The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-05-20

and the increase Of discover % ions
as it is true to fts~tdeols nre aure 70
come to pass, no nader what spoIiti
zeal theories or individual sentiments
stand in the way The common good
will ultimately prevail. though it
mock the counsess Of the wise and
the valor Of the brave / know what
~snares may lie in this idea-how it
may serve as the cry OF demagogues
and the pretext for despots. Woe be
unto the nation which misuses it, but
shame and disaster is also the portion
of those who fear to follow its lum-
nous beaconing.
From every part of the world you
have gathered to share in this secu-
lar festival of historic memories. You
represent not only the worldwide
community Of intelligence. but the
wonderful growth in these modern
days of universal sympathy and good
will-what our poet Bayard Taylor,
speaking on a similar occasion in vi
emma and adding, l believe a new
word to the German language, called
Weitgemuthlichkeit. OF all the phe-
nomena of the last hundred years
There is o more wonderful than
that increase of mutual knowledge
which has led inevitably to a cores
ponding increase in mutual liberation
and esteem. The credit of his great
advance in civilization belongs to the.
press of the world. 1t is true. that
it is the modest boast of modern di.
| plomacy that it's Office is the remov-
al of MISUNDERSTANDING, that so far
as intentions go it's ways are pleas
~antness and it's paths are peace; but
how slight are the results that the
best i~ntentioned diplomat can attain
in this direction, compared with the
Illuminating blaze of light which the
press each morning radiates on the
universe. We do not claim that the
light is all of one color, nor that there
are not many angles of refraction;
but, from this endless variety of opin-
ion and assertion, truth at last en-
to the worlds knowledge of itself
There is a wise French proverb, Ito
understand is to pardon" and every
step OF progress which the peoples
of the earth make in their compre-
hension of each others conditions
and motives is a step forward in the
and angels, of universal peace and
brotherhood.
upon none of the arts or profess
sions has the tremendous ac~celeration
of progress in recent years had
more effect than pon that of which
you are the representatives. We cas-
lily grow used to miracles; it will
seem a mere commonplace when l
say that all the wonders of the magi-
clans invented by those ingenious
oriental poets who wrote the Ara
bian Nights pale before the stipend
Gus facts which you handle in your
daily lives. The air has scarcely
ceased to vibrate with the utterances
of kings and rulers in the older
realms when their words are read
in the streets of ST. Louis and OF
the farms of Nebraska. The tele-
graph is too quick for the calendar;
you may read in your evening paper
a dispatch from the antipodes with
the date of the following day. The
details of a battle on the shores of
the Hermit Kingdom land which
a few years ago was hidden in the
mists of legend-are printed and
commented on before the blood of
the wounded has ceased to flow. AL
most before the smoke of battle has
lifted we read the obituaries of the
unsepultured dead. And not only do
you record with swiftness of thought
these incidents of war n violence
but the daily victories of truth over
error. of light owe darkness; the
spread of in distant seas.
the inventions of industry. the discOv-
cries of science, are all placed in
stantly within the knowledge of mill
ions. The seeds of thought, perfected
in one climate, blossom and. fructify
under every sky, in every n~ationali-
ty which the SUI visits.
with these miraculous facilities.
with this unlimited power, comes al
so an enormous responsibility in the
face of God and man. | am not here
to preach to you a gospel whose les
sons are known to o. TAI better than
to me I am not calling -siapers to
repentance, but l am following a
good tradition in stirring up the pure