The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-03-10

must show not only in our words, but
in our deeds, that we are earnestly de-
sirous of securing their good will by
acting toward them in spirit of just
and generous recognition of all their
rights
There Are Problems to- Solve.
But justice and generosity liz Il ma
ton, as i'll an individual. count most
when shown not by the weak, but by
the strong. While ever careful to re-
frain from wronging others we must
be no less insistent that we are not
wronged ourselves. We wish peace.
but we wish the peace of justice. the
peace of Righteousness. We wish it
because we think it is right. and not
because we are afraid. No weak ma
ton that acts manfully and justly
should ever have cause to fear US: and
no strong power should ever be able
to single us out rs a subject for in
solent aggression.
Our relations with the other pow
ers Of the world are important, but
still more important are our relations
among ourselves Such growth in
wealth, in population, and in power, as
this nations has seen during the century
and a quarter of it's national life is
inevitably accompanied by a like
growth in the problems which are ever
before every nation that rises to great
ness. Power invariably means both
responsibility and danger. Our fore
have outgrown.
Face Other Perils.
I'VE now face other perils the very
existence of which it was impossible
that they should foresee. Modern life
is both complex and intense, and the
tremendous changes wrought by the
extra ordinary industrial development
of the last half centure are felt in
every fibre of our social and political
being, Never before have men tried
so vast and formidable an experiment
lis that of administering the affairs of
continent under the forms of a
democratic republic. The conditions
which have told for our marvellous ma
terial wellbeing, which have developed
to very high degree our energy, self
reliance and individual initiative, have
also brought the care and anxiety in
separable from the accumulation of
great wealth in industrial centers.
No Reason to Fear the Future.
Upon the success of our experiment
much depends, not only as regards our
own welfare, but as regards the well
fare of mankind. If we fail the cause
Of free selfgovernment throughout the
world will rock to it's foundations, and
therefore our responsibility is heavy
to ourselves. to the world as it is to-
day, and to the generations yet un-
born. There is mo good reason why
we should fear the future, but there is
every reason why we should face it
seriously, neither hiding from our
selves the gravity of the problems be-
fore US. nor fearing to approach these
problems with the unbending, unfiinch
ing purpose to solve them Alright.
yet. after ali, though the problems
are new, though the tasks set before
us differ from the tasks set before
our fathers who founded and pre-
served this republic. the spirit in which
these tasks must be undertaken and
these problems faced, if our duty is
to be we'll done, remains essentially
unchanged. We know that self-gov-
eminent is difficult
Left Splendid Heritage.
1--WE know that no people needs
such high traits of character as
that people which seeks to gov
ern it's affairs Alright through the
freely expressed will of the free
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