Bisbee daily review., 1905-03-14
TALK TOMOTnERS
 AT WASHINGTON
STARTLINGLY FRANK IS ROOSEVELT IN HIS CONDEMNATION OF THOSE AIDING "RACE SUICIDE"
 SAYS WOMEN 50 ENGAGED ARE CONTEMPTIBIE
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Washington, March 13.-The ad- dress by President Roosevelt was the feature of this evenings session of the National Congress of Mothers, now holding it's triennial convention at the Metropolitan M. E. Church. There was an immense crowd at the church, composed largely of women, and when Mir. Roosevelt arrived, he was given cordial reception.
 The President spoke as follows:
 No piled-up wealth, no splendor of material growth, no brilliance of ar tistic development, will permanently avail any people unless it's home life is healthy, unless the average man possesses honesty, courage, common sense, and decency, unless he works hard and is willing at need to fight hard; and unless the average woman is a good wife, a good mother, able and willing to perform the first and greatest duty of womanhood, able and willing to bear, and bring up as they should be brought up, healthy chil- dren, sound in body, mind, and char acter, and numerous enough so that the race shall increase and not de- crease.
 There are certain old truths which will be true as long as this world en- dures, and which no amount of prog ress can alter. One of these is the truth that the primary duty of the husband is to be the home maker, the bread-winner for his wife and children, and that primary duty of the woman is to be the helpmeet, the housewife and mother. The woman should have ample educational ad- vantages; but save in exceptional cases the man must be, and she need not be, and generally ought not to be trained for a lifelong career as the family breadwinner; and, therefore, after certain point the training of the two must normally be different. This does not mean inequality of function, but it does mean that nor mally there must be dissimilarity of function. On the whole. think the duty of the woman the more import ant, the more difficult, and the more honorable of the two; on the whole respect the woman who does her duty even more strongly than l respect the man who does his.
 The birth bangs make all men the debtors of all women. Above all our sympathy and regard are due to the struggling wives among those whom Abraham Lincoln called the plain peo- pie, and whom he so loved and trust ed; for the lives of these women are often led on the lonely heights of quiet, self-sacrificing heroism.
 The woman who is a good wife. a good mother. is entitled to our respect as is no one else; but she is entitled to it only because, and so long as. she Is worthy of it. Effort and self-sac- rifice are the law of worthy life for the man as for the woman; though neither the effort nor the self-sacri- flee may be the same for the one as for the other. I do not in the least believe in the patient Griselda type of woman, in the woman who submits to gross and long continued i'll treatment any more than believe in a man who tamely submits to wrongful aggres- sion. No wrongdoing is so abhorrent as wrongdoi1g by man towards the wife and the children who should arouse every tender feeling in his na- ture. Selfshness towards them, lack Of consideration for them, above all