The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-05-12

7 ...,arv armies ~ whien tneF We, W
nv, a.,od Gradually this has al chanse
,,,,u now practically every aI"y Al.
| s,,,ze, army. and the mercenaIS te,.
80, disappeared while the army -
".O, ,aster scale than ever before IN ms
go This ia SO among the military NV"
| arches Of Europe ,.s 1r,i,ed
| In our own civil war OF Nnt s,t
sta.es the same thing occurred -
| ,-s,nio ne we are At that time more 'nS"
reop's g gcnerations had passed since tne
o.. ~ rrdapendence. During the Whoio
! ", ,hat neriod the people had been Gu
- Il, M ufe-and-deat struggle anu
e, Yben the Civil war broke out anu
s,,a- sone costly and bitter lessons a'
| The beginning. the fighting spirit Oh Wv
| roople was shown to better au'd'l,ns'
| tbao aver before The war was IeCH"a'
lv a war for principle war lss',a
| hv each side for an Ideal, ana "Hi'e 49,. 49,
| and shortcomings were pleh'" al "'i ,i,,1i,,
! ,bo cou,hatants, there was comphratNtIy
! i,,,ia sordIdness Of motive or conduct an
! o,cb a giant struggle where across the
Urn Of so many interests Ia shot the
| ,ro,f of so many purposes. dark sltanuS
ard bright, strands sombef ana bri'IidnN
are always intertwined; inevitably there
vas corruption here and there IN the CiV'
war. but all the leaders on both s'ues
and the great majority OF the enormous
masses OF fighting men. wholly uisIe-
| garded and were wholly unihlueh'eu Wy
! pecuniary considerations.
Wealth and Politics.
Another striking contrast In the course
| Of modern civilization as compared with
| the later stages OF the Graeco-Roman or
| classic civilization is TO be found in the
relations OF wealth and politics. In clas-
sic times. as the civilization advanced TO-
ward its zenith. politics became recog-
nized means OF accumulatng great
wealth. Caesar was again and again on
the verge of bankruptcy; he spent an
enormous fortune: and he recouped him
| self bv the money which he made out OF
| his political- military career. Augustus es-
tablished imperial Rome on firm founda-
! tons by the use he made of the huge
fortune he had acquired by plunder. What
a contrast Is 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 eliminated,
| accepted money-making on large scale
| as one of the incidents of successful
public career Now all of this Is in sharp
contrast to what has happened within
| the last two or three centuries. During
| this time there has been a steady growth
away from the theory that money making
| Is permissible in an honorable public ca
| reer.
In this respect the standard has been
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 a century ago are now utterly
| impossible. Wealthy men still exercise a
| large. and sometimes an improper. infiu-
| ence in politics, but II is apt to be an In
direct influence; and in the advanced
states the mere suspicion that the wealth
of public men is obtained or added to as
an incident OF their public careers will
bar them from public life. Speaking
| generally, wealth may very greatly infu
ence modern political life but 1t Is not ac.
quired in political life
Optimistic for the Future.
Mr.. Roosevelt called attention tc
the fact that hitherto every civiliza
tion that has arisen has been able tc
develop only few activities, its fielt
of endeavor being limited in kind as
we'll as in locality, and each of these
civilizations has fallen. What Is the
lesson to us of today? he asked vii
the crash come, and be all the more
terrible because of the immense in
crease in activities and area? To this
he replied:
Personally. I do not believe that ou
| civilization will fall think that on tn
whole we have grown better and no
| worse. / think that on the whole the fu
| ture holds more for us than even tn
great past has held. But. assuredly, tn
dreams of golden glory in the future will
not come true unless, high of heart an,
strong of hand, by our own mighty deed
| we make them come true. We cannot af
! ford to develop any one set of qualities
any one set of activities, at the cost o
| seeing others. equally necessary. afro
| phied, Neither the military efficiency o
| the Mongol, the extraordinary busines
| ability of the Phoenician, nor the subtl
and polished intellect of the Greek availe,
| TO avert destruction.
We. the men of today and of the fu
ture need many qualities II we are to d.
| our work we'll We need first of all an,
most important of all, the qualities whicl
| stand at the base Of individual, of famil,
| life, the fundamental and essential quail
| ues-the homely, everyday, all-importan
| virtues. If the average man will no
! work, II he has not in him the will an,
| the power to be a good husband and ia
| ther; II the average woman is not a goo
| housewife, good mother of man,
healthy children, then the state will top
| pie, VIII 60 down, no matter what ma
| he its brillance of artistic development
or material achievement But these home
| ~ qualities are not enough There must
| In addition. be that power of organization
that power of working In common for
| common end, which the German peopl
have shown In such signal fashion durin
the last half-century. Moreover. tn
things OF the spirit are even more impor
| tant than the things of the body We ca,
| well do without the hard intolerance an
| arid intellectual barrenness of what wa
| worst in the theological systems of th
| past, but there has never been n create
need Of high and fine religious spiri
| than at the present time So, while "
can laugh good-humoredly at some q
| the pretensions of modern philosophy 1
| its various branches. 1t would be wors
than folly on our part to ignore our nee
OF intellectual leadership
Must Steer Middle Course.
Never has philanthropy. humanitarian
| ism, seen such development as nov. an
| though we must all beware of the FOIL
and the viciousness no worse than folly
| which marks the believer in the nerfac
| tibility of man when his heart runs ava
| with his head. or when vanity usurns III
| place OF conscience Yet we must rop,a,,
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