The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-04-26

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vanquished there remained the harder
strain Of war with the hostile forces
OF soil and climate, with food fever,
and famine. There was sickness, and
Bitter weather; there were no roads;
there was a complete lack of all but
/ the very toughest and most absolute
| necessaries. Under such circumstanc-
es the men and ONE who made
ready the continent for civilization
we're able themselves to spend but
little time in doing aught but the
rough work which was to make
smooth the ways of heir successors
In consequence observers whose in
sight was spoiled by lack of sympa-
thy always found both the settlers
| and their lives unattractive and re-
pellant. In Martin Chuzzlewit the
| description of the frontier town of
| Eden, was true and life-like from the
standpoint of one content to look mere
ly at the outer she'll; and yet it was a
community like Eden that gave birth
to Abraham Lincoln, it was men such
as were therein described from whose
loins Andrew Jackson sprang.
Hitherto each generation among us
has mad it's allotted task, now heavi-
er, now lighter. n the Revolutionary
War the business was to achieve indie
pChoChSC. 1Iul1O04oIC1y olIOI al Us
there was an even more momentous
task; hat to achieve the national I'M
ity and the capacity for orderly devel-
opme1t, without without which, our
libery, our independence, would have
been a curse and not a blessing. In
each of these two contests, while there
were many great leaders from many
different States, it is but fair to say
that the foremost place was taken
by the soldiers and the statesmen of
Virginia; and to Virginia was reserved
the honor of producing the hero of
both movements, the hero of the war,
and of the peace hat made good re-
suits of the war-George Washington;
while the two great political tenden-
cies of the time can be symbolized
by the names of two other great Vir-
ginianS-JefferSon and Marsnall-from
n of whom we inherit the abiding
trust in the people which is the foun-
dalton stone of democracy, and from
the other the power to develop on be-
half of the people a coherent and pow
erful government, a genuine and rep
resentative 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
III IIS dllSI mail, DuI d SlIuSSle lIoIII
which the Nation finally emerged unit
ed il TACT as well as in name, united
forever. Oh, my hearers, my fellow
countrymen, great indeed has been
our good fortune for as time clears
away the miSts that once shrouded
brother from brother and made each
look "as through a glass darkly," at
the other, we can all feel the same
pride in the valor, the devotion I
the fealty toward 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, the proudest heritage that
each of us has, no matter where he
may dwell, North or South, East or
West, is the immaterial heritage of
feeling, the right to claim as his own
all the valor and all the Steadfast de-
votiol to duty shown by h men of
both the great armies, of the soldiers
whose leader was Grant and the sol
diers whose leader was e The
men and women OF the Civil War did
their duty bravely and well in the
days that were dark and terrible and
splendid. We, their descendants, who
pay proud homage to their memories,
~ glory in the feasts of might of
one side no less than of the other.
need to keep steadily in mind that 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 endeavor.
We must show ourselves worthy son
of the men of the mighty days by the
way in which we meet the problems
of our own time. We carry our heads
Ill -
the years that tried mems souls; and
we must in our turn so bear ourselv-
es that the children who come after
us may feel that we too have done
our duty.
We cannot afford to forget the max
i'm upon which Washington insisted.
that the Surest way to avert wal is
to be prepared to meet it. Neverthe-
less the duties that most concern us
of this generation are not military,
but social and Industrial. Each COM
munity must always dread the evils
which spring up as attendant upon the
very qualities which give it success.
We of this mighty western Republic
have to grapple with the dangers That
spring from popular self-government
tried on a scale incomparably vaster
than ever before in the history of man
kind, and from an Astounding mater
ial prosperity greater also than any
thing 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. Eli
Their they must govern themselves or
submit to being governed by others.
If from lawlessless OF fickleness, from
folly or self-indulgence, they refuse
govern themselves, h most assur
eddy in the end they will have to be
governed from the outside. They can
prevent the need of government from
without only by showing that they
possess the power of government
from within. A sovereign can not
excuses for his failures; a SOW
must accept the responsibility
for the exercise of the power that in
heres il him; and where, as is true
in our Republic, the people are soverei
ga, then the people must show a sober
understanding n a sane and stead
fast purpose if they are to preservee
that orderly liberty upon which as a
foundation every republic must rest.
n industrial matters our enormous
prosperity has brought with it certain
evils. 1t is our duty to try to