Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-10-03
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT CAIRO
Continued from Page OneO

tConIlnued from Page One.1
gloomy view of the present taken by
some well-meaning pessimist of to-
day. you will find it a real comfort to
read Martin Chuzzlewit, to see what a
well-meaning pessimist Of the past
thought of our people IS years ago;
and then think of the extraordinary
achievement, the extraordinary gain.
morally no less than materially. of
those IS years. Dickens can be read
by us now with profit; Elijah Po-
gram Hannibal Chollop. Jefferson
Brick and Scadder have their repre-
sentatives today, plenty of them; and
the wise thing for us to do is to recog
ME that these are still types of evil
in politics, journalism, business, and
private life, and to war against them
with all our hearts, But it Is rank
folly to regard these as the only, or the
chief, types in our national life. If
was not of much consequence whether
Dickens made such an error or not.
but 1t would be of great consequence
II we ourselves did; for a foolish pes
simlsm is an even greater foe of
healthy national growth than a foolish
optimism. 1t was not that Dickens in
vented characters or scenes that had
no basis in fact; on the contrary.
what he said was true, as far as IL
went; the trouble was that out of many
such half truths he made a picture
which as whole was absurd, for often
a half truth is the most dangerous
falsehood. 1t would be simply sill, 70
be angry over Martin Chuzzlewit. on
the contrary, read 1t, be amused bv II.
profit by it; and don't be mizied by il.
Keep a lively watch against the pres
ent-day Pograms and Bricks. but
above all, distrust the man who would
persuade you to feel downhearted
about the country because of these
same Pograms and Bricks. mast or
present. 1t would be foolish to ignore
their existence, or the existence Of
anything else that is bad in our ma
tional life; but it would be even more
foolish to ignore the vastar forces that |
tell for righteousness. Friends. thara |
whatever is evil in the pras,lr. But
there is also every reason whv we |
should feel sturdy and confident hone |
FOR the future. There are MANY
wrongs to right; there are many and
wrong doors against whom
to war; and it would be has 10 shrink
from the contest, or to fa'; to wage It
With high, a resolute viii Bu5 7 am /
sure that we shall win in the contest.
because 1 know that the heart NJ our Il
people Is sound Our averags mon and II
women are good men and wune~-and II
his is true in all sections of our coun- II
ry and among all classes of our conn Il
.rymen. There is no other nation on
'arth with such vast natural resources.
n with such a high standard of living
md of industrial efficiency among its
workers. We have as a nation an era
II unexampled prosperity ahead of us:
We shall enjoy it, and our children win
njoy it after us, The trend of we'll
icing in this country is upward. not
Onward; and this is the trend in
he things of the soul as well as in the
hings of the body.
Government in its application is
ften complicated and delicate work.
ut the principles of government are.
fter ALL fairly simple. In a broad
eneral way we should apply in the
Continued on Page g.