The Oskaloosa herald., 1902-08-28
BEGINS LONG TOUR.
President Roosevelt and Party
Enroute.


Roosevelt left Oyster Bay Friday
morning for New Haven on his tour
through New England. The presiden-
tial party left the house at 9:30 o'clock
/ and was taken on board the Sylph in
launch. Fifteen minutes later the
Sylph weighed anchor and started for
New Haven, where she arrived at 1880
p. m. The programme at New Haven
consisted of drive through the city.
All traffic over the line of march dur
ing the hour of the presidents stay
was suspended and the city's factories
and shops were closed between one
and $3.50 o'clock. The workmen lined
the windows and crowds thronged the
! streets hours before the drive began.
The city was gayly dressed in flags and
bunting.
Arrival mt Hartford.
The president, on his arrival at the
depot here Friday afternoon, was cor
daily welcomed by a committee of rep
resentative citizens. He was taken for
drive around the city, occupying,
with Col. Jacob L. Greene, handsome
Victoria automobile, in charge of two
expert New York chauffeurS. He was
enthusiastically cheered all along the
route. In Pope park, one of the beau
tiful outlying recreation spots of the
city, the president was greeted by TO-
900 worldngmen, who presented him
with magnificent floral horseshoe, in
scribed: "Workingmen's Welcome to
Our President" Father Michael Sui
Ivan made a few remarks of well
come, in which he commended the hon
esty and sincerity of purpose of the
president in all his acts. The presi-
dent responded, and his remarks were
frequently interrupted by applause.
He said in closing:
ST should Of course be wholly unfit for
the position / occupy If did not give my
best thought and best purpose to trying
to serve the interests Of the toiler Of Amer
lea (cheers)-the man who works with his
hands, and, of course also the man who
works with his head-f / did not try to
serve each decent American citizen accord
Ing to the best of my capacity; and GER
tainly my most painstaking effort, my
NOSE resolute purpose, shall be given and,
II l may say SO, Is being given, to trying
TO do anything that can be done to help our
as In some way personal TO myself, but I
would rather accept It, as l know It is
meant, as gift from Americans to q man
for the time being embodies American
governmental principles (cries of good
and cheers)-the principles of square and
fatr dealing with all men, so that men shall
have thetdr rights under the law, that all
snail be given a fair and even chance in
the struggle for life as We can best give it,"
Addresses n Large Audience.
Five thousand men and women
crowded the Coliseum here at night
tohear the address of President Roose-
welt. AT least two-thirds of the au-
dience were workingmen, and the en-
thusiasm manifested by them when
the president alluded to the rights of
the toilers aroused the keenest in
terest. Again and again during his
predatory remarks, which we SNbased
on an incident of the afternoon-the
presentation of floral horseshoe by
the workingmen--the president was
interrupted by vociferous applause.
He said:
Father Sullivan In his speech was kind
enough to allude TO me personally, but he
laid primary stress. as he ought to lay II,
upon the fact that II was gift Of welcome
from the wage workers, upon whom ulti-
mately this government depends. and he
coupled the words of greeting with certain
sentences in which he expressed his belief
that would do all that could to show my
self good representative of the wage
workers. Gentlemen, / should be utterly
unfit for the position that l occupy If
failed to do all that in me lies to act, as
light is given to me-to act so as to repre-
he Sf 1ph md .f4 ~,
wage workers of the United States Qoud
and continuous applause).
Now at the outset of the twentieth CEN
tury We are facing difficult and complex
problems, problems social and economic,
which will tax the best energies of all of
us to solve right and which we can only
solve at all If We approach them in a spirit
not merely of common sense, but Of gem
erous desire to act each for all and all for
each; and while there are occasions when,
through legislation and administrative ac-
ton, the government represents the people
can do special service to one set of our
citizens. Yet l think you will agree with
me that In the long run the best way In
which to serve any one of our citizens Is
to serve all alike well Cloud applause); to
try to act In spirit Of fairness and jus
tice to ALI to give to each man his rights,
to safeguard each man in his rights, and,
SO far as in me lies, while hold my present
my duty (applause).
The Nations Problems.
"Now 1 want to speak to you tonight,
not on our internal problems as a nation.
but on some of the external problems which
we have had to face during the last four
years. The internal problems are the most
important Keeping our household stra sht
Is our first duty, but we have got o, Ter
duties. Just exactly as each m N who is
l. l. - g.
husband and good father, a good bread
winner, a good man of business, so as to
deal with his own home relations, and yet
must in addition to that be good citizen
for the state at large, so a nation must first
take care to do we'll its duties within its
own borders, but must not make of that
tact an excuse for falling to do those of Its
duties the performance Of which lie with
out its own borders.
1.-THE events of the last few years have
forced the American republic to take a
larger position In the world than ever be-
fore, and therefore more than ever before
to concern herself with questions of policy
which affect her interests beyond her own
borders. As a people we now have duties
and opportunities in the tropic seas and
lands south of us as we'll as In those of the
barthest east. And much depends upon the
way In which We meet these duties, the
way in which We take advantage Of these
opportunities.
From the days Of Monroe, Clay and
the younger Adams, we as a people have
always looked with interest upon the
West Indies and the isthmus connecting
the two Americas, feeling that anything
happening in those regions must be
of concern to our welfare. There Is now
ampler reason than ever before for this
feeling. The outcome of the Spanish
war put US in possession Of Porto Rico
and brought US into peculiarly close
touch with Cuba while the successful