Arizona republican., 1910-04-24

cynic, or flop, or voluptuary. There 1 is little use for the being whose tepij
 soul knows nothing of the great and generous emotion, of the high pride.
 the stern belief. the lofty enthusiasm
 of the men who quelt the storm and | ride the thunder. Well for those men
 if they succeed. well. also. though
 not so we'll, if they fail. given only that they have nobly yentured. and
 have put forth all their heart and | strength. It is warworn Hotspur, | spent with hard fighting, he of the | many errors and valiant end. over
 whose memory we love to finger. not
 over the memory of the young lord | who but for the vile guns would ! have been soldier"
 FRANCIS SPLENDID POSITION. France has taught many lessons to other nations; surely one of the most
 important is the lesson her whole hs- tory teaches. that a high artistic and
 literary development is compatible
 with notable leadership in arms and statecraft. The brilliant gallantry of
 the French soldery has for many centuries been proverbial; and dur
 ing these same centuries at every
 court in Europe the ''freemasons of
 fashion" have treated the French
 tongue as their common speech: while
 every artist and man of letters. and
 every man of science able to appre-
 ciate that marvellous instrument of
 precision, French prose. has turned
 towards France for aid and inspira-
 tion. How long the leadership in
 arms and leadership has lasted is
 curiously illustrated by the fact that
 the earliest masterpiece in a modern
 tongue is the. splendid French epic
 which tells of Roland's doom and the
 vengeance of Charlemagne when the
 lords of the F'rankish host were
 stricken at Roncesvalles.
 Let those who have, keep: let those who have not, strive to attain, high
 standard of cultivation and scholar ship. Yet let us remember that these stand second to certain other things. There is, need of d sound body. and even more need of sound mind But above mind and above body stands characteristic sum of whose qualities which we mean when we speak of 9 mans force and courage. of his good l faith and sense of honor I believe in | exercise for the body, always. provided | that we keep in mind that physical | development is a means and not an end. l believe, of course, in giving | to all the people a good education | But the education must contain much | besides book learning in order to be | really good. We must ever remember | that no keenness and subtlety of in tellect, no polish, no cleverness, in any | way make up for the lack of the great solid qualities. Self-restraint. self mastery. common sense. the power of 1 accepting individual responsibility and i yet of acting with others. courage and are the qualities which mark a masterful people. With out them no people can control itself, pr save itself from being controlled from the outside. l speak to a brill iant assemblage: I speak in great which represents the flower of the highest intellectual develop ment: 1 pay all homage to intellect, and to the elaborate and specialized training of the intellect: and yet know 1 shall have the assent of all of you present when I add that more important still are the commonplace. everyday qualities and virtues.
 THE NEED TO WORK.
 Such ordinary. everyday qualities include the will and the power to work to fight at need. and to have plenty of healthy children. The need [ that the average man shall work is so | obvious as hardly to warrant insis- tence. There are q few people in ev- cry country so born that they can lead lives of leisure. These fill a 1 useful function if they make it evil dent that leisure does not mean idle ness: for some of the most valuable | work needed by civilization is essen tially non-remunerative in it's char acter. and of course the people who do this work should in large part be | drawn from those to whom remuner- 1 ation is an object of indifference. But | the average man must earn his own livelihood He should be trained to do so. and he should betrained to feel that he occupies contemptible posi- r tion if he does not do so; that he is not an object of envy if he is idle. at whichever end of the social scale lands. but an object of contempt. an object of derision.
 In the next place. the good man should be both strong and brave man: that is. he should be able to fight. he should be able to serve his country as a soldier if the need arises. There are well-meaning philosophers who declaim against the unrighteous. ness of war They are right only if they lay all their emphasis upon the unrighteousness. War is dreadful | thing. and unjust war is a crime against humanity. But it is such a crime because it is unjust, not because it is war The choice must ever be in favor of righteousness. and whether the alternative be peace or whether l the alternative be war. The question