The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-05-18

where that s possible, ana 81 least
ID minimize lis results PROSPERITY
such Is ours, necessary though # be
As the materia basis q national
greatness Inevitably tends Il andne
e1altation 81 the merely materlai
side Of the national character: ana
We must largely rely 81 the efforts
OF such men and women as those
am addfes sing to build i i the spirlt-
nal life without which the material
life amounts % nothing. AS genera
tion succeeds generation the prob
lens change in their external shape;
old needs vanish. and new needs
arise; int Ii remains as true as ever
that ii the last ANALYSIS national
greatness. national happiness, 1a-
tianaT success, depend upon the char
acfer OF the individual man and inli-
ridual woman We need good laws !.
We need to have these laws honestly
and fearlessly administered we need
wealth; we need science and art and
an the kindred activities that spring
from the clever brain and the dett
hand. But most Of all we need the
essential qualities that In their sum
make up the good man and the
good woman; most Of all we need
that hne and healthy family life the
lack Of which makes amy seeming
material prosperity but a glIttering
sham.
IF the average man Is brave and
hardworlking and clean living, if the
average woman has the qualities
which make d good wife. u each has
self-respect and II each realize that
The greatest thing in life Is the
chance. to do service why, then the
future OF the Nation s secure. We
can not stan up for what is COON In
manhood and womanhood without
condemning what Is evil We must
condemn the man who IS either bru-
tai and vicious, or weak and coward
lys the man who fails TO do his duty
by the public, who Is a bad neighbor,
an idler, an inconslderate and selfish
husband, a neglectful father. So also
must we condemn the woman who,
whether from cowardice or GOODNESS,
from selfish love of ease or from lack
OF all true womanly quality: refuses to
do right her great and all essential
duties of wlfehood and motherhood.
We admire good man; but we adj
mire q good woman more. We be-.
lieve in her more. All honor is due
the man who does his full duty in
peace. who as a soldier does his full
duty in war, but even more honor Is.
due the mother, for the birth pangs
make all men the debtors of all wo-
men. No human being has a greater
title to respect than the mother who
does her full duty, who bears and
rears plenty of healthy children. so
that there shall be- national growth
and not national decadence, so that
in quality and in quantity our people
shall increase. The measure of our
belief in and respect for the good
man and the good woman must be in
a measure of our condemnation OF the,
man and woman who, whether from
viciousness or selhshness or from va
pid folly, falls to do each Mis- or her
duty in his or her special sphere.
Courage, unselflshness. common sense
devotion to high ideals, proper care
for the things OF the spirit, and yet
also for the things OF the BODY
these are what we most need 10 see in
our people; these are the qualities
that make up the right type Of fans
lily life; and these are tho qualities
that by precept and by example you
here, whom am addressing. arc.
bound to do all in your power to
make the typical qualities Of Amerl-
can citizenship"