The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1910-05-12


citizen army. aad the aasosaasy Aas al
most disappsaFeA. whAls ehs asay exists
on . vaster scals thaA ever haoosS n his
tory. This y - aAsaG tho allAAGasy mon
arches Of Europe.
In our evn civil var - sAs United
psopis ~ ve are. AZ tAa4 e1n.s unass thsa
two eenesatioes haA DaassA sAaes the
War Of IaAeosaAsecs. DHstaQ ths vhols
Of that pertsA the Dss0as hal hasn en-
gassA In M hSs-aAA-Aaa&h saruogis; anA
yet. when the Civil vas brsks ost and
after seo. costly e.9 hstsss i.assns -
the beginning. the aghtiAG sDaFit Of the
people was shown - bsttss advantage
thsa evH before me was vas osculiar-
y v&r for . Dstncipls. . var uAgeA
l.. Zach side for an iAeal aaA WhiIs faults
and shortcomings were plsatifSi among
the combatants. thsrs was ceaoasatively
little sordidness Of nstivs ss ceoAsct In
such . giant struggle. Whses across the
warp Of 20 many iatsrssts 70 shot the
wool OF 10 many purposes. DARK strands
and bright, strands sonber and brilliant.
are always intertvined: iasvitabiy there
was corruption here and thsrs In the Civil
war: but all the leaders ea 18th sides.
masses Of nghting men. wholly disrs-
garded. and were wholly uninauenced by.
pecuniary considerations.
Wealth aad pslities.
Another striking contrast In the course
Of modern civilization as compared with
the later stages OF the 0raeco- Roman or
classic civilization 10 to b found In the
relations OF wealth and politics. In clas-
sic times. as the civilization advanced to-
ward It's zenith. politics became . recog-
nised means OF accumulating great
wealth. Caesar was again and again on
the verge Of bankruptcy: he spent an
enormous fortune: and he recouped him
self by the money which he made out Of
his political military career. Augustus
tablished imperial Rome on arm founda-
tions by the use he made Of tho huge
fortune he had acquired by plunder What
. contrast II offered by the careers OF
Washington and lincoln! There were .
few exceptions In ancient days; but the
immense majority Of the Greeks and the
Romans. As their civilizations culminated.
accepted money making on . large scale
a. one Of the incidents Of . successful
public career. Now all Of this 10 In sharp
contrast to what has happened within
the last two or three centuries. During
this time there has been . steady growth
away from the theory that money -makine
II permissible In an honorable public ca
reer.
In this respect the standard has bees
constantly elevated. and things which
statesmen had no hesitation In doing
three centuries or two centuries ago and
which did not seriously hurt . public ca
reer even . century ago. are now utterly
impossible. Wealthy men still exercise .
large. and sometimes an Improper. infiu.
ence in politics. but II is Apt to b an in.
direct influence: and in the advanced
states the mere suspicion that the wealth
Of public men 10 obtained or added to az
an incident of their public careers will
bar them from public life. Speaking
generally. wealth may very greatly innu.
,N1lt e hr,A . L.
quired In political life.
Optimistic for the Future.
Mr. Roosevelt called attention ia
the fact that hitherto every civiliza,
tion that has arisen has been able to
develop only few activities. its field
Of endeavor being limited In kind az
we'll as in locality. and each Of these
civilizations has fallen. What is the
lesson to US Of today? he asked. VIII
the crash come. and be all the more
terrible because Of the immense in
crease in activities and area? To this
he replied:
Personally. do not believe that our
civilization will fall. think that on the
whole we have grown better and not
worse. I think that on the whole the fu-
ture holds more for us than even the
great past has held But. assuredly, the
dreams of golden glory in the future will
not come true unless. high OF heart and
strong of hand. by our own mighty deeds
We make them come true. We cannot af.
ford to develop any one set of qualities,
any one set Of activities, at the cost Of
seeing others. equally necessary, afro.
phied. Neither tho military efficiency Of
the MonGol. the extraordinary business
ability of the Phoenician. nor the subtle
and polished intellect of the Greek syailed
to avert destruction.
We. the men Of today and Of tho ft,-
ture. need many qualities II we are to dc
our work well. We need. first of all and
most important of all. the qualities which
stand at the base OF individual. of family
life. the fundamental and essential quali-
ties-the homely. every day. all-important
virtues. II the average man will not
work. II he has not in him the will and
ther: II the average woman is not = good
housewife. good mother of many
healthy children. then the state will top.
pie, will go down. no matter what may
be its brilliance of artistic development
or material achievement But these home
~ qualities are not enough. There must,
in addition. be that power Of organisation.
that power Of working in common for .
common end. which the German people
have shown in such signal fashion during
the last half-century. Moreover. the
things of the spirit are even more impor-
tant than the things of the body. We can
we'll do without the hard intolerance and
arid Intellectual barrenness of what was
worst in the theological systems of the
past. but there has never been a greater
need Of n high and fine religious spirit
than at the present time. So. while We
can laugh good-humoredly at some Of
the pretensions of modern philosophy in
its various branches. 1t would be worse
than folly on our part to ignore our need
of intellectual leadership.
Must Steer Middle Course.
Never has philanthropy. humanitarian
ism. aeen 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 perfec.
tibility of man when his heart runs away
with his head. or when vanity usurps the
place OF conscience. yet We must remem.
ber also that 1t 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 .
higher and more permanent plane of we'll.
being than was ever attained bv anv pre.