The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-08-29
QUIET DAY
FOR THE
PRESIDENT 7
Spends Part Of the Morning
Fishing In Lake Sunapss,
Then Goes to Newport, Nh.

Newbury, N. H..Aug. 2s-A program tn
tended togive President Roosevelt a period
of rest and pleasure after nearly week
Of hard work in traversing the New Eng
land states and delivering large number
of speeches, was before the chief executive
today. He reached Tho Feils," the sum-
mer home OF Secretary OF State John Hay
at Newbury. N. n. last night and was not
due to leave there until 10 O'Clock today.
Then he was going only 10 Newport. N.
H., 30 minutes ride by train from New
bury, to spend the rest OF the day and
tho night In the great park formerly own
ed by Austin Corbin the New York rail-
road king.
The yisft TO this park, famous among
game reservations Of the country. will.
Il is thought. afford the president much
pleasures. He will spend the night at tho
club house on the park
During the forenoon the presidents
party put In their time fishing and boat
Ing on Lake Sunapee. or In various ways
enjoying themselves 1t was nearly the
time scheduled for the train TO leave
Newbury when the president and Secre-
tary Hay reached the station.
At Newbury. Senator Redheld Proctor
OF Vermont was waiting. He is 20 accom-
pany the party through Vermont. The
meeting was most cordial between Sena-
tor Proctor and the president.
Just before the train left for Newport
the president, Secretary Hay and Secre-
tary Cortelyou posed for a photograph
on the rear platform OF the presidents
car
ADDRESS AT NEWPORT.
Newport, N. H., Aug pa large crowd
assembly greeted President Roosevelt on
his arrival here from Newbury this fore
noon. He addressed the crowd for about
ten minutes. He said:
1T has been to me very great pleas
ure 10 visit your state and, above all. to
meet your people. Your town here is a
curiously exact reproduction OF America
az q whe q. You have manufactures In
your town. shoes. linens. underwear. You
have hay and stock farms outside and
you therefore have In this community the
farmer and the townsman. the employer
and the wage worker, the farm owner and
the hired help.
go to make up the entire American body
polite. In your four or FIVE thousand
citizens I'm the town and adjacent neigh
borhood, the representatives OF whom
I am addressing you have reproduced all
the essential types Of all our people
among our 10000. 900 inhabitants Of our
nation as a whole. These are the men
those who fought In the great Civil
War. the men who did their duty In the
great days.
You have here also. the men who do
their duty I'm time OF peace. That means
the building up Of the nation and gentle
men are you going TO get good govern
ment square and fair dealing between
man and man In the nation at large by
tho application of exactly tho same prin-
ciples which you md II necessary to sp-
ply in order to get good government and
decent living here.
There is not any royal road to good
government any more than there ~
royal road to learning. You can give
child every advantage, give him BOOKS
and teachers. but he has got to learn. he
has got TO 40 that himself, and II is the
same way with cftizsnahip. You can
frame laws and have a good constitution
and after all has boen done that YOU can
do In that way you have accomplisned
simply the creating Of condftfons whicn
render II impossible to have good GIVEN
ship. The good citisenshfp has 20 come
from the people themselves. In this gov
ernInent, right hero in your own town
life, You have It in your hands to secure
lie and in public Me. and you can only
secure that kind OF good government
that kind OF social betterment by each do
ing his duty in the ordinary work day
matters