The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-02

THEODORE ROOSEVELT
There is an anecdote I have been
fond of repea ting to railroad men and
to others. The last time I ever saw
General Sherman, he told me that in the
event of a war he could conceive of no
better fortune for a general than to
nave an army composed exclusively of
railroad men, because they are men
whose profession means that they of
necessity would make all a great and
successful soldier; the quality of work,
OF facing risks of facing hardships, of
combining the capacity to obey and to
obey quickly with the capacity of TAX
ing responsibility, of acting on individ-
ual initiative, just as continually as the
need arises.
NEED OF HARDIHOOD
In our present advanced civilization,
we have to pay certain penalties for
what we have obtained. Among the
penalties is the fact that in very many
occupations there is so little demand
upon nerve, hardihood and endurance.
that there IS tendency to unhealthy
SCIJenlng OF fiber, relaxation of fiber.
and such being the case think il a for
tunate thing for our people as a whole
that there should be certain occupa-
tions, prominent among them railroad
ing, IN which the man has to show the
qualities of courage of hardihood of
willingness to face danger. of cuItiva-
ton of the power of instantaneous de-
clslon under dlficulties-the very quail
ues which go to ma ke up the Virile side
OF a mans Characteristic qualities Col
Onel McCOOk, which you and those like
you showed when. as boys and young
men, they fought to a finish the great
Civil war, for when Colonel AIcCOOk in
troduced me il connection with war. it
must always be remembered that com
pdred 10 the war he saw, mine was the
veriest skirmish. (Applause.)
Now, gentlemen. so much for the
nanflUnGE for. he
much for the courage. developed by
your profession. You show, and have to
shoW-or you couldn't succeed in doing
the work that you are doing as your life
work-the qualities which must obtain
IN any great, masterful powerful peo-
pie Those qualities ara all-important
but they are not aIl-sufIicient 1t is nee
esSafy, absolutely to have them No
natlon can rise to greatness without
tnem, but by them alone no nation Will
ever become great. There are plenty of
peoples, and reading through the pages
OF history you come upon them nation
after nation, in which there has been a
high average of individual strength,
bravery and hardihood. and yet in
which there has been nothing approach
ing national greatness. because those
qualities were not supplemented by 9TH
( ers Just as necessary. With the cour-
age, with the hardihood. with the
strength must come the power of self
restraint, power of self mastery, the ca
pacity to work for and with others as
well as for ones self, the power of Civ
ing to others the love which each of
us must bear for his neighbor if we are
to make our civilization really great
Those are the Qualities which are fos-
tered and developed. which are given
full play, by institutions such as the Y
NJ. c. A. (Applause).
CHARITY AND LOVE
The other day, in little Lutheran
church at Sioux Falls, I listened to a
tuost interesting a NEST stimulating
sermon, which struck me particularly
because Of translation of word
which I am ashamed to say I had mis-
translated always myself before. 1t was
on the old text of Faith Hope and
Challty.' The sermon was delivered in
German and the translation, or the
word. that the Drea cher used for char
lgy was not charity but love That
the greatest Of all the forces with which
we deal for betterment is love; and
looking 1t ND / found what of course I
ought to have known before, but didn't
that the Greek word which we have
translated as charity should. more pro-
perry, be translated love That is the
word charity we use at present in
sense which does not make it cores
pond entirely with the word used in the
original Greek The preacher deVelOped
IN very striking and very happy fash
ion the absolute need of love in the
broadest sense of the word, in order to
make mankind even approximately per
feet.
We need, then the two Qualities
the quality ofwhich first spoke to you
and which has many shapes: the quail
ity which rests upon courage. upon
bodily and mental strength. upon the
Will upon daring, upon resolutiOn-the
quality which makes men work. and
then we need the quality of which the
preacher spoke when he spoke of love
as being the great factor. the ultimate
factor. in bringing about the kind of
human fellowship which Will even ap-
prOximately enable US to go up
toward the standard after which
think we all Of us, with great many
using each in its brOadest sense. gentle
men, Work, the quality which makes
a man ashamed not to be able to pull
his own weight, not to be able to do
for himself as we'll as for others with
out being beholden to anyone for what
he is doing.
MAN MUST WORK
Work. No man is happy if he
doesn't work. OF all misera Bile crea lures,
the idler, in whatever rank of society.
is in the long run the most miserable.
I don't care at which end he comes. If
he comes at one end 7 believe he is
technically described as hobo.
(Laughter) If he comes at the other
end he is described by many different
terms, but by any which truthfully
describes him to be worse than a hobo
CLaughter) If he doesn't work-if he
hasn't got in him not merely capacity
for work but the desire for work-then
nothing can be done with him He is
out of place in our community. We
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