The Topeka state journal., 1902-08-29
President Roosevelt SpentNight
at Secretary's Home
After a Day Of Speechmaking
in New Hampshire.
CROWDS EVERYWHERE
Pays Tribute to the Memory OF
John Stark.
SAYS the Country Is Full OF
Such Heroes Today.

Newbury, N H, Aug. 29.-President
Roosevelt last night was the guest VI
Secretary of State Hay, whose summer
home is situated few miles from hgne, T,
along the shores of Lake Sunapee. The
secretary and his daughters met th's
president upon his arrival ana 1olneo
with the assemblage in extending MIN
a hearty welcome
THE president delivered a brief ad-
dress to the townspeople, in which ne
thanked them for their greeting. he
then entered Secretary Hays lauhch
Nomad and steamed to the FellS
The presidents special was greeted at
Concord with salute of 21 guns.
large crowd gathered at the statlon
and welcomed him with hearty cheers-
Tie party drove to the state falr
grounds which the president entered to
the sound of a second presidential Sa-
lutte. A stranger who attempted 10
shake hands with the president was
hustled away by the secret service OIL
cials.
Arriving at the stage from which he
was to speak, the president receiveo
the greatest ovation of the day. Ihe
president said in part:
There has never been a man in oui
history who led a life of ease whose
name is worth remembering Now you
know me. Take holidays L believe In
holidays. 1 believe in play, and l be-
lieve in playing hard while l play, but
1 don't make business of it. Do your
work, and do it up to the handle, ana
then play when you have got time TO
play, and if you are worth anything
enjoy that too. Heroic times in TINS
nations career were when 1T mad work
to do and instead of flinching from the
work did it. and 1t did that heroio
work because, in addition to heroic VII
tues which can be used but once In a
generation, it had those commonplace,
humdrum, everyday virtues which stay
with US year in and year out. There is
need to do all the ordinary, common
place duties as they arise, or we will be
in no shape to meet the crisis that calls
for heroism when that crisis arises.
1T is in the long run the man who
counts. Just exactly as in war, though
you have got to have the best weapons,
yet they are useless if the men behind
them don't handle them well; so in
peace. the best constitution, the best
legislation, the greatest natural advan-
tages, will avail nothing if you have
not the right type of citizenship to take
advantage of them.
About all we have a right to expect
from government is that it will see that
the cards are not stacked, if it sees to
that then we will abide by the deal.
Now, that is the spirit in which to ap-
proach the problems caused by the
enormous increase in our industrial
prosperity, by the growing complexity
of our industrial system We use the
word trust rather loosely to indicate
some time large corporations in which
there is an element of monopoly, some
times all large corporations, especially
if they do an interstate business. Now,
it is not necessary to say that the far
mer is benefited by the success of the
manufacturing center, just the man
ufacturing center must in the last re-
sort depend upon the welfare of the
country for its success. We all share
alike in the upward movement that is
something that we want to remember.
For wealth our fortunes are indiSsolu-
bly, connected. If good times come we
are all of US going to feel them, some
9th hut Iyf
orally, of course, all of us are going to
feel somewhat. If bad times come while
some will suffer more than others, we
will all of us suffer somewhat. Now the
great problem that we should set before
us is to keep prosperity, to render its
advantages less unequal, to try to Sc
cure a greater equality of its benefits,
but above all never under any circum-
stances to lend ourselves to the leader
ship of any who appeal to the baser
passions of mankind. Evils have come
through our every prosperity, but in
warning against the evil let US be ex-
ceedingly careful not to war against
the prosperity. Now, it would be per-
fectly possible at any time to make it
unpleasant for the trusts-perfectly pos
sible to prevent big corporations from
making money? They did not make any
money in 1S93-and neither did any one
else. Let us face the fact that there are
evils. 1t is foolish to blink at those
evils. Let us set ourselves. but tenn
perately and with sanity, to strive to
find out what the evils are and to rem
edy them. If any man tells you that he
can advance a specific by which all the