The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-23

the well being of every citizen in the land
we ought to be inspired to that degree of
vigilance that means no defeat but eternal
| success to the party which is a synonym
| for loyalty, patriotism and good govern
| ment.
With best wishes for the success Of
| the club, l remain,
Yours very truly.
B. S. MCGUIRE. Z
ROOSEVELT AND THE WEST.
| Judge Virgil II. Brown, one of the men
Of Oklahoma, for whom there is always
demand in every campaign, gave one
of the most interesting toasts of the even
ing on Roosevelt and the West" Judge
! Brown has had years of experience on
the platform and the handling of his sub
ject was intensely pleasing to his hear
ers. He said as follows in part:
The subject which is best and fruit
fullest for us to think about is that which
contains the largest and nearest posi-
bilities for our rapid, but sure, progress
as a civil community.
There is no specific for our common
ills, and no sudden revelation for our
common good. The course before US is
not clearly discernable. as of some mag
nificent highway, already built and await
ing our advance; nor is the problem one
of how slowly or how swiftly we can
travel the way laid out. There is no laid
out way. We build as we go, and we
go as we build. We are a political po-
tenuality with almost unlimited resource
and power possessed Of an expansive
energy which has practically no bounds.
Guidance is the one prolific great word
for US. To be we'll and wisely guided
is the chief care. He, among us all, is
the greatest and uSefulest who can and
Will best guide us. We are capable of
much-capable of political achievements
hitherto unattained in any nation; but
we are capable of nothing but disaster
except we be wisely led. In a holy and
wise Uidance in any nation did that ma
tons prosperity ever lie; and the lights
and shades Of history among the nations
are those places III it where and when
their people were well or i'll guided. 1t
was not more so with the nations of the
Old world than it is with those of the
new; although this difference holds be-
tween them and US, namely: They have
been ruled and we have been led; and il
is a distinction that is becoming more
and more apparent TO the American mind,
and needs to be yet more and more ap-
preciated and realized by the people of
this nation; for marke me, it is fine
distinction. fruitful of many things Of
the helpfulest or direst importance to
us as a people, that the president of this
happy nat tiOn is an officer and not Il ruler
turn INJURY upon the possible dangers
as well as defenses, disasters as well as
Improvements, that attend our political
progress. 4 guide and not a ruler is
an essential factor in the political in
situations of free people. To execute
our VIII and not his own; to forward
our interests and not his; to promote the
common good and not his individual
ambitions, is the distinctive prerogative
Of the president of this nation. How
almost intuitiVely, leastwise how easily,
90 we reach a rational perception and
conclusion that. as between the guide and
the ruler the former is uniformly greater
than the latter. Among the old world
nations there have been rulers galore;
but the guide. the leader, rising only here
and there i'm the centuries, and along
the highways of the nations. to the gran
oeur of commanding greatness, as of one
WHO. once more, and in the nations eX-
tremity. had gathered into his own soul
the light of political truth. and with sure
index pointed out the remedy for wrongs
committed and the certain pathway of
the nations progress is not with such
machine-like regularity at the head of
affairs. Indeed, the misfOrtunes that be-
fall the nation, including our own, are
due to the lack of wise leaders or. rather
TO the ascendency of unwise no-leadt,s;
and to hedge against Mistakes. mis-stfpS.
O
have the more urgent need to set inquiry
toward the great leader, and to vest him
with official opportunity and authority.
with bounding ambition and resistless
purpose. it goes to the task of erecting
states and homes. while the very task
it tugs at develops the sturdiest and love
lest individual manhood and womanhccd
and childhood. 1t is the land Of the
great worlds most modern empire, and
the glory of il is as the brightness Of
the sun.
In its swift and unexampled zeal. it
will not ignore, or in any wise neglect
the Importance Of wise leadership, and
its administrative officers Will need TO be
as quick 10 guide and foster the state
as its people arc TO build il. The west
and Roosevelt are exactly alike; both
great: both vigorous and purpOseful; both
imbued with the spirit of modern thought
and enterprise: both in sympathetic touch
with the general life and interest Of the
nation. and both the very embodiment
of push and patriotism Roosevelt is
a leader by both nature and cultivation.
erabounding with intelligent zeal for
his country. he is also. in an eminent
degree. wisely careful and conservative.
Neither does he hesitate 20 act q lead
er's part With fearless prOnptness he
makes known to the people. through
their representatives IN congress. the
right course of legislation. as il appears
to him. He Is in no sense a dignified
figure-head. but an active and command
ing force. a living factor in the thing TO
be done
Guidance asserts itself through civil
and economic policies which. II they be
true. viii ever be sufficiently elastic 10
e adapta bile 20 ever-changing condi-
tons The policies by which this nation
has as++ved al this great day and sacred
hour Of its life here. were such policies.
Through them the Republican party has
unSolded its wisdom. displayed its power
and wrought ont lis uueXampled achieve
mentS in these Roosevelt discernS still
greater poSS. Utilities. and in his guidance
we shall see the way stin widening. and
tho prospect reaching farther 10 the fut-
ure. But whether We shall choose RooSe- I
velt or some other. one thing is certain.
the Republican partv has been in the
past. Is now. ana viii ever be the peo-
plc's hope Whatever. as Republicans.
We have 70 do today. and may have 70
co to-norraw. let rs do il II The confident /
faith that We ar tiistincttvely the makers
OF history for this nation
AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP
Judge Irwin. 70 whom was assigned this !
toast. spoke as follows;