Arizona republican., 1903-09-18

shorn of well-nigh all it's results had |
the. side of union and liberty been de-
feated in the civil war. In such case |
we should merely have added another |
to the lamentably long list of cases in |
which peoples have shown that after |
winning their liberty they are wholly |
unable to make good use of it.
THE PRESENT DUTY.
1t now rests with us in civil life to
make good by our deeds the deeds |
which you who wore the blue did in the |
great years from 81 to '65. The patriot |
ism, the courage, the unf1inching reso-
luton and steadfast endurance of the !
soldiers whose triumph was crowned 1T
Appomattox must be supplemented on
our part by civic courage. civic hon
esty, cool sanity, and steadfast adher
ence to the immutable laws of right
eousness. You left us a reunited coun
try; reunited in fact as we'll as i'll
name You left us the right of broth
erhood with your gallant foes who
wore the gray: the right to feel pride
in their courage and their high fealty to
an ideal, even though they warred
against the stars in their courses. You
lef, us also the most splendid example
of what brotherhood really means: for
in your careers you showed in practical
fashion that the only safety in our
American life lies in spurning the ac-
cidental distinctions which sunder one
man from another, and in paying hon.
age to each man only because of what
he essentially is; in stripping off the
husks of occupation, of position, of ac-
cident, urtil the soul stands forth re-
cause of his worth man.
NATIONAL CHARACTER.
There was no patent device for secur-
ing victory by force OF arms forty years
ago; and there is no patent device for
securing victory for the forces of right
eousness in civil life now. In each case
the all-important factor was and is the
character of the individual man. Good
laws in the state, like d good organiza-
tion in an army, are the expressions of
national character. Leaders will be de-
veloped in military and in civil life
alike: and weapons and tactics change
from generation to generation. as
methods of achieving good government
change in civic affairs; but the funda-
mental qualities which make for good
citizenship do not change any more
than the fundamental qualities which
make gc3d soldiers. In the long run
in the civil war the thing that counted
for more than aught else was the fact
that the average American had the
lighting edge: had within him the spirit
which spurred him on through toll and
danger. fatigue and hardship. to the
goal of the splendid ultimate triumph.
SO in achieving good government the
sls,rfN t4.1
acter of the average citizen, that aver
age citizens power of hatred for what
is mean and base and unlovely; his
fearless scorn of cowardice and his de-
termination to war unyielding against
the dark and sordid forces of evil.
The continental troops who followed
Washington We're clad in blue and buff,
and were armed with clumsy, flintlock
rnuskets. You, who followed Grant,
wore the famous old blue uniform, and
your weapons had changed as had your
uniform; and now the men of the
American army who uphold the honor
of the flag in the far tropic lands are
yet differently armed and differently
clad and differently trained: but the
spirit that has driven you all to victory
| has remained forever unchanged. So
it is in civil life. AS you did not win in
a month or a year, but only after long
years of hard and dangerous work, so
the fight for governmental honesty ami
efficiency can be won only by the dis
play of similar patience and similar res
| olution and power of endurance. We
need the same type of character now
that was needed by the men who with
Washington first inaugurated the sys-
tenn of free popular government, the
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here on this continent: that was needed
by the men who under Lincoln perpet-
uated the government which had thus
been inaugurated in the days of Wash
ingtcn. The qualities essential to good
| citizenship and to good public service
now are III all their essentials exactly
the same as in the days when the first
congresses met to provide for the es-
tablishment of the union; as in the
days, seventy years later, when the
congresses met which had to provide
for its salvation.
There are many qualities which We
need alike in private citizen and in pub
lie man, but three above all-three for
| the lack of which no brilliancy and no
genius can atone-and those three are
courage, honesty. and common sense.
| After the speech the afternoon was
spent by the president in the inspection
Of points of interest on the battlefield.
The president passed the evening quiet
| ly on his train at the station. He dined
i tonight as the guest of Governor Muir
ply in the governors dining-car.
Promptly at o'clock the train pulled
out of Sharpsburg. 1t is due to arrive
at Jersey City tomorrow morning at 8
O'Clock. The president and party will
go aboard the naval yacht Sylph at 7
| o'clock and expect to arrive at Oyster
Bay about 10 o'clock.