New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-08-28
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PRESIDENT IN MAINE.
HE TALKS TO FARMERS AZ
BANGOR.
VISITS SENATOR HALE AND JOSEPH Hs
MANLEY-MUCH PLEASED WIFI
HIS TRIP.
rHY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRrBrSE.I


. velt awakened early this morning at the home
of Governor Fill, in Augusta, and took drive
around the city. a stop was made at the sIals
House. The President intended 70 visit the homo
of Joseph II. Manley. National Committeeman 4,
from Maine to see desk once owned by James
@. Blaine which is in Mr.. Manleys office,
but his time was too limited.
When the President left Augusta his special
train proceeded through the heart of the Maine
lumber belt to WaterviIIe Governor Hill and
Representative Burleigh accompanied the party
and Senator Hale and Representative Littleheid
met them at Bangor At Waterville five thou
sand persons were crowded around stand
decorated with flags and palms to greet the
Chief Executive His speech there fol.
lows:
I wish to thank you->to thank all the people oe
Maine for the way in which / have been greeted.
feel in certain right to the greeting, for
cples which you believe. / feel that the art OF
sppsg pret6ay the m sr g dsy pTtnepe Of
be applied by the average citizen il he is TO be
good husband. d good father a good neiShoor ans.
There Is not any wonderful brilIianey y or or genrs 9
day principles that a man needs if he is TO make
his business success if he is to do his duty in MS
Maine you so fortunate as 10 have a state
other in our Union (better than all save q very
few others in our Unton) the conditions OF he tns
publican. such a democratic government as onrs
must work out his fate for himself. And vet that
the State must Dc called to to give each man
/ passed by Your State House in Augusta this
year and only stays in session about two months.
Quite right We do not need too many iaWs toc
laws. fearessness in applying legislation to nsT
common sense and sef-restrant IN appy5ns ;s 5nsss
that fundamentally each mans salvation rests l1
his own hands
AS the President started back to the train witfS
the Mayor of Waterville small steel hunting
axe was given him.
.'VeII. now" said the President. noticeablyn
pleased wait just one minute. Let me tell
you A curious thing John King of Oakland.
has just sent me hunting axe Before | lefst
home / sent to the Consul General in Canadas
TO see if he could get just such an axe as thisi
and send it to me at Oyster Bay. and here youi
have what I wanted in Maine You can seS
things quicker IN the United states, you see
The blade of the little tool five inches1
long with a moose head engraved it Its
handle was Of hickory and highly polshed~
| Near the end a fine hunting knife con-
| ceaIed so nicely that it was several minutes
before the President found it
| The largest city visited by the President to-,
| day was Bangor the highest accessible port or,
| the Penobscot River. From the Bangor sta-t
| ton the President was driven to the Bangor
| Chfldren.s Home. Under the leadership Of Jo-
| seph g. Blake and the matrons the children
we're lined up on the porch of the building and
| sang an original song.
The President was the Mayors guest &C
luncheon The others present Secretary
| CorteIyou. Assistant Secretary Barnes. Governs
| or and Mrs Hill. Senator Hale, Representatives
| and Mrs BurIeigh. Representatives Powers and
| LittIefed. Surgeon General and Mrs. Farnhan1s
| William SeweI postmaster of Iron Falls, and
F. O. BeaI ex-Nayor Of Bangor. and Mrs.
BeaL
Thirty thousand persons chiefly farmers and
their families heard the President speak in ths
| Eastern State Fair Grounds in the afternoon.
| 1t was made plain again to-day that the Presi-
] dents popularity in every town he visits is due
| TO his individuality and not to the office hs
| holds The day sultry, but the peopls
| packed around the platform and maintained
| perfect order. After the speech ex-MayOr Beal
called for three cheers for the greatest Presi-r
| dent the world has ever known. and got them
| with a will Every member of the Maine Con-
| gress delegation on the platform remarked that
| in that state where the people were not usually
demonstrative the reception showed that Prest-
| dent Roosevelt getting very close TO the
| American people
| THE BANGOR SPEECH.
| Senator FRYE was absent on account Of Hf
| health Representative Litteheld was coU-
| peIIed to leave the grounds to keep engage
| noent before the President rode around the half
mile racetrack before departing for the station.
/ The Presidents speech was as folloWs-
T an, glad to greet the farmers Of Maine. During
] the century that has closed the growth of indus
trislisr has necessarily that cities and towns
1 have Increased in population more rapidly thau
as il has always been. that the last resort the
country districts those in which We are sJresr
| m find the old American spirit the old American
! habits of thought ana WAYS OF hvlns- CopdltlSus
/ have changed in the country far less than they
have changed in the city. and IN consequence there
/ nf life which produced the great majority OF
59e IN oEr Great Presidents have been brought up in
| the country and most of them worked hard the
/ farms in their youth and got their early mental
raining in the healthy democracy of farm life.
| The forces which made these farm bred bows
manhood still at work IN our country districts
SeIf-hep and individual initiative remain 70 a 70
| ON a farm in numbering camp, on ranch
Neither the farmers their hired hands can work
| or wage workers of cities work
| II must be understood from TINS that there
barSe much progress The granger and similar
giyaiinns enange the farmers Institutes and all the
| sgencies which promote Intelligent cooperation
give opportunity Tor social & and nfeieesnaI a
nart in raising the level of life and work IN the
country districts In the DOMAIN s OF III,
has accomplished results as striking as those OBJ
tanned under any other prancg % 'hs Vai s sr
rnnnected with the advancement of farm life. by
experimental stations by tns use 81 tIainsq asends
fSa nractical application of 1nything which in the
ordinary has been demons5rse , 20 es d In
accomplished raising the standard OF productive-
ness in farm work througnout me, .nS country @ vi, we
| ncbtaI-sd IL to individual self-help we add the
mutual self help which comes oy scnloidon @ "a o9r %
IONS working through the state as an instrument.
nnr RI realize this and farming has tended
and more TO take it's place as an appned science,
|