Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-05-01

sequence observes whose insight was spoiled by lack of sympathy always found both the settlers and their lives unattractivc and repollent. In Martin Chuzzlewt the description of America eliminating in the description of the frontier town of Eden, was true and life-like from the standpoint of one content to look merely at the outer shell; and yet it was community like Eden that gave birth to Abraham Lin. coin; It was men such as were therein described from whose loins Andrew Jackson sprang
 Hitherto each generation among us has had it's allotted task, now heavier. 1ow lighter. In the Revolutionary War thc business was to achieve indcpend. ence. Immediately aftcrward there was m even more momentous task; that to achieve the national unity and the capacity for orderly development, with. out which our liberty, our independ. cncc, would have been curse and not a blessing. In each of these two con. tests. while there were many great leaders from many liT,r rent States, it is but fair to say that the foremost place was taken by the soldiers and the statesmen of Virginia; and to Virginia was reserved the honor of producing the hero of both movements, the hero of the war, and of the peace that made good the results of the war-George | Washington; while the two great polit. ! icaI tendencies of the time can be symbolizcd by the names of two other great Virginians Jefferson and Mar. shall-from one of whom we inherit the abiding trust in the people which is the foundation stone of democracy, and from the other the power to develop on behalf of the people coherent and powerful government, genuine and representative nationality.
 Two generations passed before the second great crisis of our history had Co hc faced. Then came the Civil War. terrible and bitter in itself and in its aftermath, but n struggle from which the Nation finally emerged united in fact as well as in name. united forever. Oh. my hearers. my fellow. countrymen, great indeed has been our good fortune; for as time clears away the mists that once shrouded brother from brother and made each look "as through glass darkly' at the other. we can all feel the same pride in the valor, the devotion and the fealty toward the right as |, was given to each to see the right, shown alike by the men who wore the blue and by the men who wore the gray. Rich and prosperous though we are as people, the proudcst heritage that each of us has, no matter where he may dwell, North or South, East or West, is the immatcrial heritage of feeling, the right to claim as his own all the valor and all the steadfast de- votion to duty shown by the men of , both the great armies. of the soldiers whose leader was Grant and the sold. icrs whose leader was Lee. The men and the women of the Civil War did their duty bravely and well in the days that were dark and terrible and splcn. did. We, their descendants, who pay proud homage to their memories and glory in the feats of might of one side no less than the other, need Co keep steadily in mind that the homage which counts is the homage of heart and of hand, and not of the lips. the homage of deeds, and not of words only. We, loo, m our turn, must prove our truth by our endeavor. We must show our selves worthy sons of the men of the mighty days by the way in which we meet the problems of our own time. We carry our heads high because our fathers did we'll in the years that tried mems souls; and we must in our turn so bear ourselves that the children who come after us may feel that we too have done our duty.
 We can not afford to forget the maxim upon which Washington insist. ed, that the surest way to avert war is to be prepared to meet 1t. Never. theless the duties that most concern us of this generation are not military, but social and industrial. Each community must always dread the evils which spring up as attendant upon the very qualities which give it success. We of this mighty western Republic have to grapple with the dangers that spring from popular self government tried on n scale incomparably vaster than ever before in the history of mankind, and from an abounding material prosperity greater also, than anything which the world has hitherto seen.
 As regards the first set of dangers, it behooves ms to remember that men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit Co being governed by others. If from lawlessness or 6ckle- ness from folly or self.indugcnce, they refuse to govern themselves, then most assurcdly in the end they will have to be governed from the outside. They can prevent the need of govern. mcnt without only by showing that they possess the power of government from within. A sovereign can not make excuses for his failures; n sovereign must accept the responsibility for the exercise of the power that inhcrcs in him; and where, as is true in our Re. public, the people are sovereign, then the people must show n sober under
 standing and n sane ana steadfast pur. pose if they are to preserve that order