Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-08-27
Il Is that American Nations Must be
Left to Work Out Their Destiny.
IS NOT C0LONIzING GROUND.
United States Can Make II Effective
Aud Must be Prepared TO Hack
II Up, Says Roosevelt

Roosevelt today passed through tire
states, delivered eight speeches and re
ceyed the plaudIts Of quarter Of
million people The greeting which ha
marked his progress through New Eng
land has been 1atterng In the extreme
and today's experience demonstrate,
his popularity perhaps more than eve
before.
Everywhere at the regular stops anC
the smaller sta tions along the road tn,
people We're strenuous in their effort.
20 catch a glimpse OF him or to heaI
him speak, and at Haverhil Mass.
this desire assumed such a form tina
the crowds completely OVERRIDE tn,
police and surrounded the president,
carriage, making II difficult for 1t to ad
vance.
The days Journey was not without
its Incidents. As the president wa,
about to board his car at South Law.
renee, Mass, after delivering his ad.
dress, the leader Of the band stepped
up to him and made himself known tr
him. He said his name was Banan, q
Medora, N. D., where the presidents
ranch is located. The president i'm.
mediately recognized him and greeted
him as an old friend The man evi.
IDENTIFY desiring the president TO know
that he had profited by his advice
given some years ago, said TO him:
You told me 10 get married, and settle
down, and ! did have got six child
gan ttk .h M a.. a
dent no little amusement.
Conspicuous among those who
boarded the train at Old Orchard Ia
extend welcome to the president was
Congressman Littlened Of Rockland
His visit was brief and the converse
tion turned on other subjects than
trusts Mr.. Llttlefeld declined 10 COM
ment on the presidents last nights
speech, pleading that he had not fln-
ished reading H.
When Danvile Junction was reached
the president was greeted by Postmas-
ter-General and Mrs. Payne, Mrs. Car
rett A. Hobart and Mrs. Charles EN-
DRY Smith. Mr.. Payne accompanied the
president TO Lewiston.
Some stops We're made which were
not on the itinerary. At Lisbon
crowds gathered and the president in
response TO their clamerous calls was
Obliged TO appear on the rear platform
and say few words
Before the presidents departure, to-
morrow night, he will have visited every
congressional district in the state Of
Maine, the principal city In each dis
trlct and the home city of each Of
Names United States senator's. AT
al al
great crowd had gathered, and the
president was accorded a genuine
down-east welcome.
AT Old Orchard. where the special
train made its first stop after crossing
the state line, thousands OF persons
from all parts Of York and Lower Cum
berland counties had gathered. The
halt was a brief one, only twenty min
utes, but the president, after receiving
a tumultuous greeting, spoke briefly
before the journey was continued.
The president addressed his opening
remarks 10 several Grand Army veter-
ans Mo were present, and spoke Of
Names record in the civil war.
I'm hose days" he said, maine was
n lelson for all for the way her boys
Dor. themselves in war Since then
ard now she Is a lesson to us because
: high the average Of CITIZENSHIP that
shows In her borders, and think II IL
the same reason In the one case as in
tie other. The fact is. that here you
have remained on the whole true to
the old American theory OF treating
each man on his worth as a man with
out regard to the incidentals OF his
position.
Nov you. over there (pointng). He
was In the great war. Yes. When you
went to war and moved into battle
you took an immense interest in what
the man on your right hand and your
left did. but you did not care In the
least whether they were bankers or
mmbermen or farmers, or what, II they
stayed. That Is what you wanted
What you wanted was to know that the
man had the right stun in him. and
II he had you were for him and II he
did not, you were not for him You
have got to have the same principle
In citizenship. You have got 10 apply
the same principle In civil life that you
made successful in the DAYS when you
fought because the nation called to
you In her direst need"
The president tonight Is the guest
OF Gov. Hill, who met him at the sta
ton and escorted him to his residence,
where the president In response TO
urgent requests spoke for i5 min
utes from a platform erected near the
'front.' OF the Blaine residence. He said
IN part;
1T would be difficult for any man
speaking TO this audience and for any
one In front of the house Blaine once
lived In to fail 20 feel whatever Of
Americanism there was In him stirred
70 the depths. ! knew Mr. Blaine quite
Wen when he was secretary n state.
and | have thought again and again
curing the past years how pleased he
would have been 20 see so many Of the
principles for which he had stood APP
proach fruitlon.
He felt that this republic must take
great part among the great nations
o. the earth. The last four years have
shown how true that feeling Of his was
He had always hoped that We would
nave peculiarly intimate relation
with tine country south OF Us. He