New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-20
THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS.
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the need should come in the future. will be able
10 show the herOiSm the supreme effort, that
was shown at Gettysburg, though It may we'll
be that it would need similar two years OF
effort checkered by disaster 10 lead up to IT,
But the vital thing for this nation TO do is
steadily to cultivate the quality which Wash
ington and those under him so pre-eminently
showed during the winter at Valley Forge-the
quality Of steady adherence to duty in the teeth
of difficulty in the teeth OF encouragement and
even disaster. the quality that makes man do
what is straight and decent. not one day when
a great crisis comes but every day day IN and
day out, until success comes at the end.
OF course ali OF us are agreed that prime
national need IS the need OF commemorative
the memories or men who did greatly, thought
highly, fought. suffered, endured. for the
ton. 1t IS II great thing to commemorate their
lives; but, after all. the worthy way to do is
to try show by lives that we have pro1lted
by them. If we show that the lives OF the great
men Of the past have been to us indictments to
do we'll in the present then have paid TO
them the only homage which Is really worthy
OF them. il we treat their great deedB mat
ters merely for idle boasting. not squirting
on TO effort, but as excuslng us from effort then
we show that we are not worthy OF the sires
who bore us. OF the people who went before us
In the history OF our land. What We a peO-
pie. need more than aught else is the steady per-
Torrance OF the everyday duties OF life not
with hope OF reward. but because they are du-
ties.
spoke of how we felt that We had in Wash
ington and Lincoln national ideals. / contras.ed
their names with the names of many others in
history. names which Will shine as brightly. but.
oh, with how much less power and Night! L
think you Will find that the fundamental diff
ference between our two great national heroes
and almost any other men OF equal note in the
worlds history is that when You think OF
two men you think inevitably not of glory. but
of duty; not of what the man did for himself in
achieving name or fame or position. but OF what
he did for his fellows.
They set the right ideal. and also they lived
up to II in practical fashion Had either of
them possessed that fantastic quality OF mind
which sets an impossible and perhaps an I'M
desirable ideal or which declines to do the actual
work OF the present because forsooth the impIe-
ments with which it is necessary to work are
not to that mans choice. his fame would have
been missed his achievement would have
crumbled into dust and he would not have left
one stroke on the book which tells of effort
compIished for good of mankind
A man. to amount TO anything. must be prac-
teal He must actually do things not talk
about doing them least of all cavil at how they
are accomplished by those who actually go down
into the arena and actually face the dust and
the blood and the sweat. who actually triumph
in the struggle The man must nave the force,
the power, the will to accomplish results but
he must have also the lift toward lofty things
which shall make him incapable OF striving