The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-08

1 achievement or results worth achieving.
 4 recent writer has finely said: "Af- ter all. the saddest thing that can , happen to man is to carry no bur- 1 dens. To be bent under too great i load is bad: to be crushed by it is la
 mentable: but even in that there are possibilities that are glorious. But to carry no load at all-there is nothing in l that. No one seems to arrive at any goal really worth reaching in this world who does not come to it heavy laden"
 Surely from our own experience each
 one of us knows that this is true. From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul. and the joy of ! life is won in it's deepest and truest sense only by those who have not
 shirked life's burdens. The men whom | we most delight to honor in all this | land are those who in the iron years 1 from '61 to '65 bore on their soulders the burden of saving the Union. They
 did not shirk the difficult duty. Delib- | erately and of their own free will they | strove for an ideal, upward and on- ward across the stony slopes of great ness. They did the hardest work that was then to be done; they bore the | heaviest burden that any generation of Americans ever had to bear; and be- | cause they did this they have won such | proud joy as it has fallen to the lot of | no other men to win, and have written
 their names forever on the golden
 honor roll of the nation. As it is with
 the soldier, so it is with the civilian. To win success in the business world, to
 become first-class, mechanic, suc-
 cessful farmer, an able lawyer or doc ] tor, means that the man has devoted his best energy and power through | long years to the achievement of his
 ends. So it is in the life of the family, upon which in the last analysis the whole welfare of the nation rests. The
 man or woman who as bread winner
 and home maker, or as wife and moth-
 CT. has done all that he or she can do.
 patientIy and uncomplainingly. is to be honored; and is to be envied by all
 those who have never had the good for
 tune to feel the need and duty of doing
 such work. The woman who has
 borne. and who has reared as they should be reared, a family of children, l has in the most emphatic manner de-
 served well of the republic. Her bur 1 den has been heavy. and she has been Table to bear it worthily only by the possession of resolution. of good sense, iof conscience and of unselffshness. But If she has borne it well. then to her
 shall come the supreme blessing, for in the words of the oldest and greatest of
 books. Her children shall rise up and call her blessed;" and among the bene- l sactorse of She land her place must be with those who have done the best and | the hardest work, whether as law giv- CTS or as soldiers, whether in public or in private life. ,q<a, s,, ... .s..... l This is not @ soft and easy creed to
 preach. It is a creed willingly learned
 only by men and women who, together
 with the softer virtues. possess also
 the stronger; who can do, and dare, and die at need, but who while life lasts will
 never finch from their allotted task. You farmers and wage-workers, and business men of this freat state of this mighty and wonderful nation, are gathered together to-day, proud of your state and stll prouder of your na-
 ton, because your forefathers and pre-
 decessors have lived up to just this creed. You have received from their hands great inheritance, and you will
 leave an even greater inheritance to your children and your chiIdren's chi1- Edren. provided only that you practice
 alike in your private and your public lives, the strong virtues that have giv- en us as people greatness in the past
 It is not enough to be well-meaning and
 kindly. but weak; neither is it enough to be strong. unless morality and de- cency go hand in hand with strength. We must possess the qualities which make us do our duty in our homes and
 among our neighbors, and in addition
 We must possess the qualities which are
 indispensable to the makeup of every
 great and masterful nation-the quali-
 ties of courage and hardihood, of indi-
 vidual initiative and yet of power to ] combine for common end, and above
 all. the resolute determination to per-
 init no man and no set of men to sum-
 der us one from the other by lines of
 caste or creed or section. We must act
 upon the motto of all for each and each
 for all. There must be ever present in
 our minds the fundamental truth that in 8 republic such as ours the only
 safety is to stand neither for nor | against any man because he is rich or
 because he Is poor. because he is en-
 gagged in one occupation or another, be-
 cause he works with his brains or be-
 cause he works with his hands We
 must treat each man on his worth and
 merits as a man. We must see that
 each is given square deal, because he
 is entitled to no more and should re-
 ceive no less. Finally we must keep
 ever in mind that republic such as
 ours can exist only in virtue of the or derly liberty which comes through the
 ecual domination of the law over all
 men alike. and through it's administra-
 tion in such resolute and fearless fash
 ion as shall teach all that no man is
 above it and no man below it. r..