Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-07-12
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Sermon" by the President in Respons'
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PittsbuTg, July AFTER a OF
eventful experiences President Foose-
welt, who arrived In Pittsburg yester-
day morning as a guest OF the city, de-
parted at 3 o'clock this morning, well
pleased with his s~ojourn in the Smoky
city.
The crowd that greeted the president
along the line of parade Friday morn
ing and clamored to hear his address
at Schenley park is c~onservatively es-
timated at a million people. OF this
number fully 100,0 900 were within SOUND
Of the presidents voice. This is be-
lieved to be the largest assemblage ever
addressed by a president of the United
States.
From 3:45 yesterday morning until
ll:15 last night, the chief magistrate
was a busy man, the only CESSATION be-
ing a short time during the evening,
when he enjoyed a refreshing nap at
the home of II. c. Frick, where he had
partaken of luncheon and held an in
formal reception for business men ar.
forwards.
From the Frick mansion the presi-
dent was driven to the Hotel Schenley,
where shortly after s o'clock he was the
central figure at n dinner rendered by
Attorney General T. G. Knox to 200 OF
P~ittsburg's prominent businss men.
The dinner was entirely informal, and
the only toast was at the conclusion
of the menu, when Mr.. Knox arose and
said:
II the toast, the n n only
toast of the evening: Theodore Roose-
welt, president Of the United States y
Cloud a~pplause.)
Mr.. Roosevelt responded as follows:
Mr.. Knox and Gentlemen: / am glad
to have the nance of thanking you
this evening for the courtesy with
which you have greeted me today. L
can imagine nothing that would be
more inspiring to a public officer; that
would give him better heart to try to do
his duty. as 1t is given him to see his
duty; nothing that would make him try
to carry out his work, than the eXper-
fence ] have had today in addressing
the great audience that met me this
morning. But n thing In particular
about It pleased me. That was the fact
that the audience whom 1 met then,
that you, my hosts and fellow guests,
with whom l din now, represent all
shades of religious belief; that you rep
resent every occupation and every in
dustry, and that you come together on
this Fourth of July as American citi-
zens and nothing else. 1t has been said,
and we'll said, that your political diff
ferences cease at the water line. That
Is true, out nlutn llOIG lidu lldl 10
true. In great crises, whenever the
great fundamental issues of our gov
eminent are at stake, all party differ
cnCcS cease. And so II is eminently
proper that on the great national holt-
days, and above all on the Fourth Of
July, the day that commentaries the
birth of the nation we should come to-
gether, not as representatives of any
ore party, but as Americans, as men
l.. - IA-t 40 O. oil thnf
makes Americans nobler and greater,
is dear; as men who are a unit in the
principles hat must underlie our sys-
tenn Of government.
There is an immense amount in
public life that has not got anything
to do with party at all. There is an
immense amount of work to be done in
public life in which we are interested
purely from the standards of citizen
ship, and OF course the greater and
more fundamental the matters are, the
they come to being matters
upon which there can be no real party
difference. | feel that a meeting such
as this, and such a great assemblage
as ] a the honor of addressing his
morning, serve one purpose-a pur-
pose, the most important Of all-the
of getting our people together,
of bringing them in contact with one
lie Ollltl, ~ NllStN NlN IlSiSsP -
that the differences that divide one
from the other are trivial and that the
unity among us all is fundamental.
p perhaps the most valuable lesson
by the civil war as regards our
civil life, apart from~the lessons taught
in military life, was that of the brother
hood of unity. When / speak of men
have been in the great war, who
been in the civil war, I speak of
80, ,,.hp h. To proptipa11 N a nn1in1 for q
number of years the principle Of
brotherhood. / mean the principle of
a man on his wore as a man,
with all proper charity for his fall
ings, but with regard primarily for
what is real as distinguished from
what his accidental qualities and char
acteristics are,
II do not care what n mans occu-
patton is or what his standing is. If
does his duty well, he is a good citi-
and if he does not he Is not a
good citizen. Compared with that
question, the other ques-
as to the particular position he
occupies in public life, social, financial,
any other ~way-those questions sink
into absolute !nsigniicance.
II ask each man here that he prove
his truth by his endeavor; that in
line he may be, that In what
ever walk of life he may be; that
whatever may be that line in which he
does his work, he try to act throughout
rest of the year as he talks On the
Of July. And now gentlemen,
having thus shamelessly requited your
hospitality by preaching a sermon to
you, 1 thank o again for how you
treated me and bid you good
,vening." (Long and continued ap-
Dlause.)
When the president concluded his ad-
lress the banqueters adjourned to the
%parlors, where a reception was held,
and shortly before midnight the presi-
party was driven to it's train
standing on a siding at Shady Side
station, where they retired, their car
being attached to the eastern train on
the Pennsylvania railroad at about 3
In the morning, en- route to
Bay. AS the president was
the hotel he shook hands with
the p%orters, bellboys and other en-
Of the house and bade them
yoodby.
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