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the IRE OF mere ease or mere pleasure
that is the kind of life which makes
the great man as it makes the great
nation.
We can not afford to lose the viz
tues which made the men of 81 to So
great in war. No man is warranted in
feeling pride in the deeds of the army
and navy of the past if he does not
back up the army and navy of the
present. If we are farsi~hted in our
patriotism. there will be no let up in
the work of building, and of keeping
at the highest point of efficiency,
navy suited to the part the United
states must hereafter play in the
world, and of making and keeping our
small regular army which in the event
OF great war can never be anything
but the nucleus around which our vol
unteer armies must form themselves.
the best army of its size to be found
among the nations
SO much for our duties in keeping
unstalned the honor roll our fathers
made in war. 1t is of even more in
slant need that We should show their
spirit of patriotism in the affairs of
peace The duties of peace are with
us always; those of war are but oc-
casional; and with a nation as with a
man, the worthiness of life depends
upon the way in which the everyday
duties are done. The home duties are
the vital duties. The nation is nothing
but the aggregate of the families with
in its border; and if the average man
is not hardworking, just, and fearless
in his dealing with those about him.
then our average public life will in the
end be low; for the stream can rise
hlgher than its source. But in addi-
ton we need to remember that pc
culiar responsibility rests upon the man
in public life. We meet in the capital
of the nation, in the city which owes
its existence to the fact that it is the
seat of the national government. It is
we'll for us in this place, and at this
time, to remember that exactly there
are certain homely qualities the lack
of which will prevent the most bril-
liant man alive from being a useful
soldier TO his country. so there are Ger
tain homely qualities for the lack OF
which in the public servant no shrewd-
ness or ability can atone. The great
est leaders, whether in war or in peace,
must of course show a peculiar quality
<of genius; but the most redoubtable
armies that ever existed have been re-
doubtable because the average soldier,
the average officer. possessed to high
degree such comparatively simple quail
tiles as loyalty, courage, and hardi-
hood.
And so the most successful govern
mentS are those in which the average
public servant possesses that variant
of loyalty which we call patriotism, to-
gether with common sense ana honesty.
We can as little afford to tolerate a dis
honest man in the public service as
coward in the army, The murderer
takes a single life: the -corruD1onlst IN
public life, whether he be bride giver or
bribe taker, strikes at the heart of the
commonwealth. In every public service,
as in every army there will be wrong
doors, there will occur misdeeds- This
cannot be avoided but vigtlant watch
must be kept, and as soon Is discovered
the WrOngdOing must be stopped ana
the wrongdoers punished. Remember
that in popular government we must
rely on the people themselves, alike for
the punishment and the reformation.
Those upon whom our institutions cast
the initial duty of bringing Indicators
to the bar of justice must be diligent in
its discharge; yet in the last resort the
success of their efforts to purge the pub
lie service of corruption must depend
uporothe attitude of the. courts and of
the juries drawn from the people. Lead
ership is, of avail only so far as there
is wise and resolute public sentiment
behind it..
In the long run, then. it depends upon
US ourselves. upon us the people as
whole, whether this government IS or
is not to stand in the future as 1t mas
stood in the past: and my faith that it
will show no falling off is based upon
my faith in the character of our aver
age citizenship. The one supreme duty
is to try to keep this average high. To
this end it is we'll to keep alive the MEM
ory of those men who are fit to serve
a examples of what is Hottest and best
in American citizenship. Such man
was General Sherman. To very few in
any generation is. it given to render
such Services as he rendered; but each
of us in his degree can try to show
something of those qualities of character
upon which, in their sum. the nigh
worth of Sherman reSted-hiS courage,
his l<indiiness. his clean and simple liv-
ing. his sturdy good sense, his manl1-
ness and tenderness in the intimate re-
lations of life. and finally his int1exible
rectitude of soul and his loyalty to all
ir1t n TenIIhliP is halIOWod and
symbolized by the national flag.
As soon as the applause following the
presidents address had subsidized David
B. Henderson, of Iowa, former speaker
of the house of representatives, spoke
on behalf of the Army of the Cumber-
land. In eulogy of General Sherman
he said:
"The language of this statue tells
what he fought for-peace. To recount
his battles is to give a history of the
Civil war. He never drew his sword
without drawing blood and making per-
manent history. His march to the sea
is generally regarded as his greatest
campaign, but this is an error 1t was
a brilliant campaign-the world so rated
it-but it did not come up to the genius
and grandeur of the campaign fmmedi-
ately following it, when he carried prac-
tically the same army from Savannah
to North Carolina. That was the great
est work of ShermanS life. Could the
living and the dead of the Civil war
uIlIl0 III one .NOiOS t3l6S NOu'h say VI
Sherman, He was a great man; he was
a great soldier: he was a pure patriot. !"
Mr. Henderson in the course of his ad-
dress referred to Booth. Guiteau and
Czolgosz as the horrid, damnable
manifestations of our national growth p"
For the society of the Army of the
Tennessee, Representative Charles s
Grosvenor of Ohio in a long speech,
said of General Sherman:
His fame will go forward to future
generations as the fame of a great
American soldier not confined by the
limits of any society. but expanding and
growing and glorious as the honor of
an American soldier ever shall be-
General Grosvenor declared Sherman $
character the most faultless. brilliant
and most Astounding in the elements of
greatness that was given to the world
by any nation in the nineteenth CEN
fury.
General Thofnss J. Henderson of Hi