The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-11-21
ROOSEVELT SPEAKS AT
ST. PATRICKS CHURCH

but the highest standard I'm the public.
service OF the Government. yet that in
the last anelysis the future Of the coun-
try must depend upon the quality of
the individual home. OF the individual
man or woman In that home.
Nations Future Rests With Children.
The future of this country depends
upon the way in which the average man
and the average woman in it does his
or her duty, and that very largely de-
ponds upon the way IN which the aver
age boy or girl is brought up. GCheers
and applause.l Therefore. a peculiar re-
spOnsibility rests upon those whose life
work il is TO see 20 the spiritual vel
fare OF our people and upon those who
make il their lifework 10 try to train
the citizens of the future so that they
shall be worthy OF that future. In wish
ing you well today, I wish you well in
doing the most important work which is
allotted to any OF our people 10 do.
The rules of good citizenship are toler-
ably simple. The trouble Is IN living
up 10 them after they have been found
out. / think we all or rs know fairly
well what qualities they are which IN
their sum make up the type OF char
acter we like TO see in man or wife. son
always see them as we'll developed as
We would like TO. ] wish TO see In the
average American citizen the develop
ment of the two sets OF qualities which
we can roughly indicate as sweetness
and strength-the qualities on the one
hand which make the man able 20 hOid
his own. and those which, on the OtheI
hand make him jealous for the rights or
Others Just as much as TOT ms own IN
rights We must have both sets OF
qualities. In the first place. the man
must nave the power TO hold his own
Manly Men and WOmanly Women.
you probably know that / do not
care very much for the coward or the
moral weakIlng. want each Of you
boys. and the girls just az much. and
each Of you young men and young WON
en-, to have the qualities without which
people may be amiabie and pleasant
while things go well, but without which
they cannot succeed in times OF stern
trial. 1 wish 10 see in the man man
Illness in the woman WOmdniiness 1
wish 10 see courage. perseverance. the
Willingness TO face work. 70 race you
men, II IL Is necessary, danger the ne
termination not 10 shrink bdcA Mheh
tempOra rily beaten in life, as each one
viii be now and then, but to come up
again and wrest triumph from defeat
/ want TO see you men strong men ana
brave men, and. In addition, 4 WISH 20
see each man OF you feel Inat MS
strength and his courage but make MN
the Wrose unless 10 that strength am
courage are Joined the qualities OF ten
deFness toward those he loves. VINO are
dependent upon him. and OF right dear
ing with all his neighbors
Finally. l want 10 congratulate All OF
Us here on certain successes that We
have achieved in the century and a
quarter that has gone by Of our Amerl-
can life We have difficulties enough,
and we are long ways short or peFIec-
tiSn. | do not see any immediate danger
of our growing too good there Is ample
room for effort yet left But We nave
achieved certain results, We nave sue
Ceeded In measurably realizing certain
ideals We have grown 10 accept II as
an automatic truth OF our American lie
that the man Is 10 be treated on his
worth as a man, without regard 10 the
accidents OF his position lapplauseIi that
this Is not government designed 10
vor the rich man as such. or the poor
man as such, but shat IL is desigied 10
favor every man. rich or poor. II he IS
decent man who acts fairly by his
fellows. TCheers and applause.1
Wide Field fer Human EndeavOr.
I'VE have grown TO realize that part
OF the foundation apon which our liberty
rests IS the right OF each man 10 wor-
tates of his conscience. and the duty Of
each man TO respect his fellow who so
worships Him. [Cheers and applause.l
And. OH my countTymen. one OF the
best auguries for the future OF this
country, for the future OF this mighty
and maiestic nation Of ours. lies IN the
fact that we have grown 30 regard one
another with a broad and kindly charity.
and 10 realize that the held Tor human
endeavor is wide; that the iieid TOT
charitable. philanthTODic, religious work
is wide. and that while a corner OF
il remains untitled we do dreadfui
wrong IL we fail 20 welcome the work
done in that field by every man. no
matter what his creed provided only ne
works with "A lofty sense OF his duty
10 God and his duty 10 his neignbor.
LCheers and applause
Mr.. mcfarland Speaks.
Following President Roosevelt Com
missioner II. b. +. mcfarland was in
troduced. He said in part:
colder than the city OF Washington.
older than the District OF Columbia
is venerable ST Patrick's Parish. While
the National Capital was still IN the
making under George Washington $
direction. this church was founded. II
links three centuries together. In all
these wears. and through all the mar
VeIous changes. its representatives nave
stood for religion, beneNolence, ana
freedom Of worship.
"Inasmuch as some Of its founders
were descendants Of those Roman
Catholics who. in the Maryland Assem-
bly, OF 1919. passed the act for religious
freedom, then almost unique. II has an
honora bic tradition which gives II dis
tinction. The men who set up the
standard of spiritual liberty in Mary
land deserve 10 be praised with the Pill
erims 81 Plymouth.
What John Boyle O'Rellly said OF the
Pilgrim Fathers might be said OF the
gallant gentlemen who came over with
leonard Calvert In the Ark and the
Dove"
IRELAND TELLS