too much heed to mere material success, the success which is
measured only by the acquisition of wealth. I do not think
that the accusation is well founded.

A great deal of notoriety attaches, and must attach, to any
man who acquires a great fortune. If he acquires it well and
uses it well, he is entitled to and should receive the same
meed of credit that attaches to any other man who uses his
talents for the public good.

The Nation Sound at Bottom.

But if you will turn to see those whom in the past the
nation has delighted to honor, and those in the present whom
it delights to honor, I think that you will all agree that
this nation is sound at bottom in the bestowal of its
admiration in the relative estimate it puts upon the
different qualities of the men who achieve prominence by
rendering service to the public.

The names that stand out in our history in the past are the
names of the men who have done good work for the body
politic, and in the present the names of those whom this
people really hold in highest honor are the names of the men
who have done all that was in them in the best and most
worthy fashion.

In no way is it possible to deserve better of the republic
than by rendering sane, honest, clear-sighted service on the
bench, and, above all, on the highest bench of this
country.

Men who fear for our democratic institutions too often forget the Supreme
Court. Macaulay evidently forgot it when he described our Constitution as
"all sail and no anchor."

THE GERMAN KAISER'S CAMPAIGN FOR AMITY.

In His Farewell Audience to Professor
Peabody, of Harvard, He Said:
"We Must Stand Together."

Back from Berlin, where he occupied for a time a chair at the University,
under the existing arrangement for exchanges, Professor Peabody, of
Harvard, is aiming to straighten the American conceptions of Germany. The
Kaiser, he declares, is not a war-lord, but a man of peace, working in the
interest of civilization--a peace-lord, so to speak.

Speaking to a German audience in New York a few weeks ago, Professor
Peabody said:

There seems to be a general idea abroad that the German
Emperor is constantly looking about for somebody to fight.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. Germany, by virtue
of the commercial expansion it now is working for, is
pledged to maintain the pea