The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-07-10

known men lifted to a great stature
knowing no limit to their manly will
lingness to serve. In armies thus mar
shaded from the ranks of free men
you will see, as it were, d nation en-
battled. the leaders and the led, and
may know. if you will, how little ex-
cept in form its action differs in days
of peace from it's action in days of
war.
May we break camp now and be
at ease? Are the forces that fight for
the Nation dispersed, disbanded,
gone to their homes forgetful of the
common cause? Are our forces dis
organized, without constituted lead
ers and the might of mel consciously
united because we contend, not with
armies, but with municipalities and
powers and ~wiskedness in high plac-
es? Are We content to lie still? Does
u nation mean sympathy, our peace
contentmentti our vigour right &C
ton. maturity self-comprehen-
sion and a clear confidence in choos-
ing what we shall do? War fitted us
for action, and action never ceases.
Put On Harness of Present.
81 have been chosen the leader of
the Nation. | can not Justify the
choice by any qualities of my own,
but SO it has come about, and here
| stand. Whom do / command? The
ghostly hosts who fought upon these
battle fields long ago and are gone?
These gallant gentlemen stricken in
years whose fighting days are over,
their glory won? What are the or
ders for them, and who rallies them?
| have in my mind another host,
whom these set free of civil strife
in order that they might work out in
days of peace and settled order the
life of a great Nation. That host is
the people themselves. the great and
the small, without class or difference
of kind or race or origin: and I'M
divided in interest, if we have but
the vision TO guide n direct them
an order their lives Alright in wnar
we do. Our constitutions are their
articles of enlistment. The orders of
the day are the laws upon our statute
books. What we strive for is their
freedom, their right to lift themselv-
es from day to day and behold the
things they have hoped for, and SO
lldhe WdS ioI SUN Dellei udyS loI
those whom they love who are to
come after them The recruits are
the little children crowding In. The
quartermaster's stores are in the
mines and forests and fields, in the
shops and factories. Every day
thing must be done to push the cam
Paign forward; and it must be done
by plan and with an eye to some
great destiny.
How shall we hold such thoughts
in our hearts and not be moved? /
would not have you live even to-day
wholly in the past, but would wish to
stand with you in the light that
stream upon us now out of that
great day gone by. Here Is the nation
God has builded by our hands. What
shall we do with it? Who stands
ready to act again and always in the
spirit of this day of reunion and hope
to patriotic fervor? The day of our
country life has but ~broadened into
morning. Do not put uniforms by.
Put tho harness of the present on.
Lift your eyes to the great tracts of
life yet TO be conquered in the inyer-
est of righteous peace, of that pros
perity which lies in a peoples hearts
and outlastS all wars and errors OF
men. Come, let us be comrades and
soldiers yet to serve our fellow men
in quiet counsel, where the blare OF
trumpets is neither heard nor heed
ed and where the things are done
which make blessed the nations OF
the world in peace and righteousness
and love-"