White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-06

some. and among o remlnlscence
are chiefly to be ranked the reeollee
tons OF days OF heroism. DAYS whel
great nations found it possible to ex
press the best thai was in them b.
ardent exercise OF every power tina
was n item.
That +. what gives dignity 10
day ike mis- Il ; not = day OF re
gret: It Is not a day Of weakening
memory. II Is q day OF stimulation
But, ms friends. these stimulating
memories We are sometimes apt &c
minimize because re do not see the
full significance OF them. We are
constantly speaking OF the great wa
OF which We think today as a var
which saved the union, and il did in
deed save the union, but 1t was a war
that did a great deal more than that.
II created in this country what had
never existed before-a national con-
sciousness. II was not the salvation
of the union; II was the birth Of
the union. II was the time when
America for the first time realized its
unity and saw the vision of its united
destiny.
The solemn lessons of these
memories for US is not that We must
be ready TO save the union again, for
there are none among us who threa-
ten its life. but that We must see 10
ii that the unity then realized, the
vision then seen. is exemplifed in US
there is no stimulation in any lesson
unless IL be the stimulation to duty.
There is no stimulation in any oc-
casion If it be merely the pleasure of
recollection; ii must also be the ardor
and courage OF hope. Greater days
lie before this nation than it has ver
seen yet: and the solemn conscious
ness of those who bear Office in this
time is that they must make their
best endeayor TO embody in what
they do and say the best things in the
United States.
1T does not do TO talk too much
about ones self and do not think
that 1t is wholesome for the United
States to talk too much about itself.
! do not want TO know what you are
today 30 much as I want to know
what you are going TO do tomorrow.
The only test | know of that is COM
petent to determine what you are is
the test OF what you DO. Let Us not
think of our characters: let US think
Of our duties and OF the actions that
lie before us. | have always main
tanned that the man who lives to cul-
tiyate his own character will result
only in cu~ltiyating an ~intolerable
prig, because his object will be him
self. Character, my friends, is a by
product. 1t is produced in the great
manufacture of daily life. But 1t Is
not easy TO determine. Duty for a
nation is made up of so many COM
rlicated elements that no man can
determine II. No group of men
without wide common counsel can
possibly determine what the duty of
the day is. That is the strength of
a democracy, because there daily
rises in the great body of a demoe-
racy the expression OF an untram-
meled opinion, which seems TO fill
the air with its suggestions of duty
and those who stand at the head of
affairs have it as their bounden duty
to endeavor to express in their own
actions those things that seem to rise
out of the conscience and hope and
purpose of the great body of the
people themselves.
America, | have said, was reborn
| by the struggle of the civil war, bui
America is reborn every day of hel
life by the purposes we form, the con
ceptions We entertain, the hopes
that we cherish. We live ant
hope abounds in us as We live il
the things that we purpose. Let u
go away from this place renewed II
our devotion to daily duty and t
those ideals which keep a natiol
young. keep 1t noble, keep it rich II
enterprises and achievement. make !
to lead the nations of the world II
those things that make for hope ar
for the benefit of mankind"