Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-05-30
GETTYSBURG MEMORIAL
ROOSEVELT THE ORATOR
President Delivers a Notable Address on the
Spot HalIowed by Historic
Association


ing at this field does not feel within
himself deeper reverence for the ma
tion's past and higher purpose to
make the nations future rise level to
her past Here fought the chosen sons
Of the north and the south, the east and
the west. The armies which on this
field contended for the mastery were
veteran armies hardened by long cam
paigning and desperate fighting into
such instruments of war as no othe.
nation then possessed. The severity Of
the fighting is attested by the propor-
tionate loss--a loss unrivaled in any
battle of similar size since the close
of the Napoleonic struggles: a loss
which in certain regiments was, from
engaged. Every spot on this field has
it's own associations Of soldierly duty
nobly done. of supreme lf-sacrifice
freely rendered. The names Of the
chiefs who served in the two armies
form long honor roll; and the enlisted
men were worthy, and even more than
worthy, Of those who led them. Every
ations We see where the fight thun-
dered through and around the WALLACE
of Gettysburg: where the artillery
formed on the ridges; where the cav
airy fought: where the hills were at
tackled and defended; and where final
ly. the great charge surged up the slope
only to break on the summit in the
re 60
But the soldiers who won at Gettys-
burg the soldiers who fought to finish
the civil war and thereby made their
countrymen forever their debtors. have
left us far more even than the
memories OF the war itself. They
fought for four years in order
that on this continent those who
came after them their children and
their children's children. might enjoy
lasting peace. They arms not to de-
story, but to have liberty; not to over
throw. but to establish the suprem-
acy of the law. The crisis which they
faced was to determine whether or not
this people was fit for self-government
and therefore fit for liberty. Freedom
is not gift which can be enjoyed save
by those who show themselves worthy
of it. In this world no privilege can be
permanently appropriated by men who
not the power and the will sue
cessfully to assume the responsibility
of using it Alright. In his recent ad-
mirable little volume on freedom and
responsibility in democratic govern
ment. President Hadley of Yale has
pointed that freedom which is worth
is the freedom which means
self government and not anarchy
Freedom thus conceived is a construc-
tive force. which enable an intelligent
and good man to do better things than
he could do without it which is in its
essence the substitution of self-rest
raint for external restraint--the substi-
tuition of a form of restraint which pro-
notes progress for the form which re-
tards it. This is the right view of free
dom; but it can only be taken il there
is full recognition of the close con-
nection between liberty and respon-
sibility 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 a self governing
democracy those who desire to be con-
sidered fit to enjoy liberty must show
they know how to use ii with modera-
tion and justice in peace. how to fight
for it when it is jeoparded by malice
domestic or foreign levy.
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