The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-26

and to Virginia was reserved the honor
| of producing the hero of both move
ments, the hero of the war, and of the
peace that made good the results of
| the war-George Washington; while
the two great political tendencies of
the time can be symbolized BY the
names of two other great Virginians
jefferson and MarshaII-from one of
whom we inherit the abiding trust in
the people which is the foundation
stone of democracy. and from the 9TH
er the power to develop on behalf of
the people a coherent and powerful
government, genuine and represen-
tative nationality
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 its
aftermath, but struggle from which
the nation finally emerged United in
fact as well as in name, united forever
Oh, my hearers, my fellow country
men, great indeed has been our good
fortune; for as time clears away the
nists that once shrouded brother from
brother and made each look las
through a glass darkly" at the other
we can all feel the same pride in the
valOr, the devotion and the feaItv TO-
ward the right as it 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 a people.
has. no matter where he may dwell.
north or south. east or west, is the i'm
material heritage of feeling the right
to claim as his own all the vaIor and
all the stea dfast devotion to dI1tv
shown by the men of both the great
armies of the soldiers whose leader
was Grant and the soldiers whose Lead
er was Lee. The men and the women
OF the Civil war did their duty brave
~ and well in the days that were dark
and terrible and splendid. We. their
descendants, who pay proud homage
10 their memories, and glory in the
feats of might of one side no less than
or the other, need to keen Stea div in
mind thar 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, too. in our
turn, must prove our truth by our en-
deavor We must show ourselves wor-
thy sons of the men OF the mighty DAVIS
by the way in which we meet the
problems of our own time We carry
our heads high because our fathers did
Wen 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.
WashingtOn's Maxim.
We can not afford to forget the max
I'm upon which Washington insisted.
that the surest way to avert war is
10 be prepared to meet it, Neverthe-
less the duties that most concern us of
TINS generation are not military but
socIal and industrial. Each communi-
" must always dread the evils which
spring up as attendant uDon the very
qualities which give it success We Of
this mighty Republic have to grapDle
With the dangers that spring from pop
ular Sef-Sovernme tried on a scale
incomparably vaster than ever before
in the history of mankind. and from
an Astounding material prosperity
greater also than anything which the
world has hitherto seen.
As regards the first set of dangers. it
behooVes US to remember that men can
never escape being governed. Either
they must govern themselves or they
must submit to being governed by
others If from lawIessness or tickle
ness, from <oliy or self-induIgence. they
refuse TO govern themselves. then most
asslredly ii the end they VIII have to
be governed from the outside They
can prevent the need of government
from without only by7 showing that
they possess the power of government
from within sovereign can not
make excuses for his failures; a SOW
ereign must accept the responsibility
for the exercise of the power that IN
heres in him; and where, as is true in
our Republic, the people are sovereign.
then the people must show sober I'M
dersta nding aid a sane and steadfast
purpose if they are to preserve that
orderly liberty UPON which as q foun-
dation every republic must rest.
In industrial matters our enormous
prosperity has brought with IL certain
grave evils. 1t is our duty to try to
cut out these evils without a the same
time destroying our WE'LL being itself
This is an era of combination alike in
the world of capital ana in the world OF
labor. Each kind of combination can
do good. and Yet each, however po-ver-
full, must be opposed when it does ILL
AZ the moment the greatest problem
before US is how to exercise such con-
troll over the business use of vast
porate. IS Will insure its not being
used against the interest Of the pub
lie while Vet permitting such ample
legitimate profits as will encourage in
dividuaI initiative 1t Is our business
to put a stop to abuses and to prevent
their recurrence without showing a
spirit of re viudictiveness for what
has been done in the past In John
Morley's brilliant sketch of Burke he
lays especial stress upon the fact that
Burke more than almost any other
thinker or politician of his time re-
allied the profound lesson that in poli-
tics we are concerned not with barren
rights but with duties; not with alb
stract truth. but with practical NOR
atty He especially eulogizes the way
in which in his efforts for economic re-
form Burks combined un5hakS BILE reso-
luton in pressing the reform with a
profound temperatures of spirit which
made him. while bent on the extirpa
ton of the evil system, refuse to cher
ish an unreasoBi1g and vindictive i'll
will toward the men who had benefited