Arizona republican., 1903-09-08

load is bad: to be crushed by it is la mentable but even in that there are possibilities that are glorious. But to carry no load at all-there is nothing in | that. No one seems to arrive at any goal really worth reaching in this world who does not come to it heavy laden
 Surely from our own experience each one of us knows that this is true. From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in it's deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life'S bur dens. The men whom most delight to honor in all this land are those who, in the iron years from 6l to '65. bore on their shoulders the burden of saving the union. They did not choose the easy task. They did not shirk the diff cult duty. Deliberately and of their own free will they stroVe for an ideal and onward across the stony slopes of greatness. They did the hardest work that was then to be done; they bore the heaviest burden that any genera ton of Americans ever had to bear: and because they did this they have won such proud joy as it has fallen to the lot of no other men to win, and have written their names forevermore on the golden honor roll of the nation. As it is with the soldier, so it is with the civilian. To win success in the busi- ness world, to become a first class mechanical a successful farmer, an able lawyer or doctor, means that the man has devoted his best energy and power through long years to the achievement of his ends. So it is in the life of the
 1-e-+ l1-c.ic the whole welfare of the nation rests. The man or woman who as bread win ner and home maker, or as wife and mother, has done all that he or she can do. patiently and uncomplainingly. is to be honored: and is to be envied by all those who have never had the good fortune to feel the need and duty of do- ing such work. The woman who has borne, and who has reared as they should be reared, a family of children, has in the most emphatic manner de- served well of the republic. Her bur den has been heavy, and she has been able to bear it Worthily only by the possession of resolution. of good sense, of conscience, and of unselhshness. But if she has borne it we'll then to her shall come the supreme blessing, for in the words of the oldest and greatest of books. Her children shall rise up and call her blessed:" and among the bene- factors of the land her place must be with those who have done the best and
 the hardest work, whether law giv- CTS or as soldiers, whether in public in private life.
 This is not q soft and easy creed to
 preach. 1 is a creed willingly learned only by men and women who, together with the softer virtues, possess also the stronger: who can do, and dare, and die at need, but who while life lasts will never finch from their allotted task. You farmers, and wage workers, and
 business men of this great state, of
 this mighty and wonderful nation, are gathered together today, proud of your
 state and still prouder of your nation, because your forefathers and predeceS-
 sors have lived up to just this creed. You Nave received from their hands a
 great inheritance, and you will leave
 an even greater inheritance to your children and your childrens children,
 provided only that you practice alike in your private and your public lives the
 strong virtues that have given us as q
 people greatness in the past. It is not
 enough to be well-meaning and kindly,
 but weak; neither is it enough to be strong. unless morality and decency go
 hand in hand with strength. We must possess the qualities which make us do
 our duty in our homes and among our neighbors. and in addition we must
 possess the qualities which are indis-
 pensa bic to the makeup of every great and masterful nation-the qualities of courage and hardihood, of individual initiative and yet of power to combine for a common end, and above all, the resolute determination to permit no man and no set of men to. sunder us one from the other by lines of caste or creed or section. We must act upon
 the motto of all for each and each for 2ll. There must be ever present in cur minds the fundamental truth that in republic such as ours the only safety is to stand neither for nor against any poor, because he is engaged in one oc cupation or another, because he works with his brains or because he works with his hands. We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less. Finally we must keep ever in mind that q republic such as ours can exist only in virtue of the orderly liberty which comes through the equal domi l nation of the law over all men alike, and through it's administration in such resolute and fearless fashion as shall teach all that no man is above it and ,1D hl1