The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-03
Roosevelt Delivers Character
istic Address Before Society
of Army of the Potomac.
WOULD HAVE NO PEACE
OF SELF-INDULGENCE
Makes Strong Plea for the
Strenuous Life, Marked by
Stress and Strain.

Roosevelt IN an address at the unyell-
ing of the statue of General George
B. Mcclellan by the Society of the
Army Of the Potomac, today character
Ized as weakness the desire for peace
unless it could be obtained on the right
terms. He would have none Of the So
called peace if it were merely "another
name for selfindulgence. for sloth, for
timidity, for the avoidance Of duty"
Tho man who would do the best for
the country in peace, the President de-
clared, is the man who at need will do
we'll in war.
"Seek the peace that comes to the
just man armed" said Mr.. Roosevelt.
''who will dare to defend his rights
if the need should arise. 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 1T, and do not put yourself in
the position TO crave II as something
TO be granted or withheld at the whim
OF another.
Favors Strenuous Life.
If there is another thing which we
should wish as q nation to avoid, il is
the teaching of those who would rein
force the lower promptings Of our
hearts and so teach us to seek only
life of effortless ease, OF mere material
comfort, The material development
of this, country, of which have a
right to be proud, provided we
keep our pride rational and with
in measure, brings with it certain
great dangers; and one of those
dangers is the confounding of means
and ends. Material development means
nothing to nation as an end in itself.
IL America is TO stand simply for the
| accumulation of what tells for comfort
| and luxury, then il will stand for lit
tie indeed when looked at through the
vistss of the ages. America will stand
for much, provided only that it treats
material comfort, material luxury, and
the means for acquiring such, as the
foundation on which to build the real
llfe, the life of spiritual and moral ef
fort and achievement.
No Credit to Be Rich
"The rich man who has done moth
ing but accumulate riches is entitled
TO but the scantlest consideration; to
the men of real power of discernment
he is an object rather of contempt than
of envy, The test Of fortune should
be two-fold-how IL wns earned and
how 1t is spent. II is with the nation
as 1t is with the individual. Looking
back through history, the nation that
we represent is invariably the nation
that struggled, the nation that strove
toward high ideal. the nation that
recognized in an obstacle something TO
be overcome and not something to be
shirked. The nation is but the aggre-
gate of the individuals, and what is
true of national life is and must be
true of each Of US in individual life.
The man renders but poor service 10
nation or to individual who breaches
rest, case and absence OF endeavor, as
what that nation or that individual
fought in blue and you others who
fought In gray, rs you look back in
your lives, through the years that have
passed, what is it In these years that
you must glory in? The times Of ease,
the times Of fatncss, the times when
everything went smoothly with youf
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 as undying memo
ries TO your children, arc the things
that were done in the days that brought
little pleasure with them save the grim
consciousness of having done each man
his duty ms his duty needed to be
done.
Where the Glory Lies.
''Becnuse in those years YOU had it
IN you dauntlessly to do your share in
the work allotted to you, your children
and Your children s children rise up and
call YOU blessed. Who among You now
would barter the memories of the black
years from '6l TO Go for any gift that
could be givena Not n man among You.
You have won the right to feel a pride
that none of your countTymen can feel,
and YOU won the right because you
sought not the path Of ease, but the
path of rough, disagreeable, irksome
and dangerous duty.
The President said that we are yet
a good many thousand years short of
the millennium, and our business IS TO
do our own duty and teach our chill
drep To do their duty in 4 rough work
aday world, land, - he said. 1--WE eau
not do that duty by fine phrases,
There was one person IN this country,
ho declared. he put ahead of the sol
dier-'' the really good women, the good
wife and mother who has done her fun
duty
She often has a pretty bard time,
yet the woman who with labor and
anxiety brings up her children is blessed
among women, blessed among men. |
do not pity her in the least. [ re-
spoct and admire her and hold her
worthy of admiration and honor. The
selfish creature, man or woman, who
reaches old age. having achieved ease
spised and not envied. Our admira-
4 ION ;c rnsrr,-ed for him or for her who