New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-21
CROWDS HEAR ROOSEVELT
SPEECH FROM CHURCH.
President Emphasizes Need of Both
SWeetness and Strength.


American citizen the development of two sep
arate qualities which can roughly indicate as
sweetness and strength-the qualities, on me
one hand, which make the able to hold his
own and those which, on the other hand make
him jealous for the rights of others just much
as for his own right. We must have both sets of
qualities
president Roosevelt emphasized this utterance
IN an address he made this afternoon, speaking
from the portico over the entrance of the
stone rectory of st. Patricll's Roman Catholic
church to a vast assemblage which filled the
intersecting streets solidly between the building
lines and in each direction beyond hearing dis
tance It is estimated that there were ten thou
sand persons within sound of the Presidents
voice. The occasion the celebration of the
10th anniversary of the church. and the dedi-
cation of rectory and parochial school known
as Carroll Hall.
Cardinal Gibbons had just completed the
ecclesiastical ceremony when. $50 p. m, the
President arrived, and was Immediately escorted
| to the stone loggia. accompanied by the Rev.
DR. D. J. Stafford the rector and by Cardinal
Gibbons DR.. Stafford announced that the Presi-
dent would address the vast audience. referring
TO President Roosevelt as the man of even
handed justice the President of square deal"
formal Introduction was then made by Car
dinal Gibbons who thanked the President for
attending the dedication, and in his remarks
emphasized the fact that God and the Bible were
pre-eminent in the nations guidance and well
fare He characterized the United States as
nation in which there was liberty without
license and authority without despotsm."
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
The President spoke as follows. being fire.
| quently interrupted by applause
Cardinal Gibbons, Father Stafford. and you
| q
1t is great pleasure to me to be present with
you to-day to assist at the dedication of the
school. hall and rectory of this parish. parish
whose one hundred and tenth anniversary we
also now celebrate. For this parish founded
six years before the national capital was placed
in the present District of Columbia. (Cheers
and applause) l glad. indeed, to have been
introduced. Cardinal Gibbons by you, the spir-
itua representative, in a peculiar sense. of that
Bishop Carroll who played ilIustrious a part
in the affairs of the Church, and whose kinsfOlk
played as illustrious part In the affairs OF the
nation at the dawning Of this government.
In greeting all Of you, | wish to say that
am especially glad TO see the children present
| CHEERS and epplause) You know 1 believe III
| children. 1 want TO see enough of them, and of
the right kind (Applause)
| l wish to-day, in the very brief remarks that
l have to make dwell upon this thought
| the thought that ought to be in the mind o:
| every man and woman here-the thought that
| while in this country need wise laws, hon
| estly and fearlessly executed, and while we
cannot afford TO tolerate anything but the high
| est standard in the public service of the gov
ernment. yet that in the last analysis the future
! of the country must depend upon the quality OF
| the individual home, of the Individual man or
woman in that home. The future OF this coun-
| try depends upon the way IN which the average
| man and the average woman in II does ms or
| her duty and that very largely depends upon
| the way in which the average boy or girl IS
! brought up. Cheers and applause) Ihere-
| FORE a peculiar responsibility rests upon those
| whose ifework it is to see to TINS Splrltual
| welfare Of our people and upon those who make
| it their life work to try to train the citizens OF
! the future so that they shall be worthy OF that
| future.
| III doing the most important work Whlch is al
lotted to any of our people to do So The rules OF
| good citizenship tolerably simple The trouble
| is not in finding them out, the trouble is in Nv
| ing up to them after they have been found OUT
| 1 think we all of US know fairly well what quGl-
| tiles they are which in their sum make up the
| type of character we like TO see IN man or Wlie,
! son daughter. But am afraid we do not
| always see them we'll developed as we Woulo
| like to. I wish to see in the average American
| citizen the development OF the Two sets OF quat-
| ties which we can roughly indicate as sweet
| ness and strength-the qualities on the one hand
| which make the man able TO hold his own ana
| those which on the other hand make him jealous
of the rights of otherE just as much as for his
We must have both sets Of qualities. In the
| first place the man must have the power TO hold
his own You probably know that do not
care very much for the coward or the moral
! weakling. ! want each or you boys, ana the
| girls just much, and each OF you young men
| and Young women to have the qualities without
| which people may be ainiabie and pleasant while
things go well. but without which they cannot
| the man mauliness. in the Womanlness.
| l wish TO see courage perseverance. the wiling
| ness TO face work. to face you men, II II is nee
I essary danger the determination not to shrink
| back when temporarily beaten in life, as each
| one will be now and then, but to come up again
| and wrest triumph from defeat. / want to see
| you men strong men, and brave men, and in ad-
| diton 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 tenderness toward those
| he loves, who dependent upon him, and 10
| right dealing with all his nelShDorS.
| Finally l 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 American life. We have difficulties for
| ward and We are a long way short of perfec-
| ton. do not any immediate danger or ouc
| growing too good. There is ample room for ef-
| fort vet left. But we have achieved certain re-
| suits we have succeeded in measurably realtz-
| ing certain ideals. We have grown 10 accept 1t
| as an automatic truth of our American life that
| the man is to he treated on his worth as man,
| without regard 20 the accidents Of his position
| tapplause): that this IS not a government de-
| poor man as such. but that II is designed TO
| favor every man. rich or poor II he is decent
| man who acts fairly by his fellows. (Checrs and
| appIause) We have grown to realize that part
| Of the foundations upon which our liberty rests
| is the right Of each man TO worship MS creator
| according TO the dictates Of his conscience and
| the duty OF each man to respect his fellow VINO
! so worships him. CHEERS and applause0 And,
| 'oh my countrymen. one or the pest augurles
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 an
| other that we brothers have grown 70 regard
| one another with broad and kindly charity.
| and to realize that the field for human endeaVor
| Is wide that the field for charitable phhan-
| thropic religious work is wide, ana that Whle
| a corner OF it remains untitled we do dread
| ful wrong # we fail TO welcome the Work ooiie
| IN that field by every man. no matter what his
| creed provided only he works with a lorty sense
| of his duty 10 God and his duty 10 his neishbor
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