The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-24
WAS GREAT DAY
FOR ROOSEVELT
Concluded from First Page.)

own. He is no good citizen unless
he has the ability which will make
him work hard and which at neet
will make him fight hard. The good
citizen is not good citizen unless he
is an efficient citizen.
Moral sense.
But II mans efficiency Is not
guided and regulated by moral
sense, then the more efficient he is
the worse he is, the more dangerous
to the body polite, Courage, inte
Iect, al the masterful qualities, serve
but to make man more evil If they
are used merely for that mans OWL
advancement. with brutal indiffer
ence to the rights of others, Il
speaks Ill for the community If thf
community worships these qualities
and treats their possessors as heroes
regardless of whether the qualities
are used rightly or wrongly 1t makes
no difference as to the precise way
in which this sinister efficiency il
shown. 1t makes no difference wheth
er such mans force and ability be
tray themselves in the career of mon
ey-maker or politician. soldier or or
ator, Journalist or popular leader 4
the man works for evil, then tht
more successful he is the more NJ
should be despised and condemned b
all upright and far-seeing men, TIC
Judge a man merely by success Is an
abhorrent wrong; and If the people
at large habitually so Judge men, i
they grow to condone wickedness he
cause the wicked man triumphs, they
show their inability to understapai
that in the last analysis free institu-
tions rest upon the character Of citi
zenship, and that by such admiration
Of evil they prove themselves unfit
for liberty
Virtues of the Home.
The homely virtues Of the house
hold. the ordinary workaday virtre-
which make the woman good house
wife and householder, which make
the man hard worker, a good hus-
band and father, soldier ait need
stand at the bottom OF character
But of course many others must be
added there to If state is to be not
only free but great. Good citizenship
is not good citizenship If exhibited
only in the home There remain the
duties of the individual in relation TO
the state, and these duties are none
too easy under the conditions which
exist where the effort is made to
carry on free government in a com
pick, industrial civilization Perhaps
the most important thing the ordinary
citizen and, above all, the leader Of
ordinary citizens, has to remember
IN political life is that he must not 10
| sheer doctrinaira, The closet phil
osopher, the refined and cultured In
lividual who from his library tell how
men ought to be governed under ideal |
is Of no u-e In actual GOV
arnment work; and the one-sidedI
anatic, and still more the mob lead
II, and the insincere man who to
lchieve power promises what BY mol
possibility can be performed, are not
merely useless but noxious.
Must Be Practical.
The citizen must have high ideat
md vet he must be able to achieved
hem in practical fashion. NO par
nanent good comes from aspirationsl
0 lofty that they have grown fantas
ic and have become impossible andl
ndeed undesirable to realize Tbel
visionary is far less Of
en- the guide and precu'os than ne is
he embittered foe of the real reform
7. Of the man who, with stumbling
nd shortcomings. yet Ices in somel
1ape, in practical fashion, give ef
act to the hopes and desires OF those
Tho strive for bettes things Woel
b the empty phrase-maker, to thel
npty idealist, who, in tead of max
IA ready the ground for the man Of
ction, turns against him when he
rpears and hampers him as he does
le work. Moreover, the preacher Of
leals must remember how sorry and
Is the figure which he
I'LL cut, how great the damage that
G will do, If he does not Esnself, in
is own life, strive measurably to
aaliZe the ideals that he preache
II others. lie him remember also
lat the worth of the ideal must be
rgely determined by the success
it'll which II can in practice be
allied We should abhCr the so
llled practical men whose practic
lily assumes Che shape of that pc
lliar baseness which finds its ex
rassion in disbelief In morality and :
scency, in disregard OF high stand
us cf living and ccIduct Such
eature is the worst enemy OF thel
,dy polite. But only less desirable
a citizen Is his nominal opponentl
ID real ally, the man of fantastic