The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-26
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state. But there are certain great prii1-
ciples, such as those which Cromwell
would have called fundamentals, con-
corning which no man has a right TO
have but one opinion.
Such a question is honesty. II you
have not honesty in the average private
citizen, or public servant, all else goes
for nothing The ADLER a man is, the
more dexterious. the shrewder, the bold
er, why, the more dangerous ne IS, IL
he has not the root of right living and
right thinking in him-and. that Is prl-
vate life, and even more in public lire
Exactly as in time of war, although
you needed in each fighting man far
more than courage, yet all else counts
for nothing if there is not that courage
upon which to base it. so in our civil
life, although we need that the average
man, in private life. that the average
public servant shall have far more than
honesty, yet all other qualities go for
nothing or for worse than nothing I'M
less honesty underlies them-noL only
the honesty that keeps its skirts tech
nically clear, but the honesty that is
such according to the spirit as well as
the letter of the law. the honesty that
not merely deplores corruption-it is
easy enough to deplore corrupt1on-bur
that wars against and tramples it under
foot.
4 ask for that type of honesty. I ask
the kind that makes those who have it
discontinued with themselves as long as
they have failed to do everything that N
them lies to stamp out dishonesty wher-
ever it can be found, in high and low. And
let US not fiatter ourselves, We who live
in countries where the people rule that it
cast upon any but themselves the respon-
sibilities for the shape the government and
assumes. I ask them that our people feel
quickened within them the burning indig-
nation against wrong in every shape
which shall take effect in condemnation,
especially. condemnation of that wrong,
whether found in private or public life.
lat the moment l am asking only for
eondemnation OF wrong IN its ruaest form
when I ask that a soldier shall have cour-
age. 1 ask that we have a right to de-
mand of every man who wears the uni
form It is not SO much a credit to him to
have it as it is a shame unalterable to him
if he lacks it; so, when 1 ask for honesty,
right to demand, not as emitting the pos
SCISSOR to praise, but as warranting the
easiest condemnation If he lacks it.
Surely in every movement for the bet
terment of our life our life socially in
the truest and deepest sense our life polit-
ical. we have special right to ask not
of the church. We ask that you here to
whom much has been given will remember
that from YOU rightly much will be ex-
pected in return. For all of US here the
| lines have been cast in pleasant places.
Each of US has been given one talent, five.
ten and each of US is in honor bound to
to show that at the end he is entitled to
the praise as having done we'll as a faith
full servant
''I greet you this afternoon and am glad
to see you here. and I trust and believe
| that after this service each and every
one of you will go home feeling that he CT
she has been warranted in coming here by
the way in which he or she after going
home takes up with fresh heart, with fresh
courage and with. fresh and higher pur-
pose the burden of life as that burden has
| been given to him to her to carry