The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-05-28

ing through this mighty state with its
extraordinary capacity for industrial
development. to see you, men and wo-
men, who are developing it, and at the
same time that you are taking the full
est advantage of your material re-
sources, are taking care to build upon
those as Il foundation for a higher life
that you are taking thought for the
next generation, taking thought for the
country. and for the people that are to
come after you.
SHAPE POLICY FOR FUTURE.
"No men do their duty or pretend to
do their duty if they simply think of
their own interests, if they do not
shape governmental policy, their social
policy for the country as a whole, the
country that is to come after them. EX-
actly as every man worth his salt or
woman worth her salt, will care even
more for their own well being. so in
this nation we are bound to honor to
shape our present policy with view to
the nations future needs. to do as you
did in the civil war. You went to war
you faced four years Of conflict that
generations that come after you for
centuries to come should live in union,
in peace within our borders (applause).
SO when you provide for training up,
building of children, when you provide
for schOolShigh schools, normal schools
academy, college you are building firm,
wide, deep foundations for right and
greatness of the future: for, after all,
important though material resources
are, important though your wheat,
your lumber, your fisheries, your cattle,
your mines, your commerce, your fac
tories are most important of all is the
standard of good citizenship which
you produce.
CONGRATULATIONS ON SCHOOL SYS
TEN.
Il congratulate Washington upon its
school system, upon all its schools from
word of special greeting to those en-
gagged in teaching. No other body of
men or women in time of peace does a
more important work than those upon
whose teaching the example of sympa-
thy, self abnegation, enthusiasm. 50
much depends for the future genera
tons depends.
"N ct men and women must rcmem-
Der that you cannot put off upon teach
ers the whole duty of educating the
next generation. Fathers, mothers,
must educate their children in their
own homes by precept, by example.
Just let me say this, that if your, pre-
cepts your examples differ you cannot
expect good results for children. There
is no use preaching unseliishness if faith
err consistently leads selfish life. There
is no use preaching the gospel of work
if the father or mother shrk work.
There is no use preaching the gospel
of duty if there is no attempt to per-
form duty on the part of those who
preach it. \ father and mother have
duty in educating their children Of
which no one can relieve them. Teach
ers can do much, but. after all, it is the
help in the home which can do most.
KIND OF CITIZENSHIP NEEDED.
81 also want to say word upon the
kinds of quality which we need in citi-
zenship, for we need more than one
kind. In the first place you need de-
cency, honesty. the spirit of fair dealing,
the spirit that makes a man good
neighbor, good friend the spirit that
makes man do his duty by the state.
Ifyou have not the foundation for clean
living and fair dealing in you, then the
greater mans ability is, the worse he
is for the community. 1t is just as it
was in the Civil war: if man had not
the spirit of loyalty, of obedience. of
faith to the flag, of faith TO the nation,
then the stronger ADLER. more cunning
he was. the more dangerous he was.
In his regiment he was the cause OF
distu. bance: out side the regiment he
would come very near being traitor
to the nation.
$50 in civic life, exactly as bodily
strength If unaccompanied by spirit OF
self restraint, makes man dangerou