The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-05

| that is going to count Is the man not who
lodges work but who goes out into life
rejoicing as strong man to run q race,
girding himself for the effort: bound to
disaster. And so it is with our nation.
No nation which has given itself only TO
90 easy things ever %et amounted to any
thing throughout the ages.
We have become a great people. At
the Threshold Of this twentieth century
We stand with the future looming large
before US. We have great problems with
In and great problems without. We can
not. II We would, refuse to face those
problems. All we can decide Is whether
we viii do them well or III; for refusal
TO face them Woud itself mean that we
were doing them i'll. We are in the arena
into which great nations must come. We
must play our part. 1t rests with us to
decide that we snail not play it ignobly
that we shall not endeavor to finch from
the great problems before US, but that
We shall take our place in the forefront
or the great nations and face each prob
lem OF the day with the same confident
and resolute hope that you of the great
days from 81 to IS faced your great
problems when you upheld the right arm
Of Abraham Lincoln and followed to vic
tory the Silent Soldier. the leader of the
armies of the aGivil 'w4i' (Great applause
and cheers)
The president spoke briefly to the
great throng before the capitol, say
ing:
President Roosevelt said:
>s-S : Governor. Mr.. Mayor. and YOU, nv fell
low citizens: shall only keep YOU a few
minutes. and You will find out that if each
one stays perfectly still no one will sway
daughter
Il am deeply touched by your greeting
today. and it is fitting that Minnesota
should greet the president for the presi-
/ dent stands as the representative OF no
party. but of the nation: and Minnesota
stands herself as in the heart of this ma
ton. as one of those states of the l1pDer
mississippi and the Great Iakes which
typify In peculiar degree all that there
Is most American in the American char
acter.
Passing through the capitol here I
passed by the glass case in which is pre-
served the tattered battle flag of the First
Minnesota, the flag which it carried at
GettySburg. when that regiment won for
YOUR state the honor-the high and dread
ful honor of having sent to the Civil
war the regiment which in a single fight
lost greater proportion of it's men.
wounded and killed. than any other. and
vet The. remnant held the ground and the
fa e which they had taken. (Applause)
You Of the Northwestern men and
WON n1,Irepresent stock peculiarly and
typicallys Aperican-typical in it's robust
strength: typical in its ability and willing
ness toSdo WE'LL alike in war and in peace
r-tynlcal of our country, moreover. be-
race strains. The American of today has,
as the Annerican of the future will have.
IN his veins the blood of many old-world
races. He will be akin to all and vet
different from all For out of the mixture
OF these old world stocks, mixture rep
resenting all the peoples of western and
central Europe has come and is develop
ing here in this new world new world
Etype-the American which we intend to
see shall stand as higher and finer type
than ever any that has hitherto been
developed since the days when history
| dawned. (Applause)
4 greet you. | welcome you. thank
f0 aer t hour n welcome OF me me am glad
| women. am glad to see the children.
1Applause from the children.) And l am
| Glad to5zsee that you are not only all
QUANTITY (Cheers.l For I think highly
| of this stock and 1 want to see it kept
up Good luck to you al"
g In his Minneapolis speech the presi-
dent dealt with the tariff, saying in
part:
4 My Fellow Citizens:
the special session of the senate
| held IN March the Cuban reciprocity
offer to Cuba her natural market. In the
4 next place it widens the market for our
products. Finally, the treaty was not
foreign polieM More and more in the
future We must occupy a preponderant
position in the waters and along the
! coasts in the region south of u.s. not a
position Of control over the republics of
the south, butt of control of the military
! situation so as to avoid any possible com
plications in the future.
|
the tariff upon products of the Philip
| pines.
Moreover, a law was enacted putting
anthracite 9os1 f7le free list
We are now in a condition of prosperity
unparalleledEnot merely in our on history
but in the History of any other nation.
The general tariff policy, to which with
out regard to changes in detail, I believe
this country is irrevocably committed is
tundamentad1y based upon ample .recogni-
ton of the difference between the cos
OF production and of the need to see to il
that our laws shall in no event afford ad
! vantage in our own market to foreign in
| dustries over American industries. to for.
elgn capital over American capital, t.
| foreign labor over our own labor
We need to treat the triff as a business
proposition. and not with reference to the
| temporary needs Of any political party
Sweeping and violent changes would b.
disastrous if approached on the theory
that the principle of the protective tariff
was to be abandoned. The entire Ameri
! can world can not afford to consider thu