Arizona republican., 1910-04-24

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 needs ot ihe hard-driven siIew.. folk { who thrust forward ,he frontier ill i the teeth of savage man and savage i rature; and many years elapse before any of these schools ceu develop into ! seats of high learning and broader culture.
 THE NE WOROGR.
 The pioneer days pass: the stump | dotted clearinss expand into vast : stretches of fertile farm land: the ! stockaded clusters of log cabins [ change into towns: the hunters of game. the fellers of trees. the rude i frontier traders and tillers Of the soil. ithe men who wander all their lives. l long through the wilderness as the l hcralds and harbinGers of an oncom- ! ing civilization. themselves vanish be- { fore the civilization for which they
 have prepared the way The osildrcn i of their successors and then their chil- i dren and children's children. change , and develop with extraordinary rapid- lity The conditions acccntuate vices
 and virtues. energy and ruthlessness, ] all the good qualities and all the de- i fects of an intense individualism. self 1 reliant. sclf-centered. far more con- seious of its rights than Of it's du- ] ties. and blind to it's own shortcom- ] incs To the hard materialism of the 1 frontier days succeeds the hard ma tcrialism of an industrialisD even ' more intense and absorbing than that l of the older nations; although tile:se ! themselves have likewise already en- ttcred oD the age of complex and | prctlorninsntly industrial civilization. l, As the country grows, Its people. | who have won success in so many ! lines. turn back to try to recover the ' ApussessIons of the mind and tho spirit. which perforce their fathers ithrev aside in order better 10 wage l the first rough battles for the conti- 1 nent their children inherit. The lead- ! CTS of thought and action grope their 1 way forward to a new life, realizing. sometimes diDlly, sometimes clear | sightedly. that the life of material
 gain. whether for a nation or an in- ! dividual. is of value only as foun- dation only as there is added to 1t ! the uplift that comes from devotion to loftier ideals. The new life thus 1 sought can in part be developed afresh from what is round about in the new world; but it can be derel- oped in full only by freely drawing 1 upon the treasure houses of the old 1 world upon the treasures stored Tn {; the ancient abodes of wisdom and l learning such as this where I speak i today It is A mistake for any na- ] ton merely to copy another: but il is an even greater mistake. it is proof ! of weakness in any nation. not 70 be ! anxious to learn from another. and willing and able to adapt that learning ] to the new national conditions and make it fruitful and productive there ! in. It is for use of the new world i to sit at the feet of the Gamaliel Of the old: then if we have the right 1 stuff in us. we can show that Paul in his turn can become leader as well ! as a scholar
 i A MIGHTY TASK.
 i Today shall speak to you on the subject of individual citizenship. the one subject of vital importance to you. my hearers. and to me and my 1 countrynnen, because you and we are citizens of great democratic repub-' lies. A democratic republic such as 1 each of ours--an effort to realize in iits full sense: government by. of. and i TOT tDe Deopis- tSthts tbS h-O''' I gigantic of all possible, social experi- ments. the one frauGht with the greatest possibilities alike for good and for evil The success of repub-
 lies like yours and like ours means i the glory. and our failure the despair, of mankind; and for you and for us the question of the quality of the
 individual citizen is supreme. Under other forms of government, under the rule of one man or of very few men. the quality of the rulers is all- important. If under such sovern- ment. the quality of the rulers is high enough, then the nation may for generations lead a brilliant career. and add substantially to the sum of world achievement. no matter how low the quality of the average citizen; because the average citizen is an al- Imost negligible quantity in in work ing out the final results of that type of national greatness. But with you and with us the case is different With you here. and with
 us in my own home. in the long run.
 success or failure will be conditioned
 upon the way in which the average II man. the average woman. does his or her duty. first in the ordinary. ev-
 ery-day affairs of life, and next in
 those great occasional crises which call for the heroic virtues. The aver (Continued m Page Four)