Presidential Addresses 



city, State, and Nation, in the management of our 

 home life and the conduct of our business and social 

 relations, we are bound to show certain high and 

 fine qualities of character under penalty of seeing 

 the whole heart of our civilization eaten out while 

 the body still lives. 



We justly pride ourselves on our marvelous ma 

 terial prosperity, and such prosperity must exist in 

 order to establish a foundation upon which a higher 

 life can be built ; but unless we do in very fact build 

 this higher life thereon, the material prosperity 

 itself will go for but very little. Now, in 1903, in 

 the altered conditions, we must meet the changed 

 and changing problems with the spirit shown by 

 the men who in 1803 and in the subsequent years 

 gained, explored, conquered, and settled this vast 

 territory, then a desert, now filled with thriving 

 and populous States. 



The old days were great because the men who 

 lived in them had mighty qualities; and we must 

 make the new days great by showing these same 

 qualities. We must insist upon courage and reso 

 lution, upon hardihood, tenacity, and fertility in re 

 source; we must insist upon the strong, virile vir 

 tues; and we must insist no less upon the virtues 

 of self-restraint, self-mastery, regard for the rights 

 of others ; we must show our abhorrence of cruelty, 

 brutality, and corruption, in public and in private 

 life alike. If we come short in any of these quali 

 ties we shall measurably fail; and if, as I believe 

 we surely shall, we develop these qualities in the fu- 



