Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-13

enough that We should possess those kindly
and generous and thoughtful qualities, the
unselfsh qualities which are all indispen-
sable We must have them as the founda-
ton, and in addition We must have the
qualities which in their sum designate
as manliness. else we cannot 90 our duties
of citizenship Alright. The man who iS
simply kind and we'll meaning, but who
has not the fiber in him which makes him
fame with righteous Indignation against
wrong, which makes him feel a healthy
desire to put down wrongdoing and punish
the wrongdoers, is not going to make much
Of a citizen.
In war, in addition to devotion to the
flag, in addition to love of country, each
man who Is worth his salt must have the
fighting edge. Unless he has it he isn't Of
use in army. So it Is in civic life. We
must have honesty first, but honesty is not
enough. In addition to honesty, and rang
ing equal with it, We must have courage.
efficiency, the power that makes decency
and honesty and right living effective
force in the world. And after YOU have
both honesty and courage, they are not
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
man who will make a good soldier if the
occasion arises and who will make a good
citizen in the ordinary affairs of life.
Should Try to Learn.
"On occasion like this. when we gath
er to honor the memory of the valiant
dead. let 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. Nat
urally you here who are not Of our regi-
ment cannot feel as we feel toward those
dead men whom this monument commem-
crates. By a strange fatality, among the
earliest killed We're some of the very best
l am inclined to say the very best-of our
number. 1 think the two most valuable
officers had We're Capts. Capron and
O'Neil, who We're killed, one at Las Quasi
mas and one at San Juan. 1t seemed to be
as If every man who was slain possessed
some qualities which had made him of
especial worth to the regiment. 1t was
hard to see them lying dead In the bright
Cuban sunlight and to feel that their young
lives were cut short in the fun bloom of
their promise. Yet. l said before all
those who were willing to think could not
but realize that the men who had thus met
their fate had merely anticipated by 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
Well-fought field for their countryS flag.
1T will be poor thing for this or any
other nation when it loses the sense of
sternly joyous exaltatlon of the thought of
such fate, when it ceases to feel respect
and reverence and an admiration which,
were it less worthy. 1 should be tempted to
call well-nigh envious for those to whom
such good fortune has come. Such is the
personal feeling that we who were called
with the regiment necessarily have in COM
ing here. But the supreme lesson for all of
us is the lesson l have tried to draw, that
the homage that counts is the homage not
of the lips but of the heart, the homage we
pay to the memory of the valiant dead
when we firmly resolve so to lead our lives
that when we die may feel not wholly
unworthy to have been their comrades"
Views of DR.. Stafford.
After the Presidents speech there was
only one other speaker the Rev. Father
d. j. Stafford. In thought he followed
closely the lines of the Presidents speech,
again asserting with p. esident Roosevelt
that the same qualities of self-sacriHce
that go to make distinguished soldier are
necessary if one would be a good citizen.
He dwelt on the theme with fervor. show
ing that the conquering nations of the
earth were those whose citizens had lived
uprightly, justly, mo. ally and religiouSly,
and that the moment they had departed
from strict adherence to the humber
virtues they had become the prey of strong
err and more VirtuouS races
At the conclusion of the ceremonies and
VIE the entiIe audience remained stand
ing a bugler standing at the side of the
monolith. sounded taps, after which the
spectators departed.