Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-04-26


movements, the hero of the war, and
OF the peace that made good the re-
SUITS or the war-George Washington;
while the two great political tenden-
cles OF the time can be symbolized by
Ihe names of two other great Virgin |
'ahS-Jererson and Marshall-from |
one OF whom we inherit the abiding |
trust in the people which is the foun- |
dalton stone of democracy. and from
the other the power to develop on be-
half of the people a coherent and pow-
ertui government, a genuine and rep
resentative nationality
Second Great Crisis.
Two generations passed before the
second great crisis of our history had
to be faced. Then came the Civil War.
terrible and bitter in itself and in it's
aftermath, but a struggle from which
the National finally emerged united in
fact as we'll as in name, united for
ever. Oh my hearers. NV 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 a glass darkly' at the other
we can all feel the same pride in the
Valor, the devotion and the fealty to-
ward the right as 1t 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 AMI
prosperous though we are as a peopIe.
the proudest heritage that each of us
has, no matter where he NAV dwell
North or South, East or West is the
immaterial heritage of feeling. the
right to claim as his own all the valor
and all the steadfast devotion to duty
shown by the men of both the great
armies, of the soldiers whose leader
was Grant and the soldiers whose
leader was Lee. The men and the
bravelv and we'll in the days that were
/ dark and terrible and splendid. We.
| their descendants. who pay proud
| homage to their memories. and glory
/ in the feats of, might of one side no
/ less than of the other. need to 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 word,
only. We, too. in our turn, must prove
our truth by our endeavor. We must
show ourselves worthy sons of the men
of mighty days by the way in which
we meet the problems of our own
time. We carry our heads high be-
that tried mems souls; and we must
in our turn so bear ourselves that the
children who CONF after us may fee
that we too have done our duty.
Dangers Confronting Nation.
We can not afford to forget TIL
maxim upon which Washington insist
ed, that the surest way to avert wa
is to be prepared to meet it, Never
theless the duties that most concerI
! us of this generation are not military
but social and industrial. Each com
muntv must always dread the evil
which spring un as attendant upo
the very qualities which give 1t sue
8 cess. We of this mighty western re
I public have to grapple with the dan
gers that spring from popular self
government tried on a scale incor
parablv vaster than ever before in til
I history of mankind. and from a
q Astounding material prosperity create
B also from anything which the wor
4 has hitherto seen.
AS regards the first set of danger
it behooves US to remember that me
can never escape being governe
Either they must govern themselv
or they must submit to being governs
by others II from lawlessness
a fickleness, from folly or self-indu
gence, they refuse to govern then
selves, then most assuredly in the Ell
resu sql lusAsId ueo GspL spIsl
of government from without only
showing that they possess the power
government from within. A soverei
can not make excuses for his failure
sovereign must accept the respon'
bility for the exercise Of the pow
that inheres in him; and where, as
true in our republic, the people G
sovereign, then the people must sh
a sober understanding and sane a
steadfast purpose If they are to pl
serve that orderly liberty upon VIII
as a foundation every republic mi
rest.
Nations Industrial Phase.
In Industrial matters our enormt
prosperity has brought with It cert
grave evils. It is our duty to try
cut out these evils without at the sa
time destroying our well-being its
This is an era of combination alike
the world of capital and in the VIC
of labor. Each kind of combinat
can do good. and yet each, howe
powerful, must be opposed when