The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-28
LUMINOUS ADDRESS ON
 VERY PRACTICAL LINES
Walter H. Pages Discussion of "The Profit of Right Training Con-
 sidered Especially Able.

The last address of the evening was that of Walter Fl. Page, editor of the Worlds Work of New York on "The Profit of Good Training The address of MT Page was regarded as one of the best that has been delivered during the conference. He held the close atten- ton of the audlenc and during his mas terly discourse was frequently interrupt ed by applause.
 Mr. Page said:
 MT. President-There is a class of men in the southern states who have a stronger love of their county-I mad al- most said-than any other men anywhere feel. They are bound closely together by an ardent patriotism which is the inheri- tance of every southerners, especially If his family run back to the large minded period when southern men built the spacious house of our liberties. And every such man should give his work if he knew hoW-he would give his life, if need be--to restore the thought, the char acter, and the influence of the south to the commanding position that they held d hundred years ago.
 Tt ls to the southern men of this metal that l wish to speak, and, if the other distinguished persons in this audience
 
 them and to them only.
 "I address these. then, who answer to this description of a southern getleman- man who is frank and fearless and generous to his fellows. The weaker the man is with whom he has to do, the more scrupulous is his justice; the weaker the woman Is with whom he has to do, the more scrupulous his honor.
 Unified Ambition.
 And l speak to you in the intimate intonations of our unfulhlled ambition. For We have an unfultiled ambition that has given deep seriousness to our lives Of course l do not speak of personal disappointments. Personal disappoint- ments, if We have suffered them, are of too little importance seriously to affect the lives of men of our traditions of our temper. He is a small man indeed whose mere personal fortunes or misfor- tunes change his relations to his fellow man or to his country. We were born far too large for that. And l think we were born too large, also. for mere per- sonal ambitions The desire to achieve something for ones own glory-that, too is the mark of small men who do not feel sure of their station or of their re- lations to their felowmen or to their country. We claim larger ambition and a higher patriotism than this. What 1 speak of is an unfulflled ambition for our country-an ambition for these states and trese people as a part of the union. The ambition that men felt in the time of Washington, of Jefferson. of Marshall this is what I mean. They are their fel- lows, who were our ancestors. wrought out their high wish. Our wish. equally high, we have not wrought out. and that Is our sorrow. In the life, in the though. in the conduct of the republic, we have not a share as large as they had In our own fathers house, If we are not disinherited.
 Leaders in Progress. "Why are we not, why may we not become leaders in our country's progress We do not believe that we are incapable. We come of good stock. Nor have we lost our ambition.
 Lost our ambition? Let me recite a memory. I had a friend, when we were just coming into active life. Georgian of gentle breeding and of high spirit, ardent and eloquent. There are other men here who knew him and loved him. for he has now long been dead, The last sad Christmas of his life I went a long tourney to see him. One evening at sun set he looked out of the window over the gullied fields Git was an endless waste of mistilled land). and he said sadly to
 
 hills and we must show that men live on them yet A hint of death was all ready in his eyes. but an unbounded patriotism, shone there, too He wrote me a little later: I do not mind dying, but I hoped to do something for the south be- fore I went And he never wrote again. Our ambition Is as great as his was and let us hope-as unselfish, too. But even vet 1t is an unfulfilled ambition. 
 Of Great Concern.
 Now shall try to go straight to the heart of this natter which concerns us more than anything else in the world, and shall talk, man to man, in mood that has no hesitation and no fear-the mood of close kinship in high hope. Let us see what ails us or what ails the time we live in. We are men, and We can face facts as bravely as we. have faced misfortunes. We are not afraid of any truth.
 Why are we disinherted, then? The republic of which we are part. has in our day swung into a wider orbit than any other country. It Is a larger time a wider horizon-than American citizens ever before saw. What has been the se- cret of that progress, and what the cause of our elimination from its leadership? ihe secret of the unrivalled progress