The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-04
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1902
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
FOR CONGRESS:
GEORGE A. PEARRE,
OF Allegany County.
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECHES.
OF Allegany County

President Roosevelt made a num-
Der of brief Labor Day speeches Mon
day, the most important being at
Proctor, VT, and at Rutland, Vt. At
Proctor he came out with direct as
sertion that the Monroe doctrine had
been laid down by the fathers for this
nation to enforce and that it was non
sense to talk of enforcing that doc
trine unless the country had big,
strong, well-trained navy.
AT Rutland, where there were Labor
Day exercises going on and talk of
their ending in declarations of strikes
in several of the cities more promi-
nent industries the President talked
encouragingly to the representatives
of labor unions who were grouped be-
fore him.
On the Monroe doctrine the Presi-
dent said at Proctor:
Eve believe in the Monroe doctrine.
not as matter of aggression at ALL
~ NAONC hOO blIhU we are dSSIeS-
sive toward any Power. 1t means
merely that, as the biggest Power on
this continent, we remain earnestly
true to principle formulated first by
Monroe and again by John Quincy
Adams-the principle that this CONT
nent must not be treated as a subject
for political colonization by any for
e1gn Power 1t is doctrine of peace.
1t is a doctrine of defense. 1t is a
doctrine to secure to the United States
freedom to develop in peace. We
have formulated that doctrine. If
this means that we have simply talked
or written about it, then what we say
is not worth the least consideration.
1t is worth consideration only as long
as we are ready to manifest the
strength necessary to maintain it.
Remember that the Monroe doc
trine will be respected only so long as
we have first-class, able navy, and
not very much longer than that.
Dragging is a poor business in
nation or in an individual. The last
thing this nation can afford to do is
to take position which it does not
mean to hold. Dragging and boast
ing are eyer signs of weakness, in
man or nation. Least of all does a
self-respecting nation wish it's public
representatives to threaten or menace
or insult foreign power. We must
respect and be courteous to them, as
we intend they shall be respectful
and courteous to us. We must treat
them as we insist they shall treat u.s.
Addressing workmen at Rutland,
the President said in part:
Il am glad to have the chance of
saying word here to the citizens of
Vermont on Labor Day. There is no
holiday which should be more typi-
cally American, no holiday which
should make our people think more
seriously of their privileges, their
rights and their duties than this hol.
iday of Labor Day.
1.-The material side of our civiliza-
ton is very important, but it is i'm
portant because of the men who stand
behind it, exactly as in battle the i'm
portant thing is not the gun, but the
man behind the gun. So in our civil
life it is the man in the shop, the man
on the farm, the man in the factory.
upon whom, for well or for ill, our
whole civilization ultimately depends:
and it is according as that man is able
to secure his rights, and furthermore.
as he remembers and performs his
duties-it is according to these two
facts that our civilization does or does
not make progress.
Right and duty-a mans rights.
the rights that he is bound to see that
he receives, and the duties which he
is no less bound to remember that he
observes.
1T is not an easy task always for
man to remember his duties; still less
is it an easy task for him always to
do them; but he must keep them in
mind; he must strive faithfully to
perform them, or he becomes but
poor citizen"
AT Northfeld, Mass, the President
had something to say of good citizen
ship. He said:
mo one-sided development can
produce really good citizenship-as
good citizenship as is needed in the