Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-05-16
PROGRESS.
Vice President Roosevelt on Ac-
chievements of Republican Rule.
Difficult Problems Solved and FL
nanciaI Stability strengthened
bY Wise P0Iicies-Cuba and
the Philippines.


nanciaI Stability Strengthened
bY Wise PoIicies-Cuba and
the Philippines.
The feature of the annual banquet
OF the Home Market club in Boston,
April &C, was an address by Vice Pres
ident Theodore Roosevelt. Unusual
Importance was attached to the vice
presidents statements, as the address
had been submitted to President Nc
Kinley for approval and therefore
could be considered as a declaration
of the administration views and pol
icies.
The fact that this was the first
speech on national affairs delivered
by Mr.. Roosevelt since his taking the
office of vice president made it espe-
cially significant, and his hearers con-
strued it as having the sanction of the
executive.
Mr.. Roosevelt reviewed the events
of the last four years, drawing atten-
tion to the share the republican party
has had in the advance made by the
country and to the manner in which
the national government has faced
the grave problems which developed
and shouldered the duties imposed
upon the republic.
AS to the future the vice president
predicted that all knotty points com
ing up will be met in the same way and
the republican party will guide the
nation into an era Of prosperity. lie
dwelt upon the needs of reaching into
the markets of the world and told of
the manner in which the United States
had taken its place already as a world
power. The subjects of China, Cuba
and the Philippines were given atten-
tion and the course of the administra-
tion explained.
Roosevelt on Nations Duty.
Vice President Roosevelt said:
"In reading the profoundly interesting
and suggestive biography of the great
scientist, Huxley, one cannot but be struck
by his constant insistence upon the need,
not merely of telling the truth, but of
doing il. That is, of facing facts-recog-
nZing actual conditions-the better TO Crap
pie with them.
with individual and nation alike sue
cess of the kind which is alone worth hav-
Ing must come from obeying the laws that
tell both for our moral and our material
well being. We cannot afford TO follow
that surdid teaching which would bid us
pay heed only to the body; nor, on the
othdN band can we afford in any way to
neg the questions OF material prosper
ity
''s le excellent persons seem to think
the rgument of material prosperity is a
ba argument; whereas, Of course, such
is Iilt the than II is laGg in
q man to teach his son that ii is prime
duty to be self-supporting. But to argue
only from the standpoint of material pros
perity would be base A good man always
hopes to see his son do more than earn his
own living. Even each of US should desire
10 see America become more and more a
name of pride, not merely because il SYM
bolizes vast material pros sperity, but also
because 1t stands for lofty and generous
aspirations, high effort and unyielGing
resolution.
Four Years of Prosperity.
During the last four years this nation
has so conducted itself as not only to add
immensely TO our material prosperity, but
also to add to the heritage of honor which
we are to leave our children. little over
four years ago business disaster had
caused such widespread panic among our
people that in addition to the real misery
from which we were suffering we were
threatened with the adoption of govern
mental policy which woulQ nays aragPeu
the nation through the ashes of humilia-
tion, put an irdelible stain upon our good
name, and inflicted a telling blow upon
our reputation for shrewd compton sense.
At the same time the situation in the great
island Of Cuba, lying AT our doors, was
such as absolutely TO demand our inter-
ference. Under President Mckinley we
entered upon an era of constructive pol
icies. Our leaders had to show not that
they could criticise, which is easy, but that
they could actually accomplish things,
which is hard. We had to build up a
legislative and administrative system un-
der which our domestic well-being should
be restored, while at the same time we were
pledged to solve in foreign affairs a more
intricate problem than mad hitherto been
presented to the nation for solution. oBth
facts We're accomplished, and were accom-
plished so successfully that there Is actual
ly some little tendency to forget alike their
difficulty and their Importance. The dam
gers were so completely overcome that, fol-
lowing the universal habit of mankind, we
tend now to ignore the fact that they ever
existed or that those who solved them have
a lasting claim upon the gratitude of all
Of us.
Before treating of the new duties that
have come to US in the larger national life
upon which we have entered, wish to say
a word upon the extraordinary domestic
prosperity which has been brought about
in such large part by the policy for which
the Home Market club has so preemine Mt
ly stood. Exactly as a man cannot do
much for his neighbor unless he first of all
earns his own livelihood and sees to the
well-being of his own house hold, so our
domestic well-beng must ever be of prime
Importance in the eyes of cur public men.
You, of this club, have been unswerv-
ing in your devotion to sound economic
thought. You have, with heartiest enthUs-
iasm, upheld the finally successful effort
10 put the gold standard upon as safe a
basis as it is possible by legislation TO put
1t. You have steadily advocated a tariff
policy which in its actual working has
vindicated itself by a success which is lit
orally astounding. 1t has benefited not
merely the manufacturer ard the wage
worker, but the whole population. AS for
the gold standard, even its opponents are
now but half-hearted in their opposition &c
it.
Duties in Other Lands.
For good or for evil, we now find our
selves with new duties in the West Indies
ard new duties beyond the Pacific. We
cannot escape the performance of these
duties. All we can decide for ourselves is
whether we shall do them well or i'll. More
over .h6 duties affect us each and all. |