The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-05-13

acclesiasticism which they denounce.
Yet our debt to scientific men is in
caIculable. and our civilization Of to-
day would have reft from it all that
which most highly distinguished it If
the work of the great masters of
science during the past four centuries
were now undone or forgotten. New
Ter 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 perfectibility of man when his
heart runs away with his head. or
when vanity usurps the place of CON
science. yet we must remember also
that it 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
a higher and more permanent plane of
well-being than was ever attained by
any preceding civilization. Unjust
war is to be abhorred: but woe to the
nation that does not make ready to
hold its own in time of need against
all who would harm it; and woe thrice
over to the nation in which the aver
age man loses the fighting edge, loses
the power to serve as a soldier if the
day of need should arise.
''It is no impossible dream to build
up civilization in which morality.
ethical development, and true feel
ing of brotherhood shall all alike be
divorced from false sentimentality
and from the rancorous and evil pas
sions which, curiously enough, so Of
ten accompany professions of senti-
mental attachment to the rights of
man; in which high material de-
velopment in the things of the body
shall be achieved without subordina-
tion of the things Of the soul; in which |
there shall be genuine desire for
peace and justice without loss of those
virile qualities without which no love
Of peace or justice shall avail any
race; in which the fullest development
Of scientific research, the great dis
feature of our present
civilization, shall yet not imply be-
lief that intellect can ever take the
place of character--for, from the /
standpoint of the nation as of the in
dividual, 1t is character that is the
one vital possession
Finally, this world movement of
civilization. this movement which is
now felt throbbing in every corner of
The globe, should bind the nations Of
the world together while yet leaving
that love of country in
the individual citizen which in the
present stage of the worlds progress
Is essential to the worlds well-being.
You, my hearers, and who speak to
you, belong to different nations. Under
modern conditions the books we read.
the news sent by telegraph to our
newspapers. the strangers we meet.
half of the things we hear and do
each day. all tend to bring us into
touch with other peoples Each peo-
pie can do justice to itself only IL
It does justice to others; but each
people can do its part in the world
for all only if 1t first does
It's duty within its own household, The
good citizen must be good citizen
Of his own country first before he can
with advantage be citizen of the
world at large. wish you well. / /
believe In you and your future ad.
mire and wonder at the extraordinsl
ary greatness and variety of your
achievements in so many and such
widely different fields; and my admir-.
alton and regard are al the greater,
and not the less. because am so pro-
found a believer In the institutions
and the people Of my own land