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Show Prcs. Roosevelt on Temperance. I Editorial note: The Wllkcsbarrc i meeting of the Catholic Total Abstinence Absti-nence Union is said to have been the largest tcmpeiance meeting ever before be-fore held In America. President Roosevelt Roose-velt addiesscd an audience of Jloo.OOO mlncis 1 He said In pail: "In our country the happiness of all the rest of our people depends most of all upon the wage-worker and Iho wcl-faieorthe wcl-faieorthe farmer. If we can secure the wclf.uc of these two classes we can lie icasonably certain that the community as a whole will prosper. And wo must never forgot thdt the chief factor in securing the welf.ue alike of wage-worker and of farmer, as of evoiyoody else, must bo the man himself. No one society can do mote to help the wage-worker than such a temperance temper-ance society as that which I am now-addressing. now-addressing. It Is of Incalculable consequence con-sequence to the man himself that he should bo sober and tempciatc, and It Is of even more consequence to his wife and his children; for It is a haid and cruel fact that In this life of ours the sins of the man are often visited most heavily upon those whoso welfare wel-fare should be his one special caic. For the diuukaid, for the man who loses his job because he cannot control con-trol or will not conliol his desire for liquor and for vicious pleasures, we have a feeling of anger and contempt, mixed with our pit); but for his un-foilunatc un-foilunatc wife and little ones we feel only pity, and that of the deepest and tcndoiest kind. Eveiythlng possible should be done to encourage the growth of that spirit of self-iespect, self-restraint, self-reliance, which, if It only grows enough, Is certain to make all those In whom It shows Itself move steadily upward toward the highest standaid of Ameilcan citi.eushlp It Isa pioud and responsible privilege to becltlens of this gieat slf-go pining nation; and each of us needs to keep steadily beroro his ejus the fact that ho Ls wholly unlit lo take p.nt in the work of governing otheis unless ho can first govern himself.- He must stand up manfully for his own rights: ho must obey the law, and he must try to live up to thoio rules of lightcousncss which aio above and behind all laws. |