And State Papers 329 



AT OMAHA, NEB., APRIL 27, 1903 



Mr. Chairman, and you, my Fellow-Citizens: 



It is a great pleasure to come before you this 

 evening. Since Saturday I have been traveling 

 through your great and beautiful State. I know 

 your people ; I have been with them ; I have worked 

 with them ; and it is indeed a joy to come here now 

 and see from one end of your State to the other the 

 signs of your abounding prosperity. I feel that the 

 future of Nebraska is secure. There will be tem 

 porary ups and downs, and of course if any of you 

 are guilty of folly, from your own folly nothing can 

 save you but yourselves. But if you act as I believe 

 and trust that you will act, this State has a future 

 before it second to that of no other State in this 

 great Nation. 



I address you to-night on the anniversary of the 

 birth of the great silent soldier Ulysses Grant, and 

 I am glad to have the chance of saying a few words 

 to an audience such as this in this great typical city 

 of the West on the occasion of the birthday of the 

 great Western general, the great American general. 

 It is a good thing to pay homage with our lips to the 

 illustrious dead. It is a good thing to keep in mind 

 what we owe to the memories of Washington and 

 his fellows, who founded this mighty Republic; to 

 Abraham Lincoln and Grant and their fellows, who 

 saved it. It is a far better thing to pay the homage 

 that counts the homage of our lives and our deeds. 

 Illustrious memories of the Nation's past are but 



