The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-11-23
ROOSEVELT AND
THE SIMPLE LIZ {
Observation-Disclosures
tinguished Author and
Makes Speech.
APPEAL FOR HIGH
AMERICAN IDEALS
Striking Story Of a Citizen Of
Washington, a Livery Stable
and Congregational
Brilliant Audience
at the Lee
(By Associated Press)

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# WASHINGTON, .. c., November o.
President Roosevelt introduced the Rev.
Charles Wagner, the author, to large
audience ut the Lafayette Opera House
this afternoon. where. under the auspices
OF the Young Mems Christian Association
he delivered Il lecture on The Simple
Life" Tho audience, which gathered to
hear the author. Was thoroughly repre-
sentative OF tho national capital. The
President, who Is q great admirer OF Mr..
Wagner. was given a cordial reception.
In presenting the lecturer the President
commended Mr. yvagncr's book, THE
Simple Life" MS containing much that
Americans should take to heart. Mr..
Roosevelt said:
Manifestations Of Some Vice. !.
s'A1r Wagner has well brought out
the great fundamental truth that the
brutal arrogance OF q rich man who
looks down upon a poor man because he
Is poor, and the brutal envy and hatred
felt by a poor man towards rich man.
merely because he Is rich. are at bot
tom twin manifestations OF the same
vice They are simply different sides OF
tho same shield. The arrogance that
looks down in the one case the envy
that hates in the other, are really eShi-
bitions OF the same mean, base and un-
lovely spirit which happens in one case
to be in different surroundings from what
it Is in the other case. Tho kind Of man
who would be arrogant in one case is pre-
ciscly the kind of man who would be en-
vious and filled with hatred An the other.
The ideal should be the just. the gen
erous. the broad-minded man, who Is as
ncapabse OF arrogance II rich as he Is OF
malignant envy and hatred If poor" Cap
piiauss.)
q. Tho President spoke Il few words COM
mcnding the work Of the Y. M. c. a. az
trying to bring about what Is expressed
In the phrase. THE fatlcrhood OF God
and the brotherhood or man He then
procecdal TO illustrate by examples what
he meant by u man acting individually
and by man acting In association with
his fellows The President referred to
the work of the Civic Club In New York,
under the leadership OF Norton Goddard,
saying: 4 @
.If we had sufficient number OF
clubs of this kind throughout our great
cities, while we would not by any means
have solved ala of the terrible problems
that press upon us for solution In connec-
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with the overcrowding misery, vice, dis
ense and poverty Of great cities, yet VIC
would havo taken n long stride forward
IN the right direction toward their solu-
tion. SO much for the example that use
to illustrate what / mean by work In
combination.
President Recites a Story.
"As an example OF what can be done
and should be done, by the individual cit
liens, I shall mention something that. .re-..
Gently occurred in this city. OF Washing
ton. 1t appears that last spring Mr.. Dow
ney started to build new livery stable;
his stable Is next door to colored Bap-
tist Church. Mr.. Downey is white
man and Catholic and these neighbors
of his are colorcd men and 3aptists,
and their kinship Of that broad humanity
that should underlIe all our feelings to-
ward one another. (Applause). Mr.. Dow
ney. started to build his stable, and nat
lurally wanted to have 1t MS big a stable
a possible and built 1t right up to the
limits OF his land. That brought the wall
close UP against the back OF the colored
Baptist church, cutting out the light
and air. The preacher called upon him
and told him that they would like to
purchase n strip six feet broad OF the
ground of Mr.. Downey upon which he
was intending to build. MS It would be a
great Inconvenience to them to lose the
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