Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-30

rise high in the scale either OF poWei
or of culture. Great peoples must nave
in addition the governmental apaclt
which comes only when individuals
fully recognize their duties to one an
other and to the whole body polite, ana
are able to Join in feats OF constructive
craftsmanship and of honest effective
administration.
The old pioneer days are gone, With
their roughness and their hardship
their incredible toll and their wild half-
savage romance. But the need OF the
pioneer virtues remains the same as
ever. The peculiar frontier conditlohs
have yanished; but the manliness ana
stalwart hardihood of the frontiersmeh
can be given even freer scope under the
conditions surrounding the complex IN
australasia of the present day. In this
great region acquired of our people IN
der the presidency OF Jefferson, .nis
region stretching from the Gulf to the
Canadian border, from the MISSISSIPPI
to the Rockies. the material n socia'
progress has been so vast that alike iof
veal and for woe its people now snare
the opportunities and bear the DUR
dens common to the entire clVliizeu
world. The problems before us are
fundamentally the same east n Wess
of the Mississippi, in the new states anu
In the old, and exactly the same quail
ties are required tor their successIui
solution.
We meet here today to commemo-
rate a great event, an event winch
marks an era In craftsmanship no less
than in pioneering. 1t is hitting ina
we should pay II homage In WORDS,
hut we must in honor make u woras
good by deeds. We have every rlsnl 70
take a just pride in the deseos Oh ou'
forefathers; but we show ourselves ui
worthy TO be their descendants II we
make what they did an excuse for our
living supine instead of an Incentive 10
the effort to show ourselves by our
acts worthy of them. In the admins
tration of city, state, and nation, IN the
manapement of our home life and the
of our business and social re
lations, we are bound TO snow cer.aln
high and fine qualities OF cnaractei
under penalty of seeing the wnoie aear'
of our civilization eaten u "hlle 'he
body still lives.
We Justly pride ourselves on our
marvellous material prosperity, ane
such prosperity must exist IN oruer 10
establish a foundation upon Whlch q
higher life can be built; but unless we
40 in yery fact build this higher NE
thereon. the material itself will go Tor
hut very little. Now, in 1903, In the a.
tered condition, we must meet the
changed and changing problems
with the print shown by the
men who. in 1903. and in the subse-
ouent years, gained, explored. n set
tied this vast territory. then a desert
now filled with thriving and populous
states.
The old DAYS were great because the
men who lived in them had mlghty
qualities; and we must make the new
days great by showing these same quai-
ities. we must insist upon courage
and resolution, upon hardihood, ten-
acity, and fertility in We
must insist upon the strong virile VIZ
mes. and we must insist no less upon
tho virtues Of self-restraint, self-mast-
ery. regard for the rights of others;
we must show our adherence OF cruelty,
brutality. and corruption. III public and
in private life alike. II We come shor
in any OF THESE quaAils
in~easurably fail; and If, as DeiieVe w
surely shall, we develop these qualieies
in the future to an even greater degree
Thar In the past, then in the century
now beginning we shall a OIL thls
republic the freest aand most oraeIly
the most Just and most mighty natloh
which has ever come forth from the
womb of time. -