The Cairo bulletin., 1908-04-14
|C MAN OF
PRESENT TINE
ITO SERVE THE PEOPLE HE
MUST BE ONE OF
THEM"
THE LOfT|EST IDEALS
Spring From Grass Roots-Beveridae
Addresses Harvard Students
On Obligation of Pub
tic Offices.

I
| Cambridge. Mass, April l3.-Har
Union Hall was thronged with str
dents tonight 10 hear an address Ct
tSenator Beve:ise. Of indiana. Earlier
tin the evening Ecveridge was diael
by the members OF Harvard Indiana
lelub.
The subject of Senator Peyerilee
was THE Obligations Of Publ,
Office" He said in part:
"To serve the people, you mrst b.
cf the peoplethis is the first ob.iga
tion of public Office. No man knows
what Il gool for the people betttr
than the people themselves. The
common thought is truer than indi-
yidua thought He who thinks him
self too good 10 ungIe with th =,
masses. is !" 4lity too bad to repre-
sent ~ E: republic
g. sing one OF the people does MT
narrow you--it troadens you, Many
American farmers have a larger cut
look and broader human sympathies
than some of the statesmen Of
| Europe The American masses ara
rot ignorant aud dull
The Presert-Day Public Man.
The present day American public
nan not only must study the nations
problems must master them
During the last generation the coun
try developed the politician rather
than the statesman because, on the
one hand, most Of the best minds OF
the country were absorbed with tha
physical making of the nation, aud
because, on the other hand the work
our public men had to do was, chiefly
national housekeeping.
Those politicians have little time
and less study 70 public questions
and much time and more attention to
political maaipulations. Their par
hose was. 10 keep themselves ia 7
public position. end to secure victory
for their party.
The Serpentinr Public Man.
Public men must take their stand
on public questions while these ques-
tions are up for decision not after
they are decided. Fhe public man who
has no views il more dangerous than
the demagogue.
ut Is better TO be honestly wrong
than to be dishonesty vague; for
he man who Is honestly in the wrong
sill frankly say Sc when he sees the
right But the man who is dis
hcnestly vague will champion neither
| the right nor the wrong, but only that
hn h.
FOR the moment and thus serve his
personal ambition. But no public
man has any right to consider his
private advantages, he must con
sider only the general good.
THE public nan who avoids all
present issues because he has no cor.
ylctions on any. or because he fears
to offend this or that group of voters.
| Is a menace
National Net Local Ideal.
1T IS the obligation of American
public office to lcok upon all legisia.
ton from the Rational viewpoint in,
stead of the local and provincial
viewpoint; from the viewpoint of the
good of all lPe people instead Of the
selfish advantage of few Of tn
people. That legislator who does NOT
consider every general measure as a
law of the whole American people.
foi the welfare. comfort and progress
of the entire nation Is as incompetent
to make laws for this republic in the
twentieth century as the captain of a
sailing vessel In the time Of Drake
would be incompetent TO command
the Lusitania Of today.
Never in history was there such
a day for yo'ns men In public life
as that which has now dawned. There
Ia so much mu~e TO be done than
there ever was before. so many m "a
hands needed for that work than
ever before-tiean hands, strong
hands trained hands. American pub
lie life is crying aloud for men who
are honest. Industrious ami eqUippel
The call is to every one Of yoh
Answer il If ycu are willing 10 make
The sacrifice; for TO serve the nati7n
means sacrifice. II means battle from
start to gnish The fight IS nevee
over: each hard won victory meauS
another eontes. You cannot sit IT
your clubs and serve the republic;
you cannot lock yourselves in ven,
library and solve the nations prob
lens. YOU cannot Gally in society and
perform the country's service
You must minGlc with AhraheA
Uncoln's plain l.eople-and this .
not abasement. but exaltation; fo'
a. the firesides a the millions dweu
the purity AMI .'awer of the land
and there also ahides Its hope. You
must walk the common earth. whencs
came Antaets' strength-and this
win not lowfr you. bat VIII lift Voc :
higher still. 'ae Hottest ideals spriag
from the grss roots The Savfef
chose his followers not from the