The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-06-26
ROOSEVELT
LAUOS WOOD
Says Taft Has Sacrificed His
Life For FiIipinos.
WILL STAND UP FOR GOTH
RECENT ACCUSATIONS BRAND
INFAMY ON ACCUsERS.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June 25.-Com-
mencement at Harvard university
was of unusual interest today be-
cause of the presence Of President Roose-
welt, a guest of Harvard, class Of 1885,
who received the honorary degree Of
IL. D.
Cambridge, Mass, June 25-Commence-
ment at Harvard university was of un-
usual interest today because Of the pres
ence OF President Roosevelt, a guest Of
Harvard, class of 1880. who received the
honorary degree of Ii. d.
There were other notable guests who
also received the degree Of Ii. D., in
Guiding Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale
Of Boston. AS a precaution for the safe
ty of President Roosevelt, the COLLEGE
yard, usually open to all, was enclosed
by fence and only holders Of degrees,
officers, students and guests were. ad-
mitted, and these by ticket only. No
ladies' were admitted inside the Yards,
and even students residing in the Yard
needed tickets for admission.
The visitors were escorted to MaSsachu-
setts hail where they were presenud to
President Eliot. At 10 o'clock, preS eded
by the senior class and the graduate
marshal, President Eliot led the 4 ices
sion of fellows, oVerseerse states sri
taVes, faculty, invited guests and alumni
to Sanders theatre. where the graduating
exercises were held. After the addresses
by the commencement speakers the hon
Orary degrees were conferred by Prsi-
dent Eliot as follows:
Doctor of Laws-Thomas Jefferson
Coolidge, lately minister to the French
republic; Addison Brown. United States
judge. New York, John Hay. by force
of just and liberal thinking, the most suC-
cessful diplomat now living Theodore
Roosevelt, president of the United States,
FROM his youth member OF this SOcl-
city of scholars. now I'm his prime. a true
/ type of the sturdy gentleman and the
high-mnded public servant IN democ-
racy.
At 2 o'clock President Roosevelt and
President Eliot and the other guests re-
paired to the college yard, where again
a column was formed, this time of the
alumni. Headed by the band the process
sion passed through the grounds, where
cheers were given by the student body
and by the alumni classes. The march led
TO Memorial hall for the usual commence
ment dinner. At the speakers table was
John D. Long, president of the alumni,
with President Roosevelt on his left
hand, and President Eliot at his right.
President Eliot spoke for the univer-
sity and Governor Crane welcomed to the
state the president Of the United States.
Presidents Speech.
President Roosevelt next spoke. After
eulOgiZing Senators HOar and Lodge and
Secretary Hay, Mr.. Roosevelt said:
mo man has a right to arrOgate to
himself one particle of superiority be-
cause he has had a college education. but
he is bound if he is in truth a man, to
feel that the fact Of his having had a
college education imposes on him a
heavy burden Of responsibility; that il
makes it double incumbent on him to do
well and nObly liz his life, private and
public. ] want to speak of three men,
who during the past three or four years
have met that requrement-Of a gradu-
ate of Hamilton college, Elihu Root, a
graduate Of Yale, Governor Taft, and Of
a fellow Harvard man, Leonard Wood
men who did things, did not say how
they should do them, but did them them
selves, men who have met that greatest
of our needS-the need for the service
that cannot be bought, the need for the
service that can only be rendered by
the man willing TO fOregO the material
! advantages, for it has got 10 be given
at the mans own material cost
When in England they get a man to
do what Lord Cromer did I'm Egypt, when
a man returns as Lord Kitchener VIII
return from South Africa, they give him a
peerage and a great sum of money. He
receives large and tangible reward and
our CrOmers, our men of that stamp,
come back to the country and If they
are fortunate they go back TO private
life with the privilege of taking up what
AleN can LlnQ OF the HLAAllSS AFAA AN0NE
when they surrendered their old cOnnec-
tiOns. and If they are unfortunate they
are accused Of maladversiOn i'm office
not an accusation that hurts them, but
an accusation that brands with infamy
any man who makes it, and that reflects
but in on the country in which it is
made.
Eulogises Wood.
Leonard Wood four years ago went to
Cuba has enrT-nd fnnrn gimrp
has rendered service to that country of
the kind which, performed 5000 years
ago would have made him a hero,
mixed up with the sun god in various
ways, a man who devoted his whole life
to these four years, and who thought Of
nothing else, did nothing else save TO try
to bring up the standard Of political ana
social life in that island; to clean it ply
sically and morally, to make justice even
and fair in il; to found school sys-
tenn that should be akin to our own; to
teach the people after four centuries of
misrule that there were such things as
governmental righteousness and honesty
and fair play for all men on their merits
as men. He did all that He is a man OF
slender means. He did it in his pay as
an army officer and as governor Of the
island. Sixty millions OF dollars passed
through his hands, and he came out hay
ing had TO draw on his slender caoital
i'm order that ne might come out even
when he left the island Credit to himg
Yes. in a way. In another. no particular
credit because he was built so that he
could do nothing else. He came out hav-
ing done that and having devoted himself
disinterestedly 20 the good of the Cuban
people in all their relations as man could.
He has come back here and has been at
tackled forsooth by people who are not
merely unworthy Of having their names
coupled with his, but who are incalable
of understanding the motives that have
s3urred him on 20 bring honor to this
republic
And Taft. Judge Taft, Governor Taft.
who has been the head of the Philippine
CON. rll.sinn and mhn has gong hank fhora.