The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-10-18


the Mississippi and its Tributaries.
But it was an even more wonderful.
am 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 tie South for the
soldierly valor her sons DISPLAYED
during the four years of war, !
think that even greater praise is due
to her for what her people have ac-
complished in the forty years OF
peace which followed. For forty
years the South has made not mere
" courageous, bnt AZ times des-
perate struggle, as she has striven
for moral and material well-being
Her success has been extraordinary,
and all citizens ofour common corn-
try should feel JOY and pride in it;
for any great deed done. or any fine
qualities shown, by one group Of
Americans. of necessity reflects cred
it upon all Americans. Only a
heroic people could have haftlea sue
cessfully 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 disaster. and wholly
new business and social problems
had to be faced with the sc7ntiest
means. The economic and political
fabric had to be readiusted in the
midst of dire want, of grinding poy
erty. 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 alienation of good and
evil fortune from Manassas TO Ap.
pomatix, and the women, their
wives and mothers, whose courage
and endurance had reached an even
higher heroic level-these men and
these women set themselves undaunt-
ed1y to the great task before them
For twenty years the struggle was
hard and at times doubtful. Then
the splendid qualities of your man
hood and womanhood told, as they
were hound to tell, and the wealth
of YOUR extraordinary natural re-
sources began to be shown. Now
the teeming riches of mine and field
md factory attest the prosperity OF
those who are all the stronger be-
cause of the trials and struggles
through which this prosperity has
come. You stand Loyalty to YOU
traditions and memories; YOU alsc
stand Loyalty for orr great common
country of today and for our com
mon flag, which symbolizes all that
is brightest and most hopeful fo'
the future of mankind : You face the
new age in the spirit of the az
Alike in Your material and in yom
spiritual and intellectual develop
ment YOU stand abreast of the fore
most in the worlds progress.
'EAnd now, my fcllow-citizens. my
fellow-Americans, exactly as all OF
Is. whether we live in the East Of
The West. in the North or the South
have the ri@ht merely as Americans
TO feel pride in every great deco
done by any American in the past
md exactly as we are knit together
by this common hcritnge of memo
ries, so we are knit together by the
bond Of our common duties in the
present. our common interests in the
future. Many and great problems
lie before us. If we treat the
mighty memories Of tile past merely
Us excuses for sitting lazily down
in the present. or for standing aside
from the rough work of the world
then these memories viii prove q
curse instead of bIcs sing. But il
we treat them as ] believe W. shall
treat them.n as excuses for inaction
but as incentives to make MS show
that we are worthy of our fathers
md of our fathers fathers, then in
truth the deeds of the past will moi
have been wasted for they shall.
bring forth fruit hundred fold in
the present generation. We of this
nation, we the citizens of this
mighty and wonderful Republic
stretching across continent be
tween the two greatest oceans, enjoy
extraordinary privileges, and as our
opportunity is great, therefore our
responsibility is great. We have
duties to perform both abroad and
at home, and we can not shirE either
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