The Importance of Practical Statesmanship

High-minded speakers often seek to move their hearers to action by an appeal to their highest motives such as love of liberty. Senator Horr in pleading for action on the Philippine question used this method. He asked: What has been the practical statesmanship which comes from your ideals and your sentimentalities? Mr. President, this is the eternal law of human nature. The American people have got this one question to answer. They may answer it now, they can take ten years, or twenty years, or a generation, or a century to think of it, but will not down. Government without the consent of the governed, authority which heaven never gave, can only be supported by means which