The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-07

men whom we most, delight to honor in:
all this land are those who, in the iron,
years from 81 to '65, bore on their shoul.3
ders the burden Of saving the union. They!
did not choose the easy task: They!
did not sfirk the difficult duty. Deliber-
ately and Of their own free will they
strove for an ideal, upward and onward
across the stony slopes Of great ness. They.
did the hardest work that was then to be
done; they bore the heaviest burden that
any generation Of Americans ever had to
bear; and because they Gid this they have
won such proud joy as it has fallen to the
lot Of no other men to win, and have
written their names forevermore on the
golden honor roll Of the nation. AS it
is with the soldier, SO it is with the civil
ian To win success in the business
world, to be come a first-class mechanic,
q successful farmer, an able lawyer or
doctor, means that the man has devoted
his best energy and power thru long years
to the achievement Of his ends.
Comparison with Family.
So 1t IS in the life of the family, upon
which, in the last analysis, the whole well
fare of the nation rests The man or
woman who, as bEead-winner and home
maker, or as wife and mother, has done
all that he or she can do, patiently and
uncomplainingly, is to be honored; and is
to be envied by all those who have never
had the good fortune to feel the need and
duty of doing such work The woman
who has borne, and who has reared as
they Should be reared, a family Of chill
dren, has in the most emphatic manner
deserved well of the republic. Her bur-
den has been heavy, and she has been able
to bear 1t worthily only by. the possession
of resolution, Of good sense, of conscience
and Of unselfishness. But if she has borne
1t well, then to her shall come the supreme
blessing, for in the words of the oldest
and grea test of books, Her children shall
rise up and call her blessed; and among
the benefactors of the land her place must
be with those who have done the best and
the hardest work, whether as law-givers
or as soldiers, whether In public or in pri-
waite life.
This is not soft and easy creed to
preach. It is creed willingly learned
only by men and women who, together
with the softer virtues, possess also the
stronger; who can do. and dare, and die
at need, but who while life lasts will never
| finch from their allotted task. You
farmers and wage-workers and business
men of this great state, of this mighty
and wonderful nation, are gathered to-
gether to-day, proud of your state and
still prouder of your nation, because your
forefathers and predecessors have lived
UP to just this creed. You have received
from their hands a great Inheritance. and
you will leave an even greater inheritance
| to your children and your chiIdren's chill
dren, provided only that you practice
a like In your private and your public lives
the strong virtues that have given us
as people greatness In the past.
Strength and Morality.
It is not enough to be well-meaning
and kindly but weak; neither is 1t enough
to be strong. unless morality and decency
go hand In hand with strength. We must
possess the qualities which make us do
our duty in our homes and among our
neighbors, and In addition we must pos
| sess the qualities which are indispensa-
BILE to the makeup of every great and
! masterful nation-the qualities Of courage
and hardihood, OF individual initiative and
yetof power to combine for common end
and above ALL the resolute determination