The San Francisco call., 1899-05-31
ROOSEVELT TALKS
FOR PER|AL|SM
A Speech at Grants
Tomb.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, May 3O.-The sarcopha-
gus of General Grant in the tomb at Clare
mont was covered with flowers this af-
ternoon after impressive ceremonies by
L. S. Grant Post, G. A. r., of Brooklyn,
an address by Governor Roosevelt and a
salute of twenty-one guns fired from the
United States cruiser Brooklyn, which lay
in the Hudson just below the hill with
all her battle-fiags flying.
More than 10000 persons witnessed the
ceremonies and crowded Claremont in the
vicinity of the tomb. A large stand had
been erected on the east side of the tomb,
covered with red, white and blue bunt-
ing Here the ceremony was conducted
General A. W. Clous of Governors Island
and Colonel H. d. Woodruff, acting COM
missary general of the regular army, rep
resented the army.
Governor Roosevelt received an ovation
when he arose to speak. He delivered a
eulogy on General Grant OF him he said:
Mercy and peace go hand in hand. If General
Grant had shown mercy at Fort Donelson 1t
would have meant years of destruction and
lesolatGn. and If he had not shown mercy at
Appomattox a breach of peace would have
widened between us and our brethren which
never could have closed.
Continuing, Governor Roosevelt said:
Here l stand in this beautiful spring weather
in our own beloved country and State. with
withering heat of the Philippines fighting for
the glorious flag with the same motive you
Grand Army men fought with in 1864, are your
sons and their hero comrades.
Those men have right to demand that you
think of them not with maudln sympathy or
regret but as soldiers and men Small, in
bound by ties of family and dependence, if he
did not welcome the chance to serve under
Otis and Macarthur and follow gallant Funs-
ton they follow the flag that you and their
fathers followed to victory in the civil war
that we stand behind the men who are doing
all they to honor the flag you did. and
remember, when victory comes, as II WILL that
a heavier task by far is on us-the task OF
peace. When order is restored in the Philip
pines we must make peace and keep order
there and bring prosperity with this order
We must learn by lessons of which We are
not proud, no less than those of which we are
proud. Don't be afraid to face facts as they
learned a few days ago that there Is an
Alaskan town which does not care 70 consider
itself of the United States. but wants to be
declared part OF Canada, but the United
States would not take the trouble to provide
for its proper government. Every good Ameri-
can should bow his head in shame that such
a request should be made because of the neg
lect of the United States Government. Let
every man do all in his power and with all his
force to see that every colony over which the
flag waves. well as at home, be governed
that the people Of those colonies will be-
lieve it to be a great thing TO have the chance
to live under that flag.
One of the most remarkable features Of
the day was the extraordinary reception
accorded the Seventy-first Regiment in
the New York military parade. Several
officers of this organization have been
subjected to inquiry regarding their con-
duct in Cuba, but the men were greeted
to-day with enthusiasm that has seldom
been seen in New York. All along Fifth
avenue the crowd yelled and cheered
when the Seventy-first passed as they did
for other regiment Women tore off
sashes. ribbons and even caps and waved
them in the air.
AS the Seventh Regiment of the Ma
tional Guard, which did not go to war,
passed the reviewing stand of the Man
haitian parade several persons began to
hiss. The kissing grew in volume until
it was almost drowned by the cheers with
which the friends of the regiment tried
to tide this unfriendly demonstration.