Arizona republican., 1910-06-08


 on the history of all the future oi mankind
 "A nation that seemingly dies may be born again; and even though in the physical sense it die utterly, 1t 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. But of all is ii 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 it down; for so shall our seed inherit the earth. But il this, which is best, is denied us then at least it is ours to remember that if 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 tc civilization, throughout all recorded time, from the dim years before history dawned down to the blazing splendOr of this teeming century of ours. IL dropped from the hand of the coward and the sluggard, or the man wrapped in luxury or love of ease, the man whose soul was eaten away by self indulgence: it has been kept alight only by those who were mighty of heart and cunning of hand. What they work at, providing it was worth doing at all. was of less matter than how they worked. whether in the realm Of mind or the realm of body. If their work was good, if what they achieved was of substance, then high success was really theirs.
 STRENGTH AND MORALITY.
 While freely admitting all Of our fOllieS and weaknesses of today, it is yet mere perversity to refuse to realize the incredible advance that has been made in ethical standards. I do not believe that tlere is the slightest nec- essary connection between any weak ening of virile force and this advance in the moral standard, this growth of the sense of obligation to ones neigh bOr and of reluctance to do that neigh bOr wrong. We need have scant pa tience with that silly cynicism which insists that kindliness of character only accompanies weakness of character. On the contrary, just as in private life many of the men of strongest charac- ter are the very men of loftiest and most exalted morality, so I believe that in national life as the ages go by we shall find that the permanent national types will more and more tend towards those in which, while the intellect stands high, character stands higher; in which rugged strength and courage, rugged capacity to resist wrongful az gression by others, will go hand in hand with a lofty scorn of doing wrong to others. This is the type Of Timo- leon of Hampden, of Washington and Lincoln. These were as good men, and disinterested and unselfish men, as ev- CT 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 civilizations must themselves supply the antidote to the self-indulgence and love of ease which they tend to pro duce.
 PROBLEM OF NATIONS.
 Every civilized nation has many and terrible problems to solve within its own borders, problems that arise not merely from juXtaposition of pow erty and riches, but especially from the self-consciousness of both povery and riches. Each nation must deal with these matters in its own fashion. and yet the spirit in which the problem is approached must ever be fundamental ly the same. It must be a spirit of broad humanity; of brotherly kind ness. of arceDtance of resDonSibilitv one for each and each for all; and at the same time a spirit as remote as the poles from every form 5f weak