The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-06
ROOSEVELT THE GUEST.
Entertained by Most Ancient and
Honorable MasOns.


Roosevelt was the principal guest to-
day at the sesqui-centennial anniver-
sary celebration by the Grand Lodge
of the Most Ancient and Honorable
Fraternity of Free and Accepted Ma
sons of Pennsylvania of George Wash
ington's apprenticeship into the Ma
sonic fraternity.
The President was also the orator of
the occasion. lie arrived in this city
over the Pennsylvania Railroad short
ly after IL o'clock and was met at the
station by Grand Master r. A. Tennis,
and the reception committee of the
grand lodge. The President was es-
corted to Masonic Temple, where the
exercises began at noon.
The celebration was exclusive, be-
ing limited TO one representative from
each subordinate lodge in this state,
together with the members of the
grand lodge and its committees.
Grand Master Tennis delivered the adj
dress of welcome; Charles a. Gallag-
her, NJ. w. Grand Master of Massa-
chusetts, responding.
President Roosevelt was then intro
duced and made an address.
The Presidents theme was human
brotherhood as examplified in the Ma
Masonry should make and must
make each man who conscientlously
and Understandings takes up his obli-
cations, the best type of American
citizenship, because Masonry teaches
him his obligations to his fellows in a
practical fashion. 1t is a good thing
to read the Declaration of Independ-
ence every fourth of July; it is a good
thing to talk of what Washington and
Ii, 81. Il co. Dat rI,.,f
counts most is how we live up to the
lessons that we read or that we speak
of. The lesson of brotherhood first
and foremost is to learn that
lesson with a full heart on the
one hand and without a weak head on
the other. The lesson of brotherhood
that is the lesson that has got to be
taught and got to be learned and APP
| piled to us as a people il we are to
| solve the great industrial and social
| problems of to-day. IL we could get
wage workers and employers in any
given occupation or in any given dis
| trict in a lodge together, / guarantee
| the result. l guarantee what will
/ happen. Is not that true? Do you
not think so? (cries of Yes, Yes)
| Exactly and l will guarantee it. If
that thing could happen we would come
| always in the lodge, each respecting
/ his bIOlHCI anu each WdHliuR To 90
| what was good for his brother; each
recognizing that, in our government.
every man of us has TO be his brother S
| keeper"
Mr.. Roosevelt eulogized Washington
| and contrasted the careers of Wash
ington and Lincoln, saying:
| Washington and Misunderstanding
| ton, who when he caane into a lodge
| of free and accepted Masons, came in
1 II
| farmer or mechanic or any one else
who is in that lodge. Washington, the
| Virginia country gentleman, the gem
| tleman of good standing, mar
| brought up for work. OF course, nc
| man can be a good citizen or do good
| for our government if he has not been
brought up for work, but he
| was brought up for work under
| broader, easier and softer conditions
! than the majority of his fellows. Wash
| ington on one side and Lincoln on the
other. Lincoln, the uncouth farmers
! boy, was reared in the grinding toll
| and poverty of a small cabin on the
| frontier. The man who worked with
| his hands: the man who never knew
what it was to walk in the soft places
| of the earth, and who made his way
up until in our Pantheon his figure
stands beside the hero of Mount Yer
| HOOK
| at them in this country alike.
We are incapable of baseness-that
| is, If we are good citizens; incapable
| of looking down on Lincoln because of
| his birth and bringing up. We are in
| capable, If we are good citizens, of the
| almost greater baseness of affecting to
| look down upon Washington because
| he was well brought up. There are
| two things to be remembered. There
| is just that much of a temptation be-
| fore our people, a temptation that is
| just as important to be overcome and
| thrust to one side, the attempt to defy
| improperly the lack of material be-
| ing; the lack of success. To fiatter
| or to cringe to the powerful
| are not vices in contradistiction
| to one another; they are the same kind
| of vice in different manifestations; the
| demagogue and the courtier. The DEM
| agogue who, for his own selfish pur-
| poses, fatters one set of people, and
| the courtier for his own selfish pur-
poses, fatters a single individual, are
| after all two people who stand on the
same mean level of baseness, each ac-
cording to his lights striving to hatter
| power as he fancies he sees it without
| regard to whether he will do good even
| to those he flatters. To flatter a mob
or to fail to realize that each man with
| whom must deal: a man with some
| thing in common with ourselves can
not ever be made a good citizen by
| being cursed, but can by being trained
| and elevated"
Stewart L. Woodford, former minis
| ter to Spain, delivered the concluding
| address.
The President left for Washington at
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