Arizona republican., 1902-08-26

Boston, August 25.-The weeks work for President Roosevelt in his trip through New England began in earnest this afternoon when he departed from the summer home of the junior senator of Massachusetts. Henry Cabot Lodge, al Nahant, and amid the enthusiasm of the greatest number of people he has faced since his Pittsburg visit on July 4th, rode into Lynn under a cavalry escort and spoke from platform at the city hall. Then he was taken to Bos- ton by a special train, and on his arri- val went to Symphony hall, there ad- dressing a great gathering of Boston business men. His speech here was de- voted almost entirely to the considera- tion of the trust question.
 From the hall the president went to the Hotel Touraine, where little later in the evening he was the guest of Governor Crane at dinner.
 Tomorrow morning bright and early the presidential party will start for Maine. In his speech tonight the presi- dent said:
 Governor Crane, Mayor Collins, men and women of Boston:
 II am glad to have the chance of saying a few words to you this even ing. There are several matters that 1 should like to discuss, and l can say in all sincerity that when I come here to New England, when I come to Boston, l like to go over as many subjects as possible, so that I can get light on them. I have great faith in your judg- ment I want to take up this evening the general question of our economic and social relations, with specific ref erence to that problem with which think our people are greatly concerned themselves-the problem oi our com plex social condition as intensified by the existence of great corporations which we rather loosely designate as trusts. But I wish to say enc or two things as preliminary. In the first place I have not come here to say that I have discovered Q patent cure-all for trusts.
 When peoples minGs are greatly agitated on any subject, and especially when they feel deeply but rather vaguely that condition, it is far pleas anter in addressing them to be indiff- erent as to what you promise, but 1t is much more pleasant afterward. Of course the worth of a promise con sists purely in the manner in which performance squares with it. That has got two sides to it. In the first place, If a man is honest he will try just as hard to keep a promise made on the stump as if not made on the stump. In the second place, if people keep their heads they won't wish promises to be made that are impossible of per formance. Now you see that one side of the question is my duty and the other side is yours. Mankind grows but slowly, and it goes ahead nicely, mostly through each of us trying to do or at least through each of a majority of us trying to do the best that is in him, and doing it in the most intelli- gent and sanest way. We founded our republic on the theory that the av- craze man will, as a rule, do the right thing; that in the long run the major ity are going to decide for what is sane and wholesome. If our fathers were mistaken in that theory, if ever the mass of the people do what is unwholesome, what is wrong, then the republic cannot stand. 1 care not how good it's laws; I care not in what mar velous mechanism it's constitution may be embodied. Back of the law, back of the administration, back of our sys- tenn of government, lies the average
 
 run we are going to go up or down ac- cording as the average standard of our citizenship does, or does not, wax in growth and in grace.
 Now, when we come to the question of good citizenship, the first requisite is that man shall dc every day his hum-drum duty well. man is not d good citizen, I do not care how lofty his thoughts are about citizenship in the abstract, if in the concrete his ac- tions do not bear them out, and it does not make much difference how high his aspirations for mankind at large are, if he does not behave well in his own family, those aspirations are not going to bear very visible fruit. He has got to be a good bread winner; he has got to take care of his wife and children; he has got to be a neighbor whom his squarely in his business relations. In fact he has got to do all those every day, ordinary things, or he is not a good citizen.
 But he must do more than that. In this country of ours the average citi- zen has got to devote a good deal of thought and time to the affairs of the state as a whole, or those affairs are going to go backward. That time must be devoted steadily and intelligently. If there is any one quality which is not admirable, whether in the nation or in the individual. it is mysteries. The man or woman who makes up for ten days indifference to duty by eleven