The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-22
Who Attended the Lewis and Clark
Monument Exercises and Weld
ed TroweI.
ALSO DELIVERED A SPEECH
AND LATER ATTENDED A BANQUET
GIVEN BY CITIZENS.
Visit Paid tn Salem, the Capital Of
the State, Where the President
Kissed an Invalid Child.

Roosevelt visited Salem, Ore. this morning
and arrived in Portland this afternoon to
spend the night. On the way to the sta
ton at Salem the President noticed an in
valid child lying on q stretcher on the
curbing. He stopped his carriage, alighted
and kissed the little girl. The President
was greeted along the line Of march by
cheering crowds. The procession stopped
at Marion Square, where 1900 school chill
dren were assembled. The President de-
livered few words of greeting and en-
enlargement to the children. who responded
by singing America" The President
Joined heartily in the chorus. The party
was then driven to the Capitol, where the
President was escorted through a double
line Of Grand Army veterans with all of
whom he shook hands and exchanged
few words. Some moments were spent In
the Governors suite, meeting and convers-
ing with State officials and other prominent
citizens. after which the President passed
out the west entrance where, from an
deliberately decorated platform, the Presi-
dent delivered thirty-minutes address.
At the conclusion of his address the Pres
idnet was driven to the train again and
the party left Salem for Portland. As his
train reached the bridge spanning the
Willamette river in this city, a salute of
twenty-one guns was fired by battery of
the Oregon National Guard stationed on the
elevation across the river from the Union
station A few minutes later the train
entered the station amid the cheering of an
immense crowd, the din Of steam whistles
and the playing of bands.
A committee headed by Senator Mitchell
escorted the President to a carriage and a
drive about the city was taken. In the car
rage with the President were Secretary
Loeb, Governor Chamberlain and Mayor
Williams. who was a cabinet officer when
the President was a boy. The parade was
headed by a platoon of police.
A section of the parade that attracted
great attention was a human flag COM
posed of four hundred school girls A mill
tary company Of fifty American-born Chi
nese. under command of Reid Rock. jr..
cession Over the entire route from
the station to the city park, dis
lance of three miles. American flags
were spread across the streets. Suspended
from the Hotel Portland to the postoff1ce,
across Sixth street, was a large flag, the
first American flag hoisted on the walls of
flag and marked the end of the Spanish
flag in the PHILIPPINES When the Presi-
dents carriage proceeded under the flag
he and the other occupants took off their
hats.
When the President reached City Park
25. 900 persons had assembled to see the lay
Clark monument. The spot where the mon
ument is to be erected is an elevation 200
feet above the city, commanding a fine view
Of the Willamstte river, Mount Hood,
other snow-capped peaks of the Cascade
range. Mayor Williams delivered the ad-
Of t4 w tbsh tas tSs
nerstone of the monument that is to be
erected in honor of the expedition of Lewis
territory known as the. Oregon country.
The exercises at the park were somewhat
curtailed on account of slight shower Of
rain. The Presidents address follows:
1--WE come here to-day to lay a corner
stone that is to call to mind the greatest
single pioneering feat on this continent
and Clarke, which rounded out the ripe
craftsmanship Of Jefferson and his fellows
by giving to the United States all of the
domain between the Mississippi and the
Pacific. Following their advent came the
reign of the fur trader. and then some
sixty years ago those entered in whose
children and children's children were to
possess the land. Across the continent in
the early forties came the ox-drawn, white
topped wagons bearing the pioneers-the
stalwart. sturdy. sunburnt men. with their
wives and little one. who entered into this
country to possess 1t. You have built up
this wonderful commonwealth-a common
wealth great In its past and infinitely
1T was pleasure to me to-day to have
as part of my escort the men Of the Second
Oregon who carried on expansion of our
people beyond the Pacific as your fathers
had carried IL on to the Pacific. ] speak to
the men of the Pacific slope, to the men
whose predecessors gave us this region
because they were not afraid, because they
did not seek the life of ease and safety,
because their life-training was not to
shrink from obstacles, but to meet and
Nation go forward as 1t has gone forward
in the past; ask that 1t shape its life in
accordance with the highest ideas. 1 ask
in the interest of the people of the islands,
and just so long as men like Taft and Luke
Wright are there they will be so governed
l ask that our name be synonym for
truthful and fair dealing with all the ma
tons of the world. 1 ask two things In
connection with our foreign policy-that
never finch from the strong.
To-day the secretary Of the navy spoke
of the great pride. we take In the feats Of
of this State-the oregon. 1t is a great
thing to cheer her. but it is a better thing
to see that we keep on building ships like
her and even better. That is the right way
to cheer our Oregon, to see our senators
and representatives in Congress go on with
the building of the United States navy.
Whether We wish 1t or not, we have to be
a great rower. We have to play a great
part. Ali we can decide is whether we will
play that part well or not, and / know. my
countrymen, there Is scant doubt as to how
the decision will come out
I'VE have met to commemorate a mighty
pioneer feat, feat of the old days when
men needed to call upon every ounce of
courage and hardihood and manliness they
possessed in order to make good our claim
to this continent. Let us in our turn, with
equal courage, equal hardihood and manli-
ness, carry on the task that our forefa-
theirs have intrusted to our hands. And
let us resolve that We will leave to our
children and our chidren's children an even
uightier heritage than we received In our
turn L ask it and I am sure that it will
be granted"
After the exercises at the park the Presi-
dent was driven to the Hotel Portland
where he rested until he went to a banquet
given in his honor by the citizens Of Port
land. The grillroom of the hotel where the
BANQUET was held presented a handsome
appearance. Mayor Williams presided and
introduced the President
Tomorrow the President will cross the
Columbia river by ferry and enter Wash