Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-03
Time Has Gone by to Organize When Hos
tilities Actually Commence.
MAY AMEND INTERNATIONAL LAW LATER
Famous Ipsi Di1it Likely to Pass Into
Worlds Accepted Code.
PR, sloENT is KEPT BUSY IN CHICAGO
Visits Two Universities, Receives One
Degree, Lays Law school Corner
stone and f. Lunched
and Dined.

CHICAGO, April 2.---President Roose-
velts sixty-day tour of the west began in
earnest here today. when he stepped from
the Pennsylvania special at S:45 o'clock and
was received by Mayor Harrison and
special reception committee, not TO mem
tion huge crowd which made its unofficial
presence known by cheers which could be
heard across the river.
While the greetings were being ex-
changed and members OF the reception
committee and the Evanston hosts pre-
sented by Mayor Harrison, the presidents
special train was switched to the tracks
Of the Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul road
for the run to the north shore suburb.
AS the guest OF President James P. and
D. Shepard Of Northwestern university F.
p. Brandon, @. B. Jenkins and ]. s. shaffer
of Evanston. the presidential party, within
half hour after arrival again entered
the cars amid the cheers OF the assembled
crowds and the waving of hats, the train
pulled out OF the station.
At Evanston the president was greeted
by Mayor ]. A. Patten and then, headed
by a detachment OF cavalry from Fort
Sheridan and a military hand the party
made its way through lanes of school chill
dren in the streets and OF capped and
gowned students on the campus to the
steps of Lunt library. AS the university
ground were entered a salute OF twenty
one guns was fired
Talks 20 the students.
Addressing the students, the president
referred to the value Of a college educa-
ton
"The better the school training" he said,
"the better the work you can do. We have
no room for the idler-the man who wishes
to live a comfortable life. and II man
has not the right spirit in him, II he goes
from this or any other university feeling
that that fact puts him in a special class
he will fail But II he feels that he has
received special advantage to succeed in
this life and proceeds vigorously with that
special advantage in reserve, he will sue
coed" t.Nt al,i
He spoke OF athletic sports and stamped
hfsaappreval upon them and dwelt upon
their value in Success. intellectual su-
premacy" he said twas good. Physical
prowess was desirable. but better than al
and without which none could succeed, was
an upright character.
AT the conclusion OF the presidents ad
dress the party re-entered the train and
was hurried back to the city without
stop. although along the entire route crowds
gathered at the stations and sought to
catch a glimpse OF the nations chief. Ar
rivinR again at the union station, carriages
we're taken to the Auditorium.
After luncheon the president was es-
corted 10 the University of Chicago, where
he received the degree Of LII. D., in
the presence OF the professors and 5000
students OF the university and Morgan Park
academy. Later he laid the cornerstone
of the new law school building and made
n brief address and returned to town for
h. Audi
Dennes Americas Position.
Later he walked across to the Auditorium,
where 5000 people were yelling themselves
hoarse in his honor. For more than an
hour the vast hall had been packed and
the crowd spread out over the streets, CIV
ing the police hard work to keep them in
order.
The president dealt with the Monroe
doctrine, saying:
4 Today wish to speak to you, not merely
about the Monroe doctrine, but about our
entire p sition In the western hemisphere
a position so peculiar and predominant that
out of Il has grown the acceptance of the
Monroe doctrine as a cardinal feature of
our foreign policy, and in particular 1
wish TO point out what has been done dur
ing the lifetime of the last congress to
make good our position In accordance with
Ever since the time when we definitely
extended our boundaries westward TO the
Pacific and southward TO the gulf, since the
time when the old Spanish and Portuguese
colonies TO the south of us asserted their
independence, our nation has insisted that
because of it's primacy In strength among
the nations of the western hemisphere II
has certain duties and responsibilities
theTeon TnSn oOS Ne hold that our % interests Pai in
this hemisphere are greater than those of
any European power possibly 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
encroaeh upon the territory OF the Ameri-
can republics or acquire control thereover.
Canal Must he American.
This policy, therefore, not only forbids us
90 acquiesce IN such territorial acquisition,
but also causes us to object 70 the acqu re-
be equal to territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
This Is why the United States has steadily
isthmiSn S 'Gs Canal I the @ Budn OF OF I Which shsf 4
TO stand the greatest material feat OF
the twe3ueth eenrErymgreadiier n rs'edi taan any
should be done by no foreign nation but by
ourselves. The canal must of necessity 90
through the territory of one of our smaller
sister republics. We have been scrupu-
lously careful to abstain from perpetratlng
this matter We do not wish TO Interfere
with their rights In the least. but, while
carefully safeguarding them, 10 build ths
canal ourselves under provisions which
will enable US, if necessary to police a nj
protect il, and to guarantees its Reutraiitv
tion was steadfast; we desired action taksn
so that the canal could always be Ueed
by US In time OF peace and war alike and
In time OF war could never De used 10 ouT
detrlment by any nation which was hostils
to- us. such action, by the circumstance
surrounding Il, was necessarily for Inc
beneht aBS not the detriment OF the adj,
iacent ARsrican republics.
After. InsideTably more than half Of q
II centu0 tliese objects have been exactly f,ii
Y flled The legislation and treaties OF m,
last Two years, Two years ago we were M
nirther advanced toward the CONSTRUCTIVE
81 the istAmian canal on our terms than ",
had been during the preceding eighty Yea -
Py the Hay-Paunccfote treaty ratified h
December, 1901, an old treaty with Great
Britain which had been held 10 stand A.
lie way was abrogated and Il was sRTaet
the canal should be constructed under th,
auspices OF the government OF the UnlteC
States, and that this government shonlf
: have the exclusive right to regulate anC