Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-03-16
President Roosevelt's Address.

marks when he wished to emphasize "a
point
President Roosevet's Address.
President Roosevelt said i'm part:
Into the WonanS Keeping IS committed
the destiny of The generations to come
after us. Ia bringing up your children you
mothers must remember that while 1t is
essential 10 he loving and tender it is no
less essential to be wise and firm. Fool
ishncss and affection must not he treated
as interchangeable terms; and besides
training Your sons and daughters in the
softer and mildcr virtues you must seek
To give them those stern and hardy quail
itics, which in after life they will surely
need. some children VIII go wrong in
spite OF the best ira Eing; and some will
go right even when their surroundings are
most unfortunate; nevertheless an i'm
mensc amount depends upon the family
training. If you mothers through weak
ness bring up your sons to be selfish and
to think only of themselves, you will be
responsible FOR much sadness among the
women who are to be their wives N the
future. If you let your daughters grow
up idle, perhaps under the mistaken inn
preston that as You yourselves have had
to work hard they shall know only en-
usr.css TO Others and burdens to them
selves Teach boys and girls alike thas
IN avoiding difficulties, but to lives spent
IN overcoming difficulties. Teach them
that work, for themselves and also for
others, is not n curse but a blessing; seek
life Int seek aisn ~ max, N, ,b.m racc I;fe
with the steadfast resolution to wrcst
ao ,br;,. ,,,boln d,,tv hoforn C.n1 snd 70
man. Surely she VINO can thus train her
SONS and her daughters is thrice fortunate
among women.
MED INC s,,nrcn,e iIessiny Of ri. larcn and
for ,bnsn va hove no r,snnc, .,,,, - sym,
pathy always due to those who, from no
,ther .ra,f hisss:nas of life R,t Tho
nan or u.an,an whn ,,a-i5nra .,.l, fnr,Sns
th...o hos si,,f.s v.hntbor fron, ,.i,.;o,is,l,ss
snnnc M, NOR failure to :,nnrcciatn .,,.i.,ht
thr diifcronc,. III yyccn the alI-imporl;,ni
ana the ,,nirnpo,.tant@vhy. such a rrSat-
re merits contempt as hearty AS any VS.
i,.l llpon the soldier who runs away i'm
battle. or upon The man who refuses to
work for the support of those dependent
ser content 10 eat in idlencss the bread
witch oJhars providr.
The o!.istci.ce of women of this type
forms one Of the most unpleasant and
any ono is so dim # vision as TO fan to
Soc what a thoroughly unlove.y creature
Judge Robert Grants novel, "Unleavened
| Bread" ponder seriously the character of
selma, and think of the fate that would
surely overcome any nat on which de-
lsvelopcd its average and typical woman
! along such lines l'nfort,,nately ii would
J be untrue TO say that this type exists
on.g in American novels That it also
laXists i'm american life is made unp.cas-
! antly evident by the statistics as to the
/ lwinal.ng families in some localities 1T
ls made evident in equally sinister fashion
4 nv rho census STATISTICS as 10 divorce
which arc fairly appalling; for easy iii
vorce is now as il eyer has been, a bane
/ to amy nation, a curse to society a menace
i "a the homr an .ncitement to married un.
napuinnss; and TO immortality. an nvl thing
i for men ard n still more hidnous evil for
women. These unpleasant tendencies in
nnr Am.riGan lifn are made evident "
articles such as those which / actually
read nor long ago i'm a certain paper.
where a clergyman was quoted. seemlngly
| With approval. as expressing the general
h,nnr,r.1, .,,tit1,dc when he said thai tho
/ ,,aI,itinn Of anv save a ,.arv r;,.h ,,,,,
i ha,,Id lao 70 49,. two chiIdren ,nl,. CO n g
/ IL piS,o his cbildr.n an onrortm,;itv az. 10
" en- f,,, us ~ ,hn GOOD tbinas ~ RE-
TN; . ,,,', ,,,,,n-a ,,rnfoss;n,, o,1 ,a,,,,,
shnmid have nnfe him a moral al teacl,nr
,nt',al,v cor bntore diners the ii1nal nor az
; I,i,a ;,3ran 10 dc tboi, d,t ot o of
andina5 ,I,nn, fnrth VIII stn,t Mans o aud
,id NM 70 Win trinmnhs fo tha ar,n
,.i,.as. n,,n ibai, ca,,ntrv not Of a1,owing
,a,', ~ unnnrtunitv ,nn aiyin, thn,n the
;il .. ~ hn,ai,int, thai, o,n ,'i,na IN tho
p.' PM NJ fnrsnntb IF koni,,p th ~ n,,rn
M n ~. ~ ohiIr 30 limited nm nov r,inht
o,a ~ e ~ ,ni,.s,'' IT, -,
ias'e hiIG = ,ir nh,,,c. ~, 1ifo We" ,s ni
siN, q INV ~; ,'Ii ~ ny -
os' the kind md Of training Tia, viii give it
" ,a.tin az nton ni' 1if
me vta' d dm. ha nli,m lu al nf
,a + y,
lte ciiiu.eii c ~ , ~ wv,
lrur - IN, ,,,,,, i,.oae api ~
ollu " ai,n ',lSh ii ~ d
thii,A VI het,.n ,i d,''t Jh'1oith, WI,
2IousI,l UP W. ,,;f. fa,. ~. tamS,i,
sla' .h I'M, "lMs a io ma ~, IN, nv
WIN men Own Va Va an" nN .,leir owl
NeIYlo''s MAN. ''isi' M' -, i'osie,ois Oh US
'u!l'sS' tnai, ~ - ~, ~ I t 10 .iiosl
whose if'Ieiits tl.iise!Nts naNe aclcd on
ara my Ii"a.leu .n.ii cin i 70 act ~
thH s'llSh .i,n solulu .heotA .hat IN.
Whoio @'is' Oh i'ie Is 70 'as'e d lc" good
tnusS. ,,,
me !n'ciilsthce on ING mark IS on q
par WIN lts ihciali.N, ior l,G most rEs'!-
m'nlaiy hlehtdl ptocrss Mould haee shoWt
~" Speahcf thal II VnG average iamiiN III
"hich tn"i" are cii!dfeh contalncd bu,
two chiitsreti 'nr natloh as wh"le would
tecreas" IN ,'olnla,ion SO RAPIDLY that In
leserved!S be on the, point of extinction
so that the people VINO mad acted on this
base ana se!ilsh doelri!l@ would be giving
I.rlace y others with Drawer and NOR.
robust Ideals. tSpf Wcliid such result
be in any way resrettabie: for a race thai
'rraetie"d such doctrlne-that IS; race
MAT ntac'iced race snlcidc-Mould thereby
couc'CsiNei: sho" that II was unit tc
EtNiSt. AMI that ii mad better give place tC
scope who mad not forgotten the pri
70 sum M then: the whole matter :
b,,if.,i,i,al n,afers the n,aasl,ras of NOR.
affoftIces case. OF self-in.ulecnce. to tht
h.initely deeper. the infinitely higl cl
pleasures that come to those who know
The toll and the "raIiness. but also th'
10Y OF , hrd adIlI WEI cone; WY Una .,