Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-02-22

CHICAGO. Feb. 22.-The princi-
pal feature of Washington's birth
day celebration in Chicago were
held as usual under the auspices of
the Union League club. The chief
orator OF the day was Governor
Charles e. Hughes Of New York,
whose address was devoted chiefly to
the various phases Of the character
Of Washington. The speaker was
frequently interrupted with enthu
slastic applause.
Later a secoad meeting YVES held
in Orchestra hall, at which Benjamin
Ide Wheeler president of the Uni
versity of California, delivered the
chief address.
we venerate Washington because
in supreme test he vindicated man
hood. The standards of liberty
were unsullied in his hands. We
must all take to heart the lesson
of his life if we are to realize AM
rican ideals. 1t is the lesson of the
supremacy of duty. 1t is the lesson
of honor-of fidelity to trust. 1t
must be enforced in executive cham
bers, in legislative halls, in courts
of justice. in newspaper offices, in
banks, in trust and insurance COM
panies, in professional and commerci
al life, in the marts of trade, in the
counting room and in the shop, by
employer and employed.
There is no legislative road to
character. If the spirit of Wash
ington could permeate our public
and private life we should neither
seek nor need government panacea.
And it is only in so far as in fact
that spirit imbues administration
that the government of free peo-
pie can perform its functions.
"The country is morally sound.
It's standards of business were new
er higher. The business men of the
country are for the most part honest
men, representing fairly the moral
standards of the people. And never
more than today have they taken
: as a whole, earnestly desired that
; abuses shall be stopped, that an end
shall be put to corrupt dealings and
unfair practices, that gambling shall
not parade in business livery, and
that American industry and trade
shall have free scope for development
and extension along the lines oil
honorable rivalry and with justice
to stockholders, to employers and tc
the people at large.
"Pessimists and cynics cannot de
. velop this country. We must have
| confidence in the stability of oul
institutions, in the sanity of oul
people and in their realization o
what underlies our prosperity.
Eve have only begun to develo'
the commerce of this country
"This is no time for discourage
= ment or hating, but for apprecia
ton of American opportunity an
for the intellectual and united ef
fort by which alone we can avail 0
it and deserve the blessings of pos
terity.
"To support this confidence AM
to gain these ends we must have
settled governmental policy. 1t mus
l. be policy consistent with tn
II genesis of our institutions. The peo
n ople of this country do not desir
t socialism even as an experiment
t, They do not propose to pass throug
m a dreaded quarter of an hour Q
revolutionary changes to satisf
themselves of those imperfections Q
human nature of which they ar
e. already well appraised, and whie
RS make impossible the constitution
t. society in accordance with the SC
as cialist theory. We must make prt
gress. and it must be steady an
consistent, conservating what
good and safeguarding the oppoi
IL tunities for honest effort. otherWis
v gains will be offsetted by unneee'
al sary losses and expert accountant
NJ win search in vain for credit oa
mt ance. We may accomplish needed T
n forms by making our institution
re work as they were intended to Wori
is and by efecting in the light OF u
benefits thus secured such ehang'