The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1903-04-15
many-sided development of the quail

citizenship. A great crisis will
come when you need a genius.
Thrice and thrice over thrice fortu-
nate the nation will then develop
a Lincoln to lead it in peace, a Grant
to lead it in war, a Washington to
lead it in war and peace.
"But, ordinarily, at ordinary
times, those times that in the bulk
are so much larger than the extra
ordinary times and upon our con-
duct in which really depends our
conduct in extraordinary crisis, in
those ordinary times what we need
as nation and individually are the
] ordinary, commonplace virtues
which we all recognize and which
when we were young we wrote
about in the copy books, and which
if we practice will count for thous
and times more in the long run than
any brilliance or any genius of any
kind or sort whatsoever. If man
is decent, upright. honest man; If
he is square in his dealings with
his neighbors; If he is a good hus-
band, a good father; if he is a man
whom you like to associate with in
business or to trade with or to work
beside in the shop, or on the farm
and next to in the country; and if
be does his duty to the State in the
same spirit that he does it to his
neighbor, he is man whose citizen
ship, if it represents the average,
will mean the salvation of the State.
GA little incident happened this
morning that started me in a train
of thought that [ want to develop
for Just moment, and shan keep
you long, | am aware that | am
preaching. So often, throughout
our social structure, from the
wealthiest down to the poorest, you
see queer faulty of the mar or the
woman which makes them save their
: children temporary discomfort, tenn
porary npleasantnesS, at the cost
of future destruction. You see a
great many men, and I'm sorry to
say, a great many women, who, for
. instance, will say, "Well, I've had
to work hard, my boy and my girl
shan't do anything OF every rank
I have seen it ia the millionaire
and | have seen it in the day labor
err | have heard the millionaire
say, Well, [ have had to work all
my life to make money now let the
boy spend it. And it would be
better for the boy if he had never
: been born that to be brought up on
that principle. And, on the other
t hand, [ have seen the hard worked,
the worked drudge, the labor
| er's wife, who said, well, I've had
J to work my heart out all these days
my daughters shall be ladies, and
) her conception of the daughters be-
5 ing ladies was to have them sit
: around useless and incompetent,
unable to do anything, brought up
to be discontinued, cumberer oil the
earth S surface II is good deal
as Abraham Lincoln said, There is
deal of human nature in mankind
And, fundamentally, virtues and
| faults are just the same in the mil
, lionaire and in the day laborer, the
same thing that tell for good and
J the same that tell for bad.
Now the man or the woman who
seeks to bring up his or her chill
dren with the idea that their hap
piness is secured by teaching them
to avoid difficulty is doing them a
cruel wrong. 10 brlng up the BOY
and girl so that they will feel that
they are so sheltered that they can
not stand any rough knocks, that
they shrink from toll, that when
they meet with any obstacle they
feel that they ought to go around it
or 90 back instead of going on over
!, 1.-THE man or the woman who does
that is wronging the children to a
degree that no other human being
= can wrong them. If you are worth
your salt, if you want your children
, to be worth their salt, teach them
that the life that is not the life OF
work and of heart is worthless, is o
curse to the man or the woman lead