The Saint Paul globe., 1902-07-05
President Roosevelt Aids the
Eagle in rs flight at
Pittsburg
VAST CROWD HEARS HIM
His Remarks Regarding Cuba, the
Philippine Islands and Labor
Troubles Are Listened to
With Interest.

1 a,
million persons greeted President
theodore Roosevelt in Pittsburg to-
day. 1t was his first visit to Pittsburg
as president and his welcome was most
enthusiastic. From the Union station
1 to the speakers stand in Schenley
park, nearly four miles away it was
one continuous cheering
| The weather was all that could be
| desired, with the sun shining brightly.
and the temperature not too high.
When President Roosevelt reached
the Williamsburg station of the Penn
sylvania railway at sos this morning
4 a local reception committee, headed by
| George Z. Oliver boarded the train.
| The run into the union station con-
sumed twenty minutes, during which
| tlme the members of the committee
| were introduced to the presidential
| party, Attorney General Knox, who is
P1ttsburger, making the party ac-
quainted.
AS the train passed Shady Side sta
ton the guns of Hampton Battery r.
OF the Pennsylvania national guard.
stationed at Bedford avenue basin,
overlooking union station immediately
salute of twenty-ene guns. The last
gun was fired as the president stepped
from his car at Union station.
The president was escorted along the
south portico of the Union station to
the main entrance, where his carriage
and those provided for the reception
committee were standing. Then the
bugler of Sheridan troop sounded the
assembly call, which. was a signal for
Brig. Gen. Wylie, commander of the
military escort, to order the movement
OF the column. In a moment the whole
line was in motion. The marchers
numbered 5000 men,, representing the
Eighteenth, the Fourteenth and. the
Tenth regiments, who saw Philippine
service, the Sheridan cavalry troop Of
Tyrone, the boys brigades and inde-
pendent military organizations.
When the band ceased PLAYING the
United German societies of Allegheny,
stationed at one side of the stand and
made UP of 600 veterans, broke into
singing -"The Star -Spangled Rannar,,
At the closing of the song the inyoca-
tlon was pronounced by the Rev John
H. Prugh. The Declaration Of Inde-
pendence was read by Brig. Gen. Willis
). Hudgens, and then followed the ora
tlon OF the day by President Roose-
welt, as follows:
The Presidents Speech.
MT. mayor and you my fellow citizens.
my fellow Americans, men and women Of
Western Pennsylvania:
You have just listened to the reading
OF the great document which signals our
into &I14 al
ago That entry was but the promise
which had to be made good bv tbe ner-
Iormance of those men and children and
their children's children. Words are GOOD
II II they are backed up by deeds and only
The declaration continued TO be read
WIN Wltn pIlde by us year after year and
Of all the world, because its pronises
We're made good because it's words were
supplemented by deeds, because after the
men men. VINO @ signed it and upheld it had done
lnen work, the men who came again after
tnem, generation by generation did their
work In turn. The declaration of indie
pendence had to be supplemented in the
| first place by that great INSTRUMENT Of
constructive and administrative states-
manshlp-the constitution under which we
19W nOW llVe. Ihe document promulgated in
1913 under which washington became our
nrst president, supplemented necessarily
the the deciaratlon of 1776: We showed when
| we constructed theremore perfect union
| OF the old Confederacy- that we knew how
to use that right as it: needed to be used.
ana tnen seventy years and more passed
ana there came again upon the nation
| the days Of need There came again
me me days that demanded all that was best,
| the life itself of the .bravest and truest
| of the nations sons And with the sum
| ter,s guns awakened Our people and
america then the incarnate genius sprang
TO her feet, with sword and shield
helned queen among nations, when the
thunder OF guns called the nations child
ren they sprang forward to do their
mighty deeds which, if left undone,
would have meant that the words to
Wnlch we have listened today would have
| rung as meaningless }platitude Those
were the two reatiepochs 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 Lincoln. Those two genera
tlons were the greatest the United States
| nad TO do with, but each generation has
It's task, and each generation has no ex-
cuse 10 DO IN its turn the work it finds
| ready to hand.