Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1904-11-23

| Washington. SDe, ,ial.-President
| Roosevelt made an add ress Sunday at
the 10th anniversary celebration at
st. Patricks church and the dedica-
ton of Carroll Hall. the new parochial
building and parish school The Rev.
DR.. ID. j. Stafford. rector of st. Pat
ricks. acted as the master of cere-
monies. Cardinal Gibbons. several
Grchbishops and other dignataries of
the Catholic Church attended the ex-
ercises. the former making an adj
dress Immediately preceding that OF
the President. II. b. f. MacFarland
! president of the board of commission
ere of the District of Columbia. was the
concluding speaker.
me knights of Columbus formed a
| guard ot honor for the President but
a squad of policemen was necessary to
open the crowded streets. Cheer after
| cheer went UP as the President and his
escort appeared. He was met. at his
carriage by Father Stafford. and as he
| passed into the rectory 4 children 8
choir OF 200 voices, stationed in front
of the church. sany hymns
DR.. Stafford introduced Presiden,
/ Roosevelt as the man OF even-handcd
| Justice: the President of the square
deal President Roosevelt thanked
the rector and Joined in the laugh
Nhich preceded prolonged cheering
Then he spoke in part as follows:
1t is great pleasure to me to be
present with YOU to-dday, to assist at
| M hn hun
rectory. of this parish. am glad in
ueed. TO have been introduced. Cardi-
nal Gibbons, by you. the spiritual rep
| feSentatiVe in peculiar sense of that
bishop Carroll who played so lustrious
q part in the affairs OF the Church. and
whose kinsfolk played as ilIustrious a
part in the affairs OF the nation at the
dawning of this government. In greet
ing all of YOU wish to say that I am
especially glad to see the children pres
ent. (Cheers and applause. You
know | believe in children. want to
see enough of them and of the right
kind. (Appause.)
II wish to-day. in the very brief re-
marks that | have to make. to dwell
upon this thought. that while in this
country we need wise laws honestly
and fearlessly executed. and while we
cannon afford to tolerate anything but
| the highest standard in the public SER
| vice or the government. yet that in the
| last analysis the future of the country
must depend upon the quality of the
individual home. and of the individual
man or women in the home and that
very largely depends upon the way in
which the average boy or girl is
brought up. Cheers and applause }
| therefore. peculiar responsibility
rests upon those whose life work is to
see to the spiritual welfare of our peo-
pie and upon those who make is ;heir.
life work to try to train the children
oi the future so that they will be
worthy of that future The rules of
good citizenship are tolerably simple.
The trouble is not in finding them out;
the trouble is in living up to them af-
| Ter they have been found ont We
Know fairly well what quantities there
| are winch, 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 we'll developed as we would like TO.
wish to see in the average American
| puzen the development of two sets of
qualities. which we can roughly indi-
cafe as sweetness and strength-the
| qualities on the one hand which mako
| - A'"' "oiS W hoitl HIS own. and
those which on the other hand make
linn jealous for the rights OF others
| Just as much as for his own rights.
You probably know that | do not
| care very much for the coward or the
rioral weakling. | wish to sec in the
man manliness. in the woman woman
| lness | wish to see courage. nerse-
. VCrance. the Willingness to face work
TO race, you men. if il is necessary
d"nger, the determination not To
s1rink back when temporary beaten
IN lfe as each one will now and then.
but to come uD again and wrest tri-
umph from wefeat. | want To sec vou
rlen strong men and brave men. and i'm
addltlon | want to see each man OF
you feel that it has strength and cour-
age are joined the qualities of tender
ness toward those ne loves. who are
| dependent upon him, and of right deal
ing with all his neighbors.
Finally, ! want to congratulate all
OF us on certain successes that we
nave achieved in the century and q
quarter that has gone by of our Ameri-
can life. We have difficulties enough.
ana we are long way short OF per
| fectlon. | do not want TO see any i'm
MEDIATE danger of our growing too
| good; there is ample room for effort
I yet left. But we have achieved certain
| results; we nave succeeded in measur-
ably realizing certain ideals. we nave
grown to accept il as an automatic
truth OF our American life that the