The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-27

DOVER, N. H, Aug. 26.-For the
first time in the history of Dover,
which was founded in 1882, president
of the United States was a guest here
today. Thousands joined in the well
come to President Roosevelt. On the
arrival of the presidential party they
were received by Mayor A. G. White
more and a committee. Under an es-
cort of militia the guests were escort
ed to a platform in Franklin square,
where the president delivered an ad-
dress. He said
"Mr. Mayor and You, My Fellow Cit
1Zens, Men and Women of New Hamp-
shire: 1 speak here in one of the old
est cities of the old thirteen colonies
from which sprang the United States,
and both in your past and your pres
ent you epitomize much of the ma
tional life. We are all of us apt to get
to talking and thinking of the nation
and the state as distractions. II we
will think of ourselves and our neigh
borS, 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 history here
in Dover; go through the pioneer days
and from them down to the modern
city, the product of the great indus
trialism of our time.
Great Industrial Expansion.
I'VE are here now, you are here now,
] am addressing you all, because of the
great industrial expansion; symbol
iZed by your factories, by the railroad,
the telegraph and all of their attend
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not for them, but their existence has
caused great questions to rise in our
national life. 1t is more complicated
business, Mr.. Mayor, to run this city
than it was to run Dover when Dover
consisted of a dozen log cabins. With
the growth in wealth and prosperity
has come an accentuation of differ
ences between man and man which
do harm in two ways, which do harm
when they make one man arrogant,
which do equal harm when they make
another man envious.
Our salvation now as in the old
days, lies in the practical applying
of principles that in theory we
admit to be the only principle ac-
cording to which it is possible to ad-
minister this republic. The principle
OF treating with man on his worth as
a man 1S lu0 recognizing
facts as they are, of recognizing our
material needs, and therefore the alb
Solute necessity to the prosperity
which must satisfy those material
needs, and of recognizing further that
nothing is to be hoped for from peo-
pie who are content only to satisfy
their material needs.
When Prosperity Is Curse.
If we have not got in us the lift
toward righteousness, the lift toward
something better than material needs
prosperity will be a curse instead of
a blessing. We need it, we need it
as a foundation-we can't build a
house without a foundation, but the
foundation is not the house You
have got to have the Superstructure
you have got to have in addition to it
business energy, and thrift, industry
which has produced centers of indus
trial activity like this. You have to
have, you must have, in addition the
spirit that made the men of this neigh
borhood foremost in the revolution
that made this state do her duty SO
well and so nobly in the Civil war
We need business energy, business
thrift.
I'VE need other things too; we have
got to have proper ideal of our lives
Each man must do his duty by his
neighbor both in private life and to
that representative of himself and OF
his neighbor, the state. And to do that
you need three qualities. You need
more, but you need three. Above all
honesty in the first place; you can do
nothing without it. And that is not
enough.
Courage Is Also Needed.
Il don't care how honest a man is
If he is timid, he is of very little use
In the world. You have got to have
courage as we'll as honesty. I don't
care how brave and honest a man is
If he is natural-born fool you car
do little with him. In addition tc
honesty, in addition to courage, YOU
need common sense, and sometimes
one is tempted to think it much toe
uncommon quality. You need those
qualities in private life and you need
them in public life. There are great
problems ahead of us as a nation. but
the really greatest problem is the
problem of making better men and
better women of all of u.s.
fOn returning to the train, the presi
dent found Gen. F. B. Farnham and
Col. E. B. Sangers, of Bangor, Me-:
Col. E. Dill, of Augusta, and otbei
representatives of Gov. John F. Hill
of Maine, who had come to escort the
presidential party across the New
Hampshire line. -
Will Make a Tour of Maine.
PORTLAND, Me-, Aug. 26.-Presi-
uent Roosevelt came into Maine this
afternoon, after having visited many
places in the other New England
states, and before his departure TO-
morrow night he will have visited
every congressional district in the
state, the principal city in each district
and the home city of each of Maine's
United States senators. 1t was beau-