The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-24

be less trustworthy as critics and ad-
visors. The educated man who seeks to
console himself for his own lack Of the
robust qualities necessary to bring sue
cess In American politics by moaning
over the degeneracy of the times instead
of trying to better them. by railing at
the men who do the actual work Of po-
litical life instead of trying himself to
do the work. Is poor creature. and, so
far as his feeble powers avail, is a dam
age and not a help to the country. You
may come far short of this dlsa greeable \
standard and still be a rather useless
member of society. Your education, your
cultivation, Will not help you If you
make the mistake of thinking that 1t Is
a substitute for instead of an addition
to those qualities which In the struggle
OF life bring success to the ordinary
man without your advantages. Your col
lege training confers no privilege upon
you save as tested by the use you make
OF It. 1t puts upon you the obligation
to show yourself better able to do cer-
tain things than your fellows who have
not had your advantages. 1t 1t has
served merely to make you believe that
you are to be excused from effort in
after life, that you are to be excused
from contact with the actual world OF
men and events. then 1t will prove
curse and not blessing II. on the
other hand. you treat your educati as
a weapon the more in your hands, a
weapon to fit you to do better in the
hard struggle Of effort, and not as eX-5
cusing you in any way from taking
part IN practical fashion in that struggle
then It Will lie a,beneft to YOU.
Give and Take.
Let each OF you college men remember
II, after life that in the fundamentals
he is very much like his fellows who have
not been to college, and that If he is
to achieve results. instead Of confining
himself exclusively to dsparagen OF
other men who have achieved them. he
must manage to come to some kind OF
working agreement with these fellows Of
his. There are times, of course, when 1t
may be the highest duty OF a citizen to
stand alone or practically alone. But
II this Is a mans normal uttitude-if
normally he is unable to work in con1bi-
nation with a considerable body Of his
fellows-it Is safe to set him down as
unfit for useful service In democracy
IN popular government results worth
| having can only be achieved by men who
combine worthy ideals with practical
good sense: who are resolute to accom-
plisl good purposes, but who can accom-
! modate themselves to the give and take
necessary where work has to be done
| as almost all important work must nee
| essarily be DONE, by combination. More
| DYER, remember that normally the prime
achieve results and not merely to issue
man!festoes-save, OF course where the
| issuance Of such manifestoes helps to
| achieve the results It is a very bad thing
| to be normally callous. for moral callous-
| ness is disease. But inflammation Of the
conscience may be just MS unhealthy so
| Ear as the public Is concerned: and II a
+, mans conscience is always telling him TO
| do something foolish he VII! do well to
mistrust Its workings. The religious man
| Hho Is most useful Is not he whose sole
| caro- is to save his own soul. but the
man whose religion bids him strive to
advance decency and clean living and to
make the world better place for his
| fellows to live In; and all this is Just HIS
true Of the ordinary citizen in the per-
| Torrance of the ordinary duties of po-
| lltcal life.
Work in the Philippines.
During the last few years much good
| has been done to the people OF the Phil
| ipplnes; but this has been done, not by
| those who merely INDUCED III the per-
sonal luxury of advocating for the Islands
| a doctrnalrc liberty which would have
meant their immediate and irretrieyable
ruin, but by those who have faced facts
| as they actually We're, remembering tho
/ proverb that teaches us that IN the long
run even the most uncomfortable truth
! Is Il safer companion than the pleasant
est fnlsehood. It Is these men, the men
who with shortcomings and stumh'!nss
yet did the duty of the moment, though
/ that duty was hard and often disagree
uble, and not the men who confined them
j kalyaa 70 Idle talk Of no matter now