Show I t TH THE BEST K KNOWN nW AUTHOR I IN AMERICA Mf IL President So Introduced at a n ahlf Din Dinner ner u r Given GIell GI yen Publish Publishers ers SPEAKS ON RESPONSIBILITY Y He tic Says S There Must b II be More Afore Good Goo Laws to Make a aGoo Good People Washington April A distinguished crowd attended tho the dinner given at nt the theNell New Nell hotel tonight by b the Perl Peri I Periodical rl Publishers hers Association of ot Amer AmerIca lea lel President Roosevelt was lIas present and made a n speech To his right eat Bat Count the Russian Hu or dean denn of thu the corps carpe and anti on either side of them were Mr Hay HA the secretary secretory of ot state elate M 11 I Jue the French rench ambassador Baron Jaron von on Sternberg the German ani am Justice Peckham of the su eu supreme suo prone preme court Hamilton M Mable the tho toastmaster and other distinguished members of at the society The dinner was preceded and followed by II n II reception The rhe president arrived about 1030 and remained throughout the reception which fo tol lowed the tho dinner Ho He tune Vina the first aret speaker Mable Introduced him na nil natho tho heel bet known author In America to today today day the author and Illustrator of ot American Ideals He lie spoke an as follows tor I f think that wo we of ot the United States cannot keep too fresh tresh In our minds mind tho the tact fact l that the tho men nten responsible r s for tor the tho government are nrc not the representatives re of ot tho the people but bill tho the people and that therefore there tore heavy hel la le the tepon that lies upon the people and upon all nil those tho e who do de most toward shaping the thoughts of ot the people Now Noll In the tho days 1101 of ot my nay youth I t was us a literary man I have hll recently In read readIng InK IHK n a book been licen Immensely struck by b the thu thought developed In It by one of ot our greatest scholars who was nas BI speak speakIng s speakIng enk enkIng Ing of ot freedom and of ot the tact fact that freedom treed am could not exist exl t unless there went with It t a n sense aen e of ot responsibility and he Ise used a II phrase II like this That among all peoples s there hero must mUll be a n restraint It If there Is no restraint there thero Is l for tor nn an Inevitable result anarchy which Is the tho negation of ot nil government I Therefore there must b be restraint I There must lie ho more good laws lawI to tn tomake make makl A II good Rood people A man whose lione whose I morality is III expressed merely merel In ht the tho of ot the law la I Is a pretty prett poor creature Unless our average I IH Is based upon a good deal more than more mere observance of ot the lawn lave on the tho statute lt books then Ihen our nor average ciN ian neer produce the kind of ot government nl It must and will pro dace fin Sn fur from rom liberty and the tf bt 1 elf being things which come easily e 1 lI and to any people are ure peculiarly things that list listen ca en only enly to the most highly de tie developed people J capable not only enly Oil of o others bit of mastering themselves and who hn can achieve real I real liberty The man non who writes the thc writer who month In and month out week In III Inand inand and week out day In and amid day o ott Ot t fur tur time the material which Is IR to shape the thoughts thought of ot our nur people Is 18 essen dally dully tho the man who nacre more than any nn other demonstrates character of or ortho the tho people and the kind of government people shall possess RII I 1 believe bellevo III In Inthe the future of this people I 1 believe bellev In lit Inthe the tho growth and the greatness of ot thin this country countr because I r believe that you OU mind and those like you approach their tasks tOlkA In III Inthe inho the ho proper 8 always but as a arule rule rulo We Wo have n nry v try ry largo barge field fold In war warring ring tin against evil at III When Wh n all Is Isas I Isas as It ought to be In lr nation find Ild state I the municipality ere nt at home we can enn I Ithen then talk about reforming the rest tut of or alto tho mankind I Iet ct us begin nt at home hems Trench French Ambassador mba Ju Sen Senator ator Beveridge German Ambassador Amb Am d Sternberg Dr Henry von nn Dyke Dr John II It Finley I H Taylor Jr Robert K I I Peer r Dr Edward 1 t Everett link Hale 8 S S R McClure Walter WRiter II co and Dr Ur Albert Alb rl Shaw nl Q spoke |