The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-04-26

good the results of the war--Georg
Washington; while the two great pol
itical tendencies of the time can b,
symbo1ized by the names Of two
other great Virginians-Jefferson ant
Marshall-from one of whom we in
herit the abiding trust in the people
which is the foundation stone ol
democracy, and from the other the
power to develop on behalf of the
people a coherent and powerful gov
ernment, geLJine aud representative
nationality.
Two generations passed before the
second great crisis of our history
had to be faced. Then came the
Civil War, terrible and bitter in itself
and in its aftermath, but q struggle
from which the Nation finally emerg-
ed united in fact, as well as in name,
united forever. Oh, my hearers, my
Fellow countrymen, e,reat indeed has
been our good foItune for as time
clears away the mists that once
shrouded brother from brother and
made each look as through a glass
darkly" at the other, we can all feel
the same pride in the valor, the de-
votion and the fealty toward the
| right is 1t was given to each to see
the right, shown alike by the men
who wore the blue and by the men
VINO wore the gray Rich and pros
porous though we are as a people.
the proudest heritage that each of
us has, no matter where he may
dwell, North or South, East or West,
is the immaterial heritage of feeling.
the right to claim as his own all the
valor and all the steadfast devotion to
duty shown by the men of both the
great armies, of the soldiers whose
leader was Grant and the soldiers
whose leader was Lee. The men and
the women of the Civil War did their
duty bravely and well in the days
that were dark and terrible and splen-
did. We, their descendants, who nav
proud homage to their memories, and
glory in the feats of might of one
slde no less than of the other, need
to keep steadily in mind that the
homage which counts is the homage |
OF heart and of hand, and not Of |
the lips, the homage of deeds and |
not oil words only. We, too in our |
turn, must prove our truth by our
endeavor. We must show ourselves
worthy sons of the men of the mighty
days by the way in which we meet
the problems of our own time. We
carry our heads high, because our
fathers did well in the years that
tried mems souls; and we must in our
turn so bear ourselves that the
children who come after us may feel
that we too have done our duty.
We can not afford no forget the
maxim upon which Washington in
sisted, that the surest way to avert
war is to be prepared to meet it.
Nevertheless the duties that most
concern us of this generation are not
military, but social and Industrial.
each community must always dread
he evils which spring up as attend
INT upon the very qualities which
give 1t success. We of this mighty
western Republic have TO grapple |,
|
popular self-government tried on a
Gale incomparably vaster than ever
before in the history of mankind,
md from an abounding material pros
'erity greater also than anything q.
which the world has hitherto seen.
AS regards the first set of dangers,
t behooyes us to remember that men =
AN never escape being governed.
either they must govern themselves a
" they must submit to being gov :
rned by others. IL from lawless
Tess or fckleness, from folly or self
they refuse to govern E
themselves, then most assuredly in
he end they will have to be governed :
rom the outside. They can prevent 4,
he need of government from without !
'nly by showing that they possess
he power of government from within ,
sovereign can not make excuses +,
or his failures; sovereign must
lccept the responsibility for the ex-
rcise of the power that inheres in
lim and where, as is true in our
Republic, the people are sovereign,
hen the people must show sober
and a sane and stead
asst purpose If they are to preserve
hat orderly liberty upon which as a
every republic must rest.
In industrial matters, our enor-
nous prosperity has brought with it
certain grave evils. 1t is our duty to
ry to cut out these evils without at
he same time destroying our we'll
,eing itself. This Is an era of COM
,ination alike in the world of capital
md in the world of labor. Each
lind of combination can do good, and
ret each, however powerful, must be
opposed when it does i'll. At the
moment the greatest problem before
is is how to exercise such control
'ver the business use of vast wealth,
but especially corporate,
IS will insure its not being used
lgainst the interests of the public
while yet permitting such ample legit-
mate profits as will encourage indi-
'idual initiative. 1t Is our business
o put a stop to abuses and to pre-