The evening Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1902-1902, 1902-08-23
NEW ENGLAND TOUR
President Spends First Day at
New Haven and Hartford.
4 BIG MEETING Of WORKlNGNEy.
In Connecticut Capital Ten Thousand
Greet Mr.. Roosevelt and Give Him
= Floral acknowledgement
ON Philippine Question.


ident Roosevelt has begun his tou
through New England. The presider
tial party left Oyster Bay at 9:3
O'Clock and was taken on board tn
Sylph in a launch. Fifteen minute
later the Sylph weighed anchor AM
started for New Haven. The part,
aboard the Sylph consisted of the pres
idei1t and Mrs. Roosevelt, Ethel Roose
welt, Secretary Cortelyou, DR.. Lung
the presidents physician; two stenog
raphers and two messengers.
! The president arrived at New Haver
at 20 p. N. and was received by May
or Studley and a committee from the
board Of aldermen, who conducted him
to the carriage in waiting. Troop A.
Connecticut national guard, consti
tuted the military escort. -
The New Haven programme provid.
ed for nothing except drive, and it
took the visitor through .the. slums fac
tory quarters and center Of the city.
The city's factories were closed be-
tween l p m. and $50 p. M, and work
men lined the windows and crowds
thronged the streets. The city was
gayly dressed in flags and bunting.
The president on his arrival at the
depot at Hartford was cordially well
coined by committee of representa-
tive citizens. He was taken for drive
around the city. He was enthusiastic
ally cheered all along the route.
In Pope park the president was
greeted by 10000 workingmen, who
presented him with a magnificent floral
horseshoe inscribed, "Workingmen's
Welcome to Our President"
In the evening great meeting was
held in the Coliseum, at which the
president reviewed the success Of the
administration in dealing with the Por-
to kican and Cuban questions and
then took up the Philippines. On this
subject he said:
"Tha easy thing to do-the thing
which appealed not only to lazy and
selfish men, but to very many good
men whose thought did not drive them
down to the root of things-was to
leave the islands. Had we done this
period Of wild chaos would have super
vened, and then some stronger power
would have stepped in and seized the
islands and have taken up the task
which we in such case would have
tiinched from performing A less easy
but infinitely more absurd course
would have been to leave the islands
q IN
sert that we would not permit any one
else to interfere with them. This par
ticular course would have combined
all the possible disadvantages of every
other course which was advocated.
Finally. there was the course which
we adopted-not an easy course one
fraught with danger and difficulty, as
is generally the case in this world
when some great feat is to be accom-
plished as an incident to working out
national destiny, We made up our
minds to stay in the islands, to put
down violence, to establish peace and
order and then to introduce just and
wise civil rule accompanied by Il meas
ure of self government which should
increase as rapidly as the islanders
showed themselves fit for it. Well, it
was certainly Il formidable task, but
think of the marveiously, successful
way in which it has ibeen accom-
plished. '"""
"The first and vitality important feat !
was the establishment of the suprem-
acy of the American flag, and this
had to be done by the effort Of those
gallant fellow Americans Of ours to
whom SO great debt is due, the off,
GERS and enlisted men of the United
States army, regulars and volunteers
alike. In succession of campaigns
carried on in unknown tropic jungles
against an elusive and treacherous foe
vastly outnulnbering them, under the
most adverse conditions. of climate,
weather and country, our troops COM
,letely broke the power of the insur-
gents, smashed their armies and har.
led the broken robber bands into SUBJ
Step by step as the army con-
Iuered the RUIZ of the military was
Implanted by the rule of the civil au-
soldier was succeeded
" the civilian magistrate. The ut
most care has been exercised in choos-
ng the best type Of Americans for the
high civil positions, and the actual
york Of administration has been done
o far as possible by native Filipino
fficials serving under these Ameri-
ans.
1.-THE success Of the effort has been
wonderful Never has this country
ada more upright or an ADLER body
public representatives than Govern
r Taft, Vice Governor Wright and
leir associates and subordinates in
le Philippine Islands. 1t is a very DIFF {
cult matter practically to apply the =
rinciples Of an orderly free govern
tent to an oriental people struggling L.
pward out of harbarism and subjec-
IN. 1t is tasls requiring infinite
patience, tact, broad minded
ass. All these qualities and the count
SIS others necessary have been found
the civil and military officials who .
i've been sent over to administer the
lands. :.
ut was Of course inevitable that I
ere should be occasional failures. but
is astonishing how few these have
en. Here and there the civil govern.
ent which has been established in a
ven district had to be temporarily :.
thdrawn because of some outbreak, l.
1t at last on July 4 that has tust |