The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-26
President Roosevelt Says These
Are What Count.
The Man More Important Than
the Instrument.
SPEAKS AT HAVERHILL
Subject the Navy Because It's
MOOdy's Home.
Journeys From Boston to the
Capital Of Maine.

Capital OF Maine.
Lowell Mass. Aug. y26.-For 25 min
utes today this city entertained the
president of the United States and then
watched him depart for New Aamp-
shire and Maine, giving him hearty
cheer as the train pulled out. The pres
ident left Boston at S:35 O'Clock. On the
run to this place the towns OF west
Medford, Winchester and North Bill
erica turned out immense crowds and
gave a rOuSing cheer as the train passed
by. AT each place the president ap-
peared on the platform and acknOWl-
edged the greetings.
The special train arrived here at 9:l3
a. M, and it's arrival was Signalled by
the firing Of a presidential salute by
the local militia and the G. A. r. per-
formed guard duty. The sidewalks
about the station were thronged with
people. and the common, which was the
scene of the real reception. was black
with humanity.
Acting Mayor Badger and commit
tee of the city government met the
president and party at the station and
were presented by Charles M. Allen,
former governor of Porto Rico. After
few words of welcome the party took
carriages and drove rapidly to the com
mon through streets arched with bunt-
ing and lined with cheering people.
Arriving at the speakers stand the
president was presented to the people In
A sentry Spanish war veteran,
stood on either side of the president as
he rose to speak. Cheers and applause
greeted him.
At the close of his speech the Dresi-
dent passed to his carriage.
At the rear of the platform he found
the local camp of Spanish war vet
Grams drawn up at Present" The
president smiled and standing up in his
carriage, spoke a few words to them.
| onnc111dinO I'm MIGHTY Glad
you"
He was then driven back to the sta
ton and in ten minutes the train start
ed out.
AT LAWRENCE.
Lawrence, Mass, Aug. 26.-President
Roosevelt and his party, amid the
booming of salute, were received here
by Mayor Leonard and members of the
city government today. The president
was escorted to a temporary stand
erected at the station where he address,
ed one of the largest crowds that ever
gathered in this city. Splendid weather
ident was greeted with enthusiastic
cheers when he arose to make his ad-
dress. He said:
This is the section of the country in
which the first blood was shed in the
revolutionary war that made US ma
ton and it was here also that the. two
cities of Lowell and Lawrence gave
their sons to pour out their life blood;
poured out from 81 to '65 to keep this
nation one and great and free.
And so it was characteristic of your
| city, which sent these men here to the
| great war. when a lesser war came I'D,
my comrades. men of the Ninth regi-
ment, with whom I served before San
| tiago, in your turn sprang to the coun-
| try's call when once again there was
| plause) And other comrades of yours,
men whom we knew, men of the Ninth
| regiment other men in the far off Phil
| ippines have after three years of un-
| cruel, reckless and elusive foe, finally
won victory for the American flag. Our
| people owe the greatest debt possible
| to you who fought in the great crisis
| owing also to the men who so
gallantly did their duty during the
past three years to say that the honor
| of the flag which you handed to them
unstained, should be kept undimmed Zap
plause) and now they have fought and
| their success has meant what the sue
cess of the American soldier has always
meant. You triumphed and your foes
| and detractors said that as mighty an
army as yours was meant the establish
| ment of a despotism in this country.
and the minute that the war was over
/ you went back to the pl0w, to the fac
| tory and the farm and the office and be-
came citizens again. (Applause.)
"And now in the Philippines our sol
| diers have fought and won. To do
what? To leave the country and es-
tablish the rule of civil authority under
| the American flag. And now we have
brought peace to the islands. They are
better off than ever before. Never IN
| their history has each man had as he
| has now, such a good chance for life
| liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
| You have brought Self-governing indi-
vidual freedom to the Philippines of a
| kind that they could never have
| known under an anarchistic tyranny OF
! their own. Now we will govern the
| islands we'll We will govern them pri-
| marily in their interests, but in our in
| terests also Whether we win or not
| we, as a nation. front a great destiny.
I'VE can decide whether we will do
| our work badly or well, but we cannot
help doing it. We have got to do it
| somehow and ask that all men stand
shoulder to shoulder as Americans to
see that they do it WE'LL
After speaking the president stepped
| back to the train. AS it began to move,
| whistles from a dozen engines were
blown and the battery guns doomed
again. The train left at 1890 on sched-
| ule time for Haverhill.
The next stop was at Haverhill.
President Roosevelt said:
Naturally at the home of Secretary
Moody I should like to say a word OF
two about the navy. You see that when
one Massachusetts man would leave the
| navy department I had to find another
| Massachusetts man to take his place
| think that whenever we touch on the
| navy we are sure of such a response
out of the mountains and great plains
OF the west as upon the Atlantic and
| Pacific seaboards. The entire country
| is vitally interested in the navy, because
an efficient navy of an adequate size
is not only the best guarantee of peace
| but it is also the surest means for see
ing that if war does come the result
shall be honorable to our good name
and favorable to our national interests
Any really great ma ton must be pecul-
iarly sensitive to two things-stain or
the national honor at home and dis
grace to the national arms abroad Oul
honor at home, our honor In domestic