The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-02
man WITH The AK
Col. Roosevelt Pays Tribute to
Him at Minneapolis.
Delivers Opening Address at
Minnesota State Fair.
WELCOMING CROWDS.
Eager Citizens Thr0ng the Sta
tIon Platform and Streets
To Greet the Cowboy Soldier
and Statesman

i Roosevelt arrived mere at $50 a. M
over the st. Paul railway from Chicago
to participate IN the exercises of the
opening day of the state fair on the in
| vitation of the Minnesota State Agri-
culture society. The vice president Will
be the guest during his stay in Mime
apolis of Senators Nelson and Clapp
and will stay at the home of National
Committeeman T. H. Shevlin. A COM
mittee consisting of Governor Van SAINT,
United States Senator Moses E. Clapp,
w. r. Merriam, United States director
of the census; H. A. Bordman, George
Thompson, editor OF the st. Paul Dis
patch; A. H. Index and George r.
Finch. boarded the car at St Paul and
accompanied the vice president to Min
neapolis where he was greeted by Pres
ident John Cooper of the Agricultural
society. Hundreds of people thronged
the station platform and street and
shouted and waved their welcome. The
party then boarded the private electric
car OF President Lowry of the Mime
apolis Street Railway company, for
trip around the loop view of the
city and to the fair grounds at Hamlin,.
when the opening ceremonies began.
The further programme includes a
reception in Jobbers' Union building a
luncheon at the fair grounds by the
State Fair association and a review OF
the Thirteenth Minnesota regiment of
volunteers and a dinnem at the Mime
apolis club this evening.
COL. ROOSEVELTS ADDRESS,
Vice President Roosevelt in begin
ming his address paid a. high tribute to
! the character and energy of the men
descended, he said, from race of piO-
neers which had pushed westward into
the wilderness and laid the foundations
! for new commOnWeal The men with
ak and pick and pillow. who, he said had
q Of Ia nf
our people over the American wilder
ness, had shown by their qualities of
daring, endurance and far-sightedness
that they recognized IN practical form
the fundamental law of success in
American life-the law of worthy work;
| the law of resolute, high endeavor-
Continuing, he said: 1T seems to me
that the simple acceptance of this fun
| damental fact of American life viii
help US to start Alright in facing not
few of the problems that confront us
from without and from within.
we cannot possibly do our best work
as nation unless all of US know how
to act in combination as we'll as to act
/ each individually for himself. This act
| ing in combination can take many
| forms, but of course its most effective
! form must be when it comes in shape
| of law; that is, Of action by the COM
munity as a whole through the law
making bodies. No hard and fast rule
| can be laid down as to where our legis
| latiOn shall stop in interfering between
man and man, between interest and IN
| terest- All that can be said is that it
| is highly undesirable on the one hand,
/ that in a constantly increasing number
4 of cases, we shall find it necessary in
| the future to shackle cunning as in the
past we have shackled force. It is not
highly desirable, but necessary that
| there should be Iegislat ton which shall
/ carefully shield the interests of wage
workers. and which shall discriminate
! in favor of the honest and humane en-
! ployer by removing the disadvantage
/ un0er which he stands when compared
| with unScrupulOuS competitors who
\ have no conscience and will do right
! only under fear of punishment. Nor can
/ legislation stop with what are termed
I la Dor questions. The vast individual
/ and corporate fortunes, the vast COM
/ binatiOns of capital, which have mark
! ed the development of our industrial
| system, create new conditions and ne
] cessitate a change from the old atti-
tude of the state and nation toward
/ prosperity"
There was he contended. but the scan
| test Justification for most of the out
| cry against men or Wealth, ana II ought
/ to be unnecessary, he said. to state that
! SlbuIty Of laWlesSneSS and violence, was
an attempt upon the fundamental prop
! critics of American citizenship
"Our interests are at bottom common
! he continued In the long run we go
| up or down together Yet more and more
/ it is evident that the state, and if nee
essary the nation. has got to possess the
/ right of supervision and control re-
4 CARDS the great corporations which are
/ It's crea lures: particularly as regards the
1
4 rive a portion of their Importance from
the existence of some monopolistic tend
AS to our relations with foreign powers.
/ Vice President Roosevelt said that our
! domestic well being. must not shirk from
playing its part among the great nations
many forms in the future as 1t has taken
many forms in the past. Nor is it pos
for ali cases. We must ever face the fact
| of our shifting national needs. of the al
cha
o1,e tIinsS whether we wish it or not We
/ cannot avoid hereafter having duties to
do in the face Of other nations All that
perform these duties we'll or ILL.,
| ali dealings with any foreign power with
Whom the government might come III
| contact. On this point ne added; Let
Justice. Then let make it equally evil
dent that will not tolerate injustice
being done US in return Let us further
which we are not prepared to back up
| alvavs moderate. We are ready and VIII
| ing to make good. Such attitude viii
sPeslfe.re e peace. the attainment Of
which is and must ever be the prime aim
of a self-governlng people. rms Is tie
/ attitude we must take as regards the
| Monroe doctrine.
eve do not by this doctrine intend to
sanction any policy Of aggression by one
American commonwealth at the expense
99iscesriminaffon against any foreign power
whatsoever. Commercially as far as this
fair field and no favor, but if we are
wise we shall strenuOuSly insist that
der no pretext whatsoever shall there
be any territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT on
American soil by any European power,
and this no matter what form the terri
toriaI ACKNOWLEDGMENT may take.
Vice President Roosevelt concluded with
a discussion of the subject of expansion
and a review of what had been accOmp-
Iished in Cuba and the Philippines:
toward establishing a free and independ-
| ent commonwealth of the former. and
ultimately a self-goYerning people" Of
| the latter.