Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-06-08

its mark deep on the history of all
the future of mankind.
"A nation that seemingly dies may
he born again: ana even though in tho
physical sense IL die utterly. 1t may
vet hand down n history of heroic
achievement, ana for all time TO come
may profoundly influence the nations
that arise in its place by the impress
Of what II has done. Best of all is IL
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
IL this. which is best. is denied us,
then at least II 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 TO
civilization, throughout all recorded
time, from the dim years before his
tory dawned. down to the blazing
splendor of this teeming century or
ours. 1t dropped from the hand or
the coward end tho elugeard, of the
man wrapped in luxury or love or
ease. the mar whose soul was eaten
away by self-indulgence; it has been
kept alight only by those who were
mighty of heart ana cunning OF hand.
What they worked at, providing il 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, IT
what they achieved was of substance,
then high success was really theirs.
while freely admitting all of our
follies and weaknesses of today, II is
vet more perversity to refuse to real
i2e the incredible advance that has
haan made in ethical standards. ! do
not believe the there Is the slightest
necessary connection between any
Weakening of virile force and this ad-
vance in the moral standard, this
growth of the sense of Obligation to
cne's neighbOr and of reluctance 20 do
that neighhor wrong. We need nave
scant patience with that silly Synlclsm
which insists that kindness of char
meter only accompanies weakness CT
character. Or the contrary, lust -
in private iifa many of thp men ot
strongest character are the very mon
of ioftiost ana most exalted morality
SO | 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 ana courage, rugged capacl-
tV to resist wrongful aggression by
others, will go hand in hand with q
lofty scorn Of doing wrong 10 others
This Is the type of Timoleon of Hamp-
den, Of Washington and Lincoln
These were as good men, and disinter-
ested and unsclfish men, as ever serV-
ed a state; and they were also as
strong men as ever founded or saved
n state. Surely such examples prove
that there Is nothing Utopian in our
effort to combine Justice n strength
in the same nation. The really hlgl
civilizations must themselves supply
the antidote to the sell-inGulgence
and love OF ease which they tend u
produce.
EVERY modern civilized nation has
many and terrible problems 10 solve
within its own borders, problems that
arise not merely from j~uXtaposition
of poverty and riches. hut especially
from the scli-consciousness Of both
poverty n riches. Each nation
must deai with these matters in its
own fashion, and yet the spirit IN
which the problem Is approached
must ever be Fundamentally the same.
1t must be "a spirit of broad human
ity: of brothcrly kindness, of accept
ance of responsibility. one for each
and each for all: and NJ the same
time Il spirit as remote AS the poles
from every form Of weakness ana
sentimcntality. As in war TO pardon ,
the coward is to do cruel wrong To
the brave man whose life his cow
ardice jcopardizes. 50 in civil affairs
IL is revolving 10 every principle OF
justice To give to the lazy, the vicious.
even the feeble and dull-witted. n
reward which is really the robbery OF
what Drawer. wiser, ADLER men have
earned. The only effective way 10
help any man is 10 help him TO heln
himself. and the worst lesson to teach
him is that he can be permanently
at the expense % some one
else. True liberty shows itself TO best
in protecting the rights Of
and especially of minoritics-
Privilege should not be tolerated be-
cause IL is 10 the advantage of a
minority. nor yet because II Is Ia the
advantage Of "A majority. No doc
trinaire theories Of vested rights or
freedom of contract can stand in the
Of our cutting out abuses from
the body polite. Just as little can We
afford ta follow the doctrinaires of
impossible-and incidentally OF a