The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-20

ease and pleasure should be their chief
objects in life; the woman who Is a
mere petted toy, incapable or serious
purpose, shrinking from effort and duty,
is more pitia0le than the veriest over
worked drudge.
SO he is but a poor leader OF the peo-
pie, but a poor national adviser, who
seeks to make the nation IN any way
subordinate effort 10 ease, who would
teach the people not 10 prize as the
greatest blessing the chance TO do any
work. no matter how hard, II II becomes
| their duty 10 do II.
Importance Of Duty.
To the sons Of the Puritans Il Is al
most needless 10 say that the lesson
above all others which Puriranism can
teach this nation is the aIl-impOTtance
Of the resolute performance OF duty II
we are men we viii pass by with con-
Cemptuous disdain alike the advisers
who would seek to lead US into the paths
/ of fgnoble ease and those who will teach
as 10 admire such wrong doing
Our ideals should be high and yet they
should be capable OF achievement in
practical fashion; and we are as little
TO be excused If we permit our ideals 10
be tainted with what is sordid and mean
and base as II we allow our power OF
achievement TO atrophy and become
either incapable OF EFFORT OF capable
only Of such fantastic effort as 10 ac-
comphsh nothing OF permanent good.
The true doctrine to preach to this ma
ton. as to the individuals composing
this nation, IS not the life OF ease, but
the life Of effort II II were In my power
to promise the people OF this land any
thing, I would not promise them pleas
ure- / would promise them that stern
happiness which comes from the sense
OF having done In practical fashion a
/ difficult work which was worth doing.
Undivided Initiative.
The Puritan owed his extraordinary
success in subduing this continent and
making it the foundation for a social
life % odd liberty primarily TO TIE fact
that le combined IN a very remarkable
degree both the power OF individual ini-
tiattve. Of individual self-help. and the
powe- OF acting IN combination with
his fellows; and that furthermore he
joined 10 a high heart that shrevgd COM
Nonsense which saves a man from the
besetting sins Of the visionary and the
doctrinaire-
He was stOut-hearted and hard-head-
ed He had lofty purposes, but he had
practical good sense, too. He could
hold his own IN the rough wOrk-a-day
world without clamOrous Insistence nm
on being helped BY others. and yet he
could cOmDlne with others whenever it
I became necessary TO do a lob which
could not be as well done by any one
man individually
These were the qualities which en-
! abled him 10 do his work. and these are
the very qualities which we must show
In doing our work today. There Is no
use IN our coming here 10 pay homage
I 20 the men who founded this nation
unless We first OF all come in the spirit
OF try ing 70 do our work today as they
dld LhAr work IN yesterdays that have
vanished. The problems shift FROM
generation 20 generation, but the spirit
IN which they must be approached II
/ they are to be successfully solved, re-
mains ever the same
Things That Are New.
The Puritan tanned the wilderness.
and built up a free government on
the stump-dOtted clearings amid the
prlmeval forest His descendants must
try TO shape the life Of our complex
industrial CtvilizE lion by new devices
by new methods. 50 as 10 achieve In
the end the same results of Justice
and fair dealing toward all He cast
aside nothing old merely for the sake
of innovation, yet, he did not hesitate
TO adopt anything new that would serve
his purpose.
When he planted his commemorative
on this rugged coast, he faced wholly
new conditions. and he had IN dey-f =