The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-21
WHERE ROLLS
THE OREGON
Roosevelt Crossed California
State Line Yesterday.
FINAL SPEECH AT DUNSMUlR
WEBFEET WILL DO THE CELE-
BRATING TODAY.

Ashland, Ore, May 2o-President
Roosevelt today completed his tour of
California and entered upon the last
stages of his long trip which is to end
a Washington June ;. His journey 10
day mas been through the mountainous
region around Mount Shasta, where the
towns are few and far between and
consequently he has been called upon
to do but little speechmaking. Where
mis- train did stop, however, he was met
by large and enthusiastic crowds. Gov
ernor Pardee Of California. who has
been with the president almost cOntin-
uously since he entered that state, babe
him good-by at HornbrOok, and in the
short address the president made at
that place he said he was very sorry to
part with him. The president made
his longest speech of the day at Duns-
muir, Cal.
Presidents Speech.
81 think that I can say" he said,
that I came to California a pretty
good American and I so away a better
one. (Applause.)
Glad enough that have been to see
your wonderful products, your plains
and your mountains, your rivers, to see
the great cities springing up. Most of
all have 1 enjoyed meeting the men and
women to whom we owe what has been
done with mine and railroad, and lum-
bering camp and irrigated field and the
ranch and the counting house, the men
and women who have made California
what she is
II pity no man because he has to
work. If he is worth his salt he viii
work. 1 envy the man who has work
worth doing and does it well; and sure
" no men alive are more worthy Of
admiration than these men to whom 1t
is given to build up a. giant common
wealth like this. It is the fact Of do
ing the work well that counts, not the
kind of work. as long as that work is
honorable I speak to citizens OF a
community which has reached its pres
ent pitch of prosperity because they
have done each his duty as his lines
were laid. To the true American moth
ing can be more alien than the spirit
either Of envy or Of contempt for an
other who is leading a life as a decent
citizen should lead it.
Room For Workers.
IN this country we 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 a
spirit Of arrogant baseness, looks down
upon the man less well of, or for the
man who envies his neighbor because
that neighbOr happens to be better off.
Either feeling is a base feeling, IN
worthy of a self-respecting man
used the word envy myself just now,
but I did not use it in a bad sense, If
you use envy in the ordinary sense of
the word its existence implies a feeling
Of inferiority in the man who feels 1t, a
feeling that a Self-respecting man viii
be ashamed to have. If the man is a
good American and is doing his work
squareiy he need not envy anybody,
In h -
no one else in any other country, in any
other age. has occupied; and because
We hold our citizenship so high because
we feel and have the right to feel sat
isfactiOn with what our people have
done, we should also feel that the only
spirit in which to regard any other man
who does well is a spirit of kindly re-
gard and good will If he acts sQuarely /;
If he does not, then you regard him as
a man TO feel public scorn and public
contempt. 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 as
a republic, a democracy, for successful
government is founded upon that
high average Of citizenship among our
people; and America has gone on as she
has gone because we have that high
average of citizenship. Our government
is based upon the self-respecting ma
jOrity. Our government has so far
escaped the twin dangers Of the other
republics, government by a plutocracy
or government by a mob. either of
them absolutely alien to American
ideals.
Onward and Upward.
From the days of Washington to the
days of Lincoln we went onward and
upward because the average American
was of the stuff that made the nation
go onward and upward. We cannot be
dragged up, we have got to push our
selves up. All you have to do is to
compare what other nations have done
with governments founded as ours, the
same type of constitution, the same
type of law which, nevertheless, have
failed. have produced chaos because
they did not have the right type of cit
lZen back of the law, the right type of
citizen to work out the destiny of the
nation under and through the Law. OF
course we need the law; We need even
more the honest and fearless enforce
ment of the law, enforcement in a
spirit of absolute fair play to all men,
showing fav0ritism TO none, doing Jus
tice to each. We need such laws, seeh
administration of the laws, but most of
all we need to keep up that for the lack
Of which nothing else can atone in any
people, the average standard of citizen
ship. In our life what we need is not
SO much genius, not so much bFilliancy
as the ordinary commonplace every
day qualities which a man needs in pri-
vate life, and which he needs just as
much in public life
In coming across the continent from
the Atlantic to the Pacific the thing
that has struck me most is that fun
damentalIy wherever one goes in this
broad country, a good American is a