Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-06
ORATOR OF THE / DAY !.
sEsou1-cENTENN1AL CELEBRATION
MAKES. PERTINENT ADDRESS.
Cnpita1 and Labor Would Set To-
sether if They Met in Lodge Room.
Every Good Citizen His Brothers.


The train bearing President Roosevelt d
rived a the Pennsylvania railway station
at II Is to-day. The President was met at
the station by Right Worshipful Grand
Master Edward f. Tennis and commit
tee of prominent -N1asonS and escorted 10
Masonic Temple. where he took part IN
the exercises celebrating the sesqul-cen-z
tennial anniversary of the Initiation OF
George Washington into the Masonic ira
ternity at Fredericksburg. Va, Novem-
Der j. 1752.
Upon leaving the train the President
walked down the platform. leaning on the
arm of Grand Master Tennis, and was
given a tremendous ovation. The Presl--
Gent hesitated long enough to shake hands
with the fireman and engineer, and was
then ushered into a carriage, in waiting.
and whirled rapidly down the street to
the temple, where the exercises began
at noon.
The Presidents theme was human
brotherhood, as exemplified in the Ma
sonic Order. He said in part:
Masonry will make and must make
each man who conscientiously and under
standngly takes up his obligations, the
best type Of American citizenship, because
Mansonry teaches him his obligations
to his fellows in practical fashion. It is
a good thing to read the Declaration of
Independence every Fourth Of July. 1t is
Il good thing to talk Of what Washington
and his fellows did for us, but what
counts most is how we live UP to the
lessons that we read that we speak OF
The lesson of brotherhood first and fore
most is to learn that lesson with full
heart on the one hand, and without
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 applied to us as a paople if we are to
solve the great industrial and social pro-
bler1s of to-day. If We could get wage
workers and employers in any gwen
occupation or in any given district IN a
lodge together I guarantee the result
guarantee wat would happen. Is not
that true? Do you not think SO! ceres
Of Yes, yes.'O
EXACTLY. and 7 will guarantee it. If
that thing could happen we would come
always in the lodge, each respecting ms
brother and each wanting to do what was
good for his brother; each recognizing
that in our government every man OF us
has to be his brothers keeper.
WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN CON
TRASTED.
PHILADELPHIA, PA. November o.
Mr.. Roosevelt eulogized Washington ana
contrasted the careers of Washington and
Lincoln, saying:
"Washington and Lincoln-NashlnSton
who. when he came into Il lodge OF Free
and Accepted Masons, came IN on an eA
act equality with any humble farmer or
mechanic. or any one else who is IN thilt
lodge.
..Washington the Virginia, country gen
tleman; the gentleman Of good stanolnS,
a man brought up for work. OF course.
no man can be q good citizen. or do good
work for our government. II he mas not
been grought up for work. But he was
brought up for work under broader
easier and softer conditions than the ma
iority of his fellows. Washington on
one side and Lincoln on the other. LIN
coin, the uncouth farmers boy, was rear
ed in the grinding toll and poverty OF 4
small cabin on the frontier. The man
who worked with his hands; the man VINO
never knew what it was to walk IN the
soft places of the earth, and who maze MS
way up until in our pantheon ms 1sure
stands beside the dead hero in Mount
Vernon. washington and Lincoln! We
look at them in this country alike we
are incapable of baseness-tnat is. IL we
are good citizens-incapaule OF iocFms
down on Lincoln because of his olftn ana
bringing up. We are incapable, II We
arc good citizens. of the almost greater
baseness of affecting to LOOK down upon
| Washington because he was well brought
IN.
ed There is Just that much Temptation
before YOU people; 4 temptation to be
overcome and to be thrust to one side
the temptation to defy improperly the
lack of material being, the lack OF sue
cess. TO flatter or to crinSe to the pow,
erful are not vices in contradiction to one
another. They are the same kind of vice
in different manifestations; the dema-
sosue and the courtiers-the demasoSue,
who will, for his own selfish purpose,
hatter one set of people; and the cour-
tier, who has his own selfish purpose,
fatters a single individual, are after all,
two people who stand on the same mean
level of baseness, each, according to TO
his light, striving to f1atter power as he
fancies he sees it, without regard to
whether he will do good even to those
he hatters. A man with something In
common with ourselves cannot ever be
| made a good citizen by being cursed, but
can hv being trained and elevated.