The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-04-23

democracy, are, as a matter of course,
drawn from the classes represented
in this audience today; but only pro-
vfded that those classes possess the
gifts Of sympathy with plain people
and Of devotion TO great ideals. You
and those like you have received
special advantages; you have all OF
you had the opportunity for mental
training; many Of you have had Ieis-
ure: most of you have had a chance
for the enjoyment of life far greater
H than comes to the majority of your
fellows. To you and your kind much
has been given. and from you much
should be expected.
Not Critic Who Counts.
ut is not the critic who counts; not
the man who points out how the
strong man stumbles. or where the
doer OF deeds could have done them
better. The credit belongs to the man
who is actually In the arena, whose
face Is marred by dust and sweat and
blood: who strives valiantly; who errs,
!. and comes short again and again, be-
cause there is no effort without error
and shortcoming; but who does act
ually strive to do the deeds; who
knows the great enthusiasm, the great
devotions; who spends himself in a.
worthy cause: who at the best knows
in the end the triumph of high
achievement. and who at the worst IL
he fails, at least fails while daring
II greatly, so that his place shall never
be with those cold and timid souls
/ who know neither victory nor defeat
Shame on the Fop.
Shame on the man of cultivated
taste who permits retirement to de-
velop In a fsstidiousness that units
him for doing the rough work OF
workaday world. Among the free peo-
| pies who govern themselves there is
but a small field Of usefulness open
| for the men of cloistered life who
shrink from contact With their fellows.
4 Still less room is there for those who
1 deride or slight what is done by those
who actually bear the brunt of the
day; nor yet for those others who al
ways profess that they would like to
| take action, IL only the conditions of
life we're not what they actually are.
IT pay all homage to intellect, and
to elaborate and specialized training
of the intellect; and yet know / shall
have the assent Of all of you present
when add that more important still
are the commonplace, every day quail
tiles and virtues.
Such ordinary, everyday qualities
include the viii and the power to work,
to fight at need, and to have plenty
of healthy children. There are a few
people in every country so born that
: they can lead lives of leisure. These
; fill q useful function if they make
1t evident that leisure does not mean
idleness. 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 occupies a con-
temptible position If he does not do
so; that he is not an object OF envy
IL he Is idle, at whichever end of the
social scale he stands but an object
Of contempt, an object Of derision.
The Question of War.
I'm the next place. the good man
should be both strong and j brave
man; that is, he should be able to
fight, he should be able to serve his
country as a soldier If the need arises.
There are well-meaping philosophers
who disciaim against the unrighteous-
ness of war. They are right only IL
they lay all their emphasis upon the
unrighteousness. War is a dreadful
thing, and unjust war Is crime
against humanity But II is such a
crime because it is unjust, not because
1t is war. The choice must ever be in
favor OF righteousness. and this
whether the alternative be war. The
question must not be merely, is there
to be peace or war? The question
must be, Is the right to prevail? Are
1 the great laws of righteousness once
more to be fulfilled? And the answer
from strong and virile people must
be, Yes whatever the cost.
/ Boost For the stor<.
Finally, even more important than
ability to work. even more important
than ability to fight at need, is to re-
member that the chief of blessings for
any nation is that it shall leave it's
seed TO hererit the land. 1t was the
crown Of blessings In Biblican times;
and Ii is the crown of blessings now.
The greatest Of all curses IL the curse
of sterility. and the severest of all
COMBINATIONS should be that visited
upon wilful sterility. The first essen
tial in any civilization IL that the man
I, and the woman shall be father and
Il mother of healthy children, so that
the race shall increase and not de-
crease. II this is not so. IL through
no fault OF the society there is failure
to increase, 1t is great misfortune
IL WiIIfui Fault, It's a Crime.
i 'If the failure is due to deliberate
J and wiilful fault then It Is not merely
misfortune 1t is one Of those crimes
i OF ease and self-indulgence, OF shrink
ing from pain and effort and risk,
which In the long run rat.-re Furnishes
!, more heavily than any other. re we Of
the great republics, IL we, the free peo-
pie who claim to have emancipated
i ourselves from the thraldom OF wrong
and error. bring down on our heads
the curse that comes upon the willfully
Il barren, then it will be an idle waste
J OF breath to prattle Of our achieve
! ments. to boast of all that we have
done.
i mo refinement Of life, no delicacy
OF taste. no material progress no sor-
] did 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 greatest is the races power to per-
petuate the race
I'm short, the good citizen In a re-
! public must realize that he ought to
possess two sets of qualities, and that