New-York tribune., 1899-04-11
ROOSEVELT IN CHICAGO.
CROWDS THRoNG THE AUDITORIUM TO
HEAR HIS ADDRESS.
NATIONAL QUESTIONS TREATED-THE GOV
ERNOR RECEIVES A WARM GREET
INC-OTHER SPEAKERS.

lNG-O1HEk SfEAhEhS
Chicago. April 1O-Sedom. IL ever. has Chi
oago seen more enthusiastic body of men meet
around the dinner table than the one when
met tonight under the auspices Of the Hami'-
ton Club 70 celebrate Appomattox Day. and to
greet Governor Theodore Roosevelt. OF New
York who had come from Albany the guest
OF honor Of the club. The enthusiasm was ex-
tended in generous measure to the other speak
ers of the evening. but the greater part of 1t
was given TO the Governor when he rose 10
make his address on The Strenuous. Life
The hall was mass OF waving handkerchiefs
and napkins. and the cheers that greeted him
as he arose prevented the speaker for many
minutes from beginning his speech 1t was
greeting such as man does not receive more
: than once or twice in a lifetime. The boxes or
the Auditorium in which the dinner was held,
as we'll as the seats in the hall back Of the ban
auet floor. were filled with a large throng VINO
had come 10 look and to listen TO the
speeches and these. as we'll as the members OF
the Hamilton Club and their invited guests,
Joined in the welcome that for few minutes
seemed to overpower the Governor.
THE GOVERNORS ADDRESS.
Fully six hundred were seated at the tables
when President Cody, of the club who pre-
sided raped for order and in short address
intrOQOCeQ tne guest OF tilt SNtAiHS' ~ SNS''
as Governor Roosevelt had an opportunity he
epoke as follows:
sgsskns to n sas Of n nss6 5sast saSe f o the S
country Lincoln and Grant men who preehmlnein,y
in the American character. wish to preach not
the doctrine Of ignoble ease, but the doctrine OF
labor and strife TO preach that highest form Of
success which comes not to the man INV VINO oae eese pe
shrink from danger. from hardship or from htter e
toll and who out of these wins the spiendio ui'l-
life Of enoble ease. a life of that peece which
power TO, strive after great things is as IS little little
& na s ve2 eS SI sh American
from himself, and from his sons. shall be DEMANDED
you would teach your boys that ease, that peace
Is 10 be the first consideration in their eyes-to be
men OF Chicago have made this city great. you
men OF Illinois have done your share ana more
you neither preach nor practice such ~ do, docGine: snn
10 ov WORK os are eh agG S4u are WorR Salt
you will teach your sons that though they may
wisely used leisure merely means that those who
possess i, being free from The necessity Of work, X
carry some Kind of non-remunerative work In
tcrcs m Of the type most need
IN this country. the successful carrying out OF
We do not admire the man of timd peace. We
admire the man who em6odiss ss yei9Fions efforts %
prompt TO help friend. but who has those vire
lie II is hard 10 fall but it is worse never to
have tried TO succeed; In this life we get nothing
ent merely means that there has been stored up
effort in the past past & man lar ga, can , be freed reed m from the he
fathers before him have worked to good purpose.
Il The freedom thus purchased is h used Alright ar snd
ent kind whether a writer a general whether
ana adveniufe. he shows he deserves his good for-
une. But II he treats his period of freedom from
ration. but i Of Of mere enjoyment even though per-
hsps not of vicious enjoyment. he shows that he
surely Units himself TO hold his own with his fell
mere lie @ Of "ss ease is not H in the end Very salts
factory NE and above all II is life which uti-
in the world.
COST AND VALUE OF THE CIVIL WAR
AS it is with the individual. so it is with the
Nation II is base untruth 10 say that happy
is the nation that has history. Thrice happy
is the nation that has glorious history. Far bet
ter is 1t to dare mighty things. to win glorious
triumphs. even though oheckered by failure, than
to take rank with those poor spirits who neither
enjoy much suffer much. because they live in
the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat II in 1861 the who loved the Union
had believed that peace al the end OF all
things and war ard strife the worst Of all things.
and had acted up 20 their belief. we would have
saved hundreds OF thousands of lives; would
over besides saving all the blood and treasure we
then. lavished we would have prevented the heart
homes and We would have spared the. country
saOHs a. Il our armies marched only to defeat
We could haye avoided all this suffering simply
AVOIDED il. we would have shown that we were
a9d thf NE we %eTf un 10 sand Hs o bs
iron in the blood of our fathers, the men who up
rs in As the armies Of Grant, Let u.s. the Children
of the men who proved themselves equal to the
carried ths great Civil ie war to Triumphant m @
ciusion, praise the God Of fathers that the
suffering and loss, The blackness of sorrow and
strife endurea FOR in the end the slave was freed
the Union restored and the mighty American Re-
public placed once more as a helmeted queen
We Of this generation do not have to face task
rsssks. and woe to US, if we fail 10 perform them
BE- content TO rot by inches in ienobe ease within
our borders. taking no interest IL what goes on
needless Of the higher life the life aspiration of
toll and risk 6usyng ourselves 5s , only Win the
nnd beyond shadow Of question what China has
0Ind ha TO IN tns wgo Of nf and
Isolated is bound in the end 10 go down before
other nations which have not lost the manly and
great people. we must strive in good faith TO play
ing great issues. An that we can determine for
ourselves is. whether we shall % meet them y well or
face 10 face with the problem OF war with Spain
like towards from the contest or enter into IT
beseemed a brave and hgh-sprited people, ana,
once in. whether failure or success should crown
our banners.
TRIBUTE TO GRANT AND LINCOLN.
No country can long endure II Its foundations
are not laid deep in the material prosperity which
comes from thrift from business energy and enter
kfise from hard. unsparing effort in the fields OF
Industrial activity. but neither was nation ever
yet truly great II it relied upon material prosperity
alone. All honor must be paid 10 the architects of
our material prosperity; to the great captains Of
Industry who have built our factories and our rail-
roads; TO the strong who toll for wealth with
brain or hand. for great is the debt Of the Nation
10 these and their kind. But debt is
10 the men whose highest type is 10 be found in
statesman like Lincoln. soldier Ike Grant. They
showed by their lives that they recognized the law
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