Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-19

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| President Roosevelt has proclaimed it
| to be his uncompromising policy in deal
| ing with industrial combinations to en-
| force to the letter the laws as they are
on the statute books. Almost in the
| same breath he gave great praise to At
| torney General Knox as a man who can
be depended on to work for the admin
| istration Of justice to rich and poor alike
The President was addressing 2OO,OOO
people in the great Fourth of July cele-
| bration at Schenley's Park, near Pitts
| burg. Those who We're within hearing
of his words applauded them roundly,
both for the praise of their fellow towns
man and for the declaration Of policy.
The others took up the cheer, and sent it
ringing in one great hurrah back to the
city, four miles away
The Presidents speech was the culmi-
mating moment of the days celebrations,
as indeed the Presidents presence was
| the one center of interest to half million
| people gathered there from all parts Of
western Pennsylvania. He was recelv-
| ed with cannon salute and with great
military parade of $3.50 men, at whose
| head he drove.
His address was fine Fourth Of July
GRAFTON, even apart from the fact that
| 1t contained the words of the nations
chief executive issued authoritatively on
| national issues. From a summing up of
| the great national periods of patriotism
1t passed to a discussion of the Philippine
and Cuban questions, and from them to
the topics Of domestic industry.
AS to the Philippines, President Roose-
welt congratulated the country on the
PRONUNCIATION of the declaration estab-
fishing peace and civil government, and
predicted that if there were any embers
of instruction left they would be quick
~ stamped out. OF Cuba he said that
while it was to be regretted that reel
| procity had not already been given her,
| 1t could confidently be asserted that the
| gift was only delayed, and would surely
come in the end.
| OF the industrial problems he spoke at
length, dwelling on the difficulty Of the
| problems, the earneStness of past at
tempts to enforce the statutes, and the
certainty that while the present Attorney
General remained in office justice would
be impartially administered.
Speech of the President.
| The Presidents speech followed di-
rectly after the reading Of the Declara-
ton Of Independence, and was as fol-
lows:
| You have just listened to the reading of
| the great document which signaled our en-
try into the field of nations 126 years ago.
hJt thn hi oL =
TO be made good by the performance of
those men and their children and their
children's children. Words are good If they
| are backed up by deeds, and only so. The
| declaration continues to be read with pride
| by US year after year, and stands as a
symbol of hope for the peoples of all the
| world, because its promise was made good
because It's words were supplemented by
deeds, because after the men who signed it
and upheld 1t had done their work the men
| who came again after them generation nv
| generation, did their work in turn The
| Declaration Of Independence had to be sup
| plemented in the first place by that great
inst OF constructive and administra-
tive statesmanshiD-the constitution under
| which we now live. The document promul-
| gated In 1888, under which Washington be-
came our first President, supplemented,
| necessarily supplemental the declaration
| OF 1915. We showed In the revolution that
we had right to be free; we showed when
we constructed the more perfect union Of
| the old confederacy that we knew how to
| use that right as it needed to be used.
Second Great Epoch.
| And then seventy years and more passed
| and then 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 trupst
| Of the nations sons. And when Sumter's
| guns awakened our people and America
until then the incarnate genius Of peace
| sprang to her feet with sword and with
| shield, helmeted queen among nations
| when the thunder Of the guns called the ma
| tons children they sprang forward to do
the mighty deeds which If left undone would
| nave meant that the words to which we have
listened to-day would have rung as mean
| ingless 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
Washington and the epoch of Abraham Lin
Those two generations had the greatest
tasks to do, but each generation has IFS
TASKS, and woe to the generation which re-
CARDS the deeds of the mighty men of the
past as an excuse for failing to do In
us turn the work that 1t finds ready to
nand. The great deeds of those who have
gone before US must ever serve not az
reason for inaction on our part, but as the
keenest Of spurs to drive US forward on the
pain OF national greatness and justice
we nave 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