The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
PRESIDENTS SPEECH IS COMMENTED ON
standard Thinks 1t Significant That
He should Sound Warning Against
Powerful Trusts-SynOpsis of the
Speech In Question-President ON
His Way to Oyster Bay.

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The London newspapers have un-
usually full reports Of the Fourth of
July banquets and speeches at Pitts
burg, Pa, London, Paris, Berlin and
elsewhere. Several of them publish
editorial articles expressing keen sat
isfaction at the warmth and good will
which the Americans expressed for
Great Britain and King Edward.
The Pittsburg Speech.
Pittsburg, Pa, July THE speech
of President Roosevelt in this city was
listened to by half million enthusi-
astic but attentive people. A summary
of his speech follows:
In opening his address the presidentpaid
an eloquent tribute to the founders of the
republic, and said the Declaration Of In
dependence islands as symbol OF hope for
the peoples of all the world because its
promise was made good, because its words
were supplemented by deeds, because after
the men who signed 1t and upheld 1t had
done their work, the men who come
ton, did their work in turn" He referred
briefly to the civil war and said:
Tasks of Later Years.
1--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 1t has been has
signaled our entry into larger world. And
1t is most appropriate 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 estab-
fishing peace in the Philippines and the
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 the tropsc is
lands during the past four years. Gap
plause and cheers.)
Cuba q Republic.
1--WE said Cuba should become free re-
public 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 established government
in the islands; We established peace and
order; we began to provide for the payment
of the Cuban troops who had fought against
the misrule Of their oppressors; we tnstt-
tuted public school system, modelled
upon that which has been so potent fac
tor in our own national progress; we
cleaned the cities in Cuba for the first time
in their history. We changed them from
being the most unhealthy to being among
the healthiest cities of the civilized world.
We introduced a system of orderly justice
to succeed one of irresponsible and arbl-
trative despotism. So that any man, rich
or poor, weak or strong, could appeal 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, and
now the beautiful queen of the Antilles
has started on her course as a free republic
among the nations of the earth. GAP
plause.)
Must Have Reciprocity.
y But there is one thing-our policy toward
Cuba has not yet met with its entire
fruition. It will meet with it. The course
of the last few years has made more evil
dent than ever before that this nation must
in time to come have pecuniary interests
on the isthmus connecting the two Amer
icas and in the waters and among the
islands adjacent thereto. Nationally we
cannot occupy the position toward these
regions that we did toward others where
our interests are far less, and this is doubly
true now that congress with great wisdom
has provided for the building Of an inter-
oceanic canal. Cuba must occupy pc
culiar relation to us in the field of internal
tional politics. She must in the larger sense
be part of the general political system
in international affairs in which this re-
public stands as the head. She has assented
to that view and in return this nation is
bound to give her special economic privi-
leges not given to other nations. I regret
that measure of reciprocity with cuba
Is not already embodied in statute OF in
treaty, but 1t will be-, as sure az fate.
Cloud applause.)
B The Philippines.
"And now a word as to the Philippines.
There are yet troubles in the Moro country,
the country of the Mohammedan tribes.
but In the Philippines among the Fill
pinos, among the people who have been in
instruction, peace now reigns. 1t may be,
think unlikely, but it is possible, that here
and there some seeming dead coal of in
surrection may be for the moment famed
into a live piece of ember, and burst into
ftful flame It SO, that, flame will be
stamped out. cloud applause.) But speak
ing broadly. and generally, peace has come.
Our army has received its reward. And
what was the reward Of our army? The
reward of the consciousness of duty we'll
done. Our soldiers have fought. have toiled.
have struggled, have rolled, SO that when
victory came they might turn over the gov
eminent to the civil authorities. Victory
came. To-day the proclamation of peace
and amnesty has been promulgated and
at the same time our generals have been
notified that the civil government 10 SUI
preme in the islands. (Applause.)
Problems ut Home to Face.
"Ard now. my fellow-citizens. I spoke
Of the past, which has eliminated thus
in Cuba and the Philippines as being one
Of the tasks which this generation had
to face. 1t is only one. We have great
problems at home to face. am speaking
in one ofsthe great industrial centers. not
merely OF America,s but of the world. !. A
million people stand grouped In a small
radius around the spot where we now are.
The growth of your cities within this radius
has been one Of the most striking phe-
nonAena Of thisaday. and here. therefore.
you are brought face to face with those
problems which affected our entire civiliza-
ton 1t the opening of this new century.
The tremendous rush of our industrial de-
velopment which has brought in. Its train
80 much that is good and also of necessity
brought somewhat its evil, the very in
tensity Of the progress that has been; made
has meant that is new and infinitely diff
dcult problems has arisen which we must
strive to solve as best we may. Under
our form Of government, with its great
Decentralization Of power. some of those
problems must be solved through the work
Of private individuals working by them
selves: others by the association into or
ganized bodies Of groups Of private citi-
gems, and others yet through the various