The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1902-09-05
HOLIDAY CROWDS
Hear President on Last Days
Tour of Vermont
HE STOPS AT MANY PLACES
Makes Plain His Idea of the Monroe
Doctrine and Says We Will Be Re-
spected Only as Long as We Have
a First Glass Navy

East Mortified, Mass, Sept. O.
President Roosevelt yesterday con
cluded his tour through Vermont al
Brattleboro, and spent last night al
Northfeld. The reception accorded
him at Brattleboro was among the
most enthusiastic which he has re.
ceived in his tour of New England
Labor day was generally celebrated
throughout the state and wherever the
train stopped holiday crowds were out
to extend the president welcome. His
remarks on the subject of labor were
confined mostly to a tribute to the peo-
pie of Vermont, and he expressed his
pleasure at being greeted by the repre-
sentatives Of organized labor, becaus 4,
he said, the typical American is the
man who works.
The president began the DAYS
Journey at Burlington, reaching that
city from Shelburne, the home of DR..
w. S. Webb. After a drive about the
city, the presidential train started
southwark, stops being made at Ver-
gennes, Middlebury, Brandon, Proctor,
Rutland, Ludlow, Bellows Falls,
Chester and Brattleboro, and his Ver-
mont trip was ended.
He crossed into Massachusetts in the
early evening, and went to Northfield
to remain last night as the guest of
William r. Moody, son of Evangelist
Dwight L. Moody. The president went
to Round Top this morning to visit Mr..
Moody's grave.
The president spoke at every stop
yesterday, but most of his addresses
were brief. That of greatest import
was the one delivered at Proctor. where
in he defined his idea of the Monroe
doctrine. He said:
We believe in the Monroe doctrine.
not as means of aggression at all. 1t
does not mean that we are aggressive
toward any power. 1t means merely
that as the biggest power on this CONT
nent we remain steadfastly true to the
principles first formulated under the
presidency of Monroe, through John
Quincy Adams-the principle that this
continent must not be treated as a sub
Ject for political colonization by any
European power. AS l say, that it
not an aggressive doctrine 1t is a
doctrine of peace; a doctrine of de-
Tense; doctrine to secure the chance
on this continent for the nations here
to develop peaceably along their own
lines. We have formulated that doe
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trine will be respected as long as we
have Srst-class, efficient navy, and
not very much longer.
In private life he who asserts some
thing, says what he is going to do and
does not back it up, is always a con-
temptible creature, and as nation the
last thing we can afford to do it to take
q position which we do not intend to
try to make good. Dragging and
Boosting in private life are almost al
ways the signs of weak man, and a
nation that is strong does not need to
have its public men boast or brag on it's
account. Least of all does a self-re-
'pecting nation wish its public repre-
'entatives to threaten or menace or in
suit another power Our attitude
,oward all powers must be one of such
1ignified courtesy and respect as we
intend that they shall show us in re-
urn. We must be willing to give the
friendly regard that we exact from
hem. We must no more wrong them
han we must submit to wrong doing
" them, but when we take position
ct US remember that our holding it de-
'ends upon ourselves, depends upon
'ur showing that we have the ability
o hold it.