The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-04-23
Cabinet Officers, University Students and
Savants Listen Intently While Exz ~.
President Gives His Views on Citizen
ship in Republic

include the will and the power TO
work. TO hight at need, and to have
plenty Of healthy children There are
few people in every country so born
that they can lead lives of leisure
These fill a useful function if they
make 1t evident that leisure does not
mean ldleness But the average man
must earn his own livelihood He
should be trained TO do so, and he
should be trained to feel that he oo-
cupieS contemplate position II he
does not do so; that he Is not an
object of envy il he is idle. at which
ever end OF the social scale he stands,
bat IN object OF contempt. an object
OF derislon.
In the next place. tho good man
should be both a strong and brave
man; that is, he should be ablo 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 unrightcous-
ness of war. They are right only If
they lay all their emphasis upon the
unrighteousnesS. War Is 4 dreadful
thing, and unjust war is a. crime
against humanity. But II IS such a
crime because 1t is unjust. not be-
cause IT IS war. The choice must
ever be In favor Of righteousness. and
this whether the alternative be peace
or whether the alternative be war.
The question must not be merely, Is
there to be peace or war? The ques-
tion must be. Is the right to prevail?
Are the great laws of righteousness
once more TO be fulfilled? And the
answer from strong and yirlle peo-
pie must be. Yes whatever the cost
Finally, even more important than
ability TO work, EVEN more important
than ability to fight at need. is il to
remember that the chief OF blessings
for any nation is that IT shall leave
its seed TO inherit the land -It was
the crown of blessings IN Biblican
times, and il Il the crown of bless
lngS now. The greatest OF all curses
IS the curse of sterillty, and the Sc
verest of all condemnaticns should be
that visited upon wilful sterillty. The
first essential in any civilization is
that the man and the woman shall be
father and mother OF healthy children.
so that the race shall increase and not
decrease. If this is not so, IL through
no fault of the society there is fail
ure to increase. Ii is a great misfor-
tune II the failure is due to dellb.
crate and wilful fault. then it is not
merely a misfortune, 1t is one of those
crimes of ease and self-indulgence, of
shrinking from pain and effort and
risk. which in the long run Nature
Furnishes more heavily than any other.
If we Of the great republics. if We.
the free people who claim TO have
emancipated ourselves from the thral-
dom Of wrong and error, bring down
on our heads the curse that comes
upon the wilfully barren. then 1t Will
be an idle waste of breath to prattle
of our achievements, TO boast Of all
that we have done No refinement of
life, no delioacy Of taste. no material
progress. no sordid heaping up of
riches, no sensuous development Of
art and literature. can In any way
compensate for the loss Of the great
fundamental virtues; and of these
great fundamental virtues, the great
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