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Show 1 .'NBIVIDDAL VIRTUE i ! i THE COUNTRY'S Ml j t '.: Keynote of President Roosevelt's Address ct : j :" 9 10th Anniversiiy o? the founding of St. -; Patrick's Charch, Washington. x I ' I i . I Washington. Xov. --IVesid. -;r K.-o-ev h made an addres i,!.,y at the 1 1 1 1 aniiiver-a.'.v i celebration at ihe IJarracks hr.reh ami tlie Medb-a- j j tion of Carroll haM. the now paviiohia! buildinc- ' f ! and parish school. The lii-w Hr. J. 'Si afford, p ,... ,1 I ' of St. Patrick'.- acted a- ina-n i-' uf -i t r.T.iii j; j i Cardinal Gibbons, sexeral ::r-hbi:ops and Jit-: ! dignitaries of tin- Kuman ('aiioli .-iinivh a!!-'!'.! .? f the cjcereij-es. tin- former m,.kiu.-- an add:v.- i,- " f ; mediately preceding tha: !' the oiv-ide"!. 1!. !,'. i McFnrland. piesid'-nt of ihe board '' direo:.;- .' j; j i the District of Columbia. wa the i.-nie-ludi:;. j speaker. "j i ; The addros.-os were made from a balceay i.; the second floor of the rectory, and the audienei gat!.- ; f ered in the si roots. The intersection of Tenth and . i G streets Xorthv.osi. Washington, wa- pack' d with I ; people, and the crowd extended fully -i iHaro iior:h ' c j and south, east and wc-t from the rectory. l)r. i ! Stafford, in his opening remarks, referred to tho i i fact that in the century ami more that Sr. Patrick's j i church had worked in Washington no honor had i come to it. so great as tho visit of I'residi-nt lioo-e- J velt. The Knights of Columbus formed, a guard of 9 j honor for the president, but a squad of policemen was necessary to open the way througli tho crowded f streets. Cheer after cheer went up a the president j and his escort appeared. He. wa met at his oar- f riage by Father Stafford, and as he passed into tli" rectory a children's chorus of 20O voices, stationed j in front of ihe church, sang hymns. j Before the ceremony was begun the president. ; : was shown through tli handsome new rectory. When he stepped out on the balcony he was cheered I loudly, the demonstration doubling when Cardinal y Gibbons took a pl.aee by the president's side and 1 invited him to be seated. Dr. Stafford, the first speaker, told of the work of St. Patrick's parish, its growth, and ils aim for f the future. He introduced Cardinal Gibbons, who testified to the value -of the parish abd gave great ! credit to the efforts of its rector. Dr. Stafford then j introduced President Roosevelt as the "man of even-handed justice, the president of the square f deal.'' President Roosevelt thanked the rector and f joined in the laugh, which preceded prolonged cheering. Then he spoke as follows: President's Address. -Ta-JJ "Cardinal Gibbons. Father Stafford, and you. my fellow Americans: It is a great pleasure to me to be present, with you today 1o assist at the dedication of tbe school, hall and rectory of this parish: a parish par-ish whoe llnth anniversary we also now celebrate, for this parish was founded sir years before this capital was placed in the present; District of Columbia. Colum-bia. T am glad, indeed, to have been introduced. Cardinal Gibbons, by you, the spiritual representH-tive representH-tive in a peculiar senoe to that. Bishop Carroll who j played so illustrious a part in the affairs of the s church, and whose kinfolk played so illustrious a part in the affairs of the nation at. the dawning of j this government. Tn greeting all of you. I wish to say that I am especially glad to see the children f present. j "You know I believe in children. I wnnt to sea I enough of them and of the right kind. I wish to- t day. in the very brief remarks that I have to make. s to dwell upon this thought the thought that ought, to be in the mind of every man and woman hero the thought that while in this country we need wise laws, honestly and fearlessly executed, and while we cannot afford to tolerate anything but the highest j standard in the public service of the government. yet that in the last, analysis the future of ihe coun- trv must depend upon the quality of the individual j home, of the individual man or woman in that y home. The future of this country depends upon the way in wiiich the average man and the average woman in it does his or her duty, and that very jj largely depends upon the way in which the average j boy or girl is brought up. Therefore, a peculiar re- sponsibility rests upon those whose life work it is to see