The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-20
ROOSEVELT GREETS WRIGHT.
PRESIDENT AND PHILIPPINES
VICE-GOvERNOR MEET.
stirring Day In Memphis Over the welcome
Home Of Gen. WriEht-The President
speaks on the Reconstruction OF the
Phiiippines-In Another Address lie
Pays \ Compliment to southern
Womcn-Speciai speech 20 Negroes.


Governor Luke r. Wright of tho Philippines
with the aid Of President Roosevelt The
President shared with Gen. Wright the hos
pitalitv and the honors which the city
poured out in thoroughly Southern fashion
The festivities began with the arrival of
the Presidents train al little after clock
this morning and ended with his departure
for Washington at midnight tonight
There have been parades. a breakfast.
two public meetings and banquet. Both
Of the city's guests have spoken at each
Of the gatherings.
The most Interesting meeting OF the day
TO the mere siGhtseer was that in Church's
Park on Immaculate avenue. where the
President and Gen. Wright addressed an
audience composed altogether of negroes
Gen. Wright talked very frankly to the
negroes about the unfitness of many of
them for their duties as citizens and ex-
pressed his hope and belief that in time
they would overcome their faults and weak
nesses and would in great numbers qualify
themselves for proper exercise of the
franchise.
The President did not follow Gen Wright's
lead. but talked plainly and simply along
the line of thought familiar to readers Of
England and the West on the responsibilities
of citizenship.
The railroads had reported tremendous
advance sales of excursion tickets for
Wright day, but at no time did the city
seem TO be overcrowded. The police did
not have the slightest difficulty in keeping
the way clear. but on the other hand,
pecially In the afternoon, now and then
~ ,hnarino nd
whats the matter2' from groups in the
crowds that lined the sidewalks. All
through the afternoon there were loud and
continuous cheers for the President Of the
United States.
The banquet tonight at the Hotel Pea
body TO Vice Governor Wright has been the
centre Of the celebration. Gen. Joe Wheeler
divided the cheers with the President and
Gen. Wright
THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS
The President said
tits q real and great pleasure TO come to this
typical city OF the southern NJ ssisSppi Valley
In order TO greet "A typical American, a citizen
OF Tennessee who deserves honor not only
from his State, but from the entire country
We have a right to expect high standard
of manhood from Tennessee. IL was one OF
the first two States created west OF the Al
leghany Mountains. and II was in this state
that the first self governing community of
waters flowing into the Gulf The pioneers
of Tennessee were among the earliest in that
great westward march which ,,n thrust the
Pacific. and II ia eminently fitting that son
Of Tennessee should now play 40 prominent
part in the further movement or expansion
beyond the Pacific
There have been Presidents Of the United
and DUNG guy s, S Of those ySafs fepnss
serans lat IN the WnIt" Hlus" Hardhood and
daring and iron resolution are OF right TO
be expected among the sons OF state winch
nurturcd Andrew jackson. and sam Houston
which sent into tho American Navy one Of
the most famous fighting AdInira!s OF all
time. Farrarut.
There is another reason WHY or country
raD Ud this his service sS Gen Wright fought
with distinguished rallantry among the gal
C sm, r@n w' during the tivi Var We need
no proof of the completeness OF our reunion
as a people. When the, war with spain came
the sons of the men Who wore the blue and
the sons of the men who wore the gray We'd
with one another in the effort To get into the
nag that had been carried In triumph under
Winfield Scott aud Zachary Taylor and An
,n serve under that fearless fighter. old Joe
Wheeler. memory OF when snail always be
But II We needed any proof of the unity, of
our interests it would have been afforded
this very year by Gen Wright. the eS-Con-
l l;oyqTnor OF Of the PSihppine Islands, rron
him during the months of summer rested a
heavier burden OF responsibility than upon
any other public servant at that particular
time; and not the least Of his titles 20 our re-
gard is the way in which he was able TO work
OF the army himself a man who had honored
the blue uniform as Wright had honored the
gray
We HAD To Br IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Gen wrights work has been as diricult
as It was important IN, Syen dsc q ne lat
whether We wish TO or not we must hereafter
play great part in thG world W. can met not
.ssa hold ana are o9 SS' Of oar
oo face OUR thT% ay mus IN tho *9 Fhppns
Islands has simply been one Of the duties
that thus have come qpon H a We ,r are s there
aha ndon the islands than We could now
abandon Alaska Whether We are glad or
sorry that events forced Us to 90 there is
as the Inevitable result OF the war with Spain.
We found ourselves in the Phippines and
The ISLANDERS were wholly unfit to govern
have been a brief period Of bloody chaos.
and then some other nation would have
sGrpedd in to no the he %opF
there no Gft the @as wSs f.d
choice of men like Gov. Wright 1t has been
rho first and absolutely Indispensable ro-
ouiste was ordor-peaC". The rcign of
lavless violence Of rcSi-tanc" to legitimate
authority, the reign Of anarchy could no
more be- tolerated abroad than il could be-
tolerated hero in our own land The Amori-
can fag stands for orderly liberty. and II
stands for II abroad "a u stands for IL at
home The task OF our soldiers was to restore
army had the task to do. and 1t did IL well and
thotoughly. The fullest and hcartiest praise
belongs to our soldiers who In the Philippines
bror ght to a triumphant conclusion a war
small indeed, compared to the gigantic strug-
Ole IN which the older mon whom ! am adj
Dire ssing took part IN the earl" sixties but in
Concniyably haras-ing and difficult. because
II was waged amid the painless lungles of
great tropic islands and against a foe very
clusi,e very treaCherous, and often incon-
ceiyahlv cruel both toward our meh and
towa,d the great numbers OF pcace-loving
Filipi,os who gladly welcomed our advent
THE ARMY CRUELTIrs.
The soldiers included both Regulars and
Volunteers men from the North, the south
the East, and the West, men from Penn
sylvatii and from Tennessee, no less than
men rom the Rocky Mountains and the
Pacific Slope and to al alike We give honor
Cruelt 90 were committed here and there
The net that they were committed under
weil.ngh intoorablc provocaton affords
no excuse for such crue',ics, nor can We
admit as Justification TINT they were retail
iatory In kind Every effort has been made
10 detect and punish the wron gdo"rs and
tho vt,n CdOing itself has been ComictDly