The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-05

Must in a Sense be a Part of the General Political System in International Affairs of Which This Country Stands as the Head-The situation in the PhiIippines-Great Problems to Face Supervision and Regulation of Great Industrial Combinations-Much Can be Done Along This Line.
 Pittsburg, July "A tremendous au- dience listened to an address by Presi- dent Roosevelt at Schenley park to- day. The president reached the city early in the forenoon, and after being formally received by committee was escorted to the park by parade of B. 900 troops. The line of march was four miles long and was greeted by cheering crowds.
 After an invocation by Rev. John H. Prugh the Declaration of Independence was read by General Willis J. Rulings, and then the president was introduced He said:
 '.Mr. Mayor and you, my fellow citi- zens, my fellow Americans, men and women of western Pennsylvania-1ou have just listened to the reading of the great document which signals our entry into the field of nations 126 years ago. That entry was but the promise which had to be made good by the perform ance of those men and their children, and their chiIdrens children.
 Words are good if they are backed up by deeds, and only so.
 1.-The Declaration continues to be read with pride by us year after year, and stands aa symbol of hope for the people of all the world, because it's promise was made good, because it's words were supplemented by deeds, because after the men who signed it and upheld it and done their work the men who come again after them, generation by gener- ation, did their work in turn. The Dec 1aration of Independence had to be SUD- plemented, in the first place, by that great instrument of constructive and administrative statesmanship-the con- stitution under which we now live. The document promulgated in 17Ss under which Washington became our first president supplemented, necessarily supplemented, the Declaration of 1776 He showed in the Revolution that we s had right to be free; we showed, when we constructed the more perfect union of the old Cenfederacy, that we knew how to use that right as it needed to be used.
 And then seventy years and more past, and there came again upon the nation the days of iron need. There came again the days that demanded all that was best-the life itself of the bravest and the truest of the nations sons. And with Sumter's guns awak- ened our people and America until then the incarnate genius of peace sprang to her feet with sword and with shield-a helmeted queen among nations; when the thunder of the guns called the na- tion's children they sprang forward to do the mighty deeds which, if left un- done, would have meant that the words to which we have listened to-day would have rung as meaningless platitudes.
 ''Those were the two great epochs in the nations history-the epoch of the founding of the Union and the epoch of its preservation; the epoch of Washing ton and the epoch of Abraham Lincoln. Those two generations had the greatest tasks to do, but each generation has its tasks. The great deeds of those that have gone before us must ever serve, not as reason for inaction on our part, but as the keenest of spurs to drive us forward on the path of national great ness and justice.
 we have had our tasks to do in the last four years, or rather we have had, as every generation must have, many tasks to do--tasks affecting us abroad and one of those tasks, being done as it has been, has signalled our entry to a larger world. And it is most appro- priate that on this Fourth of July, this anniversary of the birth of the nation, it should be our good fortune to have promulgated the declaration establish ing peace in the Philippines and the &C., |. Acknowledgement to the army of the praise So richly due our fellow Americans who wear the uniform of the United States for all that they have done in tropic is- Hands during the past four years.
 We said Cuba should become a free republic and we have kept our word TO have turned Cuba over to the hands Of its own people immediately after the withdrawal of the Spanish flag would have meant ruin and chaos. We es- abolished a government in the islands: we established peace and order: we be- gan to provide for the payment of the Cuban troops who had fought against the misrule of their oppressors we in- stituted public school system, mod elled upon that which has been so po- tent a factor in our own national prog ress. We cleaned the cities in Cuba for the first time in their history. We changed them from being the most un- healthy to being among the healthiest cities of the civilized world. We intro- duced system of orderly justice to succeed one of irresponsible and arbi- trative despotism. So that any man, rich or poor, weak or strong, who ap- peals to courts and know that he would receive his rights.
 And then when in the fullness of time we felt they could walk alone we turned over the government to them