The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-11
Delivers an Address Before the
Hamilton Club.
ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME
TAKES FOR SUBJECT 1.-THE
STRENUOUS LIFE"
United States Has Task to Per-
form, Brought Upon It By Recent
Events, From Which We Cannot
Shrink-Must Hold Our Own In
Struggle For Supremacy.

Chicago. April 1O.-Seldom, if ever, in
Chicago has more enthusiastic body of
men met around the banquet table than
one which met tonight under the aus
pieces ofsthe Hamilton club, to celebrate
Appomatox day and greet Governor
Theodore Roosevelt of New York, who
had come from Albany as the guest of
honor of the club The enthusiasm was
extended in generous measure to other
speakers of the evening, but the greater
part of ii was given to the governor Wnen
he rose to make his address on The
Strenuous Life"
The hall was maze of waving hand
kerchiefs and napkins. and the cheers
that greeted him as he rose prevented the
speaker for many minutes from DeSln-
ming his speech. 1t was a greeting Such
as one man does not receive more tnan
once or twice in a lifetime.
The boxes of the auditorium, in which
the banquet was held, as well as the seats
in the hall back of the banquet moor
We're filed with large throng VINO mad
come to look and to Listen to the speeclSS,
and these, as well as the members of the
Hamilton club and their invited guests,
Joined in the welcome that for few
minutes seemed to oVerpoWer the gov
error.
Fully 600 were around the banquet ta-
bles when President Cody, who presided
raped for order, and in a short but fel.
citous address. introduced the guest OIL
As soon as Governor Roosevelt was
given a chance to talk, he spoke, in part,
as follows:
WE HAVE A TASK TO PERFORM.
I'VE of this generation do not have to
face a task such as that our fathers
faced but we have our tasks, and woe TO
US if we fail to perfom them. We can
not if we would, play the part of China,
and be content to rot by inches in lSno-
BILE ease within our borders, taking no IN
terest in what goes on beyond them sunk
in a scrambling commerciallsm, neeqless
of the higher life, the life of aspirations.
of toll and risk, busying ourselves only
with the wants of our bodies for the day,
until suddenly we find. beyond shadoW
of question. what China has. already
found that in this world the nation that
has trained itself to a career OF unwar,
like and isolated ease is bound in the end
to go down before other nations Whlch
have not lost the manly and ADVENTUROUS
= IF We are TO be really great people,
We must strive in good faith to play a
great part in the world. We cannot aVolo
meeting great issues All mat we can
determine for ourselves is whether we
shall meet them well or i'll. Last year
we could not help being brought lace 10
All we could decide was whether we
Should shrink like towards from the con-
test or enter into it as beseemed brave
and high-spirited people; and, once IN
:
' so 1T it is now. We cannot avoid the re-
sponsibilities that confront us in Hawai-;
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. All
we can decide is whether we shall meet
them in a way that will rebound TO the
national credit, or whether we shall make
of our dealings with these new problems
a dark and shameful page IN our history.
I'VE cannot sit huddled within our
borders and avow ourselves merely an as
! semblage of well-to-do hucksters who
care nothing for what happens Deyohu
Such policy would defeat even It's own
end: for as the nations grow to nave ever
wider and wider interests ana are oroushl
into closer and closer contact, II we are
to hold our own in the struggle for naval
and commercial supremacy, we must builc
up our power without our own borders
We must build the isthman canal, and
We must grasp the points Oh On, Va ant Is
! deciding the destiny OF the oceans Oh tht
/ east and the west.
John c. Black of Chicago spoke or
| Grant" and eulOgiZed the great com
! mander' in a warm and happy manner
! His remarks We're greeted with mucn ap'
! plause. Congressman Evan Settle of Ken
lucky followed with an address on Lee.
! The applause which had greeted the re
| marks of General Black found its coun'
! terpart in the cheers that met the Ken
! tuckian's praise of the great southerl
Charles Emory Smith of Philadelphie
! closed the addresses relating to the civi
war by an address on The Union HIS
| remarks were met with the greatest ap
plause and his sentiment that the. flag
flew over the men that followed Gran
now flew alike for thosNr who marched
with Lee and would continue to H. fol
both. called forth cheers of approval.
At the conclusion of the banquet, Coy
ernor Roosevelt spent a short time in hi:
! hotel and was then driven to the Mich
| igan Central depot. where he took trair
! for Ann Arbor. where he is to address the
students of Michigan University tomor
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