The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-05

both the past and the present, but it shall
not avail US if We do not have in our
hearts the spirit that makes for decent
G e. zIe the spirit that alone, counts
| IN the formation of a true republic Cap
| piause) and that spirit is essentially the
| same in public life as in private life. The
manifestations OF it differ but the spirit
| is the same.
"A public man is as much bound TO tell
the truth on the stump as off the stump,
| before election as after election CAP
plause) On the other hand his critics
would do well to remember that truth
! tellnS IS a virtue for them to practice
! tlSo Laughter and applauSe.) And in
| PUBIC life. as in private life, what we
! need is. not genius much as the many
| sided development of the qualities which
| IN sum make good citizenship A great
| CRISIS VIII come when you need q genius
| thrice and thrice oVer-thrice Fortunate
| the ma ton will then develop a Lincoln to
| lead 1t IN peace, a Grant to lead it in war,
| a Washington to lead it ilf-War and peace.
| But ordinarily. at ordinary times. those
| times that in the bulk are so much larger
| than the extraordinary times and upon our
| conduct in which really depends our con-
| duct in the extraordinary crises. in those
ordinary times what we need as a nation
and individually are the ordinary, com
| rnonplace virtues which we all recognize,
and which when we were young we wrote
about n the copy-books, and which, II we
practice, viii count for a thousand times
more in the long run than any brIillance
or any genius of any kind or sort WhatSo-
ever. II a man is a decent, upright man;
nelShborS; If he Is good husband, a good
father; if he is a man whom you like
with. or to work beside in the shop or
on the farm and next to in the country;
and if he does his duty TO the state in
the same spirit that he does it TO his
neighbor, he is the man whose citizenship,
if it represents the average, will mean
the salvation of the state. (Applause.)
Il find, gentlemen and ladies', that there
is one letter of mine that has had a far
wider publication than. when l wrote it,
l had any idea of; the one in which
spoke OF the fact that 1 believed in large
families. Laughter and applauseJ AID
do; believe in America, and therefore
want to see the stock kept up, Gre
neWed laughter and applause.) And, so
soon as came here, one of the dozen
members of the Minnesota legislative body
that came down to greet me Mr.. Nelson,
instantly ingratiated himself by giving me
laughter) 1 told him 1 had taken a fancy
to him from the first, but more than ever
was that fancy now riveted. (Applause)
And now. want to say just a word on
the other side. on the other of the two
great questions. the Legislative question
and the educational question. Education
must be two-fold-suggested by Mir Mel
sons sons. Education has two sides, OF
course, the education in the school, the
academy, the college, the university. If
We don't have that and have developed in
the highest and wisest manner we shall
make but poor fist of American citizen
ship. And one of the things that is most
hopeful in our republic is the way in. which
the state has taken charge OF. elementary
education, and the way in which, in the
East through private gift, here in the
West through the wise liberality of the
several states, the higher education has
been taken care Of-as in your own Uni
Versity of Minnesota. (Applause.) But
such educa ton can never be all, it can
never be more than half, and sometimes
not that. Nothing viii take the place
of the education of the home. And that
education must be largely the unconscious
influence of character upon character
There is no use of the father trying to
instiil wise saws and precepts into the
son if his own character gives the lie
to his own advice. And, UnfOrtu1lat ely, 1T
is just true in the education of children
as in everything else. that it is almost as
harmful to be a virtuous fool as to be a
knaVe. (ApplauSe.)
A little incident happened this morning
that started me in a train of thought that
| want TO develop for just a moment and
I Shan't keep you long. [ am aware that
am preaching. Qaughter.) So often
throughout our social structure, from the
wealthiest down to the poorest. you see
a queer faulty OF the man or the woman
which makes them save their children
temporary discomfort temporary I'M
pleaSantneSs, at the cost of 5fuflGe de-
STuctiOn You see great many men. and,
l m sorry to say a great MANY women,
who, for instance will say: Well, I've.
had to work hard, my boy and my girl
Shan't do anything" OF every. rank
II have seen 1t in the millionaire and I
have seen it in the cay laborer. I have
heard the millionaire say: Well, I have
had to work all my life to make money!.
now let my boy spend it," and it woulds
be better for the boy if he had never.
been born than to be brought up on that
principle. (Great appIause.) And. on the
other hand, l have seen the hard-worlSed,
the overworiled drudge, the laborer's
wife who said: 'Weu I've had to work.
my heart out all my days. my daughters
shall be ladies, and her conception of
the daughters being ladies was to have
them sit around useless and incompetent,
unable to do anything, brought up to be
DISCONTINUED cumberers of The earths
surface. daughter ana applatse.3 1T is al
good deal as Abraham Lincoln said:
There is a deal of human nature in man.
kind" Iaughter) And fundamental
~ virtues and faults are just the same
the same things that tell for good and
the same that tell for bad Now. the
man or the woman who seeks to bring
up his or her children with the idea that
their happiness is secured by teaching
them to avoid difficulty is doing theFn,4a.
cruel wrong To bring up the boy or girl
tered that they cannot stand any rough
knocks, that they shrink from toll, that
When they meet with an obstacle they
feel that they ought to go around it or go
! back instead of going on over 1.-THE
man or the woman who does that is
| Wronging the children to a degree that no
other human being can wrong them If
you are worth your salt if you want
your children to be worth their salt teach
! them that the life that is not the life of
WI anu VI IISdl - Is WOTlnleSS, is a curse
to the man or woman leading it, a curse
to those around him or her. (AppIause.)
Teach the boys that if they are ever to
count in the world they will count not
by f1inching from difficulties but by work
ing with and overcoming them. (Renewed
applause? That is the rule for private
citizenship Oh, what utter scorn one feels
OF those who seek only the life of ease
the life passed in the deXtrous effort to
avoid all angular corners, to avoid being
put in the places where a strong man
through blood and sweat and toll and
FISK wins triumph Oh, what a wretched
deavoring to shirk his share of the burden
laid on us in this world And it makes
no difference whether that man is a man
earn his bread bv the sweat of his brow,
it is equally ignoble
Now, what is true of the individual.
again IS true of the nation. The man