Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-16

I legislation we need honest and
! fearless administration of the
J laws as they are on the statute J
! books" :
President Roosevelt has proclaimed it
TO be his uncOmpromisinS policy in deal
ing with industrial combinations to en-
force to the letter the laws as they are
on the statute books Almost in the
same breath he gave great praise to At
torney General Knox as a man who can
be depended on to work for the admin
istration of justice to rich and poor alike.
The President was addressing 100000
people in the great Fourth of July cele-
bration at Sehenley's Park. near Pitts
burg Those who were within hearing
Of his words applauded them rouRdly,
both for the praise Of their fellow towns
man and for the declaration of policy.
The others took mp the cheer, and sent it
ringing in one great hurrah back 70 the
city, four miles away
The Presidents speech was the culmi-
ma ting moment of the days celebrations.
as indeed the Presidents presence was
the one center of interest to a half million
people gathered there from all parts of
western Pennsylvania lie was receiv-
ed with cannon salute and with a great
military parade Of 1850 men, at whose
head he drove.
Ills address was fine Fourth of July
GRAFTON, even apart from the fact that
it contained the words of the nations
oh Los Of xoltr nm
national issues. From summing up of
the great national periods of patriotism
1t passed to a discussion of the Philippine
and Cuban questions, and from them to
the topics of domestic industry.
As to the Philippines, President Roose-
Welt congratulated the country on the
PRONUNCIATION of the declaration estab-
fishing peace and civil government, and
oresietfddv that thfEElfe ywesFG id Ho e4f'eEs
ly stamped out. OF Cuba he said that
while it was to be regretted that reel.
procity had not already been given her,
1t could confidently be asserted that the
gift was only delayed. and would surely
come in the end.
OF the industrial problems he spoke at
length. dwelling on the difficulty OF the
Il
tempts to enforce the statutes. and the
certainty that while the present Attorney
General remained in Office justice would
be impartially administered
Speech of the President.
The Presidents speech followed di-
rectly after the reading of the Declare
ton of Independence. and was rs fol-
lows:
You have just listened 10 .hc reading of
the great document which signaled our en-
try into the field Of nations i26 years ago.
That entry was but the promise which had
to be made good by the performance Of
those men and their children and their
chtldFens children Words are good II they
are backed M by deeds, and only So The
declaration continues to- he read with pride
by US year after year and stands as n
symbol OF hope for the peoples OF all the
world, because fits promise was made good
because It's words were supplemented by
deeds, because after the mea who signed Ii
and upheld II had done their work the men
who came again after them. generation nv
generation, did their work in turn The
Declaration Of Independence had to be sun
plemented In the first place b. that great
instrument OF constructive AID administra-
tive atcsmanshlp- the cons tuition under
which we now live The cument promul-
gated in lfSs under which Washington be
came our hrst President. supplemented
necessarily supplemented the declaration
Of lIf6 We showed in the revolution that
We Ind right TO be free; we showed when
We constructed the more perfect union Of
tue Ga contederacy that we knew how to
USE that right as Il needed to be used.
Second Great Epoch.
And then seventy years and more pa ssed.
aud then there came again upon the nation
the days OF iron need There came again
the days that demanded all that was best.
the life Itself Of the hrayeSt and the truest
OF the nation sons. And when Sumter's
guns awakened our people and America,
until then the iuCarnate genius OF peace
spranr to her feet with sword and with
shield helmcted queen among nations
when the thunder Of the guns called the ma
tlon's children they sprang forward to do
the mighty deeds which IL left undone would
have meant that the words to which we have
listened to-day would have ruug as mean
ingless platitudes. Those were the two
great epochs In the nations history the
epoch OF the founding OF the Union ana The
epoch OF It's preservation. the epoch o.
Washington and the epoch of Abraham Lin
coin.
Those two generations had the greatest
tasks To- do, but each generation has it's
tasks. aud woe to the generation which re.
CARDS the deeds of the mighty men OF the
past rs an excuse for failing 10 do in
hand The great deeds OF those who have
gone before us must ever serve not as a
reason for inactiou en- our part, but as the
keenest Of spurs TO drive US forward on the
path Of national greatness and justice
We have had our tasks 90 do In the lasf
four years, or, rather we have had, as
every generation must have. many tasks 70
do. tasSs affecting as abroad. and one ~
those tasks being done as II has been, hAi
signaled our entry into a larger world
Peace in the Philippines.
II is most appropriate that on this FoprtA
OF July. this anniversary of the birth Of chg
nation. 1t should be our good fortune to hlys
promulgated the declaration establishing
peace In the Philippines and the acknuWs.dg
ment to the army ~ the praise 50 richly
due eur fellow Americans who wear TIM
uniform of the United States for an yhs'
they have done In the tropic iSla lds duiIu,.
the past four wears
We said Cuba should become a free Il
pubic ana we have kept our word To hav5
turned Cuba over 70 the hands " Its cwa
people Immediately after the withdrawal n
the Spanish flag would have meant ruin AID
chaos. We established government N
the islands, we established peace and or
der: we began TO provide for the payment Of
the Cuban troops. who had fought against
the misrule Of their oppressnrS; We insti.
tuted a public school system, modelled upon
that which has been so potent a factor In
cur own nationsl progress. We cleaned the