Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-04-12
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REFORMS
AT. HOME
Advice Given by Roosevelt in
an Address Before Pub
liSher'S Association

Washington, April IA distin-
guished 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 a
speech. To his right Count Cassini,
the Russian ambassador, Dean of the
Corps, and on either side of them was
Mr.. Hay, secretary of state; NJ Brus-
serand, the French ambassador;
Baron Won Sternberg. the German
ambassador; Justice Peckham, of the
supreme court; Hamilton M. Mabie,
the toastmaster, and other distin-
guished members of the society. The
dinner was preceded and followed by
a reception. The President arrived
about 10:30 o'clock AMI remained
throughout the reception which fol
lowed the dinner He was the first
speaker. Mr.. Mabie introduced him
as "the best-known author in Amerl-
ca today, the author and illustrator of
American ideals" He spoke as fol.
lows:
'Mr. chairman and gentlemen: 1t
is always pleasure to a man in pub
lie life to meet the governing classes.
wish to bid you welcome to Wash
ington and to say a word of greet
ing, and that word shall take the
form of warning and hope. I did
not speak in jest when l alluded to
you as representatives of the govern
ing classes. l think that we of the
United States cannot keep too fresh
in our minds the fact that those most
responsible 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 and upon
all those who do most toward shap-
ing the thought of the people.
mo, in the days of my youth
was a literary man. have recently
in reading a book, been immensely
struck by the thought developed 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 1t 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 anarchy, which Is
the negation of all government
Therefore there must be restraint.
A free people has merely substituted
for external restraint
and the permanence of our freedom
as a people and Of our liberty depends
upon the way in which we shall exer-
else the self-restraint. There must
be more than good laws to make a
good people.
A man whose morality is expressed |
merely in the non-violation of the |
law is a pretty poor creature. Unless
the average citizenship is based on a
good deal more than mere observ-
ance of the laws on the statute books |
then our average citizenship can new
er produce the kind of government |
which it must and will produce. So
far from liberty and the responsible |
ties of self.government being things |
which come easily and to any people, |
they are peculiarly things that can
come only to the most highly devel- |
oped people capable not only OF mus
tering themselves and WHO can
achieve real self-government real
liberty. For that cultivation OF the
spirit Of self-restraint which is the
spirit of self-reliance we must rely |
in no small degree upon those who
furnish so much Of the thought Of the
great bulk OF our people who think |