Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-03
Roosevelt Gives His
Ideas of Ideal
Peace
Admires Man Who Will
Defend Rights at
all Times
Tells Old Soldiers They Have Won
the Right to Feel Pride
That Others Cannot
Feel
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, May 2.-President
Roosevelt, in an address at the un-
yelling of a statue to George B. Nc
Clellan today, characterized as weak
ness the measure for peace unless IT
could be obtained on the right terms.
He would have none of the so-called
peace If it were merely another word
for self Indulgence, for sloth, for tim
idity, for the avoidance Of duty"
For the man who would do the best
for his country in peace, the president
declared. is the man who at need Will
do well in war.
seek the peace that comes to the
Just man armed" said Mr.. Roosevelt
swho will dare to defend his rights IL
the need should arise. Seek the peace
granted to him who Will wrong no
man ana will not submit to wrong IN
return. Seek the peace that comes TO
us as the peace of righteousness, the
peace of Justice Ask peace by your
deeds and your powers warrant you
in maintaining it and do not put your
self in the position to crave 1t as some
thing to be granted or withheld at the
whim of another.
.If there is another thing which we
shoulA wish as nation to avoid II is
the teaching of those who would rem
force the lower prompting OF our
.,svcaTts and Sc teach us to seek only
hIife of effortless ease, of mere ma
fsriaI comfort. The material develop
ment of this country of which we have
a right to be proud, If we keep our
pride rational and within measure,
brings with 1t certain great dangers
and one of those dangers is the con-
Founding of means and ends. Material
development means nothing to ma
tion as an end in itself.
Americas Future
.If America is to stand simply for
an accumulation of wealth, for comfort
and luxury then it will stand Tor little
indeed when looked at through the
vistas of the ages. America will stand
for much provided only that 1t treats
material comfort, material luxury and
the means for acquiring such as the
foundation on which to build the real
life the life of spiritual and moral
effort and achievement.
"The rich man who has done nothing
hut accumulate riches is entitled to the
scantiest consideration. To the men OF
real mower of discernment he is an
ohiect rather of contempt than of en-
w The test of fortune should be
two foId-hoW it was earned and how 1t
"The nation is but the aggregate of
;ndividuals and what is true Of ma
tional life is, and must be true of each
Of us in Individual life. The man rem
ders but a poor service to nation or
individual who breaches rest, ease, ap-
sence of endeavor as what that nation
ar that individual should strive after.
"Roth YOU men who fought in blue
and vol1 others who fought in gray, as
Won look back at your lives through
fine wears that you have passed, Whal
is II in those years that you most glory
in-the times of ease, the times OF
fatness. the times when everything
went smoothly with you? or course
it is not. Because you are men, De.
cause YOU are moved by the spirit OF
men. what you glory in, what you
hope will go down as undying mem
ories to your children, were the things
that were done in the days that
brought little pleasure with them
save the grim consciousness of each
man having done his duty as his duty
needed to be done.
Refers to the Civil War
"Who among you now would barter
the memories of the back years from
'61 to 65 for any gift that could be
given? Not many among you.
you have won the right to feel a
pride that none of your countrymen
can feel and you won the right be-
cause you sought not the path of ease
but the path of rough, disagreeable,
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 theirs in a rough workaday
world, "and," he said, 1--WE cannot do
that duty by fine phrases"
There was one person in this coun-
try, he declared he put ahead of the
soldier, "the really good woman" the
wife and mother who has done her full
duty.
"She often has pretty hard time,
yet the woman who thus with labor
and anxiety brings up her children
is blessed among women, blessed
among men,"
Praises Mcclellan
President Roosevelt began his address
by giving generous praise to Gen.
George b. Mcclellan, of whom the
heroic equestrian statue was unveiled
under the direction of the .rmy of the
Potomac. He praised the statue as a
beautiful addition to Washington and
thanked the committee for having chos-
en- noted sculptor to do the work.
Appropriate ceremonies, civic and
military, marked the unveiling DIR.
George Mcclellan of New Jersey, the
generals nephew, pulled the cord re-
leasing the flags enveloping the statue.
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