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

the National Guard and to say to
them, and to say also to the regular
soldiers here, how proud we are on
Uncle Sans uniform and how proud |
that this country has men who. by
their conduct. have reflected credit .
upon it,
And now, to my fellow citizens, the
people of this state l have watched
your growth before and after state
hood Many in this audience are old
neighbors of mine. and from this on
as we go westward I come more and
more to places at which l feel as
though knew everyone; where have
been on the range with them, worked
with them and shipped cattle with
them. (Applause.) Now there are
two ways to become acquainted with
man: one is when you work with
him, and one is when you fight with
him; and there are few men from
the ranges with whom l had both ex-
periences. Uaughter) So, naturally. |
take peculiar interest in you, and
rejoice at the prosperity of this state
this great prairie state, with its wheat
and its cattle. with its products of its
J farms and stock ranches and to see
, you growing, steadily growing in
, to greatness. l am proud of you and
| proud of your products; and your best
, product is your men and women; Gap
, plause.) and l have been glad to sec
: them all along the road and have
r been especially glad to see the child
e rem. Naughter.) I have not got man!
: children myself have only six-bu
e am glad to say that they are al
= right In quality and all right In quar
tity, because the stock is good stoc
l. and l don't want to see it fail to II
= crease.
+ Now Just one word about our pro-
: perity. Something can be done fo
, that by law and by the administratio
8 of the law much more; but much NOR
u still can be done to harm it by ba
q laws. It is easy enough to pass oa
II law that doesn't give US any chanc
y at all. All that any law can do,
'i administered well, is to secure squar
~ dealing, SO far as the law can, b.
tween man and man and give eac
man a chance to exercise to the be-
,e advantages the qualities he has.
the long run a man must rise or Ia
~ according to the stuff there Is In hir
"a. It is lust the same as it is in war W
-. need such a militia law as we hay
~ had passed by congress. we nee
"a good weapons, the best weapons, II
- our troops. We need a good admin
-, tration in the war department; d
"a no administration in the war depai
~. ment, no weapons, and nothing IN
- can he done from the outside will
"a of any avail unless officers and e
,,e listed men have it in them 10 MAJ
-. Of themselves soldiers in every sen
H. of the word. If they have not got u
-, stuff in them, then the stun Is n
-, there to get out of them. You W
-, Grams of the civil war won imperls
eat able glory in the old days from ol
we '65, and you, my comrades OF the less
&C, war. did your work SO well in the IN
;pnines because you had the stun
70 in you. and had the fighting advan
~ ges of resolution and OF firm deteri
ort nation to do your duty when the III
md came.
Now as it is with the soldier, SO
10 in civil life. | am standing In
80 nresence of many of the pioneers a
os the sons of the successors OF th'
n;oneers of this state. No law COZ
have enabled those men to do WI
they did. All that the law could
was tn give to each man a chance
49,. chow. to prove. what his own ST
heart and cool head and strong M
- could accomplish The law could
him a chance, but he had to take
>, vanage of that chance himself.
, - work of building up these new sts