Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-20
EVENT OF MUCH IMPORTANCE
Discusses Puritan Fathers and
Mentions Nations Present
Urgent Needs.
Points Out That Men Must Be Strong
Enough TO Meet Changing Condi-
tluns I'm Order 20 be Happy,

Provincetown. Mass, Aug. 20.--The
celebration of the laying of the corner
stone of the Pilgrim Memorial monu-
ment Is now on in full swing and i'm
pressive services are being listened to
by thousands gathered here from all
over the state and outside states, The
chief item OF the program was the APP
pearance of President Roosevelt who
spoke at length. He eulogiZed the
Pilgrim fathers, and after going into
the qualities which made them triumph
over the trials Of pioneerism, he point
ed tout the great need of strong men
and women In the nation today. Incl
ientally he touched upon national is
sues in discussing present conditions
and this lent additional interest to his
every remark. He arrived here ON the
Mayflower this morning. The yacht
was due at ii o'clock, but arrived
ahead Of time.
President Roosevelt spoke as follows:
1T is not too much to say that the
event commemorated by the monument
which We have come here to dedicate
was one of those rare events which
can iii good faith be called of world inn
portance. The coming hither OF the
Puritan three centuries ago shaped the
destinies of this continent, and there
fore profoundly affected the destiny of
the whole world. Men of other races.
the Trenchman and the Spaniard the
Dutchman, the German, the Scotchman,
and the Swede. made settlements with
IN what is now the United States, dur
ing the colonial period of our history
and before the Declaration of lndepep-
dcnce; and since then there has been an
ever-swelfing immigration from ireland
and from the mainland OF Europe: but
1t was the Englishman who settled In
Virginia and the Englishman who set.
tied in Massachusetts who did most in
shaping the lines OF our national de-
velopment,
yrHE PURITAN PIONEER,
1--WE can not as a nation be too pro-
founGly grateful for the fact that the
Puritan has stamped his influence so
deeply on our national life. We need
have but scant patience with the men
who now rail at the Purltan's faults.
They were evident OF course. for 1t is
a quality of strong natures that their
failings. like their virtues. should stand
out in bold relief; but there is nothing
of the past by dwelling only on the
points where they come short of the
universally recognized standards of the
present. Men must be judged with ref
erence to the age in which they dwell.
and the work they have to do. The
Puritan's task was to conquer CONT
nent; not merely 10 oVcrrun 1t, but TO
settle It,, to till Il, to build upon 1t an
Industrial and social life. and, while
engaged in the rough work of tanning
the shaggy wilderness, at that very
time also to lay deep the immovable
foundations of our whole American sys-
tom of civil, political. and religious lib
erty achieved through the orderly pro-
cess of law. This was the work allotted
to him to do: this Is the work he did;
and only a master spiilt among men
could have dono It,
I'VE ARE ALL AMERICANS"
we have Travelled far since his day,
That liberty of conscience which he de-
manded himself. we now realize must
be as freel accorded to others as 1t
Is resolutely insisted upon for our
selves The splendid qualities which
he left to his children, we other Ameri-
cans who are not OF Puritan blood also
claim as our heritaoe. You. sons of
the Puritans. and we, who are descend
ed from races whom the Purltans
would have deemed alien--we are all
Americans together. We all feel the
same pride in the -~eeis, in the his
tory, Of our people; and therefore this
shrine OF Puritanism Is one at which
all gather to pay homage. no matter
from what country our ancestors
sprang.
LIFE, WHAT TT MEANS
I'VE have gained some things that
the Puritan had Motive of this gem
Grafton we of the twentieth century,
also IN danger of losing certain things
which the Puritan had ana which we
can by no manner OF means afford 10
lose We have gained Joy of living
which he had not, and which II is a
good thing Tor every people 10 have
and TO develop. Let us see TO 1t that
we % not lose what is more lmpolhul
stu TINT we do not lose the Puritan's
iron senae OF duty, his unbending, un'
hlnchlng VIII 10 do the right ne II was
given him 10 see the right II is a
good thing that lie should gain N
sweetness. but only provided that II
does not lose In strength Ease ano
rest and pleasure are good things but
only IT they come as the reward OF
work wen done. OF good iight wei
wor of strong effort resolntelv made
and crowned by hlgh achievement. Tbs
he OF mere pleasure, OF mere eifortles'
ease, IA as gl3ohle for a nation as foi
an Individual The man Is but poor
father who teaches his sons that east
and pleasure should be their CHIEF OBJ
iocis ~ life the woman who Is a mere
pettod toy incannble OF serious pur'
pose, strinkins from effort and duty
IL more pitinblo than the yeriest over
worked drudge.
THE LIFE or EFFORT
$50 he Is but poor leader OF the
people but moor national adviser
who socks 10 make the nation In AM
way subordinate effort 10 case. WIT
would teach the nponlc not TO prlz'
rs the greatest blessing the chance e
dc any work. no matter how hard, 4
II becomes their duty 10 do H. TO M
sons ~ the purltans It Is almst need
less 10 say that the lesson above NJ
others which puritanlsm can teacl
this nation II the all-inlportanoe o
The rosolute performance Of duts. !
We are mon We viii pass hy with con
temptupus dlsdnin alike the adviser
who woull seek to lead US into tn
paths OF ignoble ease and those VIII
would teach US TO admire successful