The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-08-10

DRESSES
GA. H0EIGS
- a ssoeiated Press.

President Theodore Roosevelt late
this afternoon delivered an address:
as follows to the miners and Catholic
Total Abstinence Union, with two
hundred and fifty thousand in at
tendance:
am particularly glad to speak
TO this audience of miners and their
wives and children, and especially
to speak under the auspices of this
great temperance society. In our
country the happiness of all the rest
Of our people depends most of all
upon the welfare of the wage-worker
and the welfare of the farmer. If
We can secure the welfare of these
two classes We can be reasonably GER
tain that the community as a whole
will prosper. And we must never
forget That the chief factor in Sc
curing the welfare, alike of wage
worker and of farmer, as of every
body else, must be the man himself
.Fhe only effective way to help
anybody is to help him help himself.
There are exceptional times when
any one of us needs outside help.
and then it should be given freely !;
but normally each one of us must de-
pend npon his own excrtions for
his own success. Something can be
done by wise legislation and by wise
and honest administration of the
lagFss that is, something can be done
{ by our action taken in our collective
capacity through the State and the
Nation.
Something more can be done by
combination and organization among
Ourselves in our private capacities
as citizens, so long as this combina-
ton or organization is managed with
wisdom and integrity, with insis-
tence upon the rights of those bene
flied and yet with just regard for
the rights of others.
tsBut in the last analysis the fac
tor. most influential in determining
any mans success must ever be the
sum of that mans own qualities, of
his knowledge, foresight, thrift and
courage. Whatever tends to increase
his self-respect, whatever tends to
help hi movercome the temptations
with which all of US are surrounded.
Is of benefit not onl yto him but to
the whole community.
mo one society can do more to
help the wage-worker than such a
temperance society as that which ]
am now addressing. 1t Is of meal
cuIable consequence to the man him
selfthat he should be sober and tenn
perate, and it is of even more con-
sequence to his wife and his child
rem for it is a hard and cruel fact
that In this life of ours the sins of
the man are often visited most heav-
lily upon those whose welfare should
be his one special care.
For the drunkard, for the man
Tho loses his job because he can not
CONTROL or will not control his desire
Tor liquor and for vicious pleasure.
we have feeling of anger and con-
tempt mixed with our pity: but for
his unfortunate wife and little ones
we feel only pity, and that of the
deepest and tenderest kind.
Everything possible should be
done to encourage the growth of that
spirit of self-respect. self-restraint.
self-reliance, which if it only grows
enough is certain to make all those
in whom it shows itself move stead
lily upward toward the highest stand
ard of American citizenship. 1t is
proud and responsible privilege to
be citizens of this great self-govern-
ing Nation; and each of us needs to
keep steadily before his eyes the fact
hat he is wholly unfit to take part
IA the work of governing others I'M
less he can first govern himself. He
must stand up manfully for his own
rights; he must respect the rights
81 theirs; he must obey the law, and
ennst try to live up to those rules
Of ighteousness which are above and
behind all laws.
This applies just as much to the
man Of great wealth as to the man
81 small means; to the capitalist as
wage-worker. And as one
heal point, let me urge that in
Went Of any difficulty, especially
II it is what is known as labor
trouble, both sides show themselves
willing to meet, willing to consult.
md anxious each to treat the other
easonably and fairly, each to look
tie others side of the case and to
rs the other Justice. If only this
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