The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-29
WELCOME AT CONCORD.
President Is Given a Warm Greeting
Speech at the Fair Grounds.

speech at the Ea1r GrOunds.
CONCORD, N. H, Aug. 2S.-The Presi-
dents special train reached Concord at
o'clock and was greeted with a salute of
twenty-one guns. A large crowd had
gathered at the station and voiced its well
come in hearty cheers. The party drove TO
the State fair grounds, which the President
entered to the sound of a second presiden'
tial salute. A stranger who attempted to
shake hands with the President was hustled
away by the secret service officials. Arriv-
ing at the stage from which he was to
speak, the President received the greatest
ovation of the day. The President said: .,
Mr.. Mayor. Men and Women of the State
of New Hampshire-It is a great pleasure TO
me to be able to come before you this after
noon and to thank you and the others in
your beautiful State who have greeted me
so cordially to-day. AS the mayor pointed
out, you of New Hampshire have made
your State-you and your forefathers-what
ii is because you have not sought the mere
life of ease, because you have not shrunk
from effort, from toll; because you have
dared, by your labor and at danger
I'm this life, a rule, the job that Is
easy to do is not very well worth while
doing. Now, let each man here look back
in his life and think what ii is that he
is proud of in it-what part of it he is glad
to hand on as a memory to his sons and
daughters. Is it his hours Of ease? No;
not bit. 1t is the memory of his success
or his triumph, and the triumph and the
success could come only through effort.
Now, it is just the same with a nation
as it is with an individual. The nation
that shirks its work, the nation that seeks
only for ease, is nation which will leave
but slight mark in the record of the great
events of mankind. Who are the heroes
of this Nation? Who are the two men that
you think of at once? Washington and
lead a life Of ease? Because each one of
them all his day worked for himself and
because
on a score of stricken fields and one met
IL at the hands of an assassin for the coun-
leans delight to honor, they and those like
them. There has never yet been a man in
our history who led a life of ease whose
name is worth remembering.
TAKE HOLIDAYS.
Now, understand me- Take holidays.
believe in holidays. 1 believe in play and
L believe in playing hard while you play,
but don't make a business OF it, Laughter
and applause.l Do your work and do it up
to the handle, and then play; enjoy that,
too.
THE heroic times in this Nations career
were when it had great work TO do, and in
stead of fiinching from the work, did it;
and it did that heroic work in part because
at the hour of need it showed it possessed
| heroic virtues, the heroic virtues that a
/ great and generous nation must show and
| will show in the crises of its history; and
also because, In addition to the heroic vir-
| tues which can be used but once in a gen
GRAFTON, 1t had those commonplace, hum
/ drum, everyday virtues which stay with
/ us year in and year out; and. if do not
! have those virtues if we do not have these
/ qualities, you can guarantee that when the
| hour calls for heroism we won't have that
| either. There is need to do all the ordinary,
/ commonplace duties as they arise, or we
| will be in no shape to meet the crisis that
/ calls for herOism when that crisis arises.
Here in this State the forefathers OF
/ you people, as the mayor has said. came
/ to a region where only the strongest and
/ the bravest could have wrought success out
/ of a gripping need. where only those iron
/ of heart and steel of brain could have
/ wrested this country from the wilderness
/ and from the savage. Since then you who
/ have built so well and upon the founda-
/ ton laid deep by your forefathers-hOw
! hard work There are plenty of other re-
/ gions scattered over the world with insti-
\ tutiOns not unlike these, with climatic adj
/ Vantages advantages of a soil quite as
\ great, and Yet where nothing has been aC-
! complshed because they did not have the
men to do the deeds. 1t is in the long run
/ the man who counts.
! above all. gentlemen, let US remember
/ that bad laws and bad administration can
/ completely nullify all efforts for good upon
the part of the private citizen. 1t is not ar
| easy matter to get a law which shall dc
US great benefit, but IL is only too easy tC
| get which shall do great harm
/ About all We have right TO expect from
the government is that 1t will see that the
| cards are not stacked. and If il sees TO that
I then Will abide by the deal. Now. that
| is the spirit in which TO approach the prob
! lens caused by the enormous increase in
| our Industrial prosperity, by the growing
| compleXity Of our industrial system Now
| il is not necessary 10 say 10 an audience IN
this State. where you have great industrial
| centers, the building up of which has added
| TO the wealth OF the whole State, that The
farmer is benefited by the success of the
l manufacturing center, just the manu-
/ featuring center must I'm the last resort de.
pend upon the welfare of the country fol-
/ its success
MUST KEEP PROSPERITY.
For veal or for woe, our fortunes ar,
indissolubly connected. Speaking broadly
whenever there is a period of prosperity. Il
will benefit all. Now, the great problem