Arizona republican., 1919-04-28
Sail on. nor fear to breast the sea

Tn spite or IalSe H9HtS HSsI h'S SiiS'N
 Sail on, nor fear to breast the
 So sang tine foremost of American poets in The Building of the Ship" written at time when there was an inevitable drift toward the Civil war which was to break ten years later. These lines should be read again and again by Americans until they have become Inspired by the confidence Longfellow felt when clouds were gathering and there were mutter- ings of the storm which to try the souls Of men, f We are hearing much and have heard much in the last two years of the pers which beset America and democracy Hordes of small men who pose as men of vision but are rather of visions, have pointed hystercay at the supposed dangers ahead, and each has presented a plan to save the republic from dis solution.
 We also hear much and have heard much of ire construction" word loosely used than any other There is no need of reconstruction; that is, ho need of rebuilding The structure is already here stalnch as it was when fathers finished the job and left it. Only politicians demagogues and dream CTS and very foolish talking of reconstruction within the proper meaning of the word The rest of Us mean only resumption after tho interruption of Nar going ahead again with confidence. in disregard of the yipns and yepng of those who think the time has come to rebuild the world and correct the world eld mistakes of the Almighty.
 There is a quite general impression that the has wrought greater changes than previous war. Its effects have been wider it is true bat not deeper ghe war of 71 in few months left France prostrate and apparently ruined, but in a short time it rose Stronger than
 In comparison with the effect upon of Civil war, what the late world-war has brought us in either peril in change, is infinitesmal Then there time for reconstruction for part our structure needed rebuilding and it rebuilt, but we do not recall that anyone then foolish our present visonaries are, to propose spiritual changes along prescribed lines.
 What was then done was left to the good sense of the nation ald surely we can trust the present. lesser task to that same good sense. We think the nation stfl possesses it.
 We are apt to look too much to the future to pos terity; and to look too widely to all humanity. We do much better to look to the task immediately before us, and to what lies immediately around us.
 He is a poor helmsman who is watchful of hidden rocks far beyond his vision the neglect of those which are immediate The future has always taken care of itself if the present has been cared for
 We suppose this republic will not stand forever We arrive at this supposition by analogy. It has been the experience that nothing in this world is permanent. There is nation which is very old. The strongest have passed away after at the most few centuries The wisest and the strongest states men have been unable to safeguard their countries far beyond the period of their rule If they have ruled wisely in their day, they nave left their nations that much stronger meet the storms before them. So proper concern is for the present and for our own, for the things we can see
 The future must be trusted to the wisdom and the strength of the future. We have no reason to dstrust the future unless harbor dstrust of the present-of ourselves. And after what has been achieved in century and generation, we may see ahead of us nothing to alarm us. We may move for ward with confidence
 Sail on, Union, strong and great,
 We know what Master laid thy keel
 What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel Who made each mast and sail and rope
 What anvils rang what hammers beat
 In what forge and what heat
 Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!"