Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-08-20
THE PRESIDENT
DELIVERS ADDRESS
At the Meeting of the Society Of
the Holy Name.
AN ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION
-Decency of speech and Conduct"
Constituted theTheme OF His Dis
curse Before an Audience of
OyerTwo Thousand Persons.

course Before an Audience of
OverTwo Thousand Persons.
Oyster Bay, N. Y, Aug. 17.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt delivered the principal
address at the quarterly meeting of the
Society of the Holy Name of Brook
Ign and Long Island, held here SUM-
day. Decency of speech and conduct
constituted the theme of his address,
which was enthusiastically %applauded
by an audience of more than two thou
sand persons, chiefly men. During the
afternoon special trains brought hun
dreds of members of the society tc
Oyster Bay from Brooklyn and western
Long Island. Threatening weather
kept many away.
AS President Roosevelt drove up tc
the stand in a closed carriage, accom-
panied by Capt. w. H. Brownson, SUI
perintendent of the naval academy;
Secretary Barnes and a representative
of the society, he was accorded an en.
thusiastic reception, a band the while
playing HAL 10 lHe CHlel.
After the audience had sung Amer
lea Father Power, rector of st, Domi-
MICS, introduced the president in a
felicitious speech in which he spoke of
the esteem in which Mr.. Roosevelt is
held by the Catholics of this country.
When President Roosevelt rose t.
speak he was greeted with cheers, and
it was quite a minute before he was
able to proceed. His address follows;
Presidents Address.
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 con-
g~regation, welcome you here to Oys-
Ter Bay. I have a partial right to join
in that welcome myself, foF it was my
good fortune in the days of Father
Powers predecessor, Father Bedford, tC
be the first man to put down a small
contribution for the erection Of the
church here. l am particularly glad to
see such a socnety as this fl%ourishine
as your society has f1ourished, because
the future welfare of our nation de-
ponds upon the way in which we can
combine in our men-in our young men
-decency and strength. Just this morn.
ing when attending service on the
great battleship Kearsarge | listened to
a sermon addressed to the officers and
enlisted men of the navy, in which the
central thought was that each Amer
lean must be a good man or he could
not be a good citizen. And one Of the
things dwelt upon in that sermon was
the fact that a man must be clean OF
mouth as we'll as clean of life-must
show by his words as well as by his
actions his fealty to the piety and to
the Saviour if he was to be what we
have a right to expect from men wear
ing the national uniform.
Does Not Expect Perfection.
1--WE have good Scriptural authority
| for the statement that it's not what
comes in a mans mouth, but what goes
out of it that counts. | am not ad
dressing weaklings, or l should no
take the trouble to come here. | an
addressing strong, vigorous men who
are engaged in the active hard work o
life, and life to be worth living; mus
be a life of active and hard work. | an
speaking to men engaged in the hard
active work of life, and therefore mei
who will count for good or evil, and /
is particularly incumbent upon you VIII,
have strength to set a right example
to others. | ask you to remember tina
you can not retain your self respect l.
you are loose and foul of tongue, tina
a man who is to lead a clean and hon
orable life must inevitably suffer if hi
speech likewise is not clean and hon
! orable. Every man here knows thu
temptations that beset all of us in thi'
world. At times any man may slip.
do not expect perfection, but | do ex
pect genuine and sincere effort towart
being decent and clearly in thought, il
word and in deed.
Honesty Indispensable.
"Now, friends, that is all | have tt
say. | have come here merely to gree
you and to say how | welcome the
work that is being done by this so
ciety. In the last analysis, the whole
future of the state depends upon thu
average citizen having in his nature
the mixture of strength and honest!
which make in their sum what we cal
good citizenship, to the making up o
which go many qualities, but thre'
above all-honesty, potriotisln ant
courage. We must have obsolut'
honesty first, am using
in it's broadcast sense-hones
ty, including decency in privat
life. cleanliness of words, of speech a
we'll as of life, decency toward tn
state, including honesty, which, if it i
really possessed, stands at the basis Q
patriotism itself; that is indispensa
BILE"
Pope Received Archbishop Harry.
Rome, Aug. 16.-The pope, at fv
o'clock this afternoon, received at
private audience in his apartmer
Archbishop Harry (who, yesterday, wa
~consecrated archbishop of Manila
with whom he spoke at length abor