The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-07-05

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Roosevelt at Schenley park yesterday. The
president reached the city early In the
forenoon. and. after being formally re-
ceived by n committee. was escorted TO
the park by 300 troops. The line OF march
was four miles long and he was greeted
by cheering crowds the entire distance.
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
After an invocation by Rev. John II.
Prugh, the DeclaEation OF Independence
was read by Gen. Willis j. Hulings and
then the president was introduced. He
said:
Mr. Mayor and you, my fellow citizens.
my fellow Americans. men and women OF
Western Penmsylvania--You have just
listened to the seading OF the greas docu-
ment which signals our ernry into the field
of nations l26 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 children's
children
Words are good II they are backed
up by deeds. and only so. The Declara-
ton continues to be read with pride b.
US year after year, and stands as sym
boil OF hope for the people of all the world.
because Its promise was made good, be-
cause Its words were supplemented by
deeds because after the men who signed
it and upheld N and did their work the
men who came again after them, genera
ton by generation. did their work in turn.
The great deeds OF those that have gone
before us must ever serve not as a reason
for inaction on our part. but as the keen
est OF spurs to drive us forward on the
path OF national greatness and justice.
PEACE IN THE PHILIPPINES.
1t is most appropriate that on this
Fourth OF July, this anniversary of the
birth Of the nation, II should be our
good fortune TO have promulgated the
and the acknowledgment to
the army of the praise so richly due
our fellow Americans who wear the
uniform of the United States for all
that they have done I'm tropic islands
during the past four years.
We said Cuba should become a 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-
lshed a government in the islands: we
established peace and order; we began
to provide for the payment of the Cuban
troops who had fought against the mis-
rule OF their oppressors: we instituted
public school system: we cleaned the
cities In Cuba for the first In their
history: we introduced a system OF
orderly justice 10 succeed one of ire
sponsible and arbitrative despotism, so
that any man could appeal 10 the courts
and know that he would receive his
rights
And then when in the fullness of
time we felt they could walk alone we
turned over the government TO them
and now the beautiful Queen Of the An
TILES has started on her course as
a free republic among the nations of
the earth.
RECIPROCITY WITH CUBA.
But there IL one thing-our policy to-
ward Cuba has not yet met with its en-
tire fruition. II will meet with II. The
course Of the last few years has made
more evident than ever before, that this
nation must In time come have pecu-
MARY interests on the isthmus connecting
the two Americas and I'm the waters and
among the islands adjacent thereto. Ma
we cannot occupy the position
toward these regions that we did toward
others where our interests are far less
and this is doubly true now that congress
with great wisdom has provided for the
Cuba must occupy a peculiar relation
to US In the field OF international politics.
She must I'm the larger sense be "A part
OF the general political system in inter-
ma tional affairs OF which this republic
stands as the head. She has assepted
TO that view and In return this nation is
bound 10 give her special economic privi-
leges not given To other nations.
| regret that n measure OF reciprocity
with Cuba Is not already embodied I'm
statute or I'm treaty. but IL will be, just
as sure as fate.
And now a word as 10 the Philippines.
there are yet troubles I'm the Moro coun-
try. the country Of the Mohammedan
tribes but I'm the Philippines, among the
Filplnos. among the people who have
been I'm insurrection, peace now reigns.
TRIBUTE TO THE SOLDIERS.
II may be. I think. unlikely. but Il IL
possible that here and there some seem
ing dead coal OF insurrectiou may for the
moment be famed into a live piece OF en-
Der. and burst into ftful flame. IL so.
that fame VIII be stamped out But
speaking broadly and generally peace has
come. Our army has received its reward.
And what was the reward Of our army?
The reward OF the consciousness OF duty
we'll done. our soldiers have fought.
have toiled, have struggled so that when
victory came they might turn over the
government TO the civil authorities.
Victory came. Today tho proclamation
OF peace and amnesty has been promul-
gated and nj the same time our generals
have been otiled that the civil govern
ment ls supreme IN the Islands,
BY law, we are allowed an army AT n
maximum OF 10000 men, at n minimum
OF G00o0. While this war has gone on
we have steadily reduced that army, until
now by orders promulgated. It's limit is
60. 6.0c0, and as a matter OF fact we have
two or three thousand fewer actually
under arms. This speaks well 70 Jour In
stitutions IL speaks well for the triumphs
OF the policies with which as "A nation
we have been identified during the past
four years. and men and women OF the
United States. ~ shows how slight was
the warrant for the fears expressed by
those OF little faith as TO what would fol-
low authorizing even the small army that
was authorized.
No body OF our citizens deserves frank
CT and more generous recognition at the
hands OF the country than the officers ana
enlisted men who wear Uncle Sans uni