The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-21
President Roosevelt Wants to
See Enough Children.
Also That They Be the Right
Kind.
DUTY OF THE CITIZEN.
Should Insist Upon Highest
Standard Of Public Service.
An Address at Catholic Church
Celebration.

Roosevelt made an address Sunday at
the one hundred and tenth anniversary
celebration at st. Patrick's church and
the dedication of Carroll hall, the new
parochial buildings and parish school.
The Rev. DR.. D. ]. Stafford, rector of
st. Patrick's, acted the master of
ceremonies. Cardinal Gibbons, several
archbishops and other dignitaries of the
Catholic church, attended the exercises.
the former making an address immedi-
ately preceding that of the president
H. B. MacFarland, president of the
| board of directors of the District of
Columbia, was the concluding speaker.
| The addresses were made from a bal
cony on the second floor of the rectory
and the audience gathered in the
| streets. The intersection of Tenth and
G streets northwest was packed with
| people and the crowd extended fully a
square north and SOUTH east and west,
from the rectory. The Rev. DIR. Stafford
in his opening remarks referred to the
| fact that in the century and more that
st. Patrick's church had worked in
Washington, no honor had come to It
| so great as the visit of President Roose-
welt.
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. Cheer after cheer went up as
!
He was met at his carriage by the
| Rev. Father Stafford and as he passed
| into the rectory children's choir of
200 voices, stationed in front of the
church, sang hymns.
| Before the ceremonies were begun
the president was shown through the
stepped out on the balcony he was
cheered loudly, the demonstration
doubling when Cardinal Gibbons took
a place by the presidents side and in
| vited him to be seated.
The Rev. DIR. Stafford, the first
speaker, told of the work of st. Pat
rick's parish, it's growth, and it's aim
for the future. He introduced Car
value of the parish and gave great
credit to the efforts of its rector. The
Rev. DR.. Stafford then introduced
President Roosevelt as the imam of
the square DEAL"
| President Roosevelt thanked the
rector and Joined in the laugh which
preceded prolonged cheering. Then
he spoke as follows:
| Cardinal Gibbons, Father Stafford
and you, my fellow Americans: 1t is a
with you today to assist at the dedica-
ton of the school, hall and rectory of
this parish, a parish whose one hun
dred and tenth anniversary we also
now celebrate; for this parish was
founded six years before the national
capital was placed in the present Dis
trict of Columbia. (Cheers and ap-
plause.) I am glad, indeed, to have
you, the spiritual representative in
a peculiar sense to that Bishop Carroll
who played illustrious a part in the
affairs of the church, and whose kins-
affairs of the nation at the dawning
of this government. In greeting all
of you 1 wish to say that 1 am espe-
cially glad to see the children present.
(ChaaTS know I
believe in children. I want to see
enough of them and of the right kind.
(Applause.) 1 wish today, in the very
brief remarks that I 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 we
need wise laws, honestly and fearlessly
executed, and while we cannot afford
to tolerate anything but the highest
standard in the public service Of the
analysis the future of the country
must depend upon quality of the indi-
Vidual home, of the individual man or
woman in that home. The future of
this country depends upon the way in
which the average man and the aver
age woman in it does his or her duty,
and that very largely depends upon
the way in which the average boy or
girl is brought up. (Cheers and ap-
plause.)
Therefore, a peculiar responsibility
rests upon those whose life work it is
to see the spiritual welfare of our
people and upon those who make it
their life work to try to train the citi-
zens of the future. In wishing you
we'll today / wish you well in doing
the most important work which is al
lotted to any of our people to do.
The rules of good citizenship are toler-
ably simple The trouble is not in
finding them out; the trouble is in
living up to them after they have been
found out. 1 think we all of our
selves know fairly well what qualities
they are which in their sum make up
the type of character we like to see in
man or woman, son or daughter; but
am afraid we do not always see
tn EN- as we'll developed as we would
like to- wish to see in the average
American citizen the development of
the two sets of qualities which we can
roughly indicate as sweetness and
strength-the qualities on the one hand
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.
In the first place, the man must
have the power to hold his own. You
probably know that 1 do not care very
much for the coward or the moral
weakling. L want each of you boys,
of you young men and young women,
to have the qualities without which
people may be amiable and pleasant
while things go well, but without
which they cannot succeed in times OF
stern trial.
I wish to see in the man manliness,
in the woman womanliness. L wish to