The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-15

.
 the future welfare of this city, of this
 state, of this nation, depends should
 be addressing men who show by their
 actions that they know no difference
 between Jew and Gentle; Catholic and
 Protestant; native born and foreign
 born; provided only the man, whatever his creed, whatever his birthplace,
 strives to live so as to do his full duty
 by his neighbor and by the country as
 a whole.
 And now, gentlemen, I wish to say that we cannot keep too clearly before tour minds the facts that, for the success of our civilization, what is needed is not so much brilliant ability, not so
 much unusual genius, as the possession
 by the average man of the plain, home ly, work-a-day virtues that make that jlnan a good father, a good husband and tgood friend and neighbor-a decent man
 with whom to deal in all relations ot life. l We need good laws, we need honest administrations of the laws, and we
 cannot afford to be contented with less; ibut, more than aught else, we need that
 the average man shall have in him the
 root of righteous living, that the aver age man shall have in him the feeling that will make him ashamed to wo Iwrong or to submit to wrong, and that will make him feel his bounden duty to help those that are weaker, to help
 those especially that are in any way dependent upon him, and, while not in
 any way losing his power of individual initiative, to cultivate, without ceasing, the further power of acting, in combin-
 ation with his fellows, for common tend-of social uplifting and of good gov I ernment. .-a..
 I shall not keep you very long this evening. I have come here, not to
 make you a set speech, but, if you will
 allow me to say so, to speak as an old
 friend among his old friends. l have seen 8 good deal of your lives; know the effort, the toll, the happiness and the success. have endeavored, when 1 have been brought in contact with the
 East Side in the course of any work in | which have been engaged, so to han ale myself that the East Side might be la little better for it. I do not know 4 whether have succeeded or not, but do know that have always been the I better myself for contact with the East I Side.
 And now, one word in closing, upon success in life, upon the success that each of us should strive for. It is a 4 great mistake-oh, such a great mistake Ito measure success merely by that (which glitters from without. or to speak l of it in terms which will nlislead those \ about us, and especially the younger i people about us, as to what success really is. There must of course, be for I success a certain material basis. l 5 should think i'll of any man here who I did not wish to leave his children lit 3I tie better, and not a little worse, off q materially then he was, and I should \ not feel that he was doing his duty by I them; and if he cannot do his duty by his own children he is not going to do his duty by any one, else. But after that certain amount of material pros perity has been gained, then the things that really count most are the things Of the ulrather than the things of mon- ley, and am sure that each of you here, if he will really think of what it is that made him most happy, of what it is that made him most respect his neigh 1 bor, will agree with me.
 l Look back in your own lives, see what the things are that you are proudest of as you look back, and you will in almost every case and on every occasion find that those memories of pride are associated, not with days of ease but with days of effort, the day when you had to do all that was in you for some worthy end, and the worthiest of all worthy ends is to make those that are closest and narest to those that are closest and nearest to near you happy, and not sorry, that you are alive. And after that has been I done, to be able so to handle yourself that you can feel when the end comes that on the whole your community, your fellow men, are little better off, and not a little worse off because you Ihave lived, this kind of success is open to every one of us. The great prizes come more or less by accident, and no human being knows that better than any man who has won any of them. The great prizes come more or less by accident, but to each man there comes normally the chance So to lead his life that at the end of his days his children, his wife, those that are dear to him, I shall rise up and call him blessed, and so that his neighbors and those who have been brought into intimate asso- citation may feel that he has done his part as man in a world which sadly needs that each man should play his part well.
 Now gentlemen, have to say good night, because this has been such de- lightful dinner, that I already find that l am staying pretty nearly as late as I can stay and catch the train that is to take me back to my regular work at 1 Washington; and I have come, as I said, not to make a set speech but to thank you for your greeting and to assure you that not one meeting which I have attended since have been pres ident has given me greater pleasure to attend than this dinner here tonight.
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