The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-03
President Roosevelt Says He Is
Surest Guarantee of Peace.
He HOnOrs Mothers of Families
Above the Soldiers.
CONTEMPT FOR RICH.
Who Do Nothing But Accumu-
late Wealth.
Test Should Be How Is 1t Earned
and How Spent.

WASHINGTON Nav 3-President
Roosevelt, in an address at the unveii-
ing of the statue to General George B.
Mcclellan, characterized as weakness
the desire for peace unless ii could be
obtained on the right terms. He would
have none of the so-ealled peace If Z
indulgence, for sloth, for timidity. for
the avoidance of duty" Above the
soldier, who fights for peace, he places
for honor mothers of families
The man who would do the pest for
the country in peace. the president de-
clared, is the man who at need will do
well in war.
Seek the peace that comes to the
just man armed" said Mr.. Roosevelt.
who will dare to defend his rights if
the need should arise. Seek the peace
granted to him who will wrong no man
and will not submit to wrong in re-
turn Seek the peace that comes TO US
as the peace of righteousness. the
peace of justice. Ask peace as your
deeds and your powers warrant you
in asking it, and do not put yourself
in the position TO crave it as something
to be granted or withheld at the Whim
of another.
Material development means moth
ing to nation as an end in itself If
America is to stand simply for the ac-
emulation of what tells for comfort
and luxury, then it viii stand for lit
tie indeed when looked at through
the Vistas of the ages
HonofS Mothers
The rich man who has done nothing
but accumulate riches is entitled to but
the scantiest consideration; to the men
of real power of diScernment he is an
object rather of contempt than of
envy. The test of fortune should be
twofoId-how it was earned and how
it is spent 1t is with the nation as it
is with the individual. The nation is
but the aggregate of the individuals,
and what is true of national life is
and must be true of each of US in his
individual life.
1.-The man renders but a poor SER
vice to nation or to individual who
breaches rest, ease, absence of en-
deavor. what that nation or that
individual should strive after"
The president said that we are yet
a good many thousand years short of
the millennium and our business is to
do our own duty and teach our chill
dren to do their duty in rough
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
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 anxiety brings up her children is
blessed among women, blessed among
men. I do not pity her in the least
I respect and admire her, and hold
her worthy OF admiration and honor
The selfish creature, man or woman
ease by shirking duty is to be heartily
despised and not envied- Our ad-
miration is reserved for him or her
who has done the real work which
makes the next generation able in it's
turn to do it's work in the country"
Nation as a World Power.
President Roosevelt criticised "a
weak good nature. incapable of right
Gus wrath saying it was almost as
unfortunate an attribute for citizen
as willingness to do wrong.
''If" he declared. you haven't it in
you to strive manfully against wrong,
you will accomplish but little for
right
America must rise level to the
ideals of the founders of the nation
when they started this mighty repub-
lie on the road of self-government.
These ideals were to found here a
pie, where no one man should wrong
his brother where the nation should
wrong no outsider, and should be able
to resist aggression from without. 1
hope to see this nation play an ever
growing part in the worlds affairs. 1t
can not play that part unless it is
willing to accept the responsibilities
that go with 1t.
when we speak of liberty let us
try to see that in actual practice we
achieve it When we speak of fra
ternity. of brotherhood. let US exercise
each for himself. the qualities that
make for brotherhood, for fraternity
When we speak of equality. let us try
to realize in the spirit of Abraham
Lincoln, who pointed out that there
was. of course. certain sense in
which men are not and can not be
equal but who realized by his life and
his deeds the profound truth that in
the larger sense, in the real. the all
important sense, there can and must
be an equality among all men"