Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1916 — “IGNOBLE EASE" AND PEACEFUL SLOTH ARE NOT PEACE. [ARTICLE]

“IGNOBLE EASE" AND PEACEFUL SLOTH ARE NOT PEACE.

There is nothing that we of this country so much need as to practice the doctrine of service. As a people we need the sterner virtues even more than we need the softer virtues. Material prosperity,bodily ease, money, pleaaure, are all desirable; but woe to us if we consider them as the be-all and end-all of our private lives or of our collective national life! Woe to us if our material prosperity brings in Its wake lethargy of spirit and deadness of soul! Let us in our lives apply the great doctrines of duty and of service. Above all let us realize that lofty profession is a mischievous sham when it Is not translated into efficient performance. Ambng the companions of Lucifer in Milton’s mighty epic there was none among the fiercer fiends so dangetous as he who "With words clothed In reason’s garb, I Counselled Ignoble eaze and peaceful sloth. Not peace.” —From tn© speecn or voionei Roosevelt at Battle Creek, Michigan, In Behalf of Mr. Hughes.