Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-02
BY Associated Press.


Boston, Mass, May 1.--At the ban
quet of the Home Market Club, Vice
President Roosevelt spoke in part as
follows:
In dealing with our new duties
abroad we must approach them in the
same spirit necessary for the solution
OF the problems that confront us at
home-that is, in spirit which shall
combine business efficiency with the
e., highest standard Of fearlessness and
/ ntegrity-practical common sense
with resolute devotion to duty: Only
by acting in such a spirit will we ever
| be able to cleanse the dark spots in our
municipal life; only by acting in such
a spirit can we solve the tremendous
problems arising from the extreme
rapidity and highly complex nature, of
our great industrial development; and
only by acting in such a spirit can we
rightly do our duty in the new fields
of labor and effort which have been
opened to us by the results Of the
| Spanish war;
| For good or for evil, we now find
| ourselves with new duties in the West
Indies and new duties beyond the Pa
| cific. We cannot escape the perform
| ance of these duties. All we can de-
eide for ourselves is whether we shall
do them well or i'll. Moreover, the
duties affect us each and all. / speak
to you tonight, not merely as men of
New England, but as Americans keenly
interested in whatever is of interest to
any part of the land, honorably zeal
Gus for the rights of all Americans, and
eager for the greatness of every portion
of our common country. Whether we
dwell in the interior or on the coast
of the Atlantic or of the Pacific we are
bound in every way, by every tie of
that loftier kind of self-interest which
looks far into the future, to help in all
measures which tend to upbuild any
part of the nation, confident that there
by we can most surely upbuild the ma
tion in its entirety. Our interests,
whether in the Gulf of Mexico, in Cen
tral America, or in the Philippines,
whether as regards the nations of Eu
rope or the ancient peoples of Asia,
are to be looked at always from
standpoint of our people as a whole.
1t is. of course, impossible that we
should undertake these new duties
across the seas without being brought
into closer and more frequent contact
with foreign nations than has been the
case in the past; and, indeed, our
mere growth in wealth and population
would alone insure such growing fire.
quency of contact. This should neces-
sarily mean an increase in sobriety and
in long headed self-restraint when we
deal with these foreign powers. To
bluster and above all. to bluster and
then back down, is q very bad trait in
an individual, and if possible it is an
even worse trait in a nation. We earn
estly hope and believe that in the fu-
ture the chance of any military compli-
cations will be small indeed; but in our
commercial relations, with foreign
powers difficult questions are almost
foir 10 ha fraf,ttant tar
than they have been hitherto. In all
such questions we must. of course,
first consider our own interests; but
we must also realize that in the long
run we can best get justice by doing
Justice The only way to play great
part well is to do well each of the les
ser things which in the aggregate make
up the great part. The way to fit our
selves to do any great world-duty in
the future is properly to perform the
particular duties of the present. Since
the close Of the war with Spain our
chief problems as regards the outside
world have been those in Cuba, the
Philippines and China. We have
right to feel proud of the way in which,
in our action as regards all three, we
have been able to combine a proper
disinterestedness with a just regard
for our own national interests. We
have neither failed in our duty to our
selves nor in our duty to others. We
could not afford to take upon ourselves
world burdens without paying heed to
what is due to ourselves. Still less
could we afford to take them up unless
willing to perform them in accordance
with the dictates of the higher law
ana with a view to the ultimate bene-
fit of mankind at large. In other
words, we must approach this work,
if we expect to do it well, just as we
approach cur work at home-failing
neither in the qualities of the head
nor in those Of the heart. To be mere
w sentimental would of course result