The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-02
VERMONT TOUR ENDS.
President Roosevelt Speaks at
Moody's Old Home.

East NOIlAlct0s 0AaoS.s AS(fSs
President Roosevelt concluded his tour
through Vermont at Brattleboro ana
spending the night here at Northfield-
The reception accorded him at Brattle-
boro was among the prettiest. well con-
Quoted and most enthusiastic ne mas
ever received in his tour OF New Eng
land Upon arriving at the station ne
was met by company OF nIan. Y.
headed by a band and escorted to the
common, where ne delivered brleI al
dress in which he spoke OF Abraham
Lincoln as the man of the nour IN tns
great civil war. He feellnsiy reieHeo
to the venerable Ex-Governor dolprooA,
who was on the platform and VINO &C
companied the president snort ois-
lance through the state as being one OF
the few men who had received the ois-
tinction of being a war governor
The presidents progress through
Rrattieboro was a continuous oyauon-
On the line of march his carriage WaS
stopped in front of the leading hotei
and from the balcony men, women AA.u
children showered flowers upon him. AT
the common. where he delivered his al
dress the pavilion steps We're sueWn
with flowers by little girls VINO were
drawn up on both sides upon his ar
rival
Labor day was generally celeprateo
throughout the state and wherever tue
train stopped holiday crowds were Out
| to extend the president a welcome. ne
| heat was excessive, but the president
seemed to suffer but little from its e.
| fects. His remarks on the subject OF
| labor were confined mostly to tribute
| to the people of Vermont ana ne *
messed his pleasure at being greeted
| by the representatives OF ORGANIZED "a
| Dor. because ne said. the typical Ameri-
| can is the man who works
| The president began the days Jour
nov at burlington, reaching that city
from Shelburne. the home OF Dr. ".
| seward Webb. After drive ABOUT tue
| city the presidential train started SOUTH
ward. stops being made at se pEs'.iard
| I.,dloyy Bellows Falls, Chester anu
| Rrattleboro, and his Vermont trip was
ended. He crossed into MASSACHUSETTS
| in the early evening and went 10 MuIen-
/ field to remain as the guest of Wliiiam
| r Moody. son of the noted evangenst.
The president spoke at every stop put
most of his addresses were DrleI. inae
of the greatest import was one oens tar
ed at Proctor, the home OF senator
| PROCTOR where in he delivered ms loea
/ of the Monroe doctrine
| The most unique speech OF the DAY
was that delivered in the AUDITORIUM
here. ,.,%,x,
| from Rrattleboro to the Mount Hermon
school, being met at the statlon py "a
r. Moody, the head OF the NOT .nl1 hu
school. the Mortified selectmen anu "
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
Al the Mount Hermon scnooi tne
| president held a short reception 70 tne
trustees in the vestry OF the M 96s,y
| anneared In the audience room OF tne
1 chapel he was greeted by the stuoenes
| with prolonged cheers IN Tue eo'e
| Of his remarks he said 4..,.
| II think they teach here the essenuals
of good citizenship, that is, that a man
| is no good who does not know now 70
| work with his hands as Wen as win
his head"
was driven to Hotel Mortified, where
he took dinner. ,~. -,
| the Mortified auditorium, when was
comnleteIy filed. In the large cnolr
| rallery were the Mount Hermon boys
and directly in front OF the oiatio!in
were the veterans OF tne ci'n r"tar
| while or the platform were oen a.s
Lodge. the trustees of the Nortnneiio
| schools and many citizens prominent IA a
political life. Congressman 1ihee'e
presided. ,vnr,ar
| school for young men founded py
Dwight L. Moody and said =
an such a school. a school which Is
equip yS sn b msh e the ID desire for the
| ruIe of righteousness and the pfdcuedi
mower to give actual effect to that oe-
sire. it seems to me there are TWO teA.s
snecially worthy of emphasis one ls
.Pe We doers forward and not hearers
on1v' and the other is not slothfui IN
business fervent in spirit, serving the
Lord. .v,,;
| nent1v community in which there is
need for the actual exercise ana prac,
teal application of both the mliuer anu
stronger virtues Every goou s auahi ~
| nlaca and is of use in the great scneme
Of creation But it is a mere trulsm
to say that at certain times and IN Ger.
tain places there is pre-emlnene heeo
| IF virtues.
"E,,f virtue by itself is not strong
enough. nor anything like enough.
| strength must be added to II ana Ihe
determination to use that strength Ine
| GOOD man who is Ineffective is not able
| to make his goodness of much accoun.
| to the people as a whole NO mate,
how much a man hears the word. SINAI Ia.
| 10 the credit attached to him, II ne falls
| -, he doer also. In serving the LORD
he must remember that he needs to
| avoid sloth in his business as Wen as 60
cultivate fervency OF spirit.
At the close of his address the presi-
| dent was presented with a large Dou-
| ouet by the local Grand Army POST
The attention of the president having
been called to the published s.a'ensn en-
that Attorney General knoxs mans
was being considered with the view o.
appointing him to q justicesnip on tne
| supreme bench to succeed Justice
/ Shiras, it can be said on tHe autno.I. :.
/ ~ the president himself that not only
| does he not contemplate such move
| but Justice Shiras has not resigned
The same published statement also
credits him with having reached tns
| conclusion to place the construction o.
| the isthmian canal under the 1urisolc.
| ton of the army with General LeohaIe
| wood as chairman of the canal com
mittee. The president likewise authoriz
ed the statement that he has no inten.
tion whatsoever of changing the CIV
nature of the commission
At Rutland the president said. Iner'
ia M holiday which should be more typ
icalIy American, no holiday which shouit
make our people think more ser1ousi,
of their privileges and their rights ans
their duties than this holiday OF iapol
day.
.srhe material side of our civilization
| ia very important. but it is 1mportan
because of the men who stand benins
it. Exactly as in battle. the importaH
thing is not the gun, but the man be