The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-06-15

by our military men VIII, /, held
the Chief Magistracy? This rtune
was exceptional, but not their quail
ties, among the soldiers of whom they
We're eXponents There must be an
apex to every pyramid, but because
it is highest 1t does not necessarily
differ in essentials from that by which
it is sustained There were many
others in all Of these wars who dis
/ charged great trusts with exceptional
abilities, who had the highest quail
ties on manhood, who, though less con-
| spicuously, acted their part during and
after hostilities just as periodically.
and bore with honor high civic trusts
to which confidence largely inspired
by their military services raised them.
Hero worships founded on the noblest
feelings in our nature always has, and
unless the history of the world since it
began shall be reversed and the profess
sion OF arms shall lose its prestige. al
ways will, especially in great crises,
make our soldiers potential in our nat
ional life, not merely for defense but
in the administration of government.
When the crucial time shall come,
when your country shall need her
best, the call will be, not on those who
may have latent powers, but on those |
who have achieved the premiership in /
their branches of the service. BY this |
| do not mean mere intellectual |
achievement but that superiority that .
is compounded of mental accomplish
ments and those moral forces which .
adorned the characters OF our great .
commanders. What is mere brilliancy
for enduring fame. Who would place
Marlborough beside the men whose
names we cherish?
Freedom from ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Is an attribute of great souls. While
their patriotism did not permit them
to decline great offices, yet neither
Washington, Lee nor Grant sought
prelerment. They would lay down
rather than voluntarily take up new
nonors, and nothing more became
them than their uuaffe modesty.
General Lee rendered his resignation
10 Mr.. DAVIS, saying that he Should be
succeeued Dy d younger ana abler
man.
integrity irreproach as pure as
The lc.cle mat nanss nom Diana
lemple, has been the unchallenged
ana unchanenseaD possession OF all
Of our great generals. there seems
| trust that it is but a sembiance--
10 be a breaking down III many di-
rections of the high standards OF per-
sOnal honesty. | 40 not believe that
any class OF our citizens has more
generally and consistently kept their
uOhOT uH4IlpedCueu IMAM lnG OUlCGlS
Of our army and navy. Yet in these
days when all men motives are ques-
toned, things without intrinsic wrong
must be summed il they furnish room
for evil Interpretation. While this
state of the public mind is an erup- ,
ton of our times, neither it nor the !
are new in human affairs.
NO man is SO great or so good in =.
A republic that he can be permitted
to govern outside of the law and the
constitution. No public good, however
is worth gaining at the
price Of setting aside a fundamental
principle of government. This is sub
government of men for a
government of law, and this is the be-
ginning of the end OF the republic.
Il exhort you to keep ever in your
mind as eXemplars the noble men who
have preceded you, and that you will
in your time the imperishable
renown which they achieved for their !.