Jain Gazette 1906 04

Author(s): Jagmanderlal Jaini, Sumerchand Jaini
Publisher: Jaina Gazette Office

Page 8

THE JAINA GAZETTE.
The Duty of Manhood.
SELF-HELP AND TEMPERANCE.
The Westminster Gazette prints an abstract from an address given by President Roosevelt at Wilkesbarre :
APRIL
The only effective way to help anybody is to help him to help himself. There are exceptional times when any one of us needs outside help, and then it should be given freely; but normally each one of us must depend upon his own exertions for his own success. Something can be done by wise legislation and by wise and honest administration of the laws; that is, something can be done by our action taken in our collective capacity through the State and the nation.
Something more can be done by combination and organisation among ourselves in our private capacities as citizens, so long as this combination or organisation is managed with wisdom and integrity, with insistence upon the rights of those benefitted, and yet with just regard for the rights of others.
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But in the last analysis the factor most influential in determining any man's success must ever be the sum of that man's own qualities, of his knowledge, foresight, thrift, and courage. Whatever tends to increase his self-respect, whatever tends to help him overcome the temptations with which all of us are surrounded, is of benefit, not only to him, but to the whole community.
It is of incalculable consequence to the man himself that he should be sober and temperate, and it is of even more consequence to his wife and his children; for it is a hard and cruel fact that in this life of ours the sins of the man are often visited most heavily upon those whose welfare should be his one special care.
For the drunkard, for the man who loses his job because he cannot control or will not control his desire for liquor and for vicious pleasure, we have a feeling of anger and contempt mixed with our unfortunate wife and little ones we feel only pity and and tenderest kind.
pity; but for his that of the deepest
Everything possible should be done to encourage the growth of that spirit of self-respect, self-restraint, self-reliance, which if it only grows enough, is certain to make all those in whom it shows itself move steadily upward towards the highest standard of citizenship. It is a proud and responsible privilege to be citizens of a great self-governing nation; and each of us needs to keep steadily before his eyes the fact that he is wholly