Show NOTABLE SPEECH BY ROOSEVELT c t Introduced Author of The Sim Simpie Simpie pie Life to large Audience 4 HE COMMENDS THE BOOK 4 t ADVISES THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY TO READ IT ITt t 4 m tt i F f t i m 4 I 4 No book ook In eRrs Jas 4 the attention given Wag I 4 frs cr Th Tb Simple Life Lite Us Its l equally to the rich 4 and the poor to the th proud iud and the humble Its can un be pc UK iu tremendous 4 its customary policy of pro viding the be best t for its 4 The Herald Berald has th te Se 4 nat rial rIghts of the book in 4 Lake and will begin Jt tiou tion next Sunday 4 ThC of the tho United 4 4 States y yesterday the highest t i 4 within his power to 4 Mr Wagner Vagner In introducing him t ta to 4 a Washington audIence What he saId or of Mr Wagner Vaner and the book 4 la is contained In the Associated 4 Pr dispatch that follows He 4 4 Urges that every of the 4 States State rood read th the book whose 4 publication it should be rc 4 wIll begIn inno In nest t Sundays 1 4 t t t t t t t t 4 t t t t t t 4 rt 44 4 t It A Nov WASHINGTON V V Roosevelt introduced He Charles Wagner tiLe the author to a al aJ l J large audience at the Lafayette Lafaette opera thIs afternoon where he deity red a lecture on The Simple Life The president presented Mr Wagner to the audience In the following words This is 1 the first and will be the only onty time durIng ny my presidency that I shull ever r Introduce a speaker to an z idt IW and I arm am more than glad to do It Th jn thIs Instance because If there Is one book I ike to have rea read as a tract and alSi ais Is 10 not in true of tracts as an interest interesting I lug ing tract by aU all our people it is The I Life written by Mr Wagner There are aro other books which he has of which we con can gain gr grott kt good but I know or of no other book of recent years Whether here Or abroad which contains so mUch that we e of oC America ought to take to our harts aa is contaIned lit In The SImple Life IMe I like the book because it d do merely preach to the rich and dO dOes s snot not merely preach to the th poor It Is a ary avery very ry easy thing to address a section of oC the community In reprobation of the or of vIce to which It Is not prone Great Truth Brought Out What we need to have impreSsed us is that it is not UI usually the r root ot of oC the vice that varres with in conditions but that St it is the manifestation or J vice that and aud n W Wagner ba well out the great fundamental truth that the brutal arrogance of a aih ih man who looks don upon uron a poor man nian because he Is 15 poor and the brutal envy and h hatred tred h a poor man to toward ard n a rich nan man merely because he heis is 19 rich are at the bottom of the mani tation of the maine vice The arru arro arrogance gance that looks down in one case th envy that hates bates in another are exhibitions of the same base and l spIrIt that happens to be In InI CUiC I in different surroundings from what it Is in another case The same of man rena who would be arrogant in oP ease cue is precIsely the kind ot of man vho ho would be envIous and filled with in the other The Ideal idal should lc bp just and gen rous the broadminded i man who is incapable ot of arrogance If as he is of malignant envy and atred it if poor Joor Why Republics Failed Xo No republic can exIst h it becomes a republic or of classes the man feels not the Interest of Cf th the whole people but the interest o othe f the particular class to which he bi b or fancies that he belongs as leing of prIme Importance In an ant antiquity t republics failed as they dido did be ause they tended to become either u republic or of the few or the thes i s many or a rep republic or of the man many who aho I plundered the few and aad In either tia a th the end of oC the republic was aas never nevor II bt just ju t so o in one ease as In the theother other no more so In one than in Inthe I Ithe the other We Ve can keep this republic I true to the prin or of those thOle who i founded and or of those who afterward I reserved It we can keep it a I hJ l k only by remembering that we e must ive v up to the theory of Its tl t the history or of treating each man manoil oil his worth as aman neither holding it for or 01 against him that he occupies Ii II ny p particular station In III lIfe lon p he does his duty fairly and wel weI by j feIJo 6 and by the nation as a whole Philosophy Appeals to So Ho much fo the general hy taught sd s admirably In r Wag might say books but t I tam Iam am am thinking especially of oC The SImple Life because that has been the book that has appealed to me JUf Now u a wor wora with Uh special reference to his address s to i this audience to the Young fens Mens 4 hristIan association The profound re regard gard ard Which I 1 h have ye always felt for those x for the work or of the Young Mens Christian AssocIations and the Young nUng ChrIstian Associations is largely because the they have ally realized or at least have striven jl cuc to realize the ideal of ad rence to the text Be ye e jl ts ot of the word and not hearers Ij jv It if you come here WIth the jl 11 a of 1 n a pleasant nt afternoon t then go home and do not act actually un some of Mr Yag s h I gs f then small is theu the use ot of your It Js Is not th the slightest use to tolar lar 1 ar the word if you dont try to Jut ut jt if into effect afterwArd The Young Jj t ChrIstian associations have n ac so much because those who p l managed them have tried d I 1 to do tb their r part Ill 11 bringing what hat Is expressed d In the phrase Ihms The Fatherhood ot of God and Brother 11 0 04 1 of Men Alen 1 Twp Two Examples t l W wr P an act or by assici lit I Intend to Illustrate by a 11 couple rt nr what hat I mean bY It a man mali ing n individually and what I mean man b ba a man acting In with his f J I hesitated whether I would US USa use a as I