New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-21
PRESIDENT In OREGON.
BIG CROWDS GREET HIN.
He .Speaks on the Qualities That
Maize IN Good Citizenship.

VI ant 4 " attf~A't''G
Ashland. Ore. May 2o-President Roosevelt
completed his Of California To-Day a!1
entered upon the last stages Of his long tlf'
which is TO end at Washington on June d. las
tourney to-day has been through the mountain
Gus region about Mount Shasta "heIe Inc
towns are few and far between and colse-
uuently he has been called upon TO 90 h'Ne
speaking Where his train stopped, however ne
Was met by large and enthusiastic CROWDS.
Governor Pardee Of California, who has oeeh
with the President almost continually since ne
entered that State. bade him gooooy at morn
brook and in the short address the PRESIDENT
delivered at that place he said he was sorry 10
part with him.
The President made his longest speech OF the
6sy ar Dunsmuir. Cal. Il think can say ne
said. that came to California pretty gooo
American. and so away better one He
continued:
CLAD though 1 have been 10 see your wonder
erI TroSucts YOUR plains and your mountains
your rivers 10 see the great cities spr1nginS up
most Of ali have enjoyed meeting the men ana
women 10 whom we owe what has peen zone
with mine and railroad. and numbering camp and
irrigated field and the ranch and the counting
house the men and women who have made Call
7 nifty no man because he has 70 work. If he
is worth his salt he viii work. ] envy the man
who has g work worth doing ana VINO does II
well; and surely no men alive are more worthy
Of admiration than these men. to whom 1t is
given TO build aIp giant commemorative like this;
it is the fact of doing the work well that counts
not the kind OF work. long as the world is non
orabie. speak 10 citizens Of q community when
has reached its present pitch OF prosperity
because they have done each his duty as his
lines are laid
TRUE AMERICAN SPIRIT
To the true American nothing can be more
alien than the spirit either of envy OF of con
ferrpt for another who is leading A life as
lead IL n
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 spirit or
arrogant baseness. looks down upon the man
less well off, for the who enVies his
z7eighbor because that neIghboT happens TO be
better off Either feeling is a base feeling. I'M
worthy Of self-respecting man. l used the
word envy myself just now. but | did not use
It in q bad sense. If the man is good Amerj-
can and is doing his work squarey. he need not
envy anybody. because he occupies a position.
such as no one else in any other country III any
other age has occupied: and because hol5
our citizenship high. because We feel and
have the right to feel satisfa ction with what
people have done. should also feel that the
only spirit in which 10 regard any other MAJ:
who does we'll is spirit Of kindly regard and
good VIII. if he acts squarely.
It is Of course. a perfectly trite saying that in
no country is it SO necessary to have decency.
honesty. self restraint in the average citizen a
in republic. d democracy. for successful self
government is founded upon the high average
citizenship among people; and America has
gone on as she has gone because We have that
IS based upon self-respecting maj0riyt. Our
government. far has escaped the twin dan
gers Of the other republics government by
plutocracy or government by mob, either OF
them absolutely alien to American ideals. From
the days Of Washington TO the days of Lincoln
We went onward and upward. because the aver
age American was OF the stuff that made the
nation go onward and upward We cannot be
dragged up We have got to push ourselves up.
OF course. need the law; need even
rnore-the honest and fearless enforcement of
the Acknowledgement in spirit of absolute fair
play to ali men, showing favoritism to none,
doing justice to each But most of all we need
TO keep up that for the lack Of which nothing
else can atone in any people-the average stand
ard OF citizenship In our life what we need Is
not so much genius, not so much brilliancy. as
the ordinary, commonplace. everyday qualities
which man needs in private life, and which he
needs just as much in public life.
The President also spoke at Sisson and at
Montague. At the latter place he said:
When my trip made up / asked why
Ii was necessary to give relatively four
times much time to California as to any
other State. / understand now / only wish
it had been possible TO make it eight times as
much instead. This morning / have been
greatly Impressed in travelling through these
mountains and meeting the men who have done
much in numbering as l have already met
the men OF the mines and ranches; the com
lnerce and industries Of the great cities. This
State is in boundaries and resources greater
than many Old World empire, and think
what IL is TO be citizen Of a union in which a
commonwealth like this is State
WELCOMED TO OREGON
The President greeted by six thousand
people as his train pulled into Ashland this
evening where he made his first stop in Oregon.
Bands were playing, cannon were booming, and
thousands were cheering the President
stepped out on the rear platform OF his for
ifteen-minute speech. which he introduced by
expressing the peculiar pleasure he felt at en-
tering the State Of Oregon for the first time.
People gathered mere from all sections of South
i ern Oregon TO welcome the President. He will
spend the night travelling no stops of any
length being scheduled after he leaves Ashland,
&c viii arrive at Salem tomorrow morning at
p O'Clock and viii be met by Governor Cham
berlain and a committee from the State legts-
latUre Three fnours will be spent in the CAPT
tai and the President will deliver address
from the State House steps. Governor Cham
.eTlain viii accompany the Presidents party 10
Portland where they viii spend tomorrow