Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-03
URGES A STRONG NAVY
President Roosevelt Says We
Must Have Ships to Back
Monroe Doctrine
EUROPE NOW RESPECTS 1T
The Venezuela Controversy Was Means
of Bringing Germany and England
to Acknowledge the Force of the
Principle-Nation Must Be Prepared
to Enforce it.
EUROPE NOW RESPECTS

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Chicago, April 3.-Six thousand peo-
pie, in hall the seating capacity OF
greeting to President Roosevelt, WHEEL
he stepped upon the stage of the Au-
ditorium last night. The great build
| ing has held many throng, but never
one that was more hearty and urstint-
| ed in it's applause for any man than the
crowd that filled it last night. From
the first floor to the roof it was packed
to its utmost capacity. Every seat was
occupied, and. altho the aisles were
and on the stairways was taken, ana
even the passageways leading TO the
hall from the lower floor. were jam
med with hundreds of men who were
utterly unable to hear wore OF the
presidents address. All that came to
them was the roar Of applause from
within, and with such loyal lungs did
they accept their cue that several times
they were giving vent to cheers when
those on the inside died away. and
the president had resumed his address
Twice during the evening, Chief OF
Police ONeill was compelled to send
word to the patriots without the door
! that they must cheer in better time,
/ or he would be compelled to clear the
stairway.
| In the. street outside for mora than
an hour before the time set for the
opening of the presidents address a
small army of policemen was kept busy
Thousands of people filed Wabash av-
enue in the rear of the Auditorium,
damned Michigan avenue in front OF
lit. and blockaded, to the best of its
ability, Congress street, whicf runs
at the side of it. The Officers; were
stretched in double line along all the
walks Immediately adjoining the build
ling and no person, who could not ex-
hibit credentials emitting him to adj
mission to the hall. was permitted upon
the walk. The jam at the doors of the
hall for thirty minutes preceding the
time at which the president vas to
open his address. was Of a character
Ito test TO the utmost the patience of the
|
I'm.
When the president, escorted by the
local committee, appeared on the plat
| form he was met with great enthusi-
assn the vast crowd rising to It's feet
and supplementing its hearty cheers
with waving programs and fiuttering
lhandkerchiefs.
The president acknowledged his re-
ception With repeated bows, and at
once took his seat between Franklin
MacVeagh, the chairman of the COM
mittee and Mayor Harrison, who was
to deliver the formal address of well
come. President Roosevelt said:
! Mr.. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen:
| Today l wish to speak to YOU, not
merely about the Monroe doctrine but
about our entire position in the western
hemisphere position so peculiar
and predominant that out of 1t has
grown the acceptance of the Monroe
doctrine as cardinal feature of our
foreign policy; and in particular wish
to poirlt out what has been done during
the lifetime of the last congress to
make good our position in accordance
with this historic policy.
Ever since the time when we defin-
| itely extended our boundaries west
ward to the Pacific and southwark to
/ the gulf, since the time when the old
Spanish and Portuguese colonies to the
south of us asserted their independence,
1 our nation has insisted that because of
| its primacy in strength among the ma
I lions of the western Hemisphere it has
certain duties and responsibilities
which oblige it to take a leading part
! thereon. We hold that our interests
in this hemisphere are greater than
those of any European power possibly
| can be, and that our duty to ourselves
and to the weaker republics who are
four neighbors requires us to see that
none of the great military powers from
across the seas shall encroach upon
the territory of the American republic
or aquire control thereover.
This policy, therefore. not only for
aquisition, but also causes us to OBJ
which would in its effect be equal to
territorial grandizement. This is why
the United States has steadily believed
that the construction of the great 18TH
mian canal, the building of which il
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of the twentieth century-greater than
any similar feat in any preceding cen
| tury-shouId be done by no foreign
nation but by ourselves. The canal
must of necessity go through the ter
| ritory of one of our smaller sister re-
| publics. We have been scrupulously
careful to abstain from perpetrating
!any wrong upon any OF these repub-
/ lies in this matter. We do not wish to
4 interfere with their rights in the least;
but, while carefully safeguarding them.
Ito build the canal ourselves under pro-
visions which will enable US, If neces-
sary, TO police and protect it, and to
guarantee its neutrality, we being the
sole guarantor. Our intention was
steadfast we desired action taken SO
THAT the canal could always be used by
ius in time of peace and war alike, and
in time of war could never be used to
our detriment by any nation which was
| hostile to us. Such action, by the cir
cumstances surrounding it, was neces-
sarily for the benefit and not the det-
riment of the adjacent American re-
publics.
After considerable more than half
of a century these objects have been
exactly fulfilled by the legislation and
treaties of the last two years. Two
years ago we We're no further advan-
| ced toward the construction OF the 18TH
milan canal on our terms than we had
been during the preceding eighty years.
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