Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-29
IL Warmly Greeted mt Each Poin:
sisited-Delivers Eight Addresses
Before Total of Many Thou
sands of LIsteners.

q form that the crowds completely
overrode the police and surrounded
the presidents carriage. making it
difficult for it to advance. In his
speech the president said:
THE entire country is vitality interested
in the navy, becausa an efficient navy OF
an adequate size is not only the best guar
antee of peace. but 1t is also the surest
means for seeing that II war does come
the result shall be honorable to our good
name and favorable to our national inter
ests. Any really great nation must be
peculiarly sensitive to two things: stain on
the national honor at home, and Disgrace
TO the national arms abroad. Our honor
at home, our honor in domestic and inter
national affairs is at all times in our own
keeping and depends simply upon the ma
tional possession of an awakened public
conscience. But the only way to make our
honor as affected, not by our own deeds
but by the deeds of others, is by readiness
in advance.
The good work Of building up the navy
must go on without ceasing. The modern
warshfp cannot with advantage be allowed
TO rust in disuse. 1t must be used in active
service even in time of peace. This means
that there must be a constant replaceme t
of the ineffective by the effective. The work
of building up and keeping up our navy
Is therefore one which needs our constant
and unfagging vigilance.
More Yet to Do.
Our navy is now efficient, but we must
be content with no ordinary degree of eff
cheney Every effort must be made to bring
it over nearer to perfection In making
such effort the prime factor is to have at
the head of the navy such an official as your
fellow townsman n, Mr. Moody; and the next
Is to bring home to our people as whole
the need of thorough and ample prepara-
tlon in advance; this preparation to take
the form not only of continually building
ships, but of keeping those ships in COM
mission under conditions which will devel-
op the highest degree of efficiency in the
officers and enlisted men aboard them"
Pleasant Incidents.
The days journey was not without
it's incidents. As the president was
about to board his. car at South Law
renee, Mass. after delivering his adj
dress. the leader of the band stepped
up and made himself known to him.
He said his name was Banan. former
COW puncher and barber at Medura. n.
b---sshsre the presidents ranch is lc-
Gated. The president Immediately rec
ognized him as an old friend. The
man, evidently desiring the president
to know that he had profited by his
advice given some years ago. said to
him: "Yom told me to get married and
settle down. and l did. / have got six
children myself" which afforded the
president no little amusement.
Address Mt Lowell.
The special train arrived at Lowell
at 9:19 a. M, and its arrival was sig
nailed by the firing of a presidential
salute by the local militia, and the G.
a. r. performed guard duty The side
walks about the station We're thronged
with people, and the common. which
was the scene of the real reception.
was black with humanity. Acting
Mayor Badger and committee of the
city government met the president and
party at the station and were pre-
scented by Charles NJ. Allen, former
governor of Porto Rico After a few
words of welcome the party took car
riages and drove rapidly to the com
mon through streets arched with
bunting and lined with cheering peo-
pie. The president said in part:
A Plea for Cuba.
Now, gentlemen We have done our full
duty by Porto Rico. We have done our
duty by Cuba. But want to ask this peo-
pie to act further than under sense of
bare duty. To act in spirit of generosity
such as BELTS great republic in dealing
with a new and weakerrepublic which Itself
has started on the career Of important
And l want furthermore
that our people should be awake to their
own interest in the seas and lands south
of our country. We drive out those who
had been been depressing Cuba and we
cleaned house for them. Not an easy task
1or many of those cities had never before
been cleaned in their entire history. We
introduced school system. We made JUS
tlce IN fact as we'll asin name. We stamped
Out the plague of yellow fever, a plague
Nhlch was a menace not merely to Cuba
but to our own southern states, ard then
We left them Independent. But from the
very necessities of the case we are bound
10 nave intimate relations with them. Cuba
mas got to be in a sense part of our inter-
national policy system, and ! ask most
earnestly that in return we make her part
or our economic system by establishing
reciprocal trade relations with her. Gap
plause. cheers and cries OF Rightly
Do Good to Receive Good
1--WE did well in Porto Rico. That was
because We could count on the services of
men like Gov. Allen. services which should
you, both You have got TO have morality
first, but If morality has not got common
sense with it. the result will be unhappy
And now in dealing with Cuba in dealing
with the isthmus across which we are
now to build the great inter- oceanic canal
we must remember that we can do good
with ourselves permanently, only if we
do good to those with whom we are brought
an contact; that we must keep both facts
We'll in mind We must keep our own in
1erests as we'll as the interests of the
weaker peoples whose destiny is now in
exirleably Interviewer with ours. ask you
Then to see TO it that we give Cuba rec;-
procity with this country, primarily in
CUBA interests, but also for our own great
benefit. i thank YOU"
First to visit Dover
For the first time in the histor, of
Dover, N. H., which was founded in
1852, a president of the United States
was a guest there Tuesday. 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
committee. Under an escort of militia
the guests were escortedto a platform
in Franklin square. where the presi-
dent delivered an address.
While on his way through the
streets of Portland his carriage was
stopped and he was presented with an
album containing views of the city.
He stood up in his carriage and briefly
thanked the donor, Capt.. Charles +.
Dam. BE hax been The recipient 81
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