The Washington herald., 1907-04-13

humdTum daily duties well The first step
toward good citizenship by any man is 10
be good man in bis own home II he is
| "a good husband, a good father. a good
| son. If he works hard for those VINO are
dependent upon him, and If he IS tender
| and Considerate of them, then he has
taken the first step toward good citizen
ship: and If he hadn't taken thiq step
don't care how lofty his professions are
outside, he is a poor citizen. The man
who does not take care of his family,
who is shiftless. who does not work. vino
Is unkind. cruel thoughtless toward his
wife or his children. who is bad son,
| bad husband, a bad father, is not and
cannot possibly be a good citizen. But he
is just the type Of man who is apt 20
gather with a number Of others Of the
same kind and demand thar the whole
social and economic constitution OF the
country ought TO be changed. lie is very
strong on that point, but he does not be-
gin where he ought to and change what
is most imp0rtant-that Is, himself Wage
stern war on all public abuses Of eoun-
try: strive nightly for reforms. but be-
gin by being a good man in your own
home
But Of course that Is not enough. CO
on. and be a good man in year relations
with your neighbors
You cannot be of real use TO the state
II sou are the type of man whom nobody
wants to have live next door To him. or
do business with. II you are the kind of
man that the neighbor is glad to have
move into the house next 90 him, and glad
10 do business with down at the corner
store. you are a pretty good citizen; and
even this is not enough.
Right Kind of Citizen.
You have got to be a good American. q
good citizen OF our common country. DO
the humdrum duties. Remember that you
can never amount to anything II the he
roic days should arise unless you have
done your ordinary workaday duties FIRST
Yet remember. also, that if the need arises
you must also have in you the divine
spark. the life OF soul which viii make
you spring eagerly forward 10 do the deeds
OF a hero when the times cali Tor the deeds
of a hero. In the times that tried men
souls from 1861 20 1860. it was necessary
not merely that the man should have good
aspirations. that he should be a kindly
decent man. but that he should have iron
in his blood. that he should have in him
the quality that enabled him TO meet the
great and terrible crisis that had arisen.
So il is in our whole civil life
1t is not enough that we should possess
those kindly and generous and thoughtful
qualities, the guselfsh qualities which are
Indispensable We must have them as the
foundation, and. in addition we must have
the qualities which in their sum we
designate as manliness, else We cannot do
our duties Of citizenship Alright The man
vino is simply kind and well meaning, bat
who has not the fiber in him which makes
against wrong. which makes him feel
healthy desire 70 put down wrongdoing
and punish the wrongdoers, is not going
to make much Of a citizen. In war. ia
addition 20 devotion to the Tag. In addi-
tion 10 love of country. each man who is
worth his salt must have the lighting edge
Unless he has il he isn't Of use in an
army. 50 it IS la civil life We must have
honesty first but honesty IS not enough.
In addition to honesty and ranging equal
with it, We must have courage. efficiency.
the power that makes decency and
honesty and right living an effective force
in the world. and after you have both
honesty ard courage they are net enough.
We need honesty and courage. and joined
with them we need the saving grace Of
common sense. When We have the three
qualities combined. we have got q man
" 4lR VIII tlioAt a HNNtt r.I-titNA IT ttAt-
sion arises, and who viii make a good
citizen in the ordinary affairs Of life.
Best Way 10 Honor Them.
"On an occasion like this it seems To me
that when we gather TO honor the mem-
oTy of the valiant dead. Jet us remember
that we can best honor their memory by
trying TO learn from their death something
that will make our lives more useful to
our country. Naturally you here who
are not Of cur regiment cannot feel as
we feel toward those dead mon whom
this monument commentaries.
by q strange fatality among the
earliest killed We're some of the very best
II am inclined to say the very best-of
our number, I think the two most valua-
BILE officers We had We're Capts. CaprOu
and O'Neill. who were killed, one at Las
GUasimas and enc at San Juan. 1t
seemed 10 me as if every man who was
slain possessed some qualities which had
made him of especial worth 90 the regi-
ment 1t was hard 10 see them lying dead
in the bright Cuban sunlight. and 70
feel that their young lives were cut
short in the full bloom of their promise.
Yet as ] said before. all those who
We're willing to think could not but re
allLt tilaL ALtG men AtlD lldQ mus met NitiI
fate had merely anticipated by a few
years the fate that is coming to all of US
and that TO them had been given the su-
preme good fortune of dying honorably
on a well-fought field for their country's
flag
1T win be poor thing for this or any
other nation when it loses the sense OF
sterniy. joyous exaltati0n at the Thought
Of such a fate when it ceases TO feel
respect and reverence and an admiration
which, were it less worthy I should be
tempted to call well-nigh eavi0us OF those
to whom much good fortune has come.
'Sach is the personal feeling that We
who were connected with the regiment
necessarily have in coming here But the
supreme lesson for all of us is the lesson
/ have tried 70 draw, that the homage
that counts is the homage not Of the lips
but of the heart; the homage we pay 10
the memory of the valiant dead when we
firmly resolve so TO lead our lives that
when we die we may feel not wholly un-
worthy TO have been their comrades"
Father stafford Speaks.
After the Presidents speech there was
only one other speaker. the Rev. Father
D. J. Stafford Father STAFFORD made a
speech which enhanced his reputation as
the most eloquent divine in the city of
Washington. In thought he followed
closely the lines of the Presidents speech.
again asserting with President Roosevelt
that the same qualities Of self-sacFidce
that 50 10 make distinguished soldier are
necessary If one would be a good citizen
He dwelt on this theme with fervor,
showing that the conqueTing nations Of
the earth were those whose citizens had
lived uDrightly, justly. morally. and re-
ligiously, and that the moment they had