The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-14
LINCOLN DAY ORAT0RY.
poosETEIr SAYS WE MUST he MAS
TEES IN THE PHILIPPINES.

nroud of NenhtpT AlHlN speech IN tho
Treaty-Announces the Opening of the
Armories ms Shelters-Depew on New
stars in the FiaE-Pralse for Mckinley
schley on Navy and Miles on Army.
Tho Republican Club held its thirteenth an
anal Lincoln Day dinner last evening at Del
ronico's. Many OF the guests who were ex-
nected were unable to be present. but in spite
# a this tho large hall on the sixth floor. in
xbIch tho dinner was served. was filled.
rho souvenirs OF tho banquet we're copies
n a limited edition OF tho late Charles
Dana's lecture on Lincoln. each
=, which was numbered. Senator elect
chauncey NJ. Dopcw. the President Of the club,
p,esided NJ the dinner. and after he had raped
,or order ne explained that Gov. Roosevelt,
ono of the guests Of honor. had an engagement
whIch made Il necessary for him to leave enrly
and that il the Governor was TO speak at all he
rust sneak then. Mr.. Depew then smoke OF
Gov Roosevelt rs one who had redeemed
.ycry promise he had made on the stump and
had welded closer together the various factions
O, Tie party which he represented in the State"
COY. Roosevelt pretaced his speech by saying
that, in view OF the suffering among the poor
which would be caused by the severe weather
the city Of New York was experiencing, he had
ordered the dTnOTleS OF Jn0 ElRntl, Nlnth,
Twelfth. Sixty-ninth and Seventy first regi-
ments TO be thrown open for the use OF the
Door and homeless as long us tho cold weather
continued. The Governor said that he did not
know whether he had the legal right to order
this use OF THE armories. but that he was sure the
legislature would bear him out in what he had
done. He appealed to the public to assist the
State and municipal authorities in their efforts
10 better the condition OF the poor by contrib
uting clothing and food. and asked that any
persons who wished to aid would communicate
with Maior-Gen. Roe. Then he said:
Gov. Roosovelt's Speech.
THE last year has been the most important
In the history OF this nation since the close OF
the civil war. A glorious war has been won and
the treaty which brought peace out OF that wal
has been ratified. In what | am about to say to
vou tonight | can take as my text the admira-
bic speech delivered by Senator Thomas C,
Tla.t In the Senate in support OF the ratification
o'the treaty: a speech excellent in temper as
In tone: a speech OF which we as Republicans
can feel proud. because it was deliv-
cred by New York's Republican Senator, but a
speech which also set forth in the broadcast
spirit the reasons why all good and patriotic
Americans should desire the ratification OF the
treaty. though they might differ among them
selves as to exactly how far the policy Of ex-
ranslon should go. Indeed. in this matter,
while we must shape our national course as q
whole in accordance with a well-settled policy.
we must be governed by n wise opportunism In
dealing with each PARTICULAR event as it arises.
No sensible man vii! advocate our plunging
rashly into a course of international Knight
e%rrantry; or into our setting deliberately to
work to build up Q great colonial empire. But
neither will any brave and patriotic man bid
US shrink from doing our duty merely because
thls duty involves the certainty of strenuous
Of high principle from high motives have op-
posed the rat i~tication of the treaty. Just as they
had previously opposed the war; Just ms some
other men. whose motives were equally high,
in 1861 opposed any effort to restore the Union
by force Of arms, The error was almost as
great in the one case as in the other, and will
be 50 adludGed by history. and in one case as.
Ia the other the two main impulses which gave
strength 10 the opposition were ignoble in
otfear.
VT MOVE ON ONLY BY STRIFE.
We should not lightly court danger and diff
Guilty. but neither should We shrink from fac
he met. We are n mighty nation, and upon us
rnst the responSibilities. that, belong 70 all
EWTeat natio on We cannot avoid meeting them:
them well or III. There are social reiormers
who TEL US that when this world reaches ideal
there are other social reformers who tell us
that then no man will have to work. or at least
. DO hard and. PAINFUL work. However this
are done and the highest, though perhaps the
sternost HAPPINESS. won only aJthe cost o~tstren-
work, and which sometimes must take the
form Of. war; Remember that peace itself.
alter which All men crave. comes only, as the
result Of such strenuous effort as in the past.
ltcannot perpetuate itself. 1t is N end. not n
means; and in the present condition OF the
world it Is only a temporary end. If we ever
grow to regard peace as a permanent condition
snd feel that we can afford to let the keen,
fearless, yirile qualities Of heart and mind and
IHN1H kln mi tEtt- yUA will rfnn a - . h. ,.r
,@r inevitable and shameful disaster in the
;mtuFe; Peace is Of true, value only il we
with fearless front and u]mmtnrSoanbFIeedi G Heart wh faGe
ever the iuture may have il, store for us, The
peace which breeds timidity and sloth is a
iati9naI life. like the law of worthy individual
IT,, Is R,tct AZ fundamentally the law Of strife.
but ceyt al n1y + IL m dIi a },r it may be est, strife 4 ciSiG;
labor and painful effort, by grim energy and
things. " '''i
sAyAGEs not ENTITLED TO ovEEN THEMSELVES.
W., low have certain duties IN populous
Islands in the West and East Indies. We can
not with honor shirk these duties altogether
!!oii to perform them in way that viii rebound
Wihe advantage OF the people OF the islands as
rSlL as ITO to the honor Of this nation. it j.. / am
~ for self-goycrnment Shall he given con-
@ eat. ffutI larger w0 @fd'q BE- OF erin s%fiItiFovfs dIIy
70 sacrifice. the real welfare OF the isl.
ans and to fail odo our own manifest duty.
,r41er The plea q CARRYING out some doc
n.ahire ldea, which, if it had been lived up to.
HpuIl nave made the entire North American
iy,ph',nnnt to-day n hunting ground for savaGes.
! Is me idl"st chatter to speak of savagcs as
,,,Ihe emitted to govern themselves: and
EnuGh II Is o~ccaslonailv heard from we'll mean
imR people who believe in what they say, it.
,rN,nHiy covers merely laZincSs or fear. II we
nr.an rom doing orr own part OF the worlds
Sorh, thtn II Will have to be done by people
n,uhger than we Pre-; Tor sc will have shown
ourselves wcaklingS.
W. MUST IL MASTERS IN THE P%HILIPPINEs.
" was tmmgasurably for the hettcrment Of
tnanhIhI hat J urkcStan should be taken by
tsrSHI", NGlcrS 10y France and India by Eng
,a,i ne success Of an Algerian or Sepuy
,,enpl would he a hiGrous calamity to civilian
In, ahl hose who aided or abettod such an
tTSuL re, would be traitorsAot only to their
VMn civilization but to mankind. Exactly the
PIbHi%r r"ds"hlny applies TO the people OF the
fW"ilIHts We must treat them with abso-
~ !lstlrr. but more than all else it. IL essen
A. Inat We should treat thcm with entire
mmrnnIiness and courage. They must be
,,hhaUe realize absolutely that We are
~ masters. Weakness in any shape or
VII IS me objectionable sin in dealing
Tbii NucIl Il body as we are opposed to in tho
',"","iIlnrs he insurrcction must DO stamped
,tasn"s in"lc!lglly "a possible. but it must be
nmaNin.d ONT. We have put an end to a corrupt.
iltlitAul tyranny and 80, 81, l,s,, 80 -.