Show GET COPIES OF THAT MESSAGE Every citizen of the United States should have a copy COP of 01 that message sent Bent b by President Roosevelt to congress congress con con- gress on oil Friday of last week As long longas as we have copies of The Republican containing that message we e shall snail be glad to provide pro them to er e every person I I I who can appreciate the elements necessary for American citizenship When this supply Is exhausted we I believe It will be easy to secure from Washington a number of copies caples sufficient sufficient suf suf- suf- suf to provide all who may need them It Is the one paper above e all others that our people should have ha before them It Is the tha one document which the they r should teach their children Itis It Itis Itis is tho the one ono state paper above all others which should become familiar to the thought of or the children the children the boys and the girls sirls who in a little time will be betho betho betho tho men and th the thle women of the nation naHon There Is th a pa passage ta of bf scripture hi-scripture which seems SelS especially Impressive ive in n nis 1 its is ts bea bearing bearg g upon this ls t. t Y You 1 I will find It it-as it as s d did we ln wc-ln in Proverbs Proverb I II I 1 I I t t The preacher says My Iy son keep thy fathers father's commandment a and d forsake forsake for for- sake sako not the l law of thy mother Bind them continually upon thine heart and tie them about thy neck When thou goe t it shall shaU lead lend thee and when hen thou it shall keep thee and when hen thou It shall shan talk with ith theo thee For the commandment Is Isa Isa Isa a lamp and tho law is a light Never er e were ere words orde more applicable In tho the making makin of worthy citizenship those brief brier and splendid passages help amazingly Apply Alpl- them to this message message mes meso sage of the President There is a n solemnity in the charge that words lighter than those of the Bible seem unable to express Yet they are aro the words which Impress the value of these precepts In that message e is ia bound up the whole system of citizenship No man can do rl right ht and find condemnation in it No man can do o wrong and find approval al in it There Is the tho word to the young joung man tho the strength to the old There is the guide to cha character by b- which sincerity and honesty can be expressed And since every boy bor of today should be reckoned the citizen of tomorrow the value of that teachIng teaching teaching teach teach- ing expressed in the tho Presidents President's message men mes sage can not bo be overrated He nee needs s it as his nation needs him bim Ho needs right training as tho the country country country coun coun- try needs right men As a wrong institution institution institution in in- is poison to him so a crafty and deceitful man bent on defraudIng defrauding defraud defraud- ing lug his fellows is a a. harm to the whole bod body politic The Tho message of tho the President is the themore themore themore more Impressive because It comes as aa his reply to such abuse such unmeasured anathema as has bas been directed at no man since Andrew Jackson Roosevelt elt has been called a destroyer of values alues a disturber of business an enemy of or commerce If you will read this message carefully you will see that to fill that description righteousness righteous rIghteous- ness and truth and honor bonor must be at nt enmity with business that rectitude is s a blight on commerce and that reality can not be considered in computing com corn puling values Bind them con continually contin contin- tin tin- i upon thine thino heart and tie them about thy neck The words of that messa message e come comei ome from the tho heart beart of a man who was I best fitted for office of any that over ever i graced tho the Presidential chair They I come from the soul of or a man who strove to do his dut duty In spite of ot very verj strong opposition They arc are the expression ox- ox of the tho beliefs of a a. man who sought to give his people precisely what they had bad asked for br In reason and lOa In tn justice and fight ihLAnd t And th thare they I are the fl vibrant utterances of ot a man who has bas been most savagely and Unjustly unjust unjustly un un- justly just assailed by the very er men most to be benefited by his labors Read Rea them and see wherein he has offended You will find he be has not o offended ended You will find that if the Bible Is true this course of the President is rig right t. t You will find that if there is ia a God of rectitude these principles have His Hs benign blessing And you jOU will find that every v ry precept of cons conscience and of right which has hns cI into the character of Americas America's best civilization civilization tion shines through and runs through the words of this Presidents President's message Bind them upon thy heart When thou It shall lead ead thee when thou It shall keep thee when thou it shall talk with th thee e. e Get that message and make of it the foundation of your Character character ia in citizenship p. p |