The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-01

ever. The peculiar frontier conditions have vanished; but the manliness and stalwart hardihood of the frontiersmen can be given even freer scope under the conditions surrounding the complex ipdustrialism of the1 present day. In this great region acquired for our peo- pie under the presidency of Jefferson, this region stretching from the gulf to the Canadian border, from the Missis- sippi to the Rockies, the material and social progress has been so vast that alike for veal and for woe it's people now share the opportunities and bear the burdens common to the entire civ- ilized world. The problems before us are fundamentally the same east and west of the Mississippi, in the new states anod in the old, and exactly the same qualities are required for their successful solution.
 We meet here to-day to commemorate | @ great event, an event which marks an era in statesmanship no less than in | pioneering. It is fitting that we should pay our homage in words; but we fust i in honor make our words good by deeds. We have every right to take a just pride in the great deeds of our 1 forefathers; but we show ourselves un- worthy to be their descendants if we make what they did an excuse for our lying supine instead of an incentive to 1 the effort to show ourselves by our acts worthy of them. In the administration i of city, state and nation, in the man. l agement of our home life and the con- i duct of our business and social rela- l tions, we are bound to show certain high and fine qualities of character un- : der penalty of seeing the whole heart of our civilization eaten out while the body still lives.
 i We psttly pride ourselves on our mar velous material prosperity, and such prosperity must exist in order to estab- fish a foundation upon which a higher life can be built: but unless we do in very fact build this higher life thereon, the material prosperity itself will go for but very little Now, in 1905, in the altered conditions, we must meet the changed and changing problems with the spirit shown by the men who in 1903 and in the subsequent years gained, explored, conquered and settled this vast territory, then a desert, now filled with thriving and populous states.
 The oldo days were great because the men who lived in them had mighty qualities; and we must make the new days great by showing these same qualities. We must insist upon cour- age and resolution, upon hardihood, te- nacity and fertility in resource; we must insist no less upon the virtues Of
 self-restraint, self-mastery, regard for
 the rights of others; we must show our
 abhorrence of cruelty brutality and
 corruption, in public and in private life
 alike. If we come short in any of these | qualities we shall measurably fa3l; and
 if, as I believe we surely eshall, we de-
 velop these qualities in the future to all
 even greater degree than in the past
 then in the century now beginning we
 shall make of this republic the freest
 and morst orderly, the most just and
 most mighty, nation which has ever come forth from the womb of time.
 Following the presidents address the
 chorus ''Unfodl eY Portals" was rem 1 dered.
 Senator Carter then introduced ex-