The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-08
HEAR ROOSEVELT.
Periodical Publishers Associa-
tion Members Give a Dinner.

Washington. April S.-A distinguish
ed crowd attended the dinner given at
the new Willard hotel last night by the
Periodical Publishers Association OF
America. President Roosevelt was
present and made speech. To his
right sat Count Cassini, the Russian
ambassador, dean of the corps and on
either side of them were Mr.. Hay, Sec
rotary of state, NJ. Jusserand he
French ambassador. Baron Won Stern
berg, the German ambassador, Justice
Peckhanl of the supreme court, Ham
ilton W. Mabie, the toastmaster, and
other distinguished members of the so
ciety. The dinner was preceded and
followed by a reception. The president
arrived about 1920 o'clock and remain
ed throughout the reception which
followed the dinner. He was the first
speaker. TOastmaSter Mabie intro
duced him as THE best known author
in America today, the author and il
illustrator of American ideals" He
spoke as follows:
Mr.. Chairmen and Gentlemen:-It
is always a pleasure to n man in pub
lie life to meet the real governing
classes. 1 wish to bid you welcome to
Washington and to say but a word OF
greeting and that word shall take the
form of a warning and a hope. did
not speak in jest when ] alluded to
you as representatives of the govern
! ing classes. think we of the United
States cannot keep too fresh IN our
!
bic for the government are not the
Representatives of the people but the
| people themselves. and that therefore
heavy is the responsibility that lies
upon the people ana upon all those
who do most toward shaping the
thought of the people. have
recently in reading d book been
/ immensely struck by the thought DE-
veloped in it by one Of our greatest
scholars. who was speaking Of freedom
and of the fact that freedom could not
exist unless there went with it a sense
of responsibility and he used a phrase
somewhat like this:
THAT among all people there must
be a restraint; If there is no restraint
there is for an inevitable result an
archy. which is the negation of all
government.
Therefore there must be restraint.
A .free people has merely subsutu led
self-restraint for external restraint
and the permanence of our freedom as
a people and of our liberty depends
upon the way il is we shall exercise
that self-restraint.
There must be more than good laws
to make a good people. A man whose
acknowledgement of the law is pret-
ty poor creature. Unless our average
citizenship is based upon a good deal
more than mere observance of the
laws on the statute books then your
average citizenship can never produce
the kind Of government which it must
and Will produce yN
80 far from liberty and responsibility
of self government being things which
come easily and to any people they are
peculiarly things that can come only 70
the most highly developed people. capa-
bic not only of mastering others. but OF
mastering themselves. and who can
achieve real self-gOvernment. real liberty.
For that cultivation of the spirit of self
restraint which is the spirit of seIf-reli-
ance. we must rely in no small degree
upon those who furnish 50 much of the
thought Of the great bulk of our people
who think most and therefore. gentle