The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-25

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 Sea Girt, N. J., July 24.-No president ever received a more sincere, heartfelt and potriotic welcome than that ac- corded to-day to President Roosevelt by the people of New Jersey. From the time he landed on New Jersey soil at the Atlantic Highlands pier, at 1:35 this afternoon until he left in his launch for the war yacht Mayfiower. at 3:15, he was the recipient of a continuous ova- tion.
 The president, on invitation of Cover nor Franklin Murphy, visited the en- campment of the Second brigade of the National Guard of the state at Sea Girt. He was accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Alice Roosevelt, MT and Mrs. w Emlen Roosevelt, Miss Christine Roose- welt, and Assistant Secretary Loeb.
 The party was conveyed to Sea Girt in special train. Every station along the route was thronged with people who cheered and waved flags enthusastical- ly as the train passed.
 After brief rest and an informal re- ception at the governors cottage, Pres ident Roosevelt and Governor Murphy and staff reviewed the troops in camp, the president being mounted on a chest nut bay which he sat perfectly. At the conclusion of the review, MT. Roosevelt was escorted to a stand adjoining the parade ground and there addressed a multitude of nearly 15,000.
 The president opened his speech by complimenting the New Jersey guards men upon their soldierly and business like appearance. Continuing he said:
 "A man is of use as national guards man for exactly the same reasons as he is of use as a citizen and that is if he sets to work with his whole heart to do his duty for the time being, to make himself thoroughly proficient in the line of the, business he has taken up.
 "A national guardsman who joins only to have a good time pretty general ly does not have good time. and cer- tainly makes poor hand at being a guardsman. You have got to try at once to come up to the highest stand ard that you can set before yourselves of soldierly proficiency.
 T earnestly hope and believe you never will get into battle, but if you do, it is going to be mighty important to hit the other fellow; and you are going to be able to do it largely in consequence of the way you put in your time, know ing your rife until it is just part of yourself, until you can handle it, take care of it and use it; as it has been the pride of the American army in the past that our troops always have used their rifles efficiently. Our army has given us a just pride in it, because its con- stant and jealous effort has been to take care of itself in the field and in all that pertains to the duties of a SOL dier.
 T think, gentlemen, that much help can be given to the national guards of the states by the action of the United States government. l want to see the national guard armed with the best and most modern weapons. ] want to see the infantry with the Krag- -Jorgensen and want to see the artillery with the three-point-tw gun of the regular arr my. I am happy to say that bill has been passed through the lower house which will enable the national govern ment materially to aid the national guard of the different states. At the next session, I firmly believe that we will get it through the senate and then I can guarantee the signature of the president.
 'I think that our people have not al ways appreciated the debt they were under to the national guard. A man who goes into the national guard and does his duty fairly and squarely there, puts the whole country under an obliga tion to him. Always in our history it has been the case as it will be in the future that, if war should arise, it is to be met mainly by the citizen soldier the volunteer soldier. We have, in the regular army, officered as it is and filled with the type of enlisted men an army which firmly believe, for it's size, is unequalled in the civilized world; and l am sure that can challenge the most generous support from the national guard for the regular army of the Unit ed States. But that army is, and of necessity must be, so small that in the event of serious trouble in the future. the great bulk of our troops must come, as in the past they have come, from the ranks of the people themselves; and in forming those regiments the good done by the presnce in them of men who have served faithfully in the national guard cannot be over-estimated. Those men are ready. They know what is ex- pected of them. They train others to do the work that is needed. The same qualities thta make a man a success, that make him do his duty decently and honestly in national guard regiment are fundamentally the qualities that he needs to make him good citizen in pri- vate life.
 ''No doubt some of you were in the Spanish-American war"
 A voice: Yes"
 ''The only trouble with that war was that there was not enough war to go around"
 A voice: "You got your slice.''
 q did," continued the president. T was one of the lucky ones."
 After relating the anecdote of the am- bilious soldier who entered camp at