The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-04
NO ROOM FOR MYSTERIES
Government Is Just as Good as
the people Make 1t.
OUR DUTY IN THE EAST
A Call for Hero!sm in the War With
Savagery-Roosevelt Discusses the
Philippine Policy Before the
Theologians.

ocean tToNe, N. D., Aug. 3.-GOFer-
nor Theodore Roosevelt of New York
was the guest of honor of the Ocean
Grove summer school of theology to-
night, when he delivered an address
upon Practical Politics and Decent
Politics before an audience of 10000
people. Crowds met Governor Roose-
welt at the New Jersey stations on his
journey from New York, cheering him
heartily.
At Ocean Grove the governor was met
by great crowd and 100 bicyclists es-
corted him to his stopping place. In
front of the house a company of boys
dressed as rough riders saluted him. to
his great delight The audience tonight
was so extraordinarily enthusiastic that
Governor Roosevelt was obliged to beg
the people to moderate their cheering.
Governor Roosevelt spoke on Practical
Politics and Decent Politics" He said
in part:
1t is idle for the mass of good citi-
zens to try to set themselves apart as
not responsible for our political short
comings. In the end the politicians must
be exactly what the people allow them
to be. They must represent the people,
perhaps the Indifference of the people.
perhaps the Indifference of the people.
This does not in the least excuse poll
ticians that are bad, and we must keep
in mind the fact that every vicious poll
tician. above all, every successful poll
tioian. tends to debauch public con-
science, to render bad men holder and
decent men who are not far sighted
more cynicaliy indifferent than ever.
Il,1t In, Il ,t,.,y ln inio 1n Ont
forget that we are ourselves to blame
for permitting his existence.
Again, do not fall into the mistake
of thinking that we shall ever make
politics better by Mysteries in any shape
or form. 1t is a shame to us as nation
that we should have tolerated in a city
like New York such an administration.
Just at the moment, the nation is
face to face with a duty that calls for
heroism; l mean our attitude in the
Philippines We put our pick into the
solid foundations of Spanish govern
ment, both in the East and West Indies.
We tumbled the building down in as
righteous a war as was ever underta-
ken. Now, if we are to reach our place
among the great nations of the earth,
we must see also that the ruins are
cleared away and the temples of justice
and honesty reared in their places. We
shall be guilty of a terrible wrong to
humanity it, in the Philippines. we re-
treat before armed saVageTy instead CT
organizing a suitable government which
shall guarantee justice to every one and
an ever-increasing measure of ligerty
to those who show themselves worthy
of it. The whole history of the world
shows that the wrong done by the mere
sentimentalstS is often of larger pro-
portions and more elastic than any 9TH
er kind of wrong. and Of this wrong we
shall be guilty If we fail to do our task
thoroughly and well.
1T will call for but the merest frac-
ton of our strength, provided only we
choose to exert that strength. If, how
ever, the people let their representa-
tives in congress hamper the admins
tration as they did last winter when
they refused 10 put the army upon a
proper footing as to size, permanence
and organization, then the people have
themselves to thank if the war fingers
with difficulties and dangers increa sed.
What the people have to do is to re-
solve to back up the president to the
fullest extent in seeing that the out
burst of saVagery is repressed once
for all, and what is even more import
ant to see that these new tropic islands
in the East and West alike are not left
to be the prey of partisans and spoils
men, but are governed primarily in the
interest of their inhabitants and there
fore ultimately for the honor and re-
nown of America"
Governor Roosevelt spent the night
at Vice President Hobarts summer
home in Norwood.