
not have to ask you to pay heed to my
preaching. I ask YOU to pay heed TO
the practice of the men whom you sec
around you in this community, the men
who from 81 to '65 rendered the SUI
preme service to the nation when Abra-
ham Lincoln called for that service
(Applause.) OF course 1 believe in you;
of course l am certain of your future,
and 1 am certain of the future of all OF
US because think the American nation
as a whole is composed of much such ma
terial as that I am addressing today"
Great applause.)