The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-03

stepped from the Pennsylvania special
at S:45 O'Clock and was received by
Mayor Harrison and a special recep-
ton committee not to mention a huge
crowd which made it's unofficial pres
ence known by cheers, which could be
heard across the river.
AS soon as the cars could be switch
ed the presidential party started for
Evanston, where the President adj
| dressed the students of Northwestern
University on the value of a college
education. The party returned to the
auditorium for luncheon. After lunch
con the presidential party went to the
University of Chicago in carriages.
At the quadrangle approach to the
university grounds, the presidential
party was met by the faculty and trus-
tees, in cap and gown, and led by
President Harper. The President was
escorted to Kent Theater, where Pres
ident Harper coferred the degree of
| LID. DR.. Harper handed the Presi-
dent a diploma and directed that the
doctors hood" be placed upon his
shoulders. The President spoke no
word, but bowed in acknowledgment of
the honor conferred. AS the process
sion emerged from the theater, the uni
versity band played national airs and
| deafening college yells greeted the
President.
At the head of a convocation process
sion, in which the young women of the
| college participated. the President
made his way to the site of the new
law school building, where preparations
| had been made for him to lay the cor
ner stone. An immense stone, weigh
ing seven tons, was ready to be lower
ed in place. President Roosevelt,
trowel in hand, gave the signal, and
as the huge mass settled upon it's foun-
dalton, he cast a small quantity of
mortar beneath it. The presidential
party then returned to the city.
Thousands in Auditorium.
Six thousand people. in a hall whose
| seating capacity is but 5000, gave en-
| thusiastic reception to President Roose-
welt when he stepped upon the stage
of the Auditorium tonight. The great
| building has held many a thrOng, but
never one that was more hearty and
| unstinted in it's al -ause for any man
than the crowd that filled it tonight.
From the first floor to the roof it was
packed to it's utmost capacity. Every
seat was occupied, and although the
aisles were kept clear, all the space
in the lobbies and on the stairways
was taken, and even the passageWays
leading to the hall from the lower floor,
We're jammed with hundreds of men,
who were utterly unable to hear word
of the Presidents address.
When the President, escorted by the
members of the local committee APP
3 peared on the platform, he was met
with great enthusiasm, the vast crowd
rising to it's feet, and experimenting its
| hearty cheers with waving programmes
and tiuttering handkerchief.
| The President acknowledged his re-
! ception with repeated bows, and al
| 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, in a few words an
| nounced that the nations chief execu-
tive would be made welcome to the
city by Mayor Harrison, who then
spoke briefly, extending to the Presi-
dent a hearty welcome and expressing
the pleasure felt by the people of Chi
cago at his visit, and offering him their
best wishes for a happy and pleasant
trip during his two months of vaca-
ton.
The President bowed his thanks to
Mayor Harrison, and to Mr.. Mac
Veagh, who introduced him to his
audience, and expressed his pleasure
at the cordial 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 de-
liver his address. The address through
out was received in the most cordial
manner. The address in part was as
follows:
speech of the President.
To-day l wish to speak to you, not
merely about the Monroe doctrine, but
| about our entire position in the West
| ern hemisphere-a position so peculiar
| and predominant that out of it has
! grown the acceptance of the Monroe
| doctrine as a cardinal feature of our
! foreign policy; and in particular wish
! to point out what has been done dur
ing the lifetime of the last Congress
to make good our position in accord
ance with this historic policy.
Ever since the time when we def
nitely 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 independ-
ence, our nation has insisted that be-
cause of it's primacy in strength among
the nations of the Western hemisphere
it has certain duties and responsible
ties which oblige it to take a leading
part thereon. We hold that our inter-
ests in this hemisphere are greater
than those of any European power pos
sibly can be, and that our duty to
ourselves and to the weaker republics
who are our neighbors requires us to
see that none of the great military
powers from across the seas shall en-
croach upon the territory of the Amer
lean republics or acquire control there
over.
This policy, therefore, not only for
bids us to acquiesce in such territorial
ACQUISITION, but also causes us to OBJ
iect to the requirement of a control
which would in its effect be equal to
territorial aggrandizement. This is
why the United States has steadily be-
lieVed that the construction of the
great Isthmian canal, the building of
which is to stand as the greatest ma
terial 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 must of necessity go through
the territory of one of our smaller sis
ter republics. We have been scrupu-
lously careful to abstain from perpe-
trating any wrong upon any of these
republics in this matter. We do not
wish to interfere with their rights in
the least: but while carefully safe