The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-06-07
Kittredee at Mooasocket

Sioux Falls Argus-Leader:- In his
iret oublic address ia South Dakota.
senator Kittredge has made an appeal
for riphtminded and honest citizen.
ship which will deeply impress the PEG.
ple of this state, and particularly the
Young men who have learned to ad.
mire Senator Kittredge. They have
observed this young man grow from
an obscure young lawyer in Sioux
Falls to q state senator, then TO a
state leader, then to national com
mitteemau, then to a United States sen.
ator, and then to a national figure
and one of the most influential mem
bers of the greatest legislative body OF
the world. They have seen that with
all these successes, he is the same
modest and u~nassuming man that he
wasa when briefess lawyer abit v 20
years ago in Sioux Falls. They have
noted that he did this by unceasiny
work, by keeping his name clean. b.,
a 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
breaking my heart"< said Senator
Kittredge to a young man several
years xgo who was going the pace
that kills. Those seven words ended
that career OF dissipation. That is
the kind of man Senator Kittredge is,
and he has q right to talk as he did
at W~oOnsOcket to the young men of
the state.
The add ess at Woonsocket will
deeply impress the youth of the state
with their obligations towards their
country. 1t was, in aword, AN appeal
for honest, intelligent and sane citi
zenship It was an en- torsement by
one who knows what it means of the
gospel of hard work. If the republic
is to survive, and if the work done by
the union soldier is to be carried to its
full fruition, it q only be done, in
the opinion of Senator Kittredge, by
insulating in the minds of the youth
of the country the great lessons Of
integrity. frugality, sobriety and
square dealing. Character 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 its
moral and economic problems. The
senator pointed out o young men the
Importance of character as q business
asset. and congratulated the so-oalled,
''poor boy" who has his own way to
make in the world because in the opin-
ion 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 go es into the fight of life
with the Ten Commandments in one
hand, and the history of the United
States in the other, and the determin.
alton to succeed in his breast, and a
willingness to work hard enough to
ACHE ye success, can not fail. He
may not acquire wealth, but wealth
does not always mean success and
sometimes mean failure, but he de-
velops into a desirable Citizen and
will contribute u big share to the vel.
Of his country.
'Let US remember said the senator
that one can not be personally hon.
est and officially dishonest. There is
no such thing as impersonal dishon-
esty. The man who is q CRATER in
private life will be q CRATER in
public life If he gets . chauce, and if
the republic is to endure 1t is the chief
duty of our citizenship to enforce up
on the young the appreciation of per-
sonal integrity-whether it be in pri-
vate or In public life.
Senator Kittredge is not an rator
His friends like him the better because
he is not. We have plenty of ''orae-
ors"-too many perhaps. But Sem
ator Kittredge knows how to tell
people what he thinks, and he knows
also how to think. His first appear
ance before q South Dakota audience
was q marked success, and the future
utter of the senator during the
coming summer will be folio wed with
interest.