New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-23
PRESIDENT TO QUAKERS
HE SPEAKS AT PHILADELPHIA
UNION LEAGUE CLUB.
ALSO MAKES TWO ADDRESSES AT DEDI-
CATION OF NEW HIGH SCHOOL IN
THE PENNSYLVANIA CITY.

Philadelphia Nov. 22.-President Roosevelt.
accompanied by several members of his Cabinet
came to this city to-day to attend the dedication
of the new Central High School for Boys and the
Founders Day exercises of the Union League
Club. He made two addresses at the school,
one in assembly hall, where the formal cere-
mony took place, and the other from the balcony
of the building, TO the fifteen hundred pupils of
the school
When the exercises at the High School ended
the President Went to The home of ex-Post-
master General Charles Emory Smith for
luncheon, and from there TO the home of Ed
ward T. Stotesbury, where reception was given
for him. At the Union League Club tonight he
was the principal speaker, He said:
Forty years ago this club was founded. in
the dark days OF Tie Civil War. TO uphold the
hands of Abraham Lincoln and give aid TO
those who batted for the Union and for human
liberty. Two years ago President Mckinley
came mere as your guest TO thank you ana
through you all those Tar sighted and loyal
men who had supported him in his successful
effort TO keep untarnished the national good
faith at home and the national honor abroad,
and 20 bring back 10 this country the material
well-be ng which We now abundantly enjoy.
II was no accident which made the men of this
club stood as in peculiar sense the cham
pions eva spholders of the principles of Lin
in III the earlv sixties stand no less stoutIy
for those typified in the person of Mckinley
during the closing years of the century. The
qualities apt 10 make men respond to the call Of
respond 10 similar call in a crisis of a differ
ent character The traits which enabled our
people TO pass unscathed through the fiery or
deal of the Civil War were the traits upon
which had 10 rely In the less serious but
yet serious. dangers by which We were men
aced In 1896. 1893 and 1900
PRACTICAL AS WELL AS IDEAL.
From the very beginning our people have
markedly combined practical capacity for
affairs with power OF devotion to an ideal. The
lack OF either quality would have rendered the
possession of the other of small value. Mere
ability to achieve success in things concerning
the BODY would not have atoned for the failure
10 live the life Of high endeavOr. and. on the
other hand. without a foundation Of those
qualities which bring material prosperity there
would be nothing which the higher life could
be built. The men of the Revolution would have
failed If they had not possessed alike devotion
TO liberty and ability, once liberty had been
achieved, to show common sense and self-re-
strant in its use. The men of the great civil
War would have failed had they not possessed
the business capacity which developed and or
ganized their resources in addition to the stern
resolution to expend these resources as freely
as they expended their blood in furtherance Of
the great cause for which their hearts leaped
It is this combination Of qualities that has
made our people succeed. Other peoples have
been as devoted to liberty. and yet. because of
lack Of hard headed common sense and of
ability to show restraint and subordinate in
dividual passions for the general good, have
failed so signaliy in the struggle of life as to
become a byword among the nations. Yet other
peoples. again, nave possessed all posSlole
thrift and business capacity, but have been
trampled under foot. or have played a sordid
and ignoble part in the world. because their
business capacity was unaccompanied by any
OF the lift toward nobleT things which marks
q great and generous nation. The stern but
Just rule of Judgment for humanity is that each
nation shall be known by its fruits, and If
there are no fruits if the nation has failed II
matters but little whether it has failed through
meanness of soul or through lack Of robust
ness of character. We must judge nation by
the net result of It's life and activity. And so
we must Judge the policies of those who at any
time control the destinies of nation.
APPEAL JUSTIFIED BY RESULTS.
Therefore 1 ask you tonight to look at the
results of the policies championed by President
Mckinley on both the occasions when he ap-
peaed TO the people for their suffrages, and to
see how well that appeal has been justified by
the good that has befallen during the last
six years due solely to any human policy
No legislation however wise no administration
however efficient, can secure prosperity to
people or greatness to nation. All that
be done by the lawmaker and the administrator
pie OF the country themselves to show the stuff
that is in them. No law can make fool wise.
a weakling strong, or coward brave. but good
laws and good administration of the laws can
give to strong, honest. brave men chance TO
do well.
President Mckinley was elected in 1896 on
the specific pledge that he would keep the
financial honor of the nation untarnished and
would put our economic system on stable
basis, that our people might he given
chance to secure the return of prosperity. Both
pledges have been we'll kept that. as is but
too often the case. beginning TO forget
how much the keeping OF them has meant.
When people have become very prosperous they
tend to become Sluggshly Indifferent to the
continuation of the policies that brought about
their prosperity At such times these 1t is,
of course. mere law of nature that some men
prosper more than others, and too often those
who prosper less in their jealousy of their more
fortunate brethren. forget that all have pros
pered somewhat.
ask you soberly to remember that the COM
plant made at the present day of industrial
or economic conditions never takes the form of
stating that any of our people are less well off
than they were seven eight years back be
fore President Mckinley came in and his poll
cies had chance to be applied but that the
complaint is that some people have received
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