Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1910-04-27
TEDDY TELLS FRENCH
RACE SUICIDE VIEWS.
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from the deeds for which they are
supposed 10 stand. The phrase. max
( or. the phrase mongcr, the ready talk
or, however great his power, whose
speech does not make for courage
sobriety, and right understanding, is
simply "a noxious element in the
body polite, and il speaks i'll for
N. public II he has influence over
them. To admire the gift Of ora.
tory without regard TO the moral
quality behind the gift is 10 do wrong
10 the republic.
In short. the good citizen in n
republic must realize that he ought
that neither avails without the 9th.
er. lie must have those qualities
which make for efficiency; and he
must also have those qualities which
direct the efficiency into channels
for the public good. He is useless
if he is inefficient. There is moth
ing to be done with that type Of
citizen 81 whom all that can be
said is that he IL harmless. Virtue
which is dependent upon sluggish
circulation is not impressive. There
is little place in active life for the
timid good man. The man who IL
saved by weakness from robust wick.
edness is likewise rendered immune
from the robuster virtues. The good
citizen in republic must first Of
oil be. able to hold his own. He Is
no good citizen unless he has the
ability which will make him work
hard and which Mt need will make
him figbt hard. The good citizen Is
not good citizen unless he il an
efficient citizen.
Must Judge Carefully.
But II a mans efficiency is, not
guided and regulated by a moral
sense, then the more efficient he
IL the worse he Is, the more danger.
Gus TO the body polite. Courage, in.
tellect. all the masterful qualities,
serve but TO make man more evil
IL they are used merely for that man =
own advancement. with brutal IN
difference to the rights Of others.
II speaks i'll for the community IL
the community worships these quail.
ties and, treats their possessot. as
heroes regardless of whether the quail.
ties are used rightly or wrongly. II
makes no difference as to the pre-.
else way in which this sinister eff.
cheney is shown. II makes no differ
ence whether such n mans force and
ability betray themselves in the car.
eer Of money. maker or politician, sol.
der or orator. journalist or popular
leader. IL the man works for evil.
then the more successful he IL the
more he should be despised and con
demned by all upright and far.
seeing men. To Judge n man merely
by success is an sbborrent wrong;
and II the people at large habitually
20 judge men, IL they grow TO con.
done wickedness because the wicked
man triumphs. they show their inabil.
ity to understand that in the last
analysis free institutions rest upon
the character of citizenship, and that
by such admiration Of evil they prove
themselves unfit for liberty.
The homely virtues Of the house.
hold, the ordinary workaday virtues
which make the woman n good house
wife and bousemother. which make
the man hard worker. n good hus.
band and father, n good soldier at
need, stand at the bottom of char
acter. But Of course many Others
must be added thereto IL n State liz
to be NOT only free but great. Good
citizenship is not good citizenship IL
exhibited only in the home. There
remains the duties Of the individual
in relation to the State. and these
duties are none too easy under the
conditions which exist where the 81.
fort is made to carry on free gov
eminent in complex, industrial civ
ilization. Perhaps the most important
thing the ordinary citizen, and, above
all, the leader Of ordinary citizens,
has TO remember in political life il
that he must not be sheer doe
trinaire. The closet philosopher, the
refined and cultured individual who
from his library tells how men ought
to be governed under ideal conditions,
IL Of no use in actual governmental
still more the mob leader, and the
insincere man who to achieve pow
or promises what by no possibility
can be performed, are not merely
useless hut noxious.
tue citiIch must nave high Ideals,
and yet he must be able TO achieve
them in practical fashion. No per.
mnnent good comes from aspirations
40 lofty that they have grown fan
tastic and have become impossible
and indeed undesirable TO realize. The
impracticable visionary il far less
often the guide and precursor than
he IN the embittered foe of the real
reformer, OF the man, who, with
stumblings and shortcomings, yet does
IN some shape, In practical fashion,
give effect TO the hopes and desires
of those who strive for better things.
Woe to the empty phrase.maker, to
the empty idealist, who, instead of
making ready the ground for the man
OF action, turns against him when
he appears and hampers him as he
does the work! Moreover, the preach
or Of ideals must remember how
sorry and contemplate Is the figure
that he will do, II he does not him.
self, in his own life, strive measur. |