The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-03
VICE PRES. ROOSEYELTS ELOQUENT
ADDRESS AT THE STATE FAIR

Following is the complete text of Col.
Rc'osevelt's speech at the state fair yes
to-day morning:
In his admirable series of studies of
twentieth century problems, DR.. Lyman
ton of pioneers; that the first colonists
to our shores were pioneers and that
| p1Cne ers selected out from among the de-
scendantS of these early pioneers, min
gled with others selected afresh from the
| old world, pushed westward into the viii
Gerness. and laid the foundations for
| new commemorative. They were men of
nope and expectation, of enterprise and
energy, for the men of dull content, or
mere dull despair, had no part in the
great myement into and across the new
world. Our country has been populated
by pioneers; and, Therefore, It has in it
more energy, more enterprise, more ex-
pansive power than any other in tho
wide world. .--s.- ---e
You whom I am now addressing stand
FOR the most part but one generation re-
moved from these pioneers. You are typ
! zeal Americans, for you have done the
great, the characteristic the typical work
of our American life In making homes
and carving out careers for yourselves
and your children, you have built up this
state. Throughout our history the sue
cess of the home-maker has been but an
other name fer the upbuilding of the ma
ton. The men who with ak in the forest
and pick in the mountains and plow OH the
~ dilISo puSHSu " COLIpl0IlOn InS comm
Ion of our people over the American
wilderness, have given the definite shape
to cur nation, They have shown the
quarities of daring, endurance and far
SlghtedneSS, Of eager desire for victory
and stubborn, refusal to accept defeat,
which goes to make up the essential man
l1ness of the American character Above
all. they have recognized in practical
form the fundamental law of success in
American life-the law Of worthy work,
the law of high, resolute endeavor. We
nave nav put little room among our people
for the timid, the irresolute and the idle;
ana it is no less true that there is scent
room in the world at large for the ma
ton with mighty thews that dares not to
be great
Surely, in speaking to the sons of the
men who actually did the rough and
hard. and infinitely glorious work of maxi
ing the great Northwest what it now is.
l need hardly insist upon the righteous
ness of this doctrine
In your own rigorous lives you show
by every act how scant is your patience
with those who do not see in the life of
effort the life supremely worth living.
Sometimes we hear those who do not
work spoken CT with envy.
Surely, the wilfulIy idle need arouse in
tine breast of healthy man no emotion
stronger than that of contemplate the
outside no emotion stronger than angry
contempt.
admission of inferiority on our part, to
which the men who Know not tAe sterner
JOYS of life are not entitled.
Poverty is a bitter thing but it is not
as bitter as the existence of restless vac
Ulty and physical, moral and intellectual
habblness to which those doom them
selves who elect to spend all their years
in that Vainest of all vain pursuits the
pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient
end in itself. The wilfully idle man
| like the wilfully barren woman has no
community.
Moreover, the gross and hideous sell
! fshness for which each stands defeats
even its own miserable aims Exactly as
infinitely the happiest woman is she who
| has borne and brought up many healthy
children. SO infinitely the happiest man
IS he who has toiled hard and success
fully in his life work.
The work may be done in a thousand
G1ferent ways; with the brain or the
hands in the study, the field or the work
shop; if it is honest work, honestly done
ana wei worth doing, that is all we have
! right TO ask.
Every father and mother here. if thew
are wise, w II bring up their children not
to shlrk dlfflculties, but to meet them
am overcome them; not to strive after a
LIFE OF IGNOBLE EASE,
but to strive to do their dutv first to
themselves and their families and then
to the whole state; and this DUTY must
| inevitably take the shape of work IN
some form or other.
You, the sons of pioneers, if you are
true to your ancestry, must make vour
lives as worthy as they made theirs
They sought for true success and there
fore they did not seek ease. They knew
that success comes only to those who
lead the life of endeavor
II seems to me that the simple accept
ance OF this fundamental fact of Ameri-
| can lie, this Acknowledgement that the
! law of work is the fundamental law of
our being, will help US to start Alright in
racing not few of the problems that
confront US from without and from with
As regards internal affairs, it should
teach us the prime need of remembering
that after all has been said and done. the
chief factor In any mans success or fail
ure must be his own character: that is
/ the sum of his common sense, his cour-
age, his vlrile energy and capacity Moth
I factor ~ N''A
/ do not for moment mean that much
cannot be done to supplement it. Be-
! sizes each one of us working inalvidu,Iy.
| al OF US nave got to work together We
/ cannot possibly do our best work as a
nation unless all Of us1know how to acT
| IN nc SoI3nogIination as well as how to act
| ing together may take many directions
out, OF course it's most effective form
| HlIst De Whsn it comes in the shane of
! "a "a" 1Idl is OF action by the community
as whole through the lawmaking hodI'
but It Is not possible ever to insure
| prosperity merely by law. Something for
/ E zoo can be done by law, and a bad
law can do an infnity of mischief Int
| after all, the best law can onlv "0''
prevent wrong and injustice. and eiva
10 the thrifty, the far-seeing and the
h marc working chance to exercise to the
oSsn advantage their. special and peculiar
abllities. No hard and fast rule can he
Iald !, down as to where our legislation
/ snal! stop in interfering between man
ana 11f man, between interests and interests.
All tnat can be said is that it is highly
Undesirable on the one hand to, weaker
iindlylduaf initiative, and on the other
nand, that IN a constantly Increasing
NUMBER OF eases we shall find II neces9
sary In the future ITO shackle c11nnins
SIN the past we have shackled force %
II is not only highly desirable but nee
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