The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-08
Folly Often Mistaken for Affection.

Naom ne says IT. NApplauSe)
 Folly Often Mistaken for Affection.
 "Of course you want to give your chil- dren all the love possible, but 1t is not right to mistake folly for affection. When you spare the child that which alone will enable it to conquer in after life, you are not doing it a blessing. you are doing it the greatest wrong in your power. Bring up the boy and girl alike, with the understanding that life is not generally easy; that there will be plenty of rough time. and that what they have to show is not a spirit that avoids diff culties and finches from them, but a spirit which overcomes them.
 "There is only one of my fellow eiti- zens to whom I will touch my hat quicker than to the soldier. and that is the mother, because I think she has a little harder time of it. The mother who has brought up as they should be brought up family of young children is entitled to such respect as no other person in the community Is entitled When the end of her life comes there has been any amount of hardship. the sitting up by beds of sick children, the taking care of them and mother Is not allowed to know the difference between night and day as far as the ending of the days task is con cerned. but after all, when it is done, she can look back with a prouder sense of qualification than any one else can have if she has done her duty for her children and her husband shall rise up and call her blessed The worthy life for the na- tion for the individual for the men and Tor the women is the life of effort for the things worth striving for; and our whole aim should not be 10 teach to those who are to come after us to shirlS diff . culties and to strive to have an easy time ff, e
 their duty whether that duty is hard or not, and to feel that no approval Is so great as the approval of doing their duty (Applause.)
 Steers Clear of Politics.
 "Of course that is my conception for the life of the nation. as well as for the individual. I am not going to develop my theory about that in the first place be- cause l want to keep clear of anything that you might think touched in the faint est degree upon politics, and on the next place because l believe you know pretty well how feel any way. l feel that this nation whether 1t wishes to or not, can not help being a great nation You of TcXas by what your forefathers did, and you did, have done your part in mak- ing this nation so that it is impossible to De great. We cannot decide whether we VIII pe great or not. The only thing we can decide Is whether being great, we will do well or do i'll. We have got our duty to ourselves. We must handle our selves so that no weak power which is behaving itself shall have cause to fear us. tApplause). We all believe in the Mon roe doctrine. l have little difficulty in getting some of my friends to accept my interpretation has come to say. We a,r building the Panama canal (applause) While that will be a benefit to all the country it will be of most benefit to the gulf states. We have duties in con- nection with the great position we have taken. We cannot shrS these duties. We can do them we'll or do them ill but do them well. That is one reason why I want to see good navy. and we have got a good navy. I am going to use simile that l used a couple of nights ago in Dallas In the old days In Texas un- eerstand that there used to be a proverb that while we would not generally want gun at all, but if you did want it, you wanted 1t quick. and you wanted 1t aw- fully bad That is just the way I feel about the navy. I feel that if we have it. the chances are that we will not need H. but that if we do not have it we might need it awfully bad
 Let me thank you again for the atten- tlon you have given me, but I cannot begin to express to you how it has touch- ed, how pleased I am by the way you have received me: and I want vou to think that while I came a pretty good American to Texas, l am going to leave Texas an even better American. Cheers anu appiause) 1n s