i shall use the names of the people whom I m meant nt but I came to the con that I would worth fit rf an consists very largely In Int t au II that the example is isa a real leal one I have hae bean Interested for tor tora fora a number or of years In the workings or of 1 1 a civic club In New York which has started and su lv bv Nor tott toh Goddard It Is a club on the tho east aIM ot of New York City the ranze e or of whose membership Includes a bIz dis district from ton avenue UI to the Fh Fht t rIver rier Tr Jr Goddard ti d Jt i urh work can an b be done to th on Page 3 1 I NOI 7 e BY RO SEVELT rom Pa Page e I 1 best nl pon or of being among those dong doing tt ll Ther are a reat many Ilee Je sQ st In this worm world U 1 think most t u und th cato that resent being about as m ch n as being Must G t Into i Touch r at d cnn can ne r je e done It If it itIs Itis Is In a Jr spirit It Mr 11 the work could be bedone done only on condition get geL I ting Ito c f and heartY toUch with the through whom and wIth whom I he was fu worn In this I Ichic civic chic cub was founded and It has grau I Ib Its iu until nOw bOw the entire o cP ib of or el a committee I qc gf ln and civic life a e s smead read throughout that dis triet each member g a sharp look lookout lookout out Over the thc fortunes fortunen of aU his Imm Immedi Immediate dI ate neighbors therefore If fC an any a o or of or great suffering In the is I trl triet t comes to th the attention or at s me mem member r of the club he be then reports It at t 50 10 that ste can be betaken taken to alleviate the and I have I reason realon to believe that there has leer beer In Inco co a very general a agent gent rAI increase pf pC the If we bud t a I number of clubs of this titis kind throughout our great cIde while we would not 1 by any means n Ita have solved d alt ull of the ter terrible er i that press pre upon tag us for Se In connection onne LIon with guy O and the tiec Iee dl disease eaRt and l of great cities yet yel w hw taken a 1 Ion tride foward in tha right ht direction toward their solution So much for th thO example that J I w illustrate what I 1 by work In combination tion tionA A Gase in PO Point Points lt As s an exa or of what can be done and should by the I Ishall Ishall shall mention something that recently occurred in Inthis this city of Washington a athing athing thing that doubtless man many of QU know about but which wits was n tome to nie Until Je A few weeks ago when I was walking back from church Sunday I noticed a great fire and foun l that loot it i Ya wa sta r rollOt t or four COUl weeks ago Through a train of Circum stances that I will not mention my at n was was particularly caU calli to the case and I looked into it I Iliad had long known of the very ery york done with singular modesty and ana self effacement by give ble homes be himself d frler d dof of those in n a sense friendless in this communIty and I by accident out hut happened lii in connection with this particular incident It appears that lust last spring Mr 11 Downey Downer started to bund build a 1 nev w His stable i next neit deer to u a colored Baptist church Mi Is a hi tf man and a Catholic and these n bors of his are colored and and their kinship was simply the kinship of that broad hu humanity humanity manity that should underlie all our feelings toward one another Mr Downey started to build his stable and naturally enough wanted to have It as big n a stable as possible and built It right up to the limits of his land That brought the wall close up against the back of the colored Baptist I church cu out the fight and air 5 Agreed to S Sell ll The pr ather called aIled D and told 11 t they e chase ellase I 8 1 strip six lx re fet t broad of th the ground or of lr dr u n which h he WM was intending to build us as be ben b bS S n great to them to 10 lose the l light and aIr that they were I aware that It was vas asking a good deal of him to I cramp the building out of i which hleb he t make Ills his living JIving but t t t e hoped he would do i it be because because cause of their need Alter After a good deal of t lIr owney caste can e to th that he ought Ul request so he notified them tha he would change his plans stake make a a I somewhat smaller building and them thE six feet reet of land in the striP adjoining their church After a little hIle the came around wIth I Ithe i ithe the or of and said i they very ery much appreciated Mr 11 Dow courtesy and were sorry they had I bothered him as they had bad be because gue our looking into the affaIrs of the church I they found that as they were already in debt the they did not feel warranted in 1 I Incurring any and I ISI so SI the they hud had to withdraw their request i iThe The They thanked him for Cor his pur purpose pose and said goodby goodbyS S Gave Them theLand the Land I But Mr Downey lw lie lOt no get to leep that night until finally he i imade made up his mInd that as they could not buy It he would give gie it to them which lie be did But tuna l we know that the tower or of I Siloam often falls fUs upon the just and the unjust alike and Mr fr livery stable caught aught fire and burned down clown It was fiS saId that that morning the Ule was in session next to him ADd the clergyman stopped and saId No Now you women stay here bere and pra pray and you ou men go straight out and help our benefactor Mr Ir And go alp and got his horses all out so that none of them therk was burned although he suffered otherwise a total toss loss Now I call that a theal application of Mr Ir Wagner teachings Hr Here In Washington Wl we have llave a right to be proud or of a citizen likE Mr Ir Downey Downe and l If only we can an develop enough such citizens we shan shall turn out just the kind of community that does not need to but will always be glad to study The f Life the theauthor author of which I no now Introduce to ou |