The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-05-14

pssrins IN but limited numbseD d -
msrcsnary armies BY which they vegD
piundsred. Gradually this has Ill cha1ood.
until now practically every army 70 . 4
citizen army, and the msrcsnary has AI-
most disappeared. while the army exists
on q vaster scale than ever before In his
tory. This Is SO among the military mon
archies of Europe.
In our own Civil war Of the United
States the same thing occurred. peaceful
people as we are. At that time more tnan
two generations had passed since the
War of Independence. During the whole
of that period the people had been en-
gagged in no life-and-death struggle; ana
yet, when the Civil war broke out. ana
after some costly and bitter lessons at
the beginning, the fighting spirit OF the
people was shown to better advantage
than ever before. The war was peculiar
ly>S war for a principle, war wased
bySVach side for an ideal. and while faults
and shortcomings were plentiful among
the combatants, there was comparatively
little sordidness Of motive or conduct. In
such q giant struggle, where across the
warp of so many interests Is shot the
wool of so many purposes. dark STRANDS
and bright. strands somber and brilliant
are always intertwined: inevitably there
was corruption here and there in the Civil
war; but all the leaders on both Sides.
and the great majority of the enormous
masses of fighting men, wholly disre-
| garded, and were wholly uninfiuenced by,
pecuniary considerations.
Wealth and Politics.
Another striking contrast In the course
| Of modern civilization as compared with
| the later stages of the Graeco-Roman or
| classic civilization is to be found In the
| relations of wealth and politics. In clas-
sic times, as the civilization advanced to-
ward its zenith. politics became recog-
nized means of accommodating great
wealth. Caesar was again and again on
| the verge of bankruptcy; he spent an
enormous fortune; and he recouped him.
| self by the money which he made out OF
| his POLITICAL military career. Augustus es-
| tablished imperial Rome on firm founda-
| lions by the use he made of the huge
| fortune he had acquired by plumber. What
| contrast Is offered by the careers OF
| Washington and Lincoln There were
| few exceptions In ancient days; but the
| immense majority of the Greeks and the
| Romans, as their civilizations eliminated.
| accepted money-making on a large scale
| as one of the incidents Of successful
public career Now all of this Is in sharp
| contrast to what has happened within
| the last two or three centuries. During
| this time there has been steady growth
| away from the theory that money-makins
| is permissible in an honorable public ca
| reer.
In this respect the standard has been
| constantly elevated, and things which
| statesmen had no hesitation in doing
| three centuries or two centuries ego, and
| which did not seriously hurt a public ca
| reer even century ago, are now utterly
| impossible. Wealthy men still exercise q
| large. and sometimes an improper, infiu-
| ence in politics, but II Is apt to be an in
direct influence; and in the advanced
states the mere suspicion that the wealth
| of public men is obtained or added to as
an Incident of their public careers will
| bar them from public life. Speaking
generally. wealth may very greatly infiu-
ence modern political life. but 1t is not ao-
| quired in political life.(
| Optimistic for tho Future.
| Mr.. Roosevelt called attention to
ton that has arisen has been able to
develop only few activities, its field
of endeavor being limited in kind as
well as in locality, and each Of these
civilizations has fallen. What Is the
lesson to us Of today? he asked VIII
the crash come, and be all the more
| terrible because of the immense in.
crease in activities and area? To this
he replied:
| personally, L DO not DeleVe tnat OuI
! civilization will fall. think that on the
whole we have grown better and not
| worse. think that on the whole the fu.
| ture holds more for us than even the
| great past has held. But, assuredly. the
dreams Of golden glory in the future will
| not come true unless, high of heart and
| strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds
| we make them come true. We cannot at.
ford to develop any one set OF qualities,
any one set of activities. at the cost Of
| seeing others, equally necessary, afro
| phied. Neither the military efficiency OF
the Mongo the extraordinary business
ability OF the Phoenician. nor the subtle
| and polished intellect of the Greek availed
| to avert destruction.
We, the men of today and of the fu-
| ture. need many qualities II we are to do
| our work well. We need, first of all and
| most important Of ALL the qualities which
stand at the base of individual, of family
| life, the fundamental and essential quail
ties-the homely, everyday, all-important
| virtues. II the average man will not
work, II he has not In him the will and
| the power to be a good husband and IA
| Their; II the average woman Is not q good
housewife good mother of many
| healthy-children then the state will top
| pie, will go down, no matter what may
| be its brilliance Of artistic development
| or material achievement. But these home-
| ly qualities are not enough There must.
In addition, be that power of organization,
that power Of working in common for O
| common end, which the German people
| have shown In such signal fashion during
| the last half-century. Moreover. the
things of the spirit are even more impor-
tant than the things of the body. We can
we'll do without the hard intolerance and
| arid intellectual barrenness OF what was
worst In the theological systems Of the
past, but there has never been a greater
need Of high and fine religious spirit
| than at the present time. SO, while we
can laugh good-humoredy at some OF
the pretensions of modern philosophy In
Its various branches, 1t would be worse
than folly on our part to ignore our need
of intellectual leadership.
| Must steer Middle Course.
Never has philanthropy. humanitarian
ism, seen such development as now: and
| though we must all beware of the folly
| and the viciousness no worse than folly.
which marks the believer in the perfec-
tibility of man when his heart runs away
| with hfs head, or when vanity usurps the
place of conscience, yet we must remem-
| Der also that II Is only by working along
the lines laid down by the philanthropists.
/ by the lovers Of mankind. that we can
be sure of lifting our civilization to q
higher and more permanent plane of we'll
being than was ever attained by any pre-
| cedng civilization. Unjust war n to be