Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-18
MEN WANTED.
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peace, and (which may heaven for
fend-war should come, all the filter
to fight in time of war.
Il have told you that want you not
only to be decent, but to be strong.
The boys are not going to admire vir-
tue that is of purely anaemic type.
They believe in courage, in manliness.
They admire those who have the quail
ity OF being brave, the quality OF fac
ing life as life should be faced. the
quality that must stand at the root of
good citizenship in peace or in war
If you are to be effective as good
Christians you have got to possess
strength and courage or your example
will count for little with the young.
who admire strength and courage.
l want to see you the men of the Holy
qualities which the younger people adj
mire, by your example give those
young people the tendency, the trend
in the right direction, and remember
that this example counts in their case
as well as cleanliness of speech.
All Traitors Without Patriotism.
Il see in the audience there man
wearing the button of the Grand Ar
my of the Republic, a man who fought
in the great war. In that war the quail
ity needed in the first place was patri-
otism. l do not care how strong man
was, how brave he was, If he was
crooked. if he did not have in him the
love of country, then his other quail
ties but made him a curse. The man
who had no love of country was a
traitor, and if he was strong and able
and brave he was only the more for
midable and dangerous traitor.
$50 in civil life, the greater a mans
ability. if it is not combined in the
moral sense the more dangerous that
man is as citizen, the worse he is as
a citizen. Unless there is q spirit of
honesty in a man, unless there is a
moral sense, his courage, his strength,
his power makes him a dangerous
creature in our life, man whether
from the standpoint of our social or
political system, to be feared and to
be hunted down.
Have Courage and Common Sense.
so you need that quality first-the
quality of honesty, the moral sense the
quality which in one of its manifesto
tons made patriotism in the years
from 81 to '65, and that is not enough.
In the war you needed to have a man
patriotic but that did not do by itself.
do not care how patriotic a man was,
II he ran away he was no good. In ad-
dlt1on to patriotism you must have the
power to make patriotism elfective.In
addition to honesty you must have the
power to make honesty count. In 9TH
er words, together with honesty, with
decency, with cleanliness must go
courage, resolution. strength, the pow
er to make yourself felt as man in
the work of the world. You must have
courage and you must have patriotism
and IN addition, as have said again
and again, with your courage and with
your patriotism must go the saving
grace of common sense" :.
Special Trains Bring Crowds.
During the afternoon special trains
had brought hundreds of members of
the society of the Holy Name to Oyster
Bay from Brooklyn and western Long
Island. Threatening weather kept
many away, but although: light rain
fell during the exercises the crowd re.
| manned banked about the flag-decked
stand on a beautiful hill opposite St.
Dominic's Catholic church.
AS President Roosevelt drove up to
the stand in a closed carriage, accom-
| panied by Captain w. H. Brownson,
superintendent of the naval academy !;
Secretary Barnes and representative
of the society, he was accorded an
enthusiastic reception, a band play
ing, Hail to the Chief"
| After the audience had sung "Amer.
lea" Father Powers, rector of St.
Dominic's, introduced the President in
a speech in which he spoke of the es.
TEEN in which Mr.. Roosevelt is held
| by the Catholics. When President
Roosevelt rose to speak he was greet.
ed with cheers and it was a minute
| before he was able to proceed.