Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-10
ROOSEVELT SPEAKS.
Significant Utterance Of the
 President at Charleston.
THE TRUSTS MUST BE CONTROLLED
Immense Crowds Greet South Caro- atna's Distinguished Guest-Sword Presented to Major Jenkins,
 an old Rough Rider.


 Calhoun's funeral. when Hampton made his great campaign speech here in 1876, when the Confederate reunion was held here in 1899, great bodies of marching men filled the streets of this ancient city, and its sidewalks and doors and windows were filled with en- thusiastic thousands, but all those great outpourings of the people were small compared to the procession which followed President Roosevelt to the ex- position grounds yesterday. The enthu- siasm of the people was unbounded, and there was standing room only on the sidewalks and porches and door ways and in the wide piazzas of the houses along the line of march. Old and young were infected with patriotic fervor, and a man with whom nine tenths of the people he saw differed politically was greeted with every man Hesitation of respect that warm heart ed people could show.
 The parade started from the St. John hotel, the presidents quarters, at 10 o'clock and was composed of marines, seamen, cadets, artillerists and militia men of four states under command of Colonel Charles Morris, U. s. A., of the garrison at SulliyanS island.
 The presidential party was driven di- rectly to the exposition auditorium, where the president reviewed the troops from platform erected at that point. The presidents salute of twen- ty-one guns was fired by the German artillery on-the entrance of the presi- 1n int dc,
 At noon the president proceeded from the reviewing stand into the audito- rum, where the formal ceremonies oc- cured. Addresses were made by Cap tain F. w. Wagener, president of the South Carolina Interstate and West In- dian Exposition company; Governor McSweeney of South Carolina, Govern or Aycock of North Carolina, Mayor Smyth of Charleston and the president of the United States. President Roose- welt said:
 It is to me peculiar privilege to speak here in your beautiful city My mothers people were from Georgia, but before they came to Georgia, before the Revolution, in the days of colonial rule. they dwelt for nearly century in South Carolina, and by inheritance no less than by the stronger and nobler right which makes each TOOt or American SOll Tn a sense property of all Americans.
 Charleston is not only typical southern city It is also city whose history teens with events which link themselves to American history a whole. In the ear ly colonial days Charleston was the out post of our people against the Spaniard in the south. In the days of the Revolu- tion there occurred here some of the events which yitally affected, the out and which impressed themselves most deeply upon the popular mind. It was here that the tremendous. terrible drama of the civil war opened.
 With delicate and thoughtful courtesy you originally asked me to come to this exposition on the birthday of Abraham Lincoln The invitation not only showed a fine generosity and manliness in you, ly anything else could have emphasized how completely we are now united peo- pie. The wounds left by the great civil war. incomparably the greatest war of modern times. have healed, and it's mem ories are now priceless heritages of honor devotion, the self sacrifice, the steadfast resolution and lofty daring; the high de whether northerner or southerner-all these qualities of the men and women of brilliant before our eyes, while the mists of anger and hatred that once dimmed them have passed away forever.
 All of us, north and south can glory alike in the valor of the men who wore the blue and of the men who wore the gray. could fight to it's terrible finish the giant struggle between the hosts of Grant and Lee To us of the present day and to children and children's children the val iant deeds, the high endeayor and abne- gation of self shown in that struggle by those who took part therein will remain for eyermore to mark the level to which hour of the nations need may come. '-.e
 When four years ago this nation was compelled to face a foreign foe, the com and strikingly evident The war was not one which called for the exercise of more than insignificant fraction of our strength, and the strain put upon was slight indeed compared with the results. But it was satisfactory thing to see the way in which the sons of the soldier of the Union and the soldier of the Con- federacy leaped eagerly forward, emulous to show in brotherly rivalry the qualities which had won renown for their fathers, the men of the great war. It was my federate general gallant old Joe Wheeler, who commanded the cavalry division at Santiago.
 In my regiment there were certainly as many men whose fathers had served in the southern as there were men whose fa- thers had served in the northern army Among the captains there was Opportuni- ty to promote but one to field rank The man who was singled out for this promo 1ion because or conspicuous gallantry in the field was the son of Confederate general and was himself citizen of this the Palmetto State and no American off cer could wish to march to battle beside
 more loyal. gallant @ ana fnr,y aesolu1eiy m i fear I major, your fellow citizen, Micah Jenkins.
 A few months ago owing to the enforc- ed absence of the governor of the Philip pines it became necessary to nominate vice governor to take his place, one of the most important places in our government at this time. l nominated vice gov ernor an ex-Confederate, General Luke Wright of Tennessee. It is therefore an ex-Confederate who now stands as the ex- ponent of this government and this peo- 11le in that great group of islands in the eastern seas over which the American flag floats.
 The president then touched upon our work in Cuba and our future relations with the island government. Con- tinuing, he said:
 This exposition is rendered possible be- cause of the period of industrial prosperi- .fy through which We are passing. While material we'll being is never all sufficient 7 10 the life of nation, yet 1t is the merest fruisn to say that its absence means run We need to build a higher life upon it as foundation. but we can build little indeed unless this foundation of prosperity is deep and broad. The we'll being which are now enjoying can be secured only through general business prosperity, and such prosperity is conditioned upon the energy and hard work. the sanity and the mutual respect of all classes of capitalists, large and small of wageWorkers Of every
 Every industrial exposition of this type necessarily calls up the thought of the complex social and economic questions which are involved in our present indus prosperity the sweep and rush rather than the mere march of our progressive material development, have brought grave troubles in their train. We cannot afford 10 blink these troubles any more than be- cause of them we can afford to accept as flle