The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-25
CARROLL HALL DEDICATED
Cardinal Gibbons and Other Church
D%ignitaries Take Part in the
Exercises.

ST. PaLT1cKS ChurCl n the dedlCa
ton of Carroll hall, the new parochia
buildings and parish school. Rever
end Doctor D. ]. Stafford, rector of st
Patrick's, acted as the master of cere
monies.
Cardinal Gibbons, several archbish
ops and other dignitaries of the Cath
Ole church attended the exercises, the
former making an address immedi
ately preceding that of the president
H. b. F. Mcfarland, president of the
board Of commissioners of the Distric,
Of Columbia, was the concluding
speaker.
The Knights of Columbus formed a
guard of honor for the president but
a squad of policemen was necessary
to open the way through the crowded
streets.
Doctor Stafford, the first speaker,
told of the work of st. Patrick's par.
lsh, it's growth and it's aim for the
future. He introduced Cardinal Glib
hons, who testified to the value of the
parish and gave great credit to the
efforts of it's rector.
Roosevelt introduced.
Doctor Stafford then introduced
President Roosevelt as "The man OF
.e~ven-handed justice, the president of
fho scn11oro dooJ ""
President Roosevelt thanked the rec
tor and Joined in the laugh which pre-
coded prolonged c%heeding. He spoke in
part as follows:
s'Cardinal Gibbons, Father Stafford
and You, My Fellow Americans: 1t is
a great pleasure to me to be present
with you today to assist at the dedica-
ton of the school, hall and rectory OF
this parish, a parish whose 10th an
niversary we also now celebrate, for
this parish was founded six years be-
fore this capital was placed in the
present District of Columbia.
(Cheers.) I am glad, indeed, to have
been introduced, Cardinal Gibbons,
after you, the spiritual representative
in a peculiar to that Bishop Car
roll who played so Industrious a part
in the affairs of the church and whose
kinfolk played so illustrious a part in
the affairs of the nation at the dawn
ing of this government. In greeting all
of you I wish to say that / am espe-
cially glad to see the children present.
Believes in Children.
"You know l believe in children. l
wan to see enough of them and OF the
right kind. l wish today in the very
brief remarks that l 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 VIZ need
wise laws, honestly and fearlessly exc
cuted, and while we cannot afford to
tolerate anything but the highest stan.
dard in the public service of the gov
Il Au1Cut, ySI III IAO 4ooC AA0 1919, ~
future of the country must depend
upon the quality of the individual
home, of the individual man or woman
in that home.
Sweetness and Strength.
II wish to see in the average Amer
lean citizen the development of two
sets of qualities, 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 the other hand
make him jealous for the rights of
others just as much as for his own
rights. We must have both sets OF
qualities.
~ want to congratulate all of us
here on certain successes that we
have achieved in the century and a
quarter that has gone by of our Amer
ican life. We have difficulties enough
and we are a long ways short OF per-
lection. I do not see any immediate
danger of our growing too good; there
is ample room for effort yet left.
tfBut we have achieved certain
rights and we have succeeded in a
measure in realizing contain ideals.
We have grown to accept it as an
automatic truth of our American life
that the man is to be treated on his
worth as a man without regard to the
accidents of his position, that this is
not a government designed to favor
the rich man as such Of the poor man
~ such. but that 1t ds destined to
favor every American, rich or poor,
4f he is . decent man, who acts fairly
~ his fellows. We have grown to