Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-09-03
TOUR OF Pr ESIDENT7'.
He Reaches Augusta, Me-, After a
=. n Very Busy Day. ID ~ 1,


Passe Through Three States, Delivers
Eight Addresses and is Greeted
by Cheering ThronEs-Ex-
tracts from His Speeches..
Augusta, Me-, Aug. 27.-President
Roosevelt on Tuesday passed through
three states, delivered eight speeches
and received the plaudits of q quarter
of million people. The greeting
which has marked his progress
through New England has been flat
tering in the extreme, and Tuesdays
experience demonstrated his popu-
larity perhaps more than ever be-
fore. Everywhere at the regular stops
and the smaller stations along the
road the people were strenuous in
their efforts to catch glimpse of him
or to hear him speak, and at Haver-
hill, Mass, this desire assumed such
a form that the crowds completely
OVERRIDE the police and surrounded
the presidents carriage, making it
difficult for it to advance. In his
speech the president said:
More Yet to Do.
Our navy is now efficient, but we must
be content with no ordinary decree of eff
| cheney. Every effort must be made to bring
1t over nearer to perfection. In making
such effort the prime factor Is to have at
the head of the navy such an official as your
iettow townsman, Mr.. Moody; and the next
! Is to bring home to our people as whole
| the need of thorough and ample prepara
tlon in advance; this preparation to take
the form not only of continually building
ships, but of keeping those ships in com
! mission under conditions which will devel-
op the highest degree of efficiency in the
omcers and enlisted men aboard them"
Address at Lowell.
The special train arrived at Lowell
at 9:19 a. M, and it's arrival was Sig
nailed by the firing of presidential
salute by the local militia, and the G.
A. r. performed guard duty. The side
| walks about the station were thronged
with people, and the common, which
was the scene of the real reception,
was black with humanity. Acting
Mayor Badger and committee of the
city government met the president and
party at the station and were pre-
sented by Charles NJ. Allen, former
governor of Porto Rico. After a few
words of welcome the party took car
riages and drove rapidly to the COM
mon through streets arched with
bunting and lined with cheering peo-
pie. The president said in part:
Now. gentlemen. We have done our full
duty by Porto Rico. We have done our
duty by Cuba. But want to ask this peo-
pie to act further than under a sense of
bare duty. To act in a spirit of generosity
such AS BELTS great republic in dealing
with 4 new and weaker republic which itself
has started on the career of important
selt-government. And I want Furthermore
that our people should be awake to their
own interest in the seas and lands south
OF our country. We drive out those who
had been been depressing Cuba and we
cleaned house for them. Not an easy task
Tor many of those cities had never before
Deen cleaned in their entire history. We
introduced school system. We made JUS
tlce In fact as we'll as'in name. We stamped
out the plague of yellow fever, plague
winch was menace not merely to Cuba.
but to our own southern states, and then
we left them Independent. But from the
very necessities of the case We are bound
to have Intimate relations with them. Cuba
has got to be in a sense part of our inter-
national policy system, and I ask most
earnestly that In return we make her part
&
reciprocal trade relations with her. Gap
plause. cheers and cries Of Rightly
First to Visit Dover.
For the first time in the history of
Dover, N. H., which was founded in
1882, a president of the United, States
was guest there Tuesday. Thou
sands joined in the welcome to Presi-
dent Roosevelt. On the arrival of the
presidential party they were received
by Mayor A. G. Whittemore and a
committee. Under an escort of militia
the guests were escorted to platform
in Franklin square, where the presi-
dent delivered an address.
When Danville Junction was reached
the president was greeted by Post
master General and Mrs. Payne, Mrs.
Garret A. Hobart and Mrs. Charles
Emory Smith. Mr.. Payne accompanied
the president to Lewiston.
Some stops were made which were
not on the itinerary. At Lisbon, Lis
bon Falls and Brunswick, Me-, i'm
mense crowds gathered and the presi-
dent, in response to their clamorous
calls, was obliged to appear on the rear
platform and say few words.
At Portland.
It was 2:1O when the presidential
party reached Portland, Me. AS the
train arrived at the union station,
salute of 81 guns was fired by the
Portland naval reserves. The pres
ident was escorted to a raised platform
just outside. the train shed and spoke
for IS minutes to crowd that filed
the great square. Carriages were
then taken for drive to points of in
terest about the city. In opening his
address President Roosevelt paid an
eloquent tribute to ex-Speaker Thomas
i. Read, whose home is in Portland,
and his services to the country while
in congress. In concluding his remarks
the president said:
II believe that this nation will rise level
to any great emergency that may meet It,
but it will only be because now, in our or
binary work-day life, in the times of peace,
In tho times when no great crisis is upon
us, we school ourselves by constant prac-
tice in the commonplace, everyday indis-
pensable duties, so that when the time ar
rives we shall show that We have learned
right the primary lessons of good citizen
ship"
Competition Develops.
London, Aug. PA letter appears
In the London papers this morning
signed jointly by several London
shipping agents announcing their
readiness to transmit parcels to the
United States at as equally advan-
tageous rates as the post Office.