Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-26
PRAISE FOR HIS aids
Roosevelt Tells Harvard Alumni
OF the Worth of Hay, Root
and Long.
Declares He Will Stand Up
for Them and for Their
Work.
Taft and Other Harvard Gradu'
ates Who Have Won Fame
Highly Praised.

Boston, June 26-At the Harvard
alumni banquet John d. Long, presl-
dent of the Alumni association, pre-
sided, and introduced the speakers
The lists of toasts included responses
by President Eliot, Governor Crane
President Roosevelt, Secretary Hay
Professor Alexander AgassiZ, and NAL
colin Donald.
The president spoke, in part, as fol-
lows:
"Mr. President, President Eliot, and
You, My Fellow Harvard Men: Let me
speak for all Americans today when
say that we watch with the deepest
concern and sympathy the sick bed OF
the English King, and that all Amer
leans, in rendering their hearty sym
patty to the people OF Great Britain
now remember keenly the outburst oil
genuine grief with which all England
last fall greeted the calamity that be-
fell us in the death Of President Nc
Kinley.
president Eliot spoke of the services
performed by the college graduate ia
the state 1t was my fortune, 1--WE years
ago, to serve with your president and
the then Secretary of the Navy, EX-
Governor Long. BY a strange turn
of the wheel of fate, he served in my
cabinet as long as he would consent
to serve, and then / had to replace
II I'd
II am fortunate in being associated
with Senator Hoar, and should indeed
think i'll of myself If l had not learned
something with association with man
who possesses that fine and noble belief
in mankind, the lack Of which forbids
healthy effort to do good in a dem
ocracy like ours. / shall not speak
of his associate, the Junior senator,
another Harvard man, Mr.. Lodge, be"
cause it would be difficult for me to
speak of one who is my closest, stanch-
est, and most loyal personal friend.
Il have another fellow Harvard man
today to speak of, and it is necessary
to paraphrase an old saying in order
to state the bald truth-that it is in
deed liberal education in high minded
Gil table with John Hay.
Gentlemen, want to speak of three
other college graduates because of tho
service they have done the public-the
threee men who during the past three
or four years have met that require
ment-Elihu Root. Governor Taft, and
Leonard Wood. Leonard Wood four
years ago went to Cuba. He has rem
dered services to that country of the
kind which performed 5000 years ago
would have made him hero mixed
up with the sun god in various ways
man who devoted his whole life tc
these four years and who thought OF
nothing else-did nothing else save try
to bring up the standard of politica
and social life in that island; to clear
it physically and morally; to make
justice even and fair in it; to found
a school of system that should be akir
to our own; to teach the people after
four centuries Of misrule that there
were such things as governmental
righteousness and honesty and fail
play for all men on their merits as men
He did all that. He is man Of slender
means. He did it on his pay as al
army officer and as governor of the is
land. Sixty millions of dollars passed
thru his hands, and he came out hav.
ing had to draw on his slender capita
in order that he might come out ever
when he left the island.
And Governor Taft, who has beer
the head of the Philippine commission
and who has gone back there-Taft
the most brilliant graduate of his yea,
at Yale, a man who having won high
positions at the bar was appointed t.
the United States bench, was asked
to give UP the position in order to &C
to the other side of the world, to take
up an infinitely difficult and infinitely
dangerous problem, and to do his bes
to solve it. He has solved it.
and now Elihu Root who had worked
his way up from being a poor and un-
known country boy in New York to {
position where in year or two he hat
the leadership of the bar of the grea1
city within his grasp, gave 1t up, made
a great pecuniary sacrifice implied il
giving it up. and accepted the position
under President Mckinley of secretary
of war. He has done the most exhaust
ing and most responsible work of any
man in the administration.
These three men have rendered SUI
perb service. I can do nothing fol
them. l can show my appreciation o.
| them in no way save the wholly in
| sufficient one of standing up for then
| and for their works and that I will