Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-28
WELCOMES THE PRESIDENT
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comes a period Of drought or of flood, II
there comes p~estilence, II there comes war
then II does not lie in infinite wisdom and
finite courage wholly to avert disaster.
Even in such cases something can be done:
your farmers are doing It. AS 1 passed
through your state today, 1 was struck with
the diversifcatlon of the crops from what
It was twenty years ago when | first saw
Nebraska. (Applause.) In addition to corn
you nave wheat and alfalfa as staples.
When you have three the chances are just
three to one against there being a com
over, when people recognize how to till each
separate kind of soil; when they recog-
nize that there is no use in filling a soil
that will yield an average crop once in Ave
years, when they put cattle on II instead,
by just so much they have minimized the
chance of disaster. l do not believe that
Nebraska viii ever again see such dark
days as 1t saw but a few years ago. Yet,
as l said, some dark days will come.
You will suffer at times from the DEGREES
of a mysterious fate, or the folly of your
fellows. but putting aside that, 1t remains
true that the chief factor In winning sue
state, must be what the chief factor In win
ming the success OF a people has been from
the beginning of time, the character of the
individual man, of the individual woman.
No law that ever was devised by the wit
of man can make a fool show wisdom, a
brave. II a man has not got the right stun
in him you can not get 1t out of him.
Cheers and applauseO What law can do,
can do, Is to create and preserve condi-
tions under which the man who has sanity,
who has courage. who has energy and thrift
to the best possible advantage. That is
what law can do. That ls what the honest
administration Of the law can DO:
Help One Another.
Something, moreover, can be done by CO.
operation among ourselves. There Is not
a man here who does not at times stumble,
who does not at times slip, and when ne
does, shame to his fellow who Wlll not
stretch out ? helping hand. Eaen Oh OF Us
at times needs some aid some comloit,
and what each of us at times needs, let
You can help a man II he stumbles, bus
II he lies down you cannot carry him. II
he won't walk he is not worth carrying.
him, and you will hurt yourself, There Is
only one permanent way in which help can
be given to make IT of real good, and that
himself. HELD him to develop the auali,y
the right path. Help MN M 4 b, me sfumo'eS'
The other day 1 listened to a most ad-
mirable sermon in a little Lutheran cnurch
up In South Dakota, the preacher dwelling
upon the old familiar text OF faith. hope
and charity, and upon. the TACT mat the
greatest of all was charity. but transiatins
the Greek word which we, l think, ratLe'
| mistranslate into the German word Tor
love; speaking OF love rs being the great
factor to- IN the 9 1eHs f0s nne 81 m ne,enbor; lowe
for that aggregate OF neignbOrs when we
call the state. There must be that genuine
each to nut himself in his neighbours place,
to try to benefit that neighbour, 10 Try u
look at affairs somewhat from mat nelsh-
boris standpoint. There must be that feel
ing at the base of our attitude toward our
fellows IL we are to make our Iepuohc the
success that It Wal ana snGn De ma e,
ness of heart Is a dreadful quality. we
need ~softness of heart. but We most EN-,
phatically do not need to have II spread
further and become softness Of head. We
need not only love for our fellows, but We
need sanity in showing that love. We nee
to recognize now far 1t IS possible to 40
good In the way of help, and at what point
the effort so 10 do good results merely IN
harm alike TO us and to the person soughS
has worked in great cities with charitable
people grows to rave almost as great a
horror OF a certain kind OF mock philan-
thropy, which / might call soup kitchen
philanthropy, IS he mas for anu form OF
wrongdoing, as he has even for that de-
toward ones fellows. we need sanity as
we'll as love in trying to face the problem
of how we can help one another. OF how
| each in striving upward can make his enort
10 strive Upward an ala and not q hindrancS
10 his brother on the right, 10 his brother
on the left.
Abraham LIncOIn's Due.
I have spoken at the outset this evening
of the homage we should pay to the mem
DRY Of Grant, IL is the homage we should
nay TO the memory Of Lincoln, the homage
We should pay to all OF our fellow country
men who have at any time rendered grea
service 70 the republic, and II can be rem
dered in most efficient form not by merel!
p~raising them for having dealt with prob
lens which now we do not nave to face
but by facing our problems in the sam,
spirit in which they faced theirs. Nothing
was more noteworthy in all of Lincoln
character than the way tnNwhich he com