Connecticut western news., 1902-09-04
IMR. ROosEVELT'S TOUR.
Ppestaent EnthusiasticalIy Received
 In New England.

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 In New England.
 President Roosevelt has been re ceived with great enthusiasm at all the places which he has visited on his trip through New England.
 On Wednesday the president contin- ned his trip through Maine, addressing large crowds at Williston. Bangor and Ellsworth.
 On Thursday the president visited Nashua, Manchester, The Welrs and Concord, in New Hampshire, and spent the night at the summer home of See retary Hay at The Fells. near New bury, N. H. At The Weirs he addressed . large audiencN of civil war veterans, who were holding a reunion there.
 On Friday the president visited New port, N. H., and spent the best part of the day hunting big game in the pre- serves of the Austin Corbin estate. bagging a wild boar.
 On Saturday he went from Newport, N. H., to Windsor, Vt, making a short stop at the home of Winston Churchill. the novelist, at Cornish, N. H. At Windsor he addressed a large gather ing of civil war veterans. He spent Saturday night at the country home of Secretary Shaw on Lake Champlain and Sunday at Shelburne Falls, Vt, as the guest of Dr. w. Seward Webb.
 On Monday the president continued his trip through Vermont, returning to Massachusetts at Proctor, the home of Senator Redtield Proctor, he made an address on the Monroe doctrine.
 We believe in the Monroe doctrine '' he said, mot as a means of aggression at all It does not mean that we are aggressive toward any power. It means merely that as the biggest pow CT of this continent we remain stead fastly true to the principles first for mulated under the presidency of Mon roe through John Quincy Adams-tEs principle that this continent must /ot be treated as a subject for pOlUical colonization by any European /,wer. AS I say. that Is not an ag/essiye doctrine. It Is a doctrine of peace, a doctrine of defense, a doctrine to SC cure the chance on this continent for the United States here to develop peaceably along It's own lines.
 Now, we have formulated that doc Urine. If our formulation consists sim ply of statements on the stump or on paper they are not worth the breath that utters them or the paper on which they are written.
 Remember that the Monroe doctrine will be respected as long as we have a first 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 con temptible creature, and as n nation the last thing we can afford to do Is to take position which we do not Intend to try to make good"
 On Tuesday President Roosevelt tool notice of his return visit to Massachu setts by delivering at Fitchburg anoth CT speech on the trust question In or der that he might fully answer his crit les and the more clearly define his at titude on that subject. He declared that trusts should not be attacked blindly and said he thought constitu tional amendment would he needed tC deal with them. He also launched into the defense of the army in the Philip pines during his speech at Springfield In the afternoon at Worcester the pres ident took luncheon with Senator Hoar Governor Crane at night had the presi dent as his guest at Dalton, Mass.