Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-17

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both Do not stop to explain how this 10
possible. It would take too much time. 1t
might besides that be embarrassing. II
anybody Is impudent enough to insist upon
tell him that you are not teaching kim
dergarten and tell him, moreover, that It Is
your duty to do things and not to be
bothered with any consideration OF whether
you are doing them right or wrong.
In conclusion. sir, pray for war-nobody
can tell what great things war win end IN
when once begun. 1t might result in max
ing of your chief the first emperor and lord
protector of the western hemisphere You
would. of course, in that event, as heir-ap-
parent. share his glory. Your legal title
might become Prince d'Outre Mere. 1
know you would run some little risk of hav-
ing him designate his secretary or war as
his successor, but believe 1 would chance
it. Besides. peace Is a tame and unstrenu-
finest instints of manhood Shakespeare
said: In thy right hand carry gentle peace
to silence envious tongues
''Our forefathers, even down through the
times of Lincoln and Grant, thought this
sentiment sound morality and sound policy,
for nations as well as for individuals we
know now that the right policy Is ito tread
softly and carry a big stick
"Who was the fool who said, War is hell
anyhow? My word for it, he never saw real
war.
Chief Duty as Citizens.
Remember above all things that our
chief duty as citizens, but especially as
rulers, is not to be weaklings' or towards
A weakling, sir. is a strangely domesti-
Gated animal, who listens before he acts,
and who weighs evidence before he decides,
who modestly venerates greatness-ln
others. who actually prefers piping times
and peace to the 'pomp and circumstance
of glorious war WeaklingS are men VINO
fear the strenuous life, the only national
life that is really worth the living'-the life
Of crown colony-conquest. the life militant
in a word. We are getting to be as peo-
ple-your committee Is glad to say, splen-
didly military A flag. brass band and
choice collection of epaulets, escorting
Secretary of War to and from the depot IN
Washington when he augustly leaves or ar
rives appeal to the higher flights of our pa
triotic imagination as nothing else does OF
can.
IF have to some degree, in these words.
speaking for the committee, been your
mentor, attribute in part to my shorter ex-
perience on the worlds stage and my con-
sequent superior wisdom, but still more to
the fact Of my close study and assimilation
of the wisdom of republican statesmen.
both in and out of the White House. l
hold, after mature elaboration, In common
with the greatest of these and one of the
youngest that youth necessarily insures
wisdom becauSe-because-the Older man
is the more he has forgotten
Already Notified by Root.
ut has been a pleasure to us to do our
duty, to notify you OF your HoHiiiiaeoii'
This has been pleasure notwithstanding
the fact that you had already been in
manner notified by Mr.. Elihu Root who,
while pretendedly notifying Senator Fair
banks, could not get his mind Off YOU as
the darkies say and whose speech consist
ed principally in saying: Go to- thou art an
old man. and in bemoaning the fact that
you might possibly die before you got TO De
President So might he for that matter
THAT would be bad enough, but not as
bad a case l know of-the case of man
who was once elected Vice President ana
who becoming President later 'tickled the
ears of the groundlings, but made the
1udcious to grieve.' Mr.. Root forgot that
democratic Presidents are never Killed ana
that they never die while holding office, al
though some of them do afterwards.
'In further comment upon MI fiihu
Roots notification of your nomination !
will hazard the remark. in reply to one OF
exceeding good taste on his part. that II Is
better to run the risk of mourning. as IN
due course of the flesh we all must, pnySical
Inability than to have been porn Win
that peculiar mental inability for any pos
sible task in life, which consists OF taxing
ourselves too seriously and nobody else Win
respect or reverence. =. .
I'm real conclusion, Mr.. DAVIS. IT Is
sincere pleasure indeed to know and TO De
able to help to place in high position man
of your character and sense and modesty'
a man who as the result Of a life or con-
tinance temperance, Self-containment anu
useful and honest industry, presents PIC
ture in virile though advanced. age, VI
mems sana In corpore sano, winch is. - so,,,
light to the eye. satisfaction 10 tne suul
a;5d u,as taught by wise ancients to be the
s,Immtim boflum OF individual earthly ex-
istence."