The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-05-28

brute, while at the same time if guide
in the right makes him most valuable
citizen, so mere intellectual ability,
power that makes man able to rise in
The world, his smartness his business
capacity, his shrewdness, if there is not
II backing of moral sense behind it,
makes him more dangerous.
MUST HAVE STRONG VIRILE VIRTUES.
"ln this country we urgently need to
have it established that weight of pub
lie opinion shall be felt just as heavily
against the scoundrel who succeeds as
against the scoundrel who fails. ZAP
plause.) But that is not enough. En-
actly as in the civil war, you need pat
rlotism first, but patriotism did not
count if men ran away. SO it is in
civil life. In addition to the spirit of
decency, of fair dealing, of honesty,
you must have strong virile virtues:
virtues that make man able to hold
his own in the world: to make his
weight felt as of moment in the larger
life Of the nation. 1t is not enough to
mean well when you sit at home. You
have got to be able to do well when you
get out into the actual field. You have
got to be able to do well in your trade,
in business, to keep your family, to
make yourself felt: to bring up your
children so that they shall go upward
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your part.
"Virtue that sits at home in its par
or and bemoans how bad the world is
never yet benefited anyone. What we
need is type of decent man who can
90 out, hold his own against all Corners:
who, without losing his sense of de-
cency, can make himself felt as man
of weight wherever he is put. That
applies in the education of children.
ADVICE TO PARENTS.
LET HE come back to that for just
one moment. One thing that always
makes me feel little melancholy, is
20 see fathers and mothers who them
selves have worked hard, led useful
lives, but who, in a queer mis- Guide
spirit OF foolish alft ction, try to save
their children from trouble by also saw
ing them from being of any earthly use
in the world. That is not affection:
that is folly.
"You all know, among your own
neighbors the man, am sorry to say
who will say, We'll | have worked
hard: my boys shall enjoy themselves;
or if woman, she will say, 4 have
had to work hard: my girls shall be
ladies': under the foolish belief that to
be lady means that you are not to
work. not to do not to be of any use in
the world. Those parents are prepar-
ing for their children life of misery,
lfe of uselessness: because of all form
of life. that which on the whole is least
attractive, which has least real Joy in
it, is the life consciously devoted to
nothing but the pursuit of pleasure.
1t is the meanest type of life that there
is to lead.
''In 81 there were lots of people
in the country who were too fond of
ease to 90 into the war: the easy thing
to do was to stay at home and say the
country could not be saved: the hard
thing to do was to get out and save it.
Those men stayed at home: they walked
delicately: they lived on the earth's
soft places while you had what you
could carry on your back and lay where
night overlook you, marched until you
were so footsorc and weary that you
thought you could not keep up any
longer. You found the blanket SO heavy
that if YOU were a recruit YOU threw
i: away, and at mildight wished you ad
two You did that for four years while
others lived at ease. Which lad the
real life had the life that was worth
living: which is proud now to stand on
the heritage of what was done: The
man that risked, fought, lal ored, shed
his blood he is the man who counts:
he is the man who had a good time in
life.
PITY NO MAN BECAUSE Ill NothS.
II do not pity any man because he
has had to work at something worth
doing and did it well. | admire him.
so it is in civil life. Train your child
rem. not how to avoid difficulties, but
how to overcome them:train your child
rem not to sbirk what is hard, disagree
able. but to do it well. believe in this
country: believe in you and those like
YOU. because know that in this country
the average citizen ha, in him or her
the power to lead just that kind of life:
has worth in his soul, the spirit that
drives him on to work for worthy ends
aud to win triumph as result.
"Mv fellow citizens, have enjoyed
to the full coming here to greet you
this morning the men, the women
the children. 1t has done me good to
see you Cheers and applause
The train stopped exactly thirty MIN
utes, when it steamed on to North Yak
ina, with the president standing on the
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