The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17

lily. misbehave yourself. if you use
coarse and blasDhemouS language be-
fore them you can be sure that these
younger people will follow your ex-
ample and note your DreceDt- 1t is no
use to preach to them if you do not
act decently yourself. You have got
to feel that the most effective way in
which you can preach is by your prac-
tice- Just as / was driving up here a
friend who was with US said that IL. his
experience the boy who went out into
life with a foul tongue was apt so to go
because his kinsfolk. at least his init
mate associates. themselves had foul
tongues. But while the life in the fam
lily cannot do everything. while the as
sociations of friendship cannot do
everything, still the friends, the father,
the elder brothers. can do most toward
seeing that the boys, as they become
men, become clean and honorable men,
II have told you that l wanted YOU
not only to be decent, but to be strong.
The boys are not going to admire viz
tue that is of purely anaemic type.
They believe in courage, in manliness.
They admire those who have the quality
of being brave, the quality of facing
life as life should be faced. the quality
that must stand at the root OF good
citizenship in peace or in war. IL 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. I want to see
you the men of the Holy Name society,
you who embody Tie qualities which
the younger people admire by your ex-
ample give those young people the ten
dency- the trend. in the right direc-
ton: and remember that this example
counts in their case as we'll as cleanli-
ness of speech ] want to see every
man able to hold his own with the
strong, and also ashamed to Cypress
the weak. l want to see the Young
man able to do a mans work in the
world, and of type which will not per-
init imposition to be practiced upon
him. l want to see him too strong of
spirit to submit to wrong and, on the
other hand, ashamed to do wrong to
others.
Il want to see each man able to hold
his own in the rough work of actual
life outside and also when he is at home,
good man, unselfish in his dealing
with wife or mother or children. Re
member that the preaching does NOT
count if it is not backed up by practice.
There is no good of your preaching to
There is no good of your preaching to
them to tell the truth if you do not.
There is no good of your preaching to
them to be unselfish if they see you
others yourself. We have right to ex-
,pect not only that you will come to-
gether in meetings like this; that you
will march in professions; that you will
JOIN III DullGlIlS up SuCn d great ana
useful association as this, but we have
a right also to expect that in your own
homes and among your own associates
you will prove by your deeds that yours
is not lip loyalty merely, that you
will show in actual practice the faith
that is in you.
Il see in the audience there a man
wearing the button of the G. A. R., a
man who fought in the great war. In
that war the quality needed in the first
place was patriotism. 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 formida BILE
and dangerous traitor. So in civil
life. Unless there is a spirit of honesty
in a man, unless there is a moral sense
his courage his strength, his power but
makes him a dangerous creature in our
| life, a man whether from the standpoint
of our social or political systems to be
feared and to be hunted down. So you
need that quality first-the quality OF
honesty, the moral. sense, the quality
which in one of its manifestations 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. 1 don't care
how patriotic a man was, if he ran
away he was no good.
I'm addition to patriotism you must
| have the power to make that patriotism
| effective. In addition to honesty you
must have the power to make the hon.
esty count. In other words, together
with honesty, with decency, with clean
; illness, must go courage and you must
have patriotism and in addition, as
have said again and again, with youl
courage and with your patriotism must
go the saving grace of common sense
The applause at the conclusion of the
presidents address was enthusiastic anC
the cheering continued until he had en-
tered his carriage and been driver
away.
Some Catholic prelates of this diocese
spoke bitterly in continuation of the
meeting. after the presidents departure
The meeting is said to have been the
largest in the history of the Society Of
| the Holy Name.