Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-07-12
JUSTICE WILL Be
DONE TO CUBA
As Sure as Fate, President
Roosevelt Declares in
Pittsburg Speech.
VAST CROWD GREETS HIM
Hnlf Million Persons Greet tho Ma
TONS Exec utive, All Western
fennsyIvania Taking Part
In the Reception.

dent Roosevelt IN P1ttSDuTt
Friday. They came not only
from Pittsburg and Allegheny, bu.
from scores OF industrial towns within
100 miles of the city. His welcome wa!
most enthusiastic, From the unior
station to the speakers stand In Schen'
ley park, nearly -four miles away, was
one continuous cheer. The weather
was all that could be desired.
When the president stepped from the
car he and his party were escorted by
the reception committee to Carriages
in waiting. Those who occupied The
carriage with the president We're City
Recorder Brown, United States Attor.
ney General Knox, George Il. Cortel'
you. The other carriages were filled
by the reception committee.
The bugler OF Sheridau troop sounded
the assembly call, which was the sigma.
for Brigadier General John A. Wylie,
commander Of the military escort, &c
order the movement OF the column,
The marchers numbered 5000 men, rep
resenting the Eighteenth regiment,
Fourteenth regiment and Tenth regi-
ment, who saw Philippine service;
Sheridan cavalry troop, the Tyrone
boys brigades, and Independent mill
tary organizations.
President Speaks.
Following the band piece, the united
German societies Of Allegheny, sta
toned at one side OF the stand, made
up of 600 voices, broke into singing
The star Spangled Banner" At the
close of the song the Invocation was
pronounced by Rev. John II. Prugh.
The declaration OF independence was
read and then followed the Grafton of
the day by President Roosevelt.
The President spoke as follows:
You have just listened to the reading
of the great document which signals our
entry into the field Of the nations l2G
years ago. hat entry was but a prom
Use which had to be made good by the per-
Torrance of those men and their children
and their childreu's children. Words are
good If they are backed up by deeds, and
only so. The declaration continues to be
read with pride by us year after year. 1t
stands as a. symbol of hope for the peo-
pies Of all the world because it's promise
was made good, because its words were
supplemented by deeds, because after the
men who signed IL and upheld IT had
done their work, the men who come again
after them, generation by generation, did
their work I'm turn. The declaration of
independence had to be supplemented in
the first place by that great instrument
of constructive ard administrative states
manship, the constitution under which
we now live. The document promulgated
in 1888 under which Washington became
our first president supplemented, neces-
sarily supplemented, the declaration of
l776. We showed in the revolution that
we had a right to be free; we showed
when we constructed q more perfect
union than the old confederacy that we
knew how to use that right az it needed
to be used.
Two Great Epochs.
"Those were two great epochs in the ma
sion's history: the epoch of Washington
and the epoch of Abraham Lincoln. Those
two generations mad the greatest tasks
to do. but each generation has its tasks
and woe To the generation which regards
the mighty men of the past as an cX-
cuse for failing to do in its turn the work
that il finds ready to hand. The great
deeds of those who have gone before us
must ever serve not us a reason for in
action on 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 TO do in the
last four years, or rather we nave had,
as every generation must have, many
tasks to do, tasks affecting us abroad and
one of those tasks being done as it has
been, has signaled our entry into a larger
world, and 1t is appropriate that on this
Fourth OF July, on this anniversary of the
birth Of the nation, IL should be our good
fortune TO have promulgated the declara-
ton establishing peace In the Philippines
and acknowledgement TO the army Of
the praise so richly due our fellow Ameri-
cans who wear the uniform OF the United
States for all that they have done in the
tropic islands during the past four years.
-..'" As to Cuba.
1--WE said Cuba should become n free
republic and we have kept our word. To
have turned Cuba over to the hands Of
its own people Immediately after the
withdrawal of the Spanish flag would
have meant ruin and chaos. We estab-
lished a'government in the islands. We
established peace and order and we have
began to provide for the Cuban troops
who had fought against the misrule OF
their oppressors. We instituted Il public
school system modelled upon that which
has been so potent a factor in our own
national progress. We cleaned the cities
In Cuba for the first time in their history.
We changed them from being the most
unhealthy to being among the healthiest
cities in the civilized world. We intro
duCed Il system Of orderly justice to sue
coed one OF irresponsible and arbitrative
dcSpotism so that any man, rich or poor,
weak or strong; could appeal to the courts
and know that he would receive his rights.
But there is one thing our policy
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tire f%ruition. 1t will meet with 1t. The
course OF the last few years has made
more evident than ever before that this
nation must in time to come have pecu-
liar interests on the islands connecting
the two Americas, and i'm the waters and
among the Islands adjacent thereto. Ma
tionally we cannot occupy a position
toward these regions that we did toward
others where our interests are far less,
anu thisi is doubly true now that congress,
with great wisdom, has provided for the
building Of an interoceanic canal.
Cuba nus occupy a peculiar relation
TO us in The field Of international politics,
She must in n larger sense be n part OF
the general political system in interna-
tional affair in which this republic stands
as the head. she has assented TO that
view, and in return this nation is bound
to give her special economic privileges
not given to other nations. | regret that
a measur of reciprocity with Cuba Is not
already embodied in statute or in treaty,
but it will be just as sure as fate.
The Philippines.
And COY 4 few words as 10 the Philip
pines. There are yet troubles in the
Moro country, the country of the Moham-
medan tribes, but In the Philippines,
among the Filipinos, among the people
who have been in the insurrection, peace
now reigrs. 1t may bel think II Is un-
likely, but 1t is poSsible-here arc tl@:c
seeming dead coal of inSdrrection