Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-17

Of which we have written record WAS
It more vitally essential for the well
fare ot mankind that victory should
rest where II finally rested There have
boen other wars for individual free
dom. There have been other wars for
national greatness. But there has never
been another war in which the Issues
at stake were so large looked at from
either standpoint. We take just pride
in the great deeds OF the men Of 1915,
but we must keep In mind that the
Revolutionary war would have been
shorn of well-nish all It's results had
the side of union and liberty been de-
feated In the Cicil war In such case
we should merely have added another
To the lamentably long list of cases In
which peoples have shown that after
winning their liberty they are wholly
unable to make good use Of It.
TASK OF THE PRESENT.
H. now rests with us In civil life to
make good by our deeds the deeds
which you who wore the blue did in
the great years from 81 to SIS. The
patriotism, the courage, the unfiinching
resolution and steadfast endurance of
the soldiers whose triumph was
crowned at Appomattox must be sup
plemented on our part by civic courage,
civic honesty, cool sanity, and steadfast
adherence to the inmutable laws of
righteousness. You left US a reunited
country; reunited in fact as we'll as In
name. You left us the right of brother
hood with your gallant foes who wore
the gray: the right tn feel pride in
their courage and their high fealty to
an ideal, even though they warrcd
against the stars Ia their courses You
left MS also the most splendid example
of what brotherhood really means, for
In your careers you showed in prar-
teal fashion that the only safety In our
American life lies in spruning the ac :
cidental distinctions which sunder one
man from another, and In paying hom-
age to each man only because of what
he essentially Is; in stripping off the
huskS OF occupation, of position, Of ac-
cident. until the soul stands forth re-
vesled. and we know the man only be-
cause OF his worth as man.
NO DEVICE roR SECURING VIC
TORY
Their. wss 40 patent degice for sc.
curing victory by force OF arms 40 years
ago, and there Is no patent device for
securing victory for the forces of right
eousness In civil life now. In each
case the all-important factor was and
Is the character OF the indiviual man.
Good laws In the state, like a good
organization In an army. are the ex-
pressions OF national character Lead
ers will be developed In military and
In civil life alike; and weapons and
tactics change from generation TO gem
Grafton, as methods of achieving good
government change IN civic aftaitS.
but the fundamental qualities which
make for good citizenship DO not
change any more than the fundamental
qualities which make good soldiers. In
the long run In the civil war the thing
that counted for more than aught else
was the fact that the average AnIeri-
can had the fighting edge had within
him the spirit which spurted him on
through toll and danger fatigue md
hardship, TO the goal of the splendid
ultimate triumph, So IN achieving
good government the fundamental fac
tor must be the character OF the aver
age citizen, that average citizens pow
or OF hatred tOr what Is mean and base
and unlovely; his fearless scoru of
cowardioe and his determination to
war unyicldiugIy against the dark and
eordid forces Of evil.
WASHINGTON AND GRANT.
The continental troops who followed
Washington were clad In blue. and bun.
and We're armed with clumsy, illntlock
muskets. You. who followed Grant.
wore the famous old blue uniform, and
your weapons had changed as had your
uniform, and now the men OF the
American army who uphold the honor
OF the flag In the far trOpic lands are
yet differently armed and differently
clad and differently trained, but the
spirit that has driven you all to VIC
tory has remained forever unchanged.
So II is In civil life As you did not
win In a month or a year. but only after
long years OF hard ANA dangerous work,
so the fight for governmental honesty
and efficiency can he won only by the
display Of similar patience and similar
resolution and power OF endurance. We
need the same type OF character now
that was needed by the men who with
Washington FIRST inaugurated the sys-
tenn VI free popular government. the
system Of combined liberty and order
here on this continent. that was need.
ed by the men who under Lincoln per-
petuated the government which had
thus been iuauguruted IN the DAYS OF
Washington. The qualities essential to
good citizenship and to good public
service now are IN all their essentials
exactly the same as In the days when
the FIRST Congresses met to provide for
tho establishment OF the Union, as i'm
the days. 10 years later when the Com
crosses met which had to provide for
It's salvation.
ESSENTIAL QUALITIES.
There are many qualities which VIZ
need alike In private citizen and In
public man, but three above all--three
for the lack OF which no briliancy and
no genius can atone--and those three
are courage, honesty, and common
sense.
Benedictlon was pronounced by Rev.
william H. Mccormack OF New Jer-
sey, veteran chaplain.
A greater part OF the afternoon was
spent by the president IN an inspection
OF the points OF historic interest on the
battlefield.