The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-19
PRESIDENT WARMLY
 WELCOMED IN SOUTH
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 oh, my countrymen, think of the good fortune that is ours! Tha; whereas every other war of modern times has left feelings of rancor and bitterness to keep asunder the combatants, our great war has left to the sons and daughters of the men who fought, on whichever side they fought the same right to feel the keenest pride in the great deeds alike of the men who fought on one side and of the men who fought on the other. The proud self 1 sacrifice, the resolute and daring cour- l age, the high and steadfast devotion to the right as each man saw 1t, whether northerner or southerner, these quail ties render all Americans forever the debtors of those who in the dark days from '61 to '65 proved their truth by | their endeavOr. Here around Rich mond, here in your own state, lies bat tlefield after battlefield, rendered for ever memorable by the men who counted death as but little thing when weighed in the balance against doing their duty as it was given them to see it. These, men have left us of the younger generation not merely the memory of what they did in war, but of what they did in peace. Foreign observers predicted that when such a great war closed it would be impOssi- ble for the hundreds of thousands of combatants to return to the paths of peace. They predicted ceaseless disor- der, wild turbulence, the alienation of anarchy and despotism But the good sense and self-restraint of the average American citizen falsified these prophecies. The great armies disbanded and the private in the ranks, like the officer who had com manded him, went back to take up the threads of his life where he had dropped them when the call to arms came. It was wonderful, a marvel ous thing, in 8 country consecrated to peace with but an infinitesimal regu- lar army, to develop So quickly the huge hosts which fronted one another between the James and the Potomac and along the Mississippi and it's trib- utaries. But it was an even more wonderful, an even more marvellous thing, how these great hosts, once their work done, resolved themselves into the general fabric of the nation.
 Great though the need of praise is which is due the south for the soldierly valor her sons displayed during the four years of war, think that ever greater praise is due to her for what her people have accomplished in the forty years of peace which followed. 5o not merely a courageous, but at times a desperate struggle, as she has striv- en for moral and material well-being. Her success has been extraordinary, and all citizens of our common couln- try should feel joy and pride in it; for any great deed done, or any fine qual- fties shown, by one group of Ameri- cans, of necessity reflects credit upon all Americans, Only a heroic people could have battled successfully against the conditions with which the people of the south found themselves face to face at the end of the civil war. There had been utter destruction and disas- ter, and wholly new business and so-
 cial problems had to be faced with the scantiest means. The economic and political fabric had to be readjusted in
 the midst of dire want, of grinding poverty. The future of the broken, War-swept south seemed beyond hope, and if her sons and daughters had been
 of weaker fiber there would in very truth have been no hope. But the men and the sons of the men who had faced with unfaltering front every al- formation of good and evil fortune from Manassas to Appomattox, and the women, their wives and mothers,
 whose courage and endurance had reached an even higher heroic level- these men and these women set them-
 selves undauntedly to the great task before them. For twenty years the struggle was hard and at times doubt ful. Then the splendid qualities of your manhood and womanhood told, as they were bound to tell, and the
 wealth of your extraordinary natural resources began to be shown. Now the teeming riches of mine and field !, and factory attest the prosperity of those who are all the stronger because of the trials and struggles through which this prosperity has come. You stand loyalty to your traditions and memories; you also stand loyalty for our great common country of to-day and for our common flag, which sym bolizes all that is brightest and most hopeful for the future of mankind; , you face the new age in the spirit of the age. Alike in your material and in
 your spiritual and intellectual devel- opment you stand abreast of the fore-
 most in the worlds progress.
 - And now, my fellow-citizens, my fel-
 low-Americans, exactly as all of us,
 whether we live in the east or the vast, in the north or the south have
 the right merely as Americans to feel pride in every great deed done by an
 American in the past, and exactly as we are knit together by this common heritage of memories, so we are knit together by the bond of our common
 duties in the present, our common in- terests in the future. Many and great problems lie before us If we treat the mighty memories of the past merely as excuses for sitting lazily down in the
 present, or for standing aside from the
 rough work of the world, then these
 memories will prove a curse instead of a blessing But if we treat them as | 1 kali -LoT