The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-23
NOTABLE SPEECH
BY ROOSEVELT

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best advantage only upon condition of
their being hearty sympathy among those
doing IL. There are a great many peo-
pie SO made I'm this world Il think most
OF us come under the category that they
would resent being gatronized about as
much as being wronged
Must Get Into Touch.
Great good can never be done if it
is attempted In a patronizing spirit. Mr..
Goddard realized that the work could be
done efficiently only on condition of get
ung i@to c,ose and hearty touch with
the people through whom and with whom
ne was 10 work. In consequence this
civic cub was founded. and IL has gradu-
ally extended it's operations until now
the entire club membership Of 5000 or
1880 men practically form a committee
Of betterment in social and civic lie. a
committee spread throughout that DIS
triet, each member keeping a sharp look
out over the fortunes Of all his immedi-
ate neighbOrs. therefore, if any case of
restitution or great suffering IN the dis
tflct comes 10 the attention OF some
member of the club he then reports il
at HEADQUARTERS, so that Ste9s can be
taken TO alleviate the misery, ana have
reason TO believe that there has been In
consequence a very general uplifting,
general increase OF happiness, through
out the district II we had a sufficient
number Of clubs OF This kind throughout
our great cities. while we would not by
any means have solved all % the ter
Tible problems thai press upon as for so
luton in connection with municipal gov
ernment and the Overcrowdin9. misery.
vice, disease and poverty of great cities,
yet We would have taken a long stride
forward in the right direction toward
their solution. So much for the example
that ] use to illustrate what / mean by
work IN combination.
A Case in Point.
LAS an example of what can be done
and should be- done by the Individual
shall mention something that recently
occurred i'm this city of Washington. q
thing that doubtless many of you
know about but which was unknown
60 me until recently. A few weeks ago,
when | was walking back from church
one Sunday, noticed great fire, and
found that il was Dowrey's livery sta
ble-you recollect it-three or four
weeks ago. Through a train of ercum-
stances that Z will not mention my at
tention was particularly called to the
case, and l looked into it. l had long
known of the very admirable work
done with singular modesty and self
effacement by Mr.. Downey in trying to
give homes andttO be himself q friend
Of those in sense friendless in this
community. and / by accident found
out what happened in connection with
this particular incident. 1t appears
that last spring Mr.. Downey started to
build a new stable. His stable rs next
door to colored Baptist church. Mr..
DOwney is a white man and a Catholic
and these neighbOrs of his are cOlored
and Baptists, and their kinship was
Ia of ha In
mainly that should underlie all our
feelings toward one another. Mr..
DOwney started TO build his stable,
and, naturally enough, wanted to have
it as big a stable as possible, and
built it right up TO the limits of his
land. That brought the wall close up
against the back of the colored Baptist
church, cutting out the light and air.
Agreed to Sell.
THE preacher called upon him and
told him that they would like to pur-
chase a strip six feet broad of the
ground of Mr.. Downey upon which he
was intending to build, as it would be
"A great inconvenience TO them to lose
the light and air; that they We're
aware that it was asking a good deal
of him to cramp the building out of
which he intended to make his living,
but that they hoped he would do il be-
cause of their need. After a good deal
of thought Mr.. DOwney came to the
conclusion tthat he ought 10 grant the
request, and so ne notified them that
he would change his plans, make a
somewhat smaller building and sell
them the six feet of land i'm the strip
adjoining their church. After a little
while the preacher came around with
L. 4
they very much appreciated Mr.. Dow
ney's courtesy and were sorry they had
bothered him as they had. because. on.
looking into the affairs of the church.
they found that, as they were already
in debt. they did not feel warranted in
mourning any further obligations. and
So they had to withdraw their request
They thanked him for his kindly pur-
pose and said gOod-by.
Gave Them the Land.
But Mr.. Downey found he could not
/ get TO sleep that night until finally he
/ made up his mind that as they could
/ not buy it he would give it TO them.
/ anyway. which he did. But unfor-
,tunately, we know that the tower of
) Sloan often falls upon the just and
/ the unjust alike, and Mr.. DOwney's
| nNerN StaDle caught nfe ana DuTneu
! down. Ii was said that that morning
! the Baptist church was in session next
/ door to him. and the clergyman stopped
I and said. Now YOU women stay here
! and pray, and you men go straight out
] and help our benefactor. Mr.. Downey.'
! And go out they did, and got his horses
| all out, so that none of them was
burned. although he suffered otherwise
( a total loss. Now / call that a prac-
teal application of Mr.. Wagner S
/ teachings Here in Washington we
have a right 10 be proud Of a citizen
like Mr. Downey. and if only we can
/ develop enough such citizens we shall
turn out just the kind of community
! that does not need TO. but will always
! be glad to, study The Simple Life the
\ author of which ] now introduce to