Show I AS IT WAS ONCE BEFORE At the impressive ceremonies In Galena Ga-lena 11 on the anniversary of Gen Grants birthday In the course of his i oration Gov Roosevelt of New York said A nation that has not the power of en durance tho power of dogged Insistence on a Jotcnnlnud policy come weal or woe has lost one chief element 01 greatness The people who wish to abandon tho Philippines because AVO have had heavy skirmishing out there or who think that our rule Is a failure whenever thc discover dis-cover some sporadic upgrowth of evil would do well to remember tho two long years of disaster this nation sulferetl be fore the July morning when the news was Hashed to the waiting millions that Vlclts I burg had fallen In the West and thai In tho East the splendid soldiery of Ltc had rCCOllerl nt Inst from Ilif low lilllu nt dat tysburg JSvcn after this nearly 11 two years morn were to pass before the end caino at Appomatlox Throughout this time the cry of the prophets of disaster never censed The peace at any price men never wearied of declaiming against decluimlnl nRalnsl I the war or describing the evils ot con quest and subjugation as worse than cn any possible bcnclls that could result there from Tho hysterical tierlnl minority passed al ternately from unreasoning confidence to unreasoning despair and at times they even Infected for the moment many ot their sober steady countrymen Eighteen I mouths after the war began the State and Congressional elections went I heavily against the war parly nntl two years later the opposition party actually waged the Presidential J campaign on the issuo I that the war was a failure Mennwhllo falurC nwhlo thero was plenty of blundering ut the front plenty of mistake at Vasblngton The country was saved by l the fact that our people as a whole were steadfast a uai unshaken Both at Washington and at the front the leaders were men ot un rlauntcd resolution who would not aban don the policy to which the nation was definitely committed who roffpdod din I aster as merely a spiu to fo effort KIIJ tort who saw In each blunder merely omo thinc to bo retrieved and not a reason for abandoning tho long determined caxjrflf Above all the great man of hot people I 1 poaeessed a tough and stubborn flbor of character There was amplft room for criticism and there was every reason why mistakes should be corrected But in tho long run our gratitude was due primarily not to the trlllc not to the faultUnder but to the men who actually did the work not to iho men of negative policy but to those who struggled toward tho given coal ilerHfiii oblivion has svnllorod UI tho niiinot of tlioeo who railed at the men who were saving the Union while It has given us thp n memory I of Ihpsc fwmo mm an a herjiafro of honor 1 forevor and brightest among their names llnmethe ntmios of Lincoln ami Grant tho steadfast the unswerving lie enduring tho fhinlly triumphant That Is good reading for the people of the United Stales nowadays There are some people left I who remember very vividly the anguish of those four yours of war At that Lime thc one mies of the Republic did not charge that the purpose was to make a monarchy mon-archy ot tho United Slates but they did Insist that Abraham Lincoln was n usurper that ho was of base blood that he possessed only crude Instincts while Grant was never described except ex-cept as a drunkard and butcher a and worse I I I His private life was shamefully attacked at-tacked Ills career as a General was covered by anathemas but the people at large J with a clearer Instinct real J Izcd the difficulties surrounding the patIent j I pa-tIent man in Washington and they noticed no-ticed that the man in the Held never found an enomy that he did not strike I and that he never slrticl except lo annihilate II J an-nihilate 6r capture the erfeniy TIff people of the United States are about to enter on a campaign where the lac < I tics ot GlG are to be repeated and en I larked upon It is going to be said that the President of tho United Stato j I I Is a dwpol that he is try hig to sien1 I away lie liberties of the people that lie Is trying to pervert the instltu lions of the country tluit ho has tramped in the mire tho Declaration of Independence and torn to shreds tho Constitution of the United States So clearly Is this shown that one can anticipate already what tho Lone of tho Democratic platform will be It will be ono of denunciation of what Is It will he a claim that all the glory of tho post belongs to that organization organiza-tion known ns the Democratic parly and it will take all the good sense of the people to distinguish clearly between be-tween tho patient men who are at work carrying out the policy of the nation and tho noisy men who are out and who aro willing to promlKe anything to I get In It Is not difficult to believe bow thp thing will end All through the j campaign It will be as Roosevelt pays It was before the clamor of the prophets proph-ets of disaster will never cease As before be-fore Thy pcaceatanyprlce men will never weary of declaiming against the war or describing the evils of conquest and subjugation und the old result will be repented As Roosevelt save A merciful oblivion will swallow swal-low up the names of those who rail ut the men who are carrying on the work and a heritage of honor will belong to those who pro being anathematized anathe-matized now To suppose any other I I result would be to admit that the free I schools of the United States had been i in vain that partlsanlsm In this country coun-try is stronger than patriotism and that the classes of men who Incapable Incapa-ble of building up are still willing to pull down are In the majority The country is going on We do not be Hcvo that the people will deliberately vote lo stop its majestic progress We do not believe that they are eager to recall the pilots who have steadied the ship of State through stormy seas and turn over the craft to the wharf rats that make hideous the days and nights along the shore |