Sc8 Presidential Addresses 



It was the German portion of the city of St. Louis 

 which formed the core of the Union cause in Mis- 

 souri. And but little less important was the part 

 played by the Germans in Maryland, and also in 

 Louisville and other portions of Kentucky. 



Each body of immigrants, each element that has 

 thus been added to our national strain, has contri- 

 buted something of value to the national character; 

 and to no element do we owe more than we owe 

 to that element represented by those whom I have 

 the honor this day of addressing. 



WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, 



October 18, 1902 

 MY DEAR MRS. VAN VORST : 



I m,ust write you a line to say how much I have 

 appreciated your article, "The Woman who Toils." 

 But to me there is a most melancholy side to it, 

 when you touch upon what is fundamentally infi- 

 nitely more important than any other question in this 

 country that is, the question of race suicide, com- 

 plete or partial. 



An easy, good-natured kindliness, and a desire to 

 be "independent," that is, to live one's life purely 

 according to one's own desires, are in no sense sub- 

 stitutes for the fundamental virtues, for the prac- 

 tice of the strong racial qualities without which 

 there can be no strong races the qualities of cour- 

 age and resolution in both men and women, of 

 scorn of what is mean, base, and selfish, of eager 



