The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-29

/ Govern menLs no kONGTuuhGuNt NlAyt ENell0
| or national was ever better than the
people made Il or worse than they suffered
4 u 20 become. The people are the ultimate
| source Of governmental power; they are
/ the State and the public life OF a nation u
| but a reflection Of its private life. Good
( citizens may make good laws, but no law
| can make good citizens When the people
/ grow lax In the discharge OF their CIVIC
| Obligations the government grows ooHupt
and the very fountains Of national life are
poisoned: Justice Is thwarted and iniquity
| Is enthroned. The greatest and gravest
dangers which beset free nation proceed
not from without hut from within Where
wars and all other calamities combined
! have destroyed one government corruption
| has undermined a score. Republics with
as mighty possibilities as ours have xisted
and gone down through the spirit OF cor
ruPtion.
many another republic that has lived and
died during the flight Of time through the
a Rea. Brushing the dust Of centuries from
the monuments Of antiquity and reading
again the story Of these mighty empires,
breeze away. we may see the lesson written
there
There is the moral Of all human tales
Tis but the same rehearsal OF the past
Wealth. Vice. ooTruptlon-barbarsm At last.
states and cities do not consist Of mortar
and brick and stone, but OF the character
that civic character our forefathers left
10 is else our nation will 90 as Others have
gone before Missouri, the fifth state In
population. has become the first in civic
honor. and il promulgating this idea 70 all
mankind Missouri has wrought well by
deserving much and has achieved better
things by meriting them. And now the
imperial State has unfurled the standard
Of civic int gritty as the glorious orihamne
Of her citizenship; midway between the
oceans she flashes forth the beacon that
illumes a continent, and casts its rays Tar
beyond the seas.
Melville Stone Talks Of success
As Gov. Folk sat down the audience
jumped to its feet again and cheered so
long and loud that the orchestra had 70
play over Dixie three times heiore II
could make itself heard. Melville +. stone,
representing the Illinois Society, was the
reXt speaker His subject was Govern
mental Integrity Mr.. Stone said:
A month ago in Nice ! met man who
challenged the Governors title Of having |
done most for the welfare Of Missouri. |
He is a wealthy brewer. ] heard him say |
with pathos that he wouldn't ego back. |
That man without country Il an object |
lesson Of the good citizenship Of Missouri.
The road to success In politics IL so sim ]
pie that it is a marvel how few follow. II. /
What men hold the confidence OF the
country? Who cares If Theodore hoose-
welt Is a Republican or Democracy Who ]
Cares NUtlUtl Iblh u vNIOlhN n a PUN
can or a Democrat so long as they are
honest men who hold the treason Of war
no less hateful than the treason Of peace?'
Tribute to COckernl.
Dr. Henry VI. Pritchett, president Of
the Massachusetts, Institute Of Technology,
reviewed the history Of Misso nj In Con-
gress, ard went on:
L had an idea-and speak both as a
Republican ard a Missourian-that II a +
popular election could have teen held IN
Missouri for Senator this year, old Frank
Cockerill would have teen elected. The !
feeling among right thinking men Ia that |
all Senators should be elected by popular
vote. II Is high tribute 10 my State that /
It's people could elect Theodore Roosevelt /
President and Joseph Folk Governor at
the same election
jerome Praises Folk.
When District Attorney jerome got up I
TO speak the band started A Hot Time in /
the Old Town Tonight.
Seems 10 me it's Gro wding it on a bit |
that song said Mr.. jerome. Then he |
continued:
Il have heard more about Missouri to-
night than ] ever heard before. ] have
heard 80 much about it that wonder you
ever left Il,
ai've ducked a good many dinners this
winter but I wanted 70 be here and help |
70 do honor 20 Gov. Folk. There is one
side 20 this Folk proposition, II l may call
-
and show you the concrete wall he has
built. the practical work he has left; but
the work that this man has done can never
be measured.
spheres this will be his mon ment Where
men have reached heights like Roosevelt,
La Toilette Deneer and Folk they have
reached them through trusting the plain
the maturity Of their careers although
they are not yet ready for 0slerism. They
have reached point VIII m they no longer
nerd q do 81 Int I } make headlines To- ths
newspapers
Now. Governor don't mean 10 intimate
that you will come out other than right.
What little dealing l have had with you
has shown me that you can and will. Let
Gov. Folk hitch his wagon TO star, and the
plain pebble will do the rest.
No man can gain power by doing a
thing because he fears political peril or a
political machine. No matter how strong
a man may be he las got TO put his trust
in the people and he has got to deal with l
them. But he must keep them up TO him.
After the Governor has gone the fight |
which he started will still continue Maybe
he will not end the fight, but think he will |
come out triumphant. and certainly the
fight will, whether he dies OF not. This
reminds me Of a story Of a man who pulled /
ANAL out OF door but did not see how he
was TO hide the hole. The Governor has
put a hole in Missouri graft, and no man
will live long enough TO see that hole filed.
The Other Speakers.
Samuel NJ. Gardenhre was introduced
as the literary member from MISSOURI
he said that Folks ultimate end IL WASH
inRton, Missouri viii help him get there
The last speakers we're Thomas Ewing |
Of Ohio and William Hepburn Russell THE 4
Failures Of Reform was Mr.. Russell's sub
Ject. He said that the Rlories Of Low and |
Jerome had not yet departed and remarked !
that the great failure Of reformers was that
they took themselves altogether too seri-
ously.