Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-02-28

Iplc could be less trustworthy as
critics and advisors, The educated
man who seeks e. console himself
for mis- own lack of the robust quail.
ties necessary to bring success in
| American politics by moaning over
the dGgeneracy OF the times instead
OF trying To better them, by railing
nj The men who do the actual work OF
political lite instead of trying himself
To do the work is a poor creature,
aud, so far as his feeble powers avail.
Is a damage and not help 20 the
country You may come far short
az this disagreoablo standard and stin
I've a rather useless member of so
ciety, Your education, your cultiys.
ton, will not help YOU sc You make
he mistake Of thinking that Il Is
substitute for instead OF an addition
10 those qualities which In the strug,
| g,e OF life bring success 70 the ordin.
AIRY man without your advantages,
lour college training confers no priv,
| ilege upon you save as tested by the
use YOU make of e. Il puts upon
YOU the obligation to show yourselves
better able TO do certain things than
your follows who have not had your
advantages, II II has served mere,
y To make you believe that YOU are to
be excused from effort in after life,
that YOU are To be excused from con,
tact with the actual world OF men
anc events. then il will prove curse
and not blessing II on the othcr
hnnd YOU treat your education as
weapon the more in your hands,
weapon TO 1T YOU To do better in the
haro struggle of effort, and not as
cNcuSing YOU In any way from taking
part In practical fashion In that
struggle then II will be q benefit 20
yea,
lie urged young men into politics
ana declared that normally the prime
object of political life should be 60
achieve results and not merely 20 is
sue manufacturers Of course where
the issuance OF such manlfostoes helps
to achieve the results II Is a bad
thing 20 be morally eallous, for moral
callouspesR Is disease, But innGm
nation of the conscience may be Just
as unhealthy so far as the public Is
concerned and if mans conscience
is always telling him TO DO something
foolish he win do woll TO mistrust It's
workings The religious man who ia
r;ost useful ia not he whose sole care
Is to save his own soul but the man
whose religion bids him strive to ad.
vance docency and clean living aud to
make Tho world better place for his
fellows TO live In; and all this Is Just
as trUc of the ordinary citizen In the
performance OF the ordinary duties
Of political life
The president reviewed the prog
ress which the nation has made dur
ing the past ten years and In oonclu
sion said
In all these matters there have
been some men In public life ana
some men IN private life whose action
has been at every point one of bar
rcu criticism or fruitloss obstruction.
These mon have had no part or lot in
the great record of achievement and
success, the record OF good work
worlhily done Some of these mon
have been college graduates but all
Of them have been poor servants OF
the people, useless whore they were
not harmful All the credit for the
good thus accomplished IN the public
life OF this decade belongs TO those
who have done Affirmative work w
such matters as those have enumeu
nted above, and not 10 those whu
with more or less futility. have sought
10 hamper and obstuct the work that
. has thus been done.
In short you college men, be doors
rathor than critics OF the deeds that
, others do. stand stoutly for your
Ideals but keep in mind that they
can only be realized even partially
by practical methods OF achievement
, Remember always that this republic
= of ours is very real democracy
and that you can only win success by
/, showing that you have the right stua
, in you. The college man the man OF
, intellect and training, should take the
, lead in every fight for civic and social
, righteousness. He can take that
, lead only II in a spirit Of thorough
. going dmocracy no takes his place
among his fellows, not standing aloot
from them, but mixing with them, 80
that he may know, may feel may
sympathlze with their hopes, their
ambitions, their principlos-aDd even
, their preiudices-as an American
+. among Americans, as man among
, men"