The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-23
SPEECHES AT SCHOOL
WERE MADE BY THE PRESIDENT
AT PHILADELPHIA.
ALSO SPOKE AT A BANQUET.
AGAIN HE TALKED OF sUPERVIS-
ION OVER TRUSTS.


phia-He Had Words of Praise for
Public School Teachers and the
System-DeclaretI for Policies of
Mckinley in Appealing for Suf-
frages.
Philadelphia. Nov. 22-President
Roosevelt, accompanied by several
members of his cabinet, came to this
city to-day and spent the entire af-
ternoon and evening. The visit of the
nations chief executive and the MEM
bers of his official family was for a
two-fold purpose.
During the afternoon the President
was the chief speaker at the exercises
incident to the dedication of the new
Central High School for Boys. He made
two addresses at the institution, one In
Assembly Hall, where the formal ded-
icatory ceremonies took place, and the
other from the balcony of the building
to the 1850 pupils of the school.
Tonight the President responded to
toast during the founders day ban
quet at the Union League. In the in
term between these events. he was
entertained at luncheon by Charles z.
Smith, former postmaster general and
was rendered a reception at the home
of Edward T. Stotesbury His reception
by the citizens of this municipality to-
day was most enthusiastic.
The special train bearing the pres
idential party arrived here over the
Pennsylvania Railroad at las o'clock
Thousands of people surrounded the
station and when the President appear
ed, he received an ovation, which was
continuous along the route to the High
School. Carriages were in waiting for
the party, and, escorted by the First
City Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry,
they proceeded up Broad street to the
school building. The sidewalks were
lined with wildly cheering throngs,
and in acknowledgements of the en-
thusiastic demonstration, the President
repeatedly raised his hat.
Tribute to school System.
At the school building the President
addressed first an assemblage COM
posed mainly of alumni of the insti-
tuition. He paid tribute to the public
school system, saying in part:
Nothing like our present system
of education was known in earlier
| times. No such system of popular
| education for the people by the repre-
] sentatives of the people existed. 1t
| is, of course, a mere truism to say
| that the stability, the future welfare,
of our institutions depend upon the
| grade of citizenship turned out from
our public school.
| mo body of public servants, no
| body of individuals associated in pri-
| vate life are better worth the admira-
| ton and respect of all who value cit
| izenship at it's true worth than the
| body composed by the teachers in the
public schools throughout the length
| and breadth of this Union. They have
| to deal with the citizenship in the
raw, and to turn it out something like
| a finished product, and / think that
| all of us who have endeavored to deal
| with that citizenship in the raw in
| our own homes appreciate the burden
| of responsibility. The training given
| in the public schools must of course
be not merely a training in intellect,
but a training in what counts for In
| finitely more than intellect-a training
| in character.
| Immediately after concluding his
| speech in the hall the President was
| escorted to the north balcony of the
| building, beneath which were massed
| the pupils. The president addressed
| the boys briefly.
At the conclusion of the exercises
the President and his party re-entered
| their carriages and were driven to the
| home of Postmaster General Smith,
where luncheon was served. On the
route to Mr.. Smiths residence the
| scenes of enthusiasm were repeated.
Later in the afternoon the President
repaired to MIR. Stotesbury's home,
where he met many distinguished gen.
tlemen.
After a brief rest. President Roose-
To ha
arriving there at $50 O'Clock, where he
participated in the Founders Day
banquet, and made the principal
speech of the evening.
Policies of Mckinley.
The President, in his speech, review
ed the policies championed by Presi-
dent Mckinley on the occasions when
he appealed to the people for their
SURFACES, and maintained that those
policies had been faithfully carried out.
President Mckinley was elected in 1886,
he said, ION the specific pledge that he
would keep the financial honor OF the
nation untarnished and would put our
economic system on a stable basis, so
that our people might be Siven
chance to secure the return of pros
perity. Both pledges have been SO well
kept that, as is but too often the case,
men are beginning to forget how much
In 1900 new issues growing out Of
the war with Spain We're raised and
met. The prophets of disaster, he said,
have seen their predictions falsifed.
The. Philippine insurrection has been
queIled, civil government set up and
each one of the Filipinos has "a great
er measure of liberty, greater chance
of happiness and greater safety for
his life and property. than he or his
forefathers have ever before known"
viii Control the Trusts.
President Roosevelt, in conclusion,
said:
mo nation has ever prospered as
we are prospecting now, and we must
see to it that by our own folly we
do not mar this prosperity. Yet we
must see to 1t also that wherever
wrong flourishes 1t must be repressed.
The tremendous growth Of our indus
trialism has brought to the front many
problems with which we must deal,
and l trust that we shall deal with
them along the lines indicated In
epeech and in action by that profound
jurist and upright and fearless public
servant who represents Pennsylvania
In the cabinet-Attorney General Knox.
THE question OF the so-called trusts
IL but one Of the questions we must
meet in connection with cur industrial
system There are many OF them, and
they are serious, but they can and VIII
be met Time may be needed for max
ing the solution perfect but Il is idle