Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-13

man who if poor, would envy and hate the
man who was richer. Conversely, the poor
man who regards with bitter and malignant
envy the man who is better off, who breaches
the doctrine of hate toward that man. is
himself the man who. If 1t had happened
that he were rich. would grind down the
faces of those who were less we'll off than
he
Quality That Makes a Man.
you can pretty well tell in the ranks
whether the man is the type of man you
would be willing to work alongside of or
under, or to have work under you. If he
has the quality that makes him good man
in one relation, he is apt to have the quality
that would make him a good man in the
other relations. In other words, friends,
we cannot afford in our civic life to permit
the existence of any standa:d d. save the
standard of conduct, as being the standard
by which we judge our fellow-citzens. We
cannot afford to judge him by the accident
of his position. We must judge him by the
fundamentals of his character, by what
there is in him, not by where it happens
that he is placed.
Let us remember. all of u.s. that while
now and then a good deal can be done by
legislation. yet fundamentally in the last
resort, what counts Is less the outward law
than the soul of the man who stands be-
hind the law. In you can do nothing
without proper discipline and training: vet
there are some men whom you might train
and discipline until eternity and they would
iiot NC WI III tliiIS lllell nom GU can
not get anything out of because it is not
in them to get out So it is in civil affairs.
If the average citizen has not the right
quality in him, then the best explanation,
the best law. the best administration of the
laws that the wit of man can devise, will
avail nothing to save the nation. If the
average man. the average woman, is not
of the right type the nation will go down.
and l think on the whole our nation will
continue to go up, because | think that the
average American is a pretty good fellow
and l may add that l think his wife an
even better fellow.
Humdrum Daily Duties.
'Of course, it is necessary above all for
us to remember to do the seemingly little
humdrum daily duties we'll The first step
to take toward good citizenship by any
man is to be a good man in his own home
If he is a good husband, a good father a
good son, If he works hard for those who
are dependent upon him, and if he is tender
and considerable of them, then he has taken
the first step toward good citizenship, and
If he has not taken this step, | don't care
how lofty his professions are outside, he is
a poor citizen. The man who does not take
care of his family, who is shiftless, who
does not work. who is unkind. cruel,
thoughtless toward his wife or his children
who is bad son, bad husband a bad
father, is not good citizen and cannot
possibly be-
But he is just the type of man who is
apt to gather with a number of others of
the same kind and demand that the whole
social and economic constitution of the
country be changed. He is very strong
on that point, but he does not begin where
he ought to and change. what Is most i'm
portant-that is himself. Wage stern war
on all public abuses of country, strive
nightly for reforms, but begin by being a
good man in your home.
But, of course, that is not enough.
Go on and be good man in your relations
with your neighbors. You cannot be of real
to the state If you are the type of
man whom nobody wants to have live next
door to him or do business with If you are
che kind Of man that the neighbor Is blad
TO have move into the house next to him and
glad to do business with down at
the corner store you are a pretty good
citizen And even this is not enough. You
have got to be good American a good
citizen of our common country. Do the
humdrum duties. Remember that you can
never amount to anything if the heroic days
should arise unless you have done your or
binary everyday duties first. Yet remem-
Der, also, that If the need arises you must
also have in you the divine spark the life
of soul. which will make you spring
eagerly forward to do the deeds of a hero
when the times call for the deeds of hero.
In the times that tried mems souls, from
1861 to 1865 it was necessary not merely
that the man should have good aspirations,
that he should be a kindly decent man, but
that he should have the iron in his blood,
that he should have in him the quality that
enabled him TO meet the great and terrible
crisis that had arisen.
Duties of Citizenship.
600 II Sia in our whole civil life IT In NOT