The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-05
Addresses Large Audience at
PIttsburg and Makes Grand
stand Play Of Free Cuba
CHARACTER IMPORTANT
TO A GOOD GOVERNMENT
Talks Briefly on the Philippines and
Pays High Tribute to Attorney
General Knox of Plttsbure.
Lunches With Frick.

Pittsburg, July 4.-Talf million per-
sons greeted President Theodore Roose-
welt in Pittsburg today. They came not
only from Pittsburg and Allegheny, but
from scores of Industrial towns within
100 miles of the city. 1t was the distin-
guished guests first visit to Pittsburg as
President and his welcome was most en-
thusiastic. From the union station to the
/ speakers stand in Schenley Park, nearly
four miles away, it was one continuous
cheer.
President Roosevelt reached the Will
kinsburg station of the Pennsylvania
Railroad at sos o'clock this morning. At
that point, which is within the city limits
local reception committee, headed by
George T. Oliver. boarded the train As
the train passed Shady Side Station, a
railroad signal communicated the fact to
Hampton Battery of the Pennsylvania
National Guards, stationed at Bedford
avenue basin overlooking Union station.
The guns of the battery Immediately
commenced to boom forth the President 8
salute of twenty-one guns. The last gun
of the salute was fired as the President
stepped from his carriage at the union
station.
The President was then escorted to his
carriage These who occupied the car
riage with President Roosevelt were the
city recorder, ]. o. Brown, United States
Attorney General P. C. Knox and George
B. Cortelyou. The other carriages in
waiting were promptly filed by the re-
ception committee. The bugler of Sher-
idan troop sounded the assemblage call,
which was a signal for Brigadier Gen
eral John A. Wylie, commander of the
military escort, to order movement of
the column. The marchers numbered 5000
men. representing the Eighteenth regi-
ment. the Fourteenth regiment, the
Tenth regiment, who saw Philippine SER
vice, Sheridan Cavalry troop of Ty-
rome. the boys brigades ana Independent
military organizations.
Prominent Men Present.
| Among the prominent guests who rode
In carriages were Gov. w. A. Stone
Congressman Dalzell, Achison, Jack and
Graham. A unique feature was the Re-
| publican and Democratic candidates for
governor, Judge Samuel w. Pennypacker
and Robert e. Pattison, respectively
both of Philadelphia, riding together in
one carriage. They were accompanied by
George T. Oliver and Albert J. Barr,
| editors of Republican and Democratic
papers, respectively. of this city.
Flags and bunting fluttered everywhere
along the course of the parade. People
| crowded the windows of the tall build
/ In
| ing the nations chief executive. AS the
! President and those in carriages passed
in review the band struck up the stir
| ring strains of Hail to the Chief" Fol-
lowing the band piece, the United Ger
man societies of Allegheny stationed at
ene side CT the stand and made up Of 500
voices, broke into singing THE Star
| Spangled Banner"
| At the close of the song the invocation
was pronounced by the Rev. John H.
| Prugh. The Declaration of independence
was read by Brig.-G Willis j. Hulings
and then followed the grafton of the
day by the President of the United
States. Theodore Roosevelt.
The Presidents Speech.
| The President said:
''Mr. Mayor and you, my fellow-citi-
zens, my fellow-Americans, men and
| women of western Pennsylvania:
1
of the great document which signals our
entry into the field of nations 126 years
| ago. That entry was but the premise
which had to be made good by the per-
| formance of those men and their children
and their childrens children. Words are
good If they are backed up by deeds and
! only so. (Applause.)
| The Declaration continues to be read
with pride by us year after year, and
stands as a symbol of hope for the people
of all the world because its promise was
made good; because its words were sup
plemented by deeds, because after the
men who signed 1t and upheld 1t had done
their work. the men who come again
after them, generation after generation,
did their work in turn. (Applause.) The
Declaration of Independence had to be
supplemented in the first place by that
great instrument of constructive and adj
ministrative statesmanship-the constitu-
tion under which we now live. The docu-
ment promulgated In 1788 under which
Washington became our first President
supplemented necessarily supplemented,
| the Declaration of 1776. We showed In the
revolution that we had right to be free;
we showed when we constructed the more
| perfect union of the old Confederacy that
we knew how to use that right as it
needed to be. (Applause.)
And then seventy years and more passed
i PnQ then IleTe CAME upOH Tie udliOH llic
days of iron need. There came the days
| that demanded all that was best, the life
| itself of the bravest and truest OF the
nations sons. And with Sumters guns
| awakened our people and America until
| then the incarnate genius of peace. sprang
to its feet with sword and with shield.
helmeted queen among the nations.
when the thunder of guns called the ma
tion's children they sprang forward to
do the mighty deeds which If left undone
would have meant that the words to
which we have listened today would
have rung meaningless platitudes. Gap
plause).
Every Generation Has Task to Perform
Those were the two great epochs In the
rations history, the epoch of the found
ing of the Union and the epoch of its
preservation; the epoch Of Washington
and the epoch of Abraham Lincoln. Cloud
applause and cheering).
These two generations had the greatest
task to do, but each generation has its
tasks. and woe to the generation which
regards the deeds of the mighty men of
the past as an excuse for this failing to