Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-05
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
VISITS BRATTLEB0R0
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citizens, men and women of Vermont,
| am glad indeed to have the oppor-
tunity of spending portions Of two
days, travelling through your beau
tiful state, and | am glad to end my
visit in this state in the home of the
venerable Governor Holbrook, the man
who was one of those who in the great
crisis of nations fought we'll to the
honor of the great cause, the cause OF
the Union, and won the proud title of
war governor.
Now, gentlemen and ladies, there
isn't any patent devise that can be
newly coined for getting good govern
meDt. 1t can be achieved on the same
terms and by the same means II was
achieved in the days when your Gov
ernor Holbrook upheld the arms of
Abraham Lincoln. In the first place
/ be cautious in promising. You look
over the writing of Abraham Lincoln,
you look over his speeches; he never
promised the millennium. He promised
4 what could be performed, he kept his
word and he did little better too.
Abraham Lincoln was able to defend a
cause of righteousness because, while
he strove to get, he never promised to
get, never attempted to get the impos
sible. He recognized that there was a
good deal of human nature in man
kind.
The essentials of good government
are the same now as they ever have been
just as the essentials of decent living
are the same. The means and methods
are changed just as a mans household
changes Men can lift the standards
of good citizenship only by practising
what they preach. If any man tells
you there is a patent devise that will
remedy all the ills of the state he is
quack.
Sometimes a good deal can be done,
but it remains now as it always has
with the average citizenship of the
community. 1t Is the men behind the
laws, the same as it is the men behind
the guns. You men of the great war,
you fought with different weapons
from those carried by these soldiets of
today. Your tactics were different from
theirs, your weapons were different,
your uniforms were different, but the
spirit that drove you to victory was the /
same. If il had not been that you had .
you in the stuff of your forefathers who I
fought with Washington through the .
struggles of Germantown and Brandy .
wine until the final action at orktown
you never would have through the gone
three and three-q quarters years which .
interviewed between Bull Run and APP .
pomatoy.
And now you. my comrades, you
there, my younger friends. Let me say
right here that | hope to see the day
when you as well AS the regulars will
have the new smokeless powder rifles.
If YOU 90 against the best of weapons
You can wiD with the best of weapons,
but if you have the best of weapons
and do not have the right stuff in you
you would be beaten by any good man
with club You must have the best
stuff in you as well as the best of
weapons.
The only way to get good citizenship
now is as in the days of Arabian Lin {
,oln. Now | am speaking to you of
truths and they are com .
because they are fundamen-
tai truths. There are no special new
truths TO tell about citizenship; we
)nly have the old ones brought freshly
o our minds. The truths are old the
'rrors that are wrought from them are
I'D. Really the fair dealing of honest,
lecent men is one of the first essen :
ials of good government. If a man has
lot got decency in him then the ADLER
lie i the more dangerous he is. Mere
bility unaccompanied by moral sense
) a curse 10 any community If there Is
nything we ought to feel ashamed OF
I Is ~martness. meaning ability to get
6 ,t-,I,l + - T..
land the timid good are not really val
able in any community. We need
one~ty and we need courage, but it
matters not how honest or how able a
ran Is if he lacks the saving grace of
ommon sense. We do not need to talk
bout. we do not need to preach about
t, but We need to practice the virtues
f Abraham Lincoln.
AT the close of his speech President
oosevelt received an immense bunch
{ roses from the hands of the young
N of Col j. q. Estey, chairman of
le parade committee. The bouquet
as tribute from the Brattleboto
HAPPIER, d. \. r. As the car
age drew up in front of the band
and TO receive the president he took
he arm of eX Gov Holbrook and gem
y assisted him down the steps The
ne was Immediately formed and the
recession returned to the depot
rough Main street. The president
tired 10 his private ear as soon As he
ached the station and the train left
lie station Immediately.
The five cars of which President
oosevelt's train is composed are the
elk of Pullman cars in the east. The
81 of these is the com bination buffet
loler and baggage car Brutus. which
rs ordinarily on the Colonial ex-
esS between Boston and Washing
n. Next comes the dining car.
names. beautiful bit of railway
chitecture which is owned by the
Nv York. New Haven Il Hartford Co.
Two Pullman coaches follow, first
e Umatilla, from Jersey City. and
en- the Yale, occupied by the news
per men accompanying the presi-
Mt. The Yale was taken from the
deral express service between Wash
yton and Boston.
LAST of the quintet is the presidents
vate coach This is 30 or 90 feet in
9Th and contains at the rear end.