Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-02-14
.LINC0LN'S IDEALS
President Roosevelt Outlines a National Brotherhood.
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WHITE AND BLACK
Celebration Of Natal Day of the Mar- tyr President by New York Re- publicans-The Guest of
 HOnOr's Speech

Roosevelt was tbe guest of honor at
 the Lincoln dinner of the Republican club at the Waldorf Astoria here last
 night.
 At the guests table besides the pres ident and President Stern were Bisbop
 Fowler Lieutenant Governor Bruce. George A. Knight of California. Elihu Root. Senator Deliver of Iowa. An drew Carnegie. General Frederick D. Grant. Rear Admiral Coghlan, Wbite- law Reid, Secretary Taft and President
 Finley of the College of the City of New York.
 The president was introduced by President Stern and said in part:
 "The spirit in which mighty Lincoln sought to bind up the uation's wounds when his soul was yet secthing with fierce hatreds. with wrath, with ran cor. with all the evil and dreadful pas sions provoked hy civil war. is surely the spirit which all Americans should show now wben there is so little ey- cuse for malice or rapcor or hatred, when there is so little of vital conSe- quence to divide brother from brother.
 "W'e of today. in dealing with all our fellow citizens, white or colored. north or south. should strive to show just the qualities that Lincoln showed.-hiS steadfastness in striving after the right and his infinite patience and for bearance with those who saw that right less clearly than he did; his ear nest endeavor to do what was hest and yet his readiness to accept the best that was practicable when the ideal best was unattainablc: his unceasiug ef- fort 10 cure what was evil coupled with his refusal to make Il bad situation worse by any i'll judged or ill timed effort 10 make it better
 All good Americans who dwell in the north must. because they are good Americans. feel the most earnest friendship for their fellow countrymeu who dwell in the south. friendship all the greater because it is in the south that we find in it's most acute phase one of the gravest problems before our peo- ple--the problem of so dealing with the man of one color as 10 secure him the rights that no oDe would grudge him if he were of another color
 The attitude of the north toward the negro is far from what it should be. and there is need that the north also should act in good faith upon the prin- ciple of giving to each man what is justly due him. of treating him on his worth as a man. granting him no spc- cal favors. but denying him no proper opportunity for labor and the reward of labor.
 Neither nor any other man eau say that any given way of approaching that problem will present in our time even an approximately perfect solution. Our effort should be to secure to each man. whatever his color. equality of equality of treatment. be- fore the law.
 "Thc problem iS so 10 adjust the rela- tionS between two races of different etbnic type that the rights of neither be abridged nor ieopardized: that the backward race hc trained so that it may enter into the possession of true freedom. while the forward race is en- abled to preserve unhsrmed the high wrought out by its forefa- thcrs.
 In the first place. it is true of the colored man. as 1t is true of the white man. that in the long run his fate must depend far mor" upon his own effort than upon the efforts of any outside friend. Laziness and sbift!essncss these and. above all. vice and criminal ity Of every kind. are evils more potent for harm to rhc black race than all acts of oppression of white men put to- gether.
 Let us he steadfast for the right, hut let us err on the side of generosity rath- CT than on th" side of rindictiveness to- ward those who differ from Us as to the method of attaining the right. Let LIS never forget our duty to help in uplift- iug tbc lowiy. to shield from wrong the and lei Us likewise act in a spirit or the hroadest and fraUkest geu- eroslty toward all our brothers. all our fellow countryDen. in spirit proceed ing not from weakness. hut from strength. a spirit which taxes no more account of locality than ii does of class or creed. spirit which is reso- lutely bent on seeing that tho Union which Washington founded aud which I.incclIi saved from destruction shall grow nobler and greater throughout the ages"
 Later tho president attended a ban duet of inc Press club st the Hotel As- tor. where ho made anotbcr speech.
 Courte>r to other nations. with due regard to the dignity of the nation. was the theme before the Press rlub. His address bad several references which were hints at ihc present attitude of the senate nn fh" reren; treaties. Sucl aS:
 ,.T would say q few words about the general attitude nf orr people in our foreign policy. h ought to be based on about the same principles governing each private individual in dealing with his fellows. Tn tryiuc in act SIuareic with every other nstinn "" Shall g"t exactly square ;r~stment in return- Besides getting squsr"iy W" Should talk politely
 How about ihr biz S;ick:- crici one of fbe diners