Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-18
Senator Hoar's Address.

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Senator Hoar's Address.
"The senate and supreme court of
the United States are the two greatest
contributions of this country to human
progress, so far as human progress is
written and secured in constitutional
governments. said Senator George F.
Hoar, in his address.
1.-The attempt lately made to sub
stitute for the state with its moral
quality and moral being and its individ-
ual history, a mere aggregation of num-
bers, the attempt to have two popular
branches Of the national government,
both selected by the people, and only
differing In the size of the constituency
is the first and most insidious and
most dangerous attempt to overthrow
the constitution. Other amendments
have been amendments of mechanism
or have been amendments designed to
secure individual or personal rights.
But this proposed amendment of the
constitution In respect TO the senate
goes deeper, and is the first great
change ever proposed in the principles
on which the constitution is founded"
Appeal TOR individuality.
Senator -Hoar's address was an APP
peal for individuality, in state and
community life and an exhortation to
universities to properly cultivate in
dividuality in the their states and de-
Relop 1t morally. He said in part:
"The fate of the nation depends in
the last resort on individual character.
Nxynvr h S,nor iv,
like everything in individual conduct,
depends in the end upon the sense of
duty. Whatever safeguards may be
established, however complicated or
well adjusted the mechanism, you
come to a place somewhere, where
safety depends upon somebody having
the will to do right when it Is in his
power. and may seem to his interest to
do wrong When the people were con-
sidering the adoption of the constitu-
ton of the United States, one of our
wisest statesmen said that the real
and only security for a republic is
when the rulers have the same interest
as the people. If they have not, con.
stitutional restraints will break down
somewhere, except for the sense of
duty of the rulers.
Election System.
4 "All elections depend upon this prin.
ciple. You may multiply election Off
GERS and returning boards, you may
provide for an appeal to courts of first
resort or last resort. But in the end
you must somewhere come to a point
where the sense of public duty is
stronger than party spirit,or your cleo.
ton Is but sort of public fighting, or
If not that, a sort of cheating. The
same thing is true of the individual
voter, or of the legislator who is to
elect the senator, or the governor who
is to appoint the judge, or the execu.
tive officer, or the judge who is to in.
terpret the constitution or the statute
and decide the cause, or the juror who
is to find the fact. On these men de.
pend the safety and the permanence of
the republic. On these men depend life
, liberty and property And yet each OF
them has. to make that choice. Each
has to decide whether he will be inf1u
enced by ambition or by party spirit
or the desire for popular favor or the
fear of popular disfayor or the love OF
money, on the one side, or by the sense
Of duty on the other.
$50, in the last resort, the destiny
of the republic, like the destiny Of the
individual (and in the case of an indi
vidual, character and destiny are the
same thing, depends upon individual
will. Will the individual will choose
what is right and not what is wrong
Now this choice is largely affected by
what We call strength of will, by that
habit of the soul which enables men
to adhere to its deliberate purposes and
principles, formed when reason is un
affected by passion or by desire
against the pressure and excitement
of an immediate demand; that charac
ter Of will which, as Wordsworth saws
In his Happy Warrior
In the heat of conflict keeps the
law
In calmness made, and sees what ii
foresaw.'
Purpose Of Education.
1.-THE great single purpose of moral
education must be to induce the will
to adhere to its general, permanent