The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03
Nation Must Be True.

Nation Must Be True.
'The nation is but the aggregate OF
the individuals, and what is true of ma
tional life is and must be true of each
of us in individual life. The man renders
but a poor service to nation or to indi-
yidu6l who breaches rest, ease, absence
of endeavOr, as what that nation or that
! individual should strive after. Both you
men who fought in blue and YOU others
who fought in gray as you look back in
your lives, through the years that have
passed. what is it in those years that you
most glory in2 The times of ease, the
times of fairness, the times when every
thing went smoothly with you? Of
course not; because you are men, because
you are moved by the spirit of men. What
you glory in, what you hope to hand
down as undying memories to your chill
dren, are the things that were done in
the days that brought little pleasure with
them save the grim consciousness of haV-
ing done each man his duty as his duty
needed to be done.
Because in those years you had it in
you dauntlessIy to do your share in the
work allotted to YOU your children and
your children's children rise uD to call
you blessed. Who among you now would
barter the memories of the years from 81
to So for any gift that could be given?
Not a man among you. You have won
the right to feel pride that none of your
countrymen can feel and you won the
right because you sought not the path of
ease, out the pain OF rOUgn. OlSdS rSedDle,
irkSOme and dangerous duty"
The president said that we are yet
good many thousand years short of the
millennium and our business is to do our
own duty and teach our children to do
their duty IN a rough work aday world
and he said, I'VE cannot do that duty
by fine phrases.
There was one person in this country,
he declared, he put ahead of the soldier
"the really good woman, the good wife
and mother who has done her full duty.
''She often has a pretty hard time. yet
the woman who thus with labor and anx-
iety brings up her children is blessed
among women. blessed among men. ! do
not pity her in the least I respect and
admire her and hold her worthy of adj
miratiOn and honor. The selfish creature,
man or woman, who reaches old age hav-
ing achieved ease by Sinking duty is to
be heartily despised and not envied. Our
admiration is reserved for him or for her
who has done the real work which makes
the next generation able in its turn TO do
its work in the country
Must Realize Ideals.
I'VE cannot do Our first and primary
duty at home within our own borders I'M
less we strive measurably to realize Ger
tain ideals. By this. ! do not mean mere
" TO talk about them at Fourth of July
celebrations. TO speak of them and APP
plaud the speeches. then go home and
have neither speaker nor nearer practice
what thus virtually has been preached.
we should say and applaud only what
we believe in. And having said it, and
having applauded it when said, we should
try to put 1t into practice
President Roosevelt began his address
by giving generous praise to General
George B. Mcclellan, of whom the heroic
equestrian statue today was unveiled I'M
der the direction of the Army of the Po-
tomac. Mcclellan. he said, had command
ed in some of the most important engage
ments of the civil war, forever linking
his name with the mighty memories of the
conflict. The president extended the greet
ings Of the nation to Mrs. Mcclellan.
widow of General Mcclellan, and her fam
fly. He praised the statue as beautiful
addition to Washington, and thanked the
committee for having chosen a noted
sculptor TO do the work.
Appropriate ceremonies civic and mill
tary. marked the unveiling.
The statue. which is by Frederick Mae
Monies. the American sculptor Of Paris
commands an imposing position at the
intersection of Connecticut avenue and
Columbia road in the northwestern sec
ton of the city. The equestrian group
is cast in standard bronze and is fourteen
feet in height. The rider is in field cos
tune in repoSe The horse is slightly in
action. In and around the spot where
the monument stands was cDcamDed in
1861 a larg part of the army which McCIeI-
Ian commanded in the peninsula and sub
sequcntly in the Antietam campaigns
Both sides of the pedestal are decorated
with bronze trophies IN relief, represent
ing cannon. flags. arms. etc. At each of
tho four corners OF the base OF the pedes-
tai there is Il bronze eagle. These eagles
bear in their beaES heavy garIandS of
around the four sides of the pedestal
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Join the Shriners in the dance to-
night at Saltair.