The Lamar register., 1902-09-03
ROOSEVELT'S ADVICE
WHAT WE MUST DO TO PROSPER

Remembered in History-Men Need
Holidays and Should Work Hard
and Play Hard-victory Won by
Men of Good Common Sense.
Concord, n. H.. Aug. 29-The Presi-
dents special reached Concord prompt
ly at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and
was greeted with n salute of twenty
one guns. Arriving ut the stage from
which lie was to speak, the President
received the greatest ovation OF the
day. lie said in part:
"1'herc has never been Il man In our
history who led life of ease whose
name is worth remembering. Now uIi-
dcrstand me. Take holidays. believe
in holidays. l believe in play and he
licve in playing hard while l play. but
don't make business of it. Do your
work and do 1t up to- the handle. and
then play when you have got time to
play, and if you are worth anything,
enjoy that, too. The heroic times In
this nations career were when 1t nau
work to do and instead of iinching
from the work, did ii. And 1t did that
heroic work partly because in addition
to the heroic virtues which can he used
but once in n generation, it had the
commonplace, humdrum. every day
year out There Is need to do all the
ordinary, commonplace duties as they
arise, or we will be in no shape to
meet the crisis that calls for heroism
when that crisis arises.
ut is in the long run the man who
counts. Just exactly rs In war. though
you have got to have the best weapons,
yet they are useless if the men behind
them don't handle them well; so in
peace the best constitution, the best
legislation, the greatest natural advan-
tages will avail nothing If you have not
the right type of citizenship TO take
advantage of them.
about all we have right to expect
from government is that it Will see
that the cards are not stacked IT II
sees to that, then we will abide by
the deal Now that is the spirit in
which to approach the problems caused
by the enormous increase In our indus
trial prosperity. by the growing per
pleXity of our industrial system. We
use the word trust rather loosely to in-
dicate sometimes large corporation IN
which there is an element of monopoly,
sometimes all large corporations, espe-
cially If they do an Interstate business.
Now 1t is not necessary to say that
the farmer is benefited by the success
of the manufacturing center, Just AS
the manufacturing center must in the
last, resort. depend upon the welfare
of the country for lis success. we all
share alike in the upward movement
That is something that we want to re-
member, all our wealth and fortunes
are indissolubly connected.
"If good times come we are all of us
going to feel them, some more than
others, but, speaking generally, of
Il to. fnn
somewhat. If bad times come, while
some will suffer more than others, we
will all of us suffer somewhat.
Now, the great problem that we
should set before MS Is to keep pros
perity, to render its advantages less
unequal, to try to secure n greater
equality of lis benefits. but. above all.
never under any circumstances to lend
ourselves to the leadership of any who
appeal to the bascr passions of pnn-
kind Evils have come through our
very prosperity. Now, 1t would he per
fcctIy possible at any time To make 1t
unpleasant for the trrsts-pcrfectly
possible to prevent big corporations
from making money! They did not
make any money in 1S93-and neither
did any one else. Let MS face the fact
that there are evils. 1t Is foolish TO
blink at those evils. Let us set our
selves. but tcmperatcly and with san
ity, TO strive to find out what the evils
are and to remedy them.
"If any man tells you that he can
advance n specific by which all the
evils of the body polite Will be made
to disappear, distrust him. for If he is
honest he knows not what he says.
Mankind has moved slowly up through
the ages, stumbling. halting, rarely by
leaps and bounds. generally by slow
and painful progression.
.'The millennium IL good ways on
yet, and we are going 10 succeed by
showing exactly the qualities which
our fathers showed when in great
crises they succeeded. There is no
mJc possibility Of remcdying all Ills,
social, economic and political OF the
body polite by some patent device now
than there was such possibility in 1776
or In 1861. Victory then came to the
men who showed the good, ordinary,
sturdy. common sense qualities.
abraham Lincoln-thc spirit incar-
nate of those who won victory in the
Civil War-wns the true representa-
tive of this people. not only for his
own generation, but for ali time, be
cause he was man among men, a
man who embodied the qualities of his
fellow men, but who embodied them to
the highest and the most unusual de-
gree of perfection: who embodied all
that was in the Nation of cournge OF
wisdom, Of gentle, patient kindness
and of common sense. And great, sad.
patient Lincoln led MS to victory from
81 to 90 because he did not trust to
any mere trick or device. because he
drove deep down to the heart of thou
sands and based his reliance on the
fundamental virtues of mankind, tho
old, old virtues of mankind.
'That is the spirit we have to show