The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-24
Senator Hoar's Address.

/ Edward Everett in a great address
( before the war, called on his country
! men, as it seemed for a time, to for
| get, to turn deaf ear to unpatriOtic
| counselS, to the cry of treason and dis
| union and return once more TO the
| patriotic counsel of Washington. Ii
seemed for time as if the appeal were
| unheeded. But the spasm of popular
madness and rage passed by and
Washington resumed his place again
as our supreme counselor and leader.
He became once more the example and
idol of every American soldier and
( statesman and the farewell address be-
came once again the political bible Of
every American. Doubt not that this
shall occur again and again. Other
temptations will come to us and party
spirit, like Satan sitting at the ear of
Eve, VIII speak again its baleful coun-
sci in the ear of the people Popular
excitement will be kindled by the lust
of empire and passion for conquest.
The eyes of the people may be dazZled
for time by false and tinsel mill
taTy glory. But while the portrait of
Washington hangs in every village;
while his statues adorn our chief cit
les; while his monument is found in
every state; while his life is on the
shelf of every home; while the detail of
his great career is studied in every
university; while his image is in the
heart Of every youth. the people viii
come back again to the wise, sober and
just counsel in following which lies the
path to a true glory and true safety.
The American people will never long
go astray SO long as on every great
question of national policy or national
duty they know what Washington
would say.
Flag the Symbol of Liberty.
10 Of
phasis on glory, on empire, on power,
on wealth We live under, and love-
and we still shed our hearts blood for
the same flag which 1oated over our
fathers, and for which they We're ready
to die But it sometimes seems that
the flag has different meaning,
whether it floats over the capitol, or
the ship of war, or the regiment on
the march, or the public assembly. We
no longer speak of it, except coldly
and formally, not as the symbol of
liberty, but only as the symbol of
power or of false, cheap, tnseI
glory.
L think the popular reverence for
Washington and Lincoln. and for Sum-
ner and for Webster, is not abated
But yet few political speakers quote
today the great sentences which made
them so famous, or the great princi-
pies to which they devoted their lives.
4 ne AdlE OF the ndIlOn depends IN
the last resort on individual character.
Everything in human government, like
everything in individual conduct. de-
ponds, in the end, upon the sense of
duty. Whatever safeguards may be
established, however complicated or
we'll adjusted the mechanism, you come
to place somewhere where safety de-
ponds upon somebody having the will
to do right, when it is in his power, and
maybe TO his interest. to do wrong.
When the people were considering the
adoption of the constitution of the
United States one of our wisest states
men said the real and only security for
a republic is when the rulers have the
same interest as the people. If they
have not, constitutional restraints will
break down somewhere. except for the
sense of duty of the rulers"
In the evening the principal event
was the banquet at the Union League
club, where Senator HOar was the
guest of honor. Other speakers of the
evening were President Bancroft of the
Upion League club, President Eliot of
Harvard college, Rev. Frank W. Gun
saulus and Bishop Caller of Tennessee.