The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-21

Dedication of Carroll Hall.
knights of Columbus n Guard or
HOnOr-CardinaI Gibbons Also
Made an Address-President Was
Literally Applauded.
Washington. Nov. 20. = President
Roosevelt made an address to-day at
the 10th anniversary celebration at ST.
Patrick's church and the dedication of
Carroll Hall. the new Parochial build
ing and parish school. The Rev. DR.. d.
J. Stafford. rector of St. Patrick's,
acted as master of ceremonies.
Cardinal Gibbons. several archbish-
ops and other dignitaries of the Cath
olic church attended the exercises, the
former making an address Immediate
ly preceding that of the President. H.
B. F. Mcfarland, president of the
Board of Commissioners of the District
of Columbia. was the concluding
sneaker.
The addresses were made from ball
eony on the second floor of the rectory,
and the audience gathered in crowds
in the streets.
The knights of Columbus formed a
guard of honor for the President, but a
squad of police was necessary to open
the crowded streets. Cheer after cheer
went up as the President and his es-
cort appeared. He was met at his car
riage by Father Stafford. and as he
passed into the rectory a children's
~ IF eka in,
of the church, sang hymns.
President on the "Square Deal"
Dr. Stafford introduced President
Roosevelt as "the man of even-handed
justice; the President of the square
deal.'" President Roosevelt thanked
the rector and joined in the laugh
which preceded prolonged cheering.
Then he spoke, in part, as follows:
1T is a great pleasure to me to be
present with you to-day TO assist at
the dedication of the school. hall and
rectory of this parish. l am glad, in
deed, to have been introduced, Cardi-
nal Gibbons, by you, the spiritual rep
resentative in a peculiar sense of that
Bishop Carroll, who played so illustri-
Gus part in the affairs of the church
and whose kinsfolk played as illustri-
at the dawning of this government.
I'm greeting all of you, 1 wish to
say that l am especially glad to see
the children present. (Cheers and ap-
plause) You know, believe in chill
dren. | want to see enough of them
and of the right kind. (Applause.)
The Individual Home.
i wish to-day in the very brief re-
marks that / have to make, to dwell
upon this thought, that while in this
country we need wise laws honestly
and fearlessly executed, and while we
cannot afford to tolerate anything but
the highest standard in the public
service of the government, yet that
in the last analysis the future Of the
country must depend upon the quality
of the individual home, of the indi-
vidual man or woman in that home,
and that very largely depends upon
the way in which the average boy or
girl is brought up. (Cheers and ap-
plause) Therefore, a peculiar respon-
sibility rests upon those whose life
work it is to see to the spiritual well
fare of our people and upon those
who make it their life work to try to
train the citizens of the future so
that they shall be worthy of that fu-
ture.
THE rules of good citizenship are
tolerably simple The trouble is not
in finding them OUT the trouble is in
living up to them after they have been
found out. We know fairly well what
qualities they are which in their sum
make up the type of character we like
to see in man or wife, son or daugh-
ter: but / am afraid we do not al
ways see them as well developed as
we would like to. 1 wish to see in
the average American citizen the de-
velopment of the two sets Of qualities
which we can thoroughly Indicate as
sweetness and strength-the qualities
on the one hand which make the man
able to hold his own, and those which,
on the other hand make him jealous
for the rights of others just as much
as for his own rights.
Not the Sort He'd Care About.
you probably know that 1 do not
care very much for the coward or the
moral weakling. l wish to see in the
man manliness, in the woman woman
liness. / wish to see courage, perse-
verance, the willingness to face work,
to face, you men. IL 1t Is necessary,
danger, the determination not to shrink
back when temporarily beaten I'm life,
as each one will be now and then,
but to come uD and wrest triumph
from defeat. l want to see you men
strong men and brave men. and. in
addition, / wish to see each man OF
you feel that to his strength and cour-
age are Joined the qualities of tender
ness toward those he loves. who are
dependent upon him. and of right deal
ing with all his neighbors.
FINALLY, ! want 10 congratulate all
of us here on certain successes that
we have achieved I'm the century and
a quarter that has gone by of our
American life, We have difficulties
enough. and we are a long ways short
OF perfection. I do not see any imme-
diate danger OF our growing too good;
there Is ample room for effort vet left.
But we have achieved certain results.
we have succeeded I'm measurably re-
alizing certain ideals. We have grown
TO accept II as an automatic truth OF
our American life that the man is to
be treated on his worth as man.
without regard to the accidents OF hls
position (applause); that this Is not
government designed 10 favor the rich
man as such. or the poor man as such.
but that Il Is designed 10 favor every
man, rich or poor. " he Is a decent
man who acts fairly by his fellows.
(Cheers and applause)
Broad aud Liberal Charity.
"We have grown TO realize that part
OF the foundations upon which our
liberty restc Is the right OF each man
10 worship his Creator according Ia
the dictates of his conscience. and the
duty Of each man 10 respect hIn fol-
low who 50 worahlps Him. fchecre
and apulnuHel And Oh. my colnfrv