The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
TURNS BACK.
The President Leaves Maine and
Re-enters New Hampshire
After a Day Of Much Travel
and Speech Making.
HE TALKS TO FARMERS
Delivers an Address at the Ban
gOr Fair Grounds.
Meets an Old Friend and Invites
Him to Luncheon.

Roosevelt and party arrived at the Main
street station at S:20 O'Clock this morn
ing
The presidents second day in the Pine
Tree state was full of interest start
ing from the governors residence at an
early hour. he was taken for short
drive about the city of Augusta, and at
$50 left for Bangor, where the principal
speech of the day was delivered at the
fair grounds in the presence OF an ln-
mense audience. which listened WITH
marked attention to his address, Inc
same close attention was given him at
Waterville, where from far ana near
came hundreds to see and hear the first
president who has visited Maine IN
many years. In anticipation of mas
coming a general holiday was declared
and all business was suspended.
Just before leaving Augusta the presl-
dent heard that his old guide, Bill Sew
all, of Island Falls, Me-, who had ac-
ditions and who had for time been
employed on his ranch in Dakota. was
at Bangor. He Immediately wired Con-
gresham Powers at Bangor to cor
rail- him and hold on to him until ne
reached that city That the congress-
man carried out these instructions was
fully proven when he produced the tan.
rawboned, administered hunter upon
the presidents arrival.
Il am glad to see you, Bill said the
president, whereupon Bill replied. You
amt no gladder than 1 be-
Then it was that the president told
of the story of friendship of many Year,
with the old guide and hunter, and how
many years ago, while on a hunting trip
through Maine, owing to the shortage
in the meat supply they had eaten
muskrat together which the president
said was the last meat he had eaten in
Maine before this trip. The president
seemed to delight in the rural simplicity
of the man, and insisted that he should
sit down to dinner with him. Bill
therefore, had the distinction that comes
to but few of dining with the chief ex-
ecutive of the nation and the governor
of his state at the same time. While
at the fair grounds someone suggested
to Sewall who was seated on the plat
form with the president, that he should
go to Washington and secure an ap.
pointment as postmaster. but Bill had
already received this honor, and said
to his inquisitor, Il be postmaster al
rea5v."
On the drive through Bangor the pres
idents carriage was stopped in front of
the portico of the orphans home, where
the little ones were assembled, and they
greeted him in song.
Before beginning to speak at the fair
grounds the president, noticing the JAM
ming and pushing of the crowd in front
of the grandStand, cautioned the people
to be careful of the women and chill
dren, and asked them to show their
capacity to manage themselves, which
lIllfleuldtely lldQ the desired erect Inc
platform from which the president
spoke was directly in front of the
grandstand, which was packed with hu-
mainly. Behind him was another dense
crowd. He humorously informed his
audiences that he did not think he faced
both ways, but on that occasion he
would have to. On leaving the plat
form he drove around the race track in
response to cries from the audience
that he do so.
The president dined at Ellsworth at
the home of Senator Hale, who accom-
panied the party from Bangor. At the
station when the train pulled in the
president was escorted to a platform
nearby and delivered a short address
He left at 10 O'Clock for Nashua, N H.,
and other points in that state.
At Waterville the president spoke in
part as follows:
MY Fellow Citizens: wish to thank
all of the people of Maine, for the way
In which I have been greeted. I feel
IN certain sense right to the greet
ing for at least 1 am trying to put into
practice the principles in which you be-
lieve- 1 feel that the art of successful
government in our country is the art of
applying practically the every day prin-
ciples of decency morality and common
sense, which must be applied by the
average citizen if he is to be a Sood
husband, good father, a good neigh
Dor and good citizen.
There is not any wonderful brilliancy
or genius in it. What we need is the
application of the every day principles
that man needs if he is to make his
business a success: if he is to do his
duty in his own family and to his neigh
Dor.
II passed by your state house in Au-
guSta this morning. Your legislature
only meets every other year and stays
In session only about two months Quite
right. You do not need too many laws;
too much legislation What we need Is
stability of laws, fearlessness in apply
ing legislation to new evils when the
evils spring up, but. above all, common
sense and self restraint in applying
these remedies, and the fixed and I'M
changeable belief that fundamentally
each mans salvation rests in his own
hands All of us stumble at times
There is not man here who does moi
at times need helping hand stretched
out toward him. Shame on the man
who, when the opportunity to help i:
given, fails to stretch out the hand
Help the men who stumble. Help the
brother who slips. Set him up on hi.
feet. Try to start him along the righ
road But If he lies down, make vi
your mind you can not carry him. L
he won't try to walk himself, he is no
worth carrying. That is so among you
neighbors; that is so in your families
Every father of large family-and, be
ing an o.G fashioned man, 1 believe il
large famlieS-knows that if he has t.
do we'll by his children he must try t,
do well by himself. Now, haven't vol
III your experience known men--and
am sorry to say, even more often wo
men--who think that they are doing
favor to their children when they shiel,
them from any effort, when they let tn
girls sit at ease and read while tt
mother does all the housework- Don
you know cases like that? 1 do; yes
when boy will be brought up to b
very ornamental and not useful? Don
you know that, too? Exactly. Nov
those are not good fathers and mothers
They are foolish fathers and mother.
They are not being kind; they are sim
ply being silly.
The only way by which in the lon
run any man can be helped is by teach
ing him to help himself OF course
there may come sudden cataclySm
where you have got to extend help wit
a free hand, thinking only of the i'm
mediate need. not of the ultimate re
suits. OF course. new conditions wi