The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-17

speech, in which he spoke Of the esteem in
which Mr.. Roosevelt is held by the Cath
olics of this country.
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS
When President Roosevelt rose to speak
he was greeted with cheers, and 1t was
quite minute before he was able to pro-
coed. His address follows:
VERY Reverend Deans, and Clergy and
You OF the Holy Name Society: count
myself fortunate in having the chance to
say a word to you to-day and at the outset
let me. Father Power. on behalf Of my
neighbors, your congregation. welcome you
here to Oyster Bay. have partial right
to Join in that welcoms myself. for 1t was
my good fortune in the days Of Father
Powers predecessor. Father Belford. to be
the first man to put down small contribu-
ton for the erection Of the church here.
ST am particularly glad to see such a 60
ciety as this fourishing. as your society
has flourished, because the future welfare
of our nation depends upon the way in
which we can combine in our men-in our
young men-decency and strength
"Just this morning when attending service
on the great battleship Kearsarge. listened
to sermon addressed to the officers and
enlisted men Of the Eavy. in which the CEN
trail thought was that each American must
be a good man OF he could not be good
citizen.
And one of the things dwelt upon in
that sermon was the fact that man must
be clean of mouth as well as clean OF life
must show by his words as well as by his
actions his fealty to the Deity and to the
Savior II he was to be what we have a right
to expect from men wearing the national
uniform.
I'VE have good scriptural authority for
the statement that It's not what comes in
a mans mouth. but goes out Of It. that
counts am not addressing weaklings. or
should not take the trouble to come here.
am addressing strong. vigorous men. who
are engaged in the active hard work of life.
and life to be worth living must be life
Of active and hard work.
IT am speaking to men engaged IN the
hard, active work Of life, and therefore,
men who will count for good or evil. and
1t Is particularly incumbent upon you. who
have strength, to set a right example to
others
Il ask you to remember thRt you cannot
retain your self-respect II you are loose and
foul OF tongue. that man who Is to lead q
clean and honorable life must inevitably
suffer in his speech II his speech IL not
clean and honorable. Every man here knows
the temptations that beset all Of US in this
world. At times any man may slip. do
not expect perfection. but do expect gem
pire and sincere effort toward being decent
and cleanly in thought, in word and IN deed.
NO RESPECT FOR wEAKLNG.
AS said Mt the outset. hail tho work
of this society as typifying one Of those
forces which tend to the betterment and
uplifting Of the social system. Our whole
effort should DO toward securing combi-
nation Of the strong qualities with those
qualities which we term virtues in the
breast OF every good citizen. I expect you
to be strong. would not respect you II
you were not.
ct do not want to see Christianity pro-
fessed only by weaklings: / want;to seesit q
moving spirit among men Of strength lido
not expect you to lose one particle Of youz
strength or courage by being decent On
the contrary. I would hope to see each man
who is a member Of this society. from. his
membership In It become ali the fitter,toS or
the rough work Of the world. all the filter
to work in time Of peace, and it-which may
heaven forfend-war should come. all the
hitter to fight In time Of war.
81 desire to see in this country the decent
men strong and the strong men decent, and
until We get that combination in pretty good
shape we are not going to be by any mean,
as successful as we should be. ~
There is always tendency among very
strong men and among boys who are not
quite young men as yet to think that to be
wicked Is rather smart; It shows that they
are men. Oh, often you see some young fell
low who boasts that he is going to see life,
meaning by that that he Is going to see
that part Of life which It Is q thousandfold
better that it remain unseen. ask that
] every man here constituts himself bib