The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-21
ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT
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 , ish, a parish whose 10th anniversary 1 we also now celebrate; for this parish was founded six years before the na- tional capital was placed in the pres ent District of Columbia. I am glad in- deed to have been introduced, Cardinal Gibbons, by you, the spiritual repre- sentative in a peculiar sense of that Bishop Carroll who played so illustri- ous a part in the affairs of the nation
 at the dawning of this government. In greeting all of you I wish to say that I am especially glad to see the children present. You know I believe in chll- dren. want to see enough Of them and of the right kind.
 T wish to-day, in the very brief re- marks that have to make, to dwell
 upon this thought-the thought that ought to be in the mind of every man
 and woman here, the thought that while in this country we need wise laws honestly and fearlessly executed and while we cannot afford to tolerate any thing but the highest standard in the public service of the government, yet that in the last analysis the future or
 the country must depend upon the quality of the individual home, of the individual man or woman in that home. The future of this country depends
 upon the way in which the average man and the average woman in 1t does his or her duty and that very largely depends upon the way in which the
 average boy or girl is brought up. Therefore a peculiar responsibility rests upon those whose life work it is to see to the spiritual welfare of our people and upon those who make IL their life work to try to train the citi- zens of the future so that they shall be worthy of that future. In wishing you well to-day I wish you well in do- ing the most important work which is allotted to any of our people to do' The rules of good citizenship are tol-
 erably simplex. The trouble is not In finding them out; the trouble is in liV- ing LID to them after they have been found out. I think we all of us know fairly well what qualities they are l which in their sum make up the type of character we like to see in man or ! wife son or daughter; but am afraid we do not always see them as well de- I yeloped as we would like to. wish to
 see in the average American citizen the 1 development of the two sets or suall- ties which we can roughly indicate as
 sweetness and strength-the qualities on the one hand which make the man able to hold his own. and those which
 on te other hand make him jealous for the rights of others just as much as l for his own rights. We must have both sets of qualities, in the first place the
 man muse have tn power to hold his
 own. You probably know that do not
 care very much for the coward or the moral weakling. want each of you 1 boys and girls just as much, and each
 of you young men and young women
 to have the qualities without which people may be amiable and pleasant l while things go well, but without which they cannot succeed in times of stern trial. I wish to see in the man manliness, in the woman womanliness. ] wish to see courage, perseverance, the willingness to face work, to face, you ! men, if it is necessary danger, the de- termination not to shrink hack when temporarily beaten in life, as each one will be now and then, but to come up again and wrest triumph from defeat.
 l want to see you men strong men ana
 brave men and in addition I wish to see
 each man of you feel that his strength
 and his courage but make him the
 worse unless to that strength and courage are joined the qualities of ten
 derness toward those he loves, who are
 dependent upon him, and of right deal-
 ing with all his neighbors.
 Finally, I want to congratulate all
 of us here on certain success that we
 have achieved in the century and a
 quarter that has gone by of our Amer tcan life. We have difficulties enough, and we are long ways short of perfec-
 tion. do not see any immediate dan ger of our growing too good; there is ample room for effort yet left, But we have achieved certain results, and we have succeeded in measurably realizing certain ideals. We have grown to ac-
 cept it 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 his position; that this is not a government designed to favor the rich man as such, or the poor man as such, but that 1t is design ed to favor man, rich or poor, if he is decent man who acts fairly by his fellows. We have grown to realize that part of the foundations upon which our liberty rests is the right of each man to worship his Creator according to the
 dictates of his conscience, and the duty of each man to respect his fellow who so worships Him. And, oh my coun- trymen, one of the best auguries for the future of this country, for the future of this mighty and majestic nation of ours, lies in the fact that we have
 grown to regard one another; that we brothers have grown to regard one an- other with broad and kindly charity, and to realize that the field for human endeavor is wide, that the field for charitable, philanthropic, religious work is wide, and that, while a corner of it remains untitled, we do a dreadful wrong if we fail to welcome the work