The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-27
AT DOVER, N. II.
The Old Town Receives Its First Visit
From President

Dover, N. H, Aug. 27.-For the first
time in the history of Dover. which was
founded in 1882, a president of the
United States was a guest here. Thou
sands Joined in the welcome to Presi-
dent Roosevelt. On the arrival of the
presidential party they were received by
Mayor A. G. Whittemore and commit
tee. Under an escort of militia the
guests were escorted to a platform in
Franklin square, where the president
delivered an address He said:
Mr.. Mayor and you. my fellow citi-
zens men and women of New Hamp-
shire:
Il speak here in one of the Oldest cities
of the old thirteen colonies from which
sprang the United States and both in
your past and our present you epitomize
much of the national life We are all of
us apt to get to talking and thinking
of the nation and the state as abStrac-
lions. If we will think of ourselves and
our neighborS, how we get along and
how they get along, we will have a
pretty fair idea of what can be done,
simply on a larger scale, in the nation
and the state. Look at your own his
tory here in Dover; go through the
pioneer days and from them down to
the modern city, the product of the
great industrialism of our time
I'VE are here now, you are here now,
/ am addressing you all, because of the
great industrial expansion symbolized
by your factories, by the railway, tele-
| graph and all of their attendants. We
would not De mere II II were not Tor
| them, but their exercise has caused
great questions to rise in our national
| life. 1t is more complicated business
| Mr.. Mayor to run this city than IL
was to run Dover when Dover consisted
| of dozen log cabins. With the growth
| in wealth and prosperity has come an
! accentuation of differences between
| man and man which do harm in two
| ways, which do harm when they make
F.! one man arrogant, which do equal
| harm when they make another man en-
| viOus. Our salvation now in the old
| days. lies in the practical applying OF
| principles that in theory we admit to
| be the only principle according to which
| it is possible to administer this republic
! The principle of treating with man or
| his worth as man is the principle OF
| recognizing facts as they are, of recog-
| nizing our material needs. and there
| fore the absolute necessity to the pros
perity which must satisfy those ma
| teria1 needs and of recognizing furthei
| that nothing is to be hoped for from
people who are content only to satisfy
| their material needs. If we have mol
| got. in US the lift toward righteousness
| the lift toward something better than
1 material needs. prosperity will be q
| curse instead of blessing We need
| it, we need it as foundation. We
| can't build house without a founda-
| ton, but the foundation is not the
house You have got to have the super
structure; you have got to have, in ad.
dit1on to 1t, business energy. thrift ane
| industry which has produced centers OF
industrial activity like this.
| You have to have. you must have In
addition the spirit that made the meT
| of this neighborhood foremost in the
| revolution. that made this state do hel
| duty so well and so nobly in the civi
war. We need business energy. bust