Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-14

was to avoid all danger, all effort, who
would risk nothing, and who therefore
gained nothing. In the end the same
fate may overwhelm all alike; but the
memory of the one type perishes with
it, while the other leaves its mark deep
on the history Of all the future Of man.
kind.
"A nation that seemingly dies may
be born again, and even though in the
physical sense it die utterly, may
yet hand down a history Of heroic
achievement, and for all time to come
may profoundly influence the nations
that arise in its place by the impress
Of what it has done. Best Of all Is it
to do our part well, and at the same
time to see our blood live young and
vital in men and women fit to take up
the task as we lay 1t down; for so
shall our seed inherit the earth. But II
this, which Is best, Is denied us. then at
least 1t Is ours to remember that II we
choose we can be torch bearers, as our
fathers were before us. The torch has
been handed on from nation to nation,
from civilization to civilization,
throughout all recorded time. from the
dim years before history dawned down
to the blazing splendor Of this teem-
ing century of ours. 1t dropped from
the hand Of the coward and the slug
gard, OF the man wrapped in luxury
or love of ease, the man whose soul
was eaten away by self-indulgence; 1t
has been kept alight only by those who
were mighty Of heart and cunning OF
hand. What they worked at, provid-
ing 1t was worth doing at ALL was OF
less matter than how they worked,
whether in the realm Of the mind or
the realm of the body. II their work
was good, II what they achieved was
of substance, then high success was
really theirs.
Advance of Ethical Standards.
while freely admitting all Of our
folies and weaknesses of today, 1t Is
yet mere perversity to refuse to real
iZe the incredible advance that has
been made in ethical standards. do
not believe that there Is the slightest
necessary connection between any
weakening Of the virile force and this
advance in the moral standard, this
growth Of the sense of obligation to
ones neighbor and Of reluctance to do
that neighbor wrong. We need have
scant patience with that silly cynicism
which insists that kindliness Of char
acter only accompanies weakness OF
character. On the contrary, just as In
private life many Of the men OF strong
est character are the very men OF lof-
tiest and most exalted morality, so l
believe that in national life as the
ages go by we shall find that the per-
manent national types will more and
more tend towards those in which,
while the intellect stands high, char
acter stands higher; in which rugged
strength and courage, rugged capacity
to resist wrongful aggression by 9TH
ers, will go hand in hand with a lofty
scorn of doing wrong to others. This
is the type of Timoleon, Of Hampden,
of Washington and Lincoln. These
were as good men, as disinterested
and unselfsh men, as ever served a
state; and they were also as strong
men as ever founded or saved a state.
Surely such examples prove that there
is nothing Utopian in our effort to
combine justice and strength In the
same nation. The really high civiliza-
tions must themselves supply the an
tidote to the self-indulgence and love
Of ease which they tend to produce.
Every modern civilized nation has
many and terrible problems to solve
within it's own borders, problems that
arise not merely from juxtaposition OF
poverty and riches, but especially from
the elf-consciousness Of both poverty
and riches. Each nation must deal
with these matters in its own fashion,
and yet the spirit in which the prob
lem is approached must ever be fun
damentally the same. 1t must be
spirit Of broad humanity, Of brotherly
kindness, of acceptance Of responsible
ty, one for each and each for all; and