The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-06-06
TLAND, HoMME COUNTY, S D.. THURsDAY JUNE 8 1so7
In his first public address in South

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Dakota, Senator Kittredge has
made an appeal for rightminded
and honest citizenship which will
deeply impress the people Of this
state, and particularly the young
men who have learned to admire
Senator Kittredge. They have OBJ
served this young man grow from
an obscure young lawyer in Sioux
Falls to state senator, then to a
state leader, then to a national
committeeman, then ito United
States Senator, and then to ma
tional figure and one of the most
influential members of the legisla-
tive body Of the world. They have
seen that with these successes, he
is the same modest and unassum-
ling man that he was when he was
a briefless lawyer a bit over 90
years ago in Sioux Falls. They
have noted that he did this by un-
ceasing work, by keeping his name
cleaA, by personal and public
integrity which has never been
brought into question, and as they
admire him for what he has done,
they will be influenced by what he
has said. "My boy you are break
ing my heart" said Senator Kit
tredge to young man several
years ago who was going the pace
that kills. Those seven words end
ed that career of dissipation. That
is the kind of a man Senator Kit
tredge is, and he has right to
talk as he did at Woonsocket to
the young men of the state.
The address at Woonsocket will
deeply impress the youth Of the
statewith their obligations towards
their country. 1t was in a word,
an appeal for honest, intelligent
and sane citizenship. It was an
endorsement by one who knows
what it means of the gospel hard
work. If the republic is to survive,
land if the work done by the union
soldier is to be carried to its full
fruition, it can only be done, in the
opinion OF Senator Kittredge, by
intoxicating in the minds of the
youth of the country the great les
sons Of integrity, frugality, sobrie-
ty and square dealing. "Charac-
ter" says the senator character Of
the person, the individual, the man,
the personal unit is the one thing
needful in this nation if it is to
rightly solve it's moral and econom-
ic problems. The senator point.
ted out to young men the import
ance of character as a business as
set, and congratulated the So call
ed "poor boy" who has his own
way to make in the world because
in the opinion of Senator Kittredge
"Work is a blessing" and the boy
who has to work is the boy who is
going to achieve. The boy who
goes into the fight of life with the
Ten Commandments in one hand
and the history of the United States
in the other, and the love Of his
home in his heart, and the deter.
mination to succeed in his breast,
and willingness to work hard
hard enough to achieve success,
can not fail, He may not acquire
wealth, but wealth does not always
bring success and sometimes means
failure, but he will develop into a
desirable Citizen" and will con-
tribute big share to the welfare OF
his country.
"Let us remember" said the
senator "that no one can be per-
sonally honest and officially dis
honest. There is nc such thing as
impersonal dishonesty" The man
who is a CRATER in private life will
be CRATER in public if he gets a
chance, and if the republic is to en-
dure it is the chief duty of our
citizenship to enforce upon the
young the appreciation of personal
integrity-whether it be in private
or in public life.
Senator Kittredge is not an ora
/ tor. His friends like him the bet
far l,ooo,corl,o 10 not W. how