Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-05-11

is his culture and 80 versatile his at
tainments that he is a connoisseur In
the diplomatic art of speaking low
and carrying a big stick
| Reared in the lap of luxury, he has
the spirit that inspired the plowman
1 Burns TO declare
4 The rank is but the ilnea's stamp
A man 5 a man for a that"
while his powers of discerning hu-
manity and the power oil ms own man
hood are both so great that he can
recognize Washington, whether his
name be George or Booker.
President Roosevelt did not coin the
word Strenuous" but he did put IL
/ into circulation. Whether wrestling
a bucking broncho or bucking the
Tammany tiger. striving to keep his
seat on the one or trying to unseat
the other, whether charging up San
Juan hill against the Spaniards or
charging down Wall street against the
| trusts. we see the same Jealous, in
trepid strenuosity. In his famous
speech before the Hamilton club in
| Chicago. Roosevelt said: In speak
| ing to you 1 wish to preach, not the
doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doc
| trine of the strenuous life the life
| of toll and effort; of labor and strife;
| to preach that highest form of sue
cess that comes, not to the man who
| desires more easy peace, but to the
/ man who does not shrink from dan
ger, from hardship or from bitter toll
D I.UuU
/ mate triumph"
! Theodore Roosevelt is not only preac-
es that doctrine, but he lives it, and
| his life should be an inspiration to
every self-respecting young man. To
meet the demands of this new cen
| tury, whose horizon Is glowing with
| the golden glory that heralds earths
grandest day, we must have a true
and noble manhood; a manhood that
embodies victorious effort; a manhood
which had those virile qualities neces
sary to win in the stern strife of act
ual life: "A manhood which, while ii
recognizes the fact that ii is hard to
fail, realizes that it is infinitely worse
never to have tried to succeed.
1t means something, it means very
much indeed, to have as chief eXecu-
| tive of this great pivotal nation of the
| earth, man who reveres the Church
| of Jesus Christ and is loyal to IT. a
man who never hesitates to declare
that the Ten Commandments and the
| teachings of Jesus Christ are the basis
of all true national and individual life
and progress; a man who makes no
! prentions to saintliness. but who
| gives proof OF his manliness. And the
world always recognizes true man-
/ liness and hastens to pay homage
at its shrine. 1t is mistake to sup
pose manhood is below par. 1t is at
a premium, not only in the church,
but also in the markets of the world,
and always will be However. blinded
by self interest, or bound by the let
ters of passion, or deiuded by the gods
OF this world, men yet have enough
of the divine in their natures to re-
spond admiringly to the true and
noble in their fellows.
Manhood is not "A thing of the lips,
but of the life. 1t lies not in the seem
ing but in the being. Manhood pays.
1t is its own reward 1t lifts to the
highest SUBMITS of real power, it
grasps all prizes that are worth pos
| sessing. il commands the forces that
conquer men Then let us learn the
worth of true manhood, and scorning
the base, stunning the false, fleeing
the foolish. shrinking not from the
dangerous and the difficult. turn to-
ward the perfect Man, following his
guidance and obeying His behests,
even though He leads us through
Gethsemane, and Golgotha-follow
Him till the Olivet of destiny is reach.
ed, and the vlctor's crown is grasped.