The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-06-03
CHANUTE. NEOHO COUNTY. KANSAS FRIDAY. NE3 1904


his recent admirable little volume
on freedom and responsibilityin in dem
ocratic government. Pres. Hadley
of Yale says that which is worth any
thing is the freedom which mean
selfgovernment and not anarchy.
Freedom thus conceived is a con-
structive force, which enables an
intelligent and good man to do bet
ter than he could do without
it; which in its essence the substitu-
ton or self-restraint for external
restraint-the substitution of form
of restraint which promotes progress
for the form which retards it. This
is the right view of freedom; but 1t
can only be taken if there is full
recognition of the close connection
between liberty and responsibility
in every domain of human thought
1t was essentially the view taken by
Abraham Lincoln, and by all those
who, when the civil war broke out,
realized that in self-governing
democracy those who desire to be
considered fit to enjoy liberty must
show that they know how to use II
with moderation and justice in peace
and how to fight for 1t when it is
jeoparded by malice domestic or
foreign levy.
The lessons they taught us are
lessons as applicable in our every
day lives now as in the rare times of
great stress. The men who made
this field forever memorable did Sc
because they combined the power
of fealty to lofty ideal with the
power of showing that fealty in hard
practical, common-sen fashion.
They stood for the life of effort, not
the life of ease. They had that love
of country, that love of justice, that
love of their fellow men, without
which power and resourceful effici-
ency but make man a danger to
his fellows. Yet, in addition there
TO, they likewise possessed the pow
er and the efficiency; for otherwise
their high purpose would have been
barren of result. They knew each
how to act for himself, and yet
each knew how to act with his fell
lows. They learned, as all the gen
Grafton of the civil war learned, that
rare indeed is the chance to do any
thing worth doing by one sudden
and violent effort. The men who
believed that the civil war would be
ended in ninety days, the men who
cried loudest "On to Richmond" "
if they had the right stuff in them
speedily learned their error; and the
war was actually won by those who
settled themselves steadfastly down
to fight for three years, or for as
much longer as the war might last,
and who gradually grew to under
stand that the triumph would come,
not by a single brilliant victory, but
by hundred painful and tedious
campaigns. In the East and the
West the columns advanced and re-
coiled, swayed from side to side,
and again advanced; along the coast
the black ships stood endlessly off
and on before the hostile forts; gen
erals and admirals emerged into the
light, each to face his crowded hour
of success or failure; the men in
front fought; the men behind sup
piled and pushed forward those in
front; and the final victory was due
to the deeds of all who played their
parts well and manfully, in the
scores of battles, in the countless
skirmishes, in march, in camp, or in
reserve, as commissioned officers,
or in the ranks-wherever and when
ever duty called them. Just so it
must be for us in civil life. We can
make and keep this country worthy
of the men who gave their lives to
save it, only on condition that the
average man among US on the whole
does his duty bravely, loyaly, and
with common sense, in whatever po-
sition life allots to him. Ex-
actly as in the time of war courage
is the cardinal virtue of the
soldier so in time of peace honesty,
using the word in its deepest and
broadest significance is the essential
basis of virtue, without which all
else avails nothing. National
greatness is of slow growth. 1t can
not be forced and yet be stable and
enduring; for it is based fundament-
ally upon national character, and
national character is stamped deep
IN a people by the lives of many
generations. The men who went
into the Army had to submit to re-
straint through the government of
the leaders they had chosen, as the
price of winning. So we, the people
can preserve our liberty and our
greatness in time of peace only by
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