Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-04-08

was akin to the work of the soldier
which you men of the Grand Army did !
in the dark days of the civil war, and
it needed essentially just the same
qualities: in the first place, honesty
deceney, square dealing between man
and man, and you had to have that
just as you had to have the spirit of
patriotism in the soldier In addition
to that, you had to have the courage
and the strength to make it count
and not only common sense, but the
hard intelligence without which the
other qualities would fail.
There is another lesson in civil life
which may be learned from the men
of the civil war. When you Grand
Army men went to war, you had to
endure the heart breaking weariness
of the long marches under the South
ern sun, the misery of the freezing
nights in winter on guard in the
trenches, the short commons. the risk
and by she'll When you had to do all
that, you wanted to know the mettle
there was in your comrades; you could
do nothing if they did not have the
mettle in them. You wanted to know
that the man on the right hand and
on the left was man to be depended
upon; you did not care what the form
of his worship was, you did not care
what his social standing might be
e what his wealth was, whether brick
layer, lawyer or farmer. What yot
: wanted to know was whether, wher
the time came he would stay put
;. That was what you wanted to know
II You wanted to know that when tn
= time came to move, he would NOV
N the right way. In other words, yo
u had to Judge him and his worth as
man. And in the grim sitting out
s. the war, the generals VINO were d
or veloped to lead you were the me
m who came to the front because the
re could do the job best; Grant, Thoma
"a Sheridan, Farragut on the ocean, cam
"a to the front because they were til
;e fighting meE who could handle be-
II the fighting men under them.
re choosing them we could not afford
e. pay heed to anything except the wor'
IN of the mai himself. 1t is just so
81 our civil life today. If We pay het
In to the accidents and not to the e
Ill sentials of mans character, we
n. just so much prove false to our trat
We tions and our principals. and by ju
We so much more or less the chance
ed getting honest and decent governmel
or What you want to know OF any ms
is in public life is what you want
ut know of him in private life: how do'
IT. he treat his wife; how does ne tre'
at his promises: does he fulfill the proI
be ises he made on the stump as well
IN those made in private life; does
Ike deal suuarely with his neighhors; do
se he try to administer or make Law
he that will neither injure the rich ms
lot as such. nor the poor man as such, b
ct will protect every honest man, be
sh- rich or poor? That is what we wa
to to know. That Is what We have rig
ser to ask. If he has got these qualiti
lil. we are for him; and If he has n
in we are against him, because he n
ta- no proper place in the American DO
mi politic. That is the doctrine We shou
me preach; the doctrine of mans wor
as man. And it is the doctrine
} 1t a mans worth as man up to wni
the YOU have lived here, my fellow G
md zens and that is why you have ma
ose a state to be proud of and a st;
uld which We are glad to have in
nat Union.
do | greet you and thank you and h;
} to enjoyed you I wish you all the p'
out perity that the coming years can
ana sibly bring.
Arrival Of the Train.
Tho The train bearing the presider
ates party arrived at 4:4o, and the m