to the spiritual welfare of our people, and upon j those who make it their life work to try to train ; the citizens of the future so that they shall be j worthy of that future. Rules of Good Citizenship. i "In wishing you well today I wish you well in ! doing the most important work which is allotted to : any of our people to do. The rules of good citizen- J ship are tolerably simple. The trouble is not in finding them out; the trouble is in living up to them after they have been found out. I think we all of ourselves know fairly well what qualities they are j ' which in their sum make up the type of charac ter i we like to see in man or woman, sou or daughter; but I am afraid we do not always see them as well j developed as we would like to. 1 wish to see in the. f average American citizen the development of the two sets of qualities which w-e can. roughly indicate as sweetness and strength the qualities on the one hand which make the man able to hold his own. .and those which on the other hand make him jealous for the rights of others just as much as for his own rights. "We must have both sets of qualities. In the first place, the man must have the power to hold his own. You probably know that I do not can-very can-very much for the coward or the moral weakling. I want each of you boys, and the girls just as much and each of you young men and young women, to have the qualities without which people may be amiable and pleasant while things go well, but without with-out which they cannot, succeed in times of stent trial. I wish to see in the man. manliness; in tho woman, womanliness. I wish to see courage, perseverance, perse-verance, the willingness to face work, to face, you men. if it is necessary, the danger, the determination not to shrink back when temporarily beaten in life. (Continued on Page 4.) jj ! " 1 - FAITH SUPPORTED BY DIViM IN TEH EC T (Continued frum Pa-e On.i as each of you will be now and then, but to c0Iuo again and wrest triumph from defeat. I van t see you men strong men bnd brave men. a d u addition, I wish to see each man of you feel his strength and lus courage but make him the wor 'e qualities ot tenderness toward those he loves i are dependent upon him, and of right dealing with all his neighbors. Congratulates People. "Finally, I want to congratulate a!! of us hele on certain successes that we have achieved in tho century and a quarter that has gone bv of our American lite. Wo have difficulties' enough, and we are a long way short of perfection. T do not see any immediate danger of our growing too good-there good-there is ample room for effort vet loft. But wo have achieved certain results, and wo have .succeeded .suc-ceeded in a measure of realizing certain ideals. 7 ,iavo grown to accept, it as an axiomatic truth "i of our American life that tho man is to be treated on his worth as a man without regard to the accidents ac-cidents of his position; that this is not a government govern-ment designed to favor the rich man as such, or the poor as such, but that it is dpsijamed to favor every American, rich or poor, if he is a decent man who acts fairly by his fellows. CHApITY" I'OIi EACH OTHKR. "We have grown to realize that part of the. foundations upon which our libertv rests is the right of each man to worship his creator according to the dictates of his conscience, and the duty of each man to respect his fellows who so worship him. Aud. oh. my countrymen, one of the highest auguries for the future of this country, for the future of this mighty and majestic nation of ours lies in the fact that we brothers have grown to regard re-gard one another, with a broad and kindly charity, and to realize that the field for human endeavor is wide, that the Held .for charitable phlianthrophy is large and that while a corner remains unfilled we do a dreadful wrong if we fail to welcome the work done in that field by every man, no matter what his creed or provided only he works with a lofty sense of his duty to God and his duty to his neighbor.'" After a speech by Commissioner AlcFarlaud tho chorus sang "America" and a number of hymrs. The president joined in the singing and trie audience au-dience was not slow to follow. A number of young church officials followed the president to his carriage, car-riage, lie shook hands with them and called , heartily as he drove away: "Good-bye, boys. I y am glad to have been with you;' |