The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-03

CHICAGO, April Six thousand
people, in a hall the seating capacity
of which is but 5000, gave enthusiastic
greeting to President Roosevelt when
he stepped upon the stage of the Audi
torium tonight. From the first floor to
the roof the hall was packed to its ut
most capacity.
In the street outside for more 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 filled Wa
bash avenue in the rear of the Audi
torium iammed Michigan avenue in
front of it, and blockaded, to the best
of its ability, Congress street, which
runs at the side of it. The officers were
stretched in double line along all the
walks Immediately adjoining the build
ing, and no person who could not ex-
hibit credentials emitting him to ad-
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 was to
open his address was of a character to
test to the utmost the patience of the
police without and of the ushers within.
In the Auditorium.
When the president, escorted by the
members of the local committee, ap-
peared on the platform he was met
with great enthusiasm, the vast crowd
rising to its feet and supplementing
its hearty cheers with waving pro-
grammes and fluttering handkerchiefs.
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.
As soon as his voice could be heard
Mr.. MacVeagh announced that the ma
tion'S chief executive would be made
welcome to the city by Mayor Harri-
son, who then extended to the presi-
dent hearty welcome, expressing the
pleasure felt by the people of Chicago
at his visit and offering to him their
best wishes for happy and pleasant
trip during his two months of Vaca-
ton.
The president bowed his thanks to
Mayor Harrison and to Mr.. MacVeagh,
who introduced him to his audience
and expressed his pleasure at the cor
dial reception extended to him upon
the first stop of his long trip, and then
turning directly to the audience in
front of him proceeded in his peculiarly
energetic manner to deliver his ad-
dress.
The address throughout was received
In the most cordial manner, and with
as much approval for the manner in
which it was delivered as for the mat
ter it contained.
Speaks on the Monroe Doctrine.
We hold" said the president, that
our interests in this hemisphere are great
er than those of any European power pos
sibly can be, and that our duty to our
selves and to the weaker republics who
are our nefShbors requires us to see that
none of the great military powers from
across the seas shall encroach upon the
territory of the American republics OF
acquire control thereoVer. This policy,
therefore, not only forbids US to acquiesce
In such territorial acquisition, but also
causes US 10 object to the requirement
OF control which would in its effect
be equal to territorial aggrandiZement.
This is why the United States has steadily
believed that the construction of the
great lSthmian canal the building of
which is 10 stand as the grea test mate
rial feat Of the twentieth century-greater
than any similar feat in any preceding
century-should be done by no foreign
nation, but by ourselves. The canal m7Ist
or necessity go through the territory of
one OF our smaller sister republics. We
have been ScrupulOuSly careful to abstain
from perpetrating any wrong upon any
OF these republics in this matter. We do
not wish to interfere with their rights
IN me least; but, while carefully safe
guarding them, to build the canal our
selves under provisions which will enable
us. If necessary, to police and protect it,
and and 70 guarantee its neutrality, We being
The president sketched the various
steps taken in the negotiation of the
canal treaty and recounted the part borne
by our government in the recent Venezue-
Ian difficulty. He went on:
VIII Become international Law.
The Monroe doctrine is not interna
tfonaI law, and though I think one day
1t may become such, this is not neces-
sary as long as it remains a cardinal
feature of our foreign policy and as long
as We possess both the will and the
strength to make it effective This last
point, my. fellow citizens, is all impor-
tant, and IS one which as a people We can
never afford to forget 1 believe in the
Monroe doctrine with all my heart and
soul; l am convinced that the immense
majority OF our fellow cOuntrymen so
believe In il; but I would infinitely prefer
TO see Us abandon it than to see US nut
1t forward and buster about it, and vet
fail to build UP the efficient fighting
strength which in the last resort can
alone make it respected by any strong
foreign power whose interest it may ever
happen 10 be to violate it.
'BOasting and clustering are as OBJ
JectlonabIe among nations as among in
dlvldualS, and the public men of a great
nation owe 1t to their sense of national
SeH-reSpect to speak courteouSly of for
elgn powers. Just as a brave and self
respecting man treats all around him
courteously. But though to boast is bad,
and causelessly to insult another, worse; /;
yet worse than all is it to be guilty. Of
boastIng, even without insult. and when
cdi4Su 10 me proof TO be una bic to make
such bOasting good.''
Mr. Roosevelt dweIt upon the impor-
lance or the country possessing strong
navy and told what has already been ac1
compllShed IN this direction
1t IS too late to prepare for war when
war has come" he said; land If we only
prepare sufficiently no war will ever come.
We wish powerful and efficient navy
not for purposes of war, but as the sUrest
guaranty Of peace. If we have such a
naVy-f we keep on building it uD-we
may rest assured that there IS but fhe
smallest chance that trouble will ever
come to this nation; and We may likewise
rest assured that no foreign power viii
ever quarrel with US about the Monroe
doctrine
An lmpromptu Reception.
At the conclusion of the address
there was renewed and continued ap-
plause, and while the greater part of
the audience was leaving the hall, the
president was holding an impromptu
reception on the platform as all the
members of the committee that had
been seated with him on the platform,
and many men from. the audience
pressed round him to offer their con-
gratulations on the address. Scant time
was allowed for this, however, and the
secret service men closed about him
during the short handshaking and
quickly escorted him back to his apart
ments in the hotel
Immediately preceding his address in
the Auditorium, President Roosevelt
was entertained at dinner in the ban