The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-05-04
From Friday s Daily

Roosevelt in an address q The un-
yelling Of the statue To General
George b. Mcclellan todaf charae-
tori2ed as weakness The desire for
peace unless il could be obtained on
the right terms He would nave
none Of the so-called peace il il were
merely another name for self-indul-
gence, for Sloth. for timidity. for The
avoidance of duty
The man who would do the best
for the country in peace, he presi-
dent declared, is the man who at
fneed will do we'll in war
Seek the peace that comes TO the
just man armed, said Mr.. Roose-
welt who will dare to defend his
rights if the need should arse. seek
the peace granted to him who will
wrong no man and will not submit
to wrong in return. Seek the peace
that comes to us as the peace OF
righteousness, the peace OF justice.
Ask peace by 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 grant
ed or withheld at the whim of an
other
If there IS another thing which
We should wish as nation to avoid
it is the teaching OF those who would
reinforce the lower prompting of our
hearts and so teach us to seek only
life OF effortless ease, OF mere ma
teria comfort
The material development of this
/ country. of which we have a right TO
be proud, if We would keen our pride,
bring with il great dangers; and one
Of those dangers is the confounding
of means and ends Material devel-
opment means nothing TO a nation,
an end in itself. Ii America is to
stand simply for the accumulation
Of what tells for comfort and luxury,
then 1t will stand for little indeed
when looked at through the Vistas
oG the ages. America will stand for
much provided only that 1t treats ma
torial comfort, material luxury and
the means fo1 occurring such. SIS The
foundation on which To build the zeal
life, the life OF spiritual aud moral
effort and achievement
The rich man who has done
nothing but accumulate riches is en-
titled to but the scantiest considera-
ion; to the men of real power Of dis
comment he Is IN object rather Of
contempt than OF envy. The test Of
fortune should be two-fold- how
it was earned and how It is spent,
It is with the nation as it is with the
Individual Looking back through
history, the nation thai we represent
Is invariably the nation that reeog-
nized il an obstacle something to be
overcome and not something 10 be
5hirked
The nation is but the aggregate
Of the individuals, and what is true
Of national life is and must he true
Of each OF US in individual life The
nan renders but a poor service to ma
ion or to individual who breaches
rest, ease. absence Of cndeavor. as
what the nation or the Individual
should strive after Both sou men
who fought in blue and gou others
aho fought IN grey, as YOU look
bae'; i'll yonr lives, through the years
thai have passed what is il in those
pears that yon most glory in? The
zines OF ease, the times when every
thing went smoothly with You? OF
course not. Because You are men,
because you are moved by the spirit
OF men What YOU glory in what
you hope to hand down ms nndying
memory 10 your children. are the
/ things that were done in the days
that brought little pleasure With
them save lie grim conscientious
ness Of having done each man his
Because in those years You had
il in You danntlesslY 10 do your
share in the work allotted TO YOU,
your ehiidrcn AID your children's
children rise ~ t. call You blessed
Who among You now would barter
the memories of the back years from
81 to 60 for any gift that could
be given? moi Il man among YOU
You have won the right to feel 4
pride that none of your countrymen
can feel and YOU won the right be-
cause You sought not the path of
ease, but the path of rough, disa-
greeable. irksome and dangerous
duty
+. D. Beckford and j. d. Caldwell
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