The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-21
Made an Address from the Rear Plat
form of His Car and Proceeded
on His Journey.
SPEECH AT DUNsMUIR, CAL.
WHERE THE PRESIDENT SPOKE ON
GOOD GOVERNMENT.
Most Of the Day Spent I'm Travelling
of Northern California.

ASHLAND. Ore. May 20.-President
Roosevelt to-day completed his tour or
California and entered on the last stages
of his long trip. which is TO end at WASH
ington June 8. His journey to-day was
through the mountainous. region around
Mount Shasta, where the towns are few
and far between and consequently he was
not called on to do much speaking. Where
his train did stop. however. he was met
by large and enthusiastic crowds. Govern
or Pardee, of California, who has been with
the President almost continuously since he
entered California, babe him goodbye at
Hornbrook, and in the short address the
President delivered at that place he said
he was very sorry to part with him.
The President made his longest speech
of the day at Dunsmuir, Cal. 81 think
can say he said. that 1 came to Cali
fornia q pretty good American and 1 so
away a better one. Glad though / have
been TO see your wonderful products. your
plains and your mountains, your rivers. TO
see the great cities springing up. most or
all have 1 enjoyed meeting the men and
women to whom we owe what has been
done with mine and railroad. numbering
camp and irrigated field and the ranch
and the counting house, the men and wom-
en- who have made California what she is.
81 pity no man because he has to work.
II he is worth his salt he will work.
envy the man who has work worth doing
and does il well; and surely no men alive
are more worthy of admiration than these
men to whom IL is given to build up giant
commemorative like this. II is the fact OF
doing the work well that counts, no; the
kind of work. as long as that work is hon.
orabe. I speak to citizens of community
which has reached it's present pitch of pros
perity because they have done each his
duty as his lines are laid. To the true
American nothing can be more alien than
the spirit either of envy or of contempt
for another who is leading a life as de-
cent citizen should lead II.
In this country We have room for every
honest man who spends his life In honest
efforts; we have no room either for the
man of means who, in a spirit OF arrogant
baseness, looks down on the man less well
off or for the man who envies his neighbor
because that neighbor happens to be better
off. Either feeling is base feeling. UNI
worthy of a self-respecting man. used
the word envy myself just now. but / did
not use It in a bad sense. If you use envy
in the ordinary eense of the word its ex-
istence implies a feeling of inferiority In
the man who feels 1t. feeling that self
respecting man will be ashamed TO have.
If the man is a good American and is Co
ing his work squarcly he need not envy
anybody, because he occupies a position
such as no one else in any other country,
in any other age. has occupied, and because
we hold our citizenship so high. because we
feel and have the right 10 feel satisfaction
with what our people have done. we should
also feel that the only spirit in which to re-
gard any other man who. does well is
spirit of kindly regard and good will IL he
acts squarely; IL he does not. then you re-
gard him a man to feel public scorn and
public contempt.
"It is. of course a trite saying that i'm no
country is it so necessary to have decency,
honesty, self-restraint in the average citi-
cessfnI self aovernmant is founded on that
high average citizenship among our people,
and America has gone as she has gone be-
cause we have that high average of citizen
ship. Our government is based on the
self-respecting majority. Our government
has far escaped the twin dangers OF
other republics-government by plutoc-
racy or government by a mob, either OF
them absolutely alien to American ideals.
From the days of Washington to the days
because the average citizen was of the
stuff that made the Nation go onward and
upward. We cannot be dragged Up. we
have got to push ourselves up. All
other nations have done with governments
founded as ours. the same type of consti-
tuition, the same type of laws. which new
ertheless, have failed, have produced chaos
because they did not have the right type
of citizen back of the law, the right type
of citizen to work out the destiny of the
nation under and through the law. OF
course, we need the law, we need even more,
the honest and fearless enforcement of the
law, enforcement in spirit Of absolute
fair play TO all men, showing fayoritism
to none; doing justice to each. We need
such laws such administration OF laws but
most of all we need 10 keep up that for
the lack of which nothing else can atone in
any people-the average standard of citizen
ship. In our life what we need Is not so
much genius. not so much brilliancy, as
the ordinary, commonplace. everyday
qualities which a man needs in private life
and which he needs just as much in pub
lie life.
I'm coming across the continent from
the Atlantic 10 the Pacific the thing that
has struck me most is that fundamentally
wherever goes i'm this broad country
good American is a good American"
The President was greeted by 5000 per-
sons his train pulled into Ashland this
evening to make the first stop in Oregon.
Bands were playing cannon were booming
and thousands were cheering as the Presi-
dent stepped out on the rear platform of his
car for a fifteen-minute speech. which he
introduced by expressing peculiar pleasure
he felt az entering the State OF Oregon for
the first time. People gathered from all
parts of southern Oregon TO welcome the
President He will spend the night travel