Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-21
CITIZENS MAKE REPUBLIC
President Explains Why Countries Copying
American Constitution Have Failed.
CALIFORNIA is LEFT FOR OREGON
Ions TOHr Draws Near End when
Roosevelt Enters IN Last stage
of Journey Through
Western states.

ASHLAND, Ore, May 20.-President
Roosevelt today completed his tour of Cali
fornia and commenced the last stage of his
long trip which is to end at Washington
on, June g., His Journey today has 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 speak
ing.
Where his train did stop, however, he
was met by large and enthusiastic crowds.
Governor Pardee Of California, who has
been with him continuously since he en-
tered that state, babe him goodbye at
Hornbrook, and in the short address the
president delivered at tina place, he said
he was sorry to part with i'm.
Americans Needed.
The president made his longest speech
of the day at Dunsmuir, Cal. Here he
said:
i think that 1. can say / came to Cali
fornia a pretty good American, and l go
Glad, though, ti,at / have been to see
your wonderful state, with your wonderful
your rivers; TO see the great cities spring
ing up most of all have l enjoyed meet
ing the men and women to whom we owe
road, and numbering camp and irrigated
field aud the Iancha and the counting house,
the men and women who have made Call
l pity no man because he has to work.
IL he is worth his salt he will work. ]
envy the man who has a work worth doing
and does 1t well, and surely no men alive
are more worthy of admiration than these
men to whom 1t is given to build up giant
Of doing the work we'll that counts, not
the kind of work as long as 1t 1t honor
able. 1 SPEAK to citizens of q community
which has reached Its nTn9ent nr0SDerity
because they have done each his duty as
his lines are laid. r'i
more alien than. the spirit either of envy
or of contempt for another who Is leading
q life as a decent citizen should lead It
In this country we VI room for every
honest maj who spends his life in, honest
efforts, but we have no room for the mar
down on the man less well OF, or the mar
who. envies his neighbor because thai
neighbor happens to be better off, Either
feeling is q base feeling unworthy OF 8
1 used the word envy myself just now
but ! DID not use It oI N q % BAD sI sense Sc; ~,
word its existence implies a feeling of In
feFiortty in the, man who feels 1t, a feeling
to have. IL the man is a good American
and is doing his work squarely he meet
not envy anybody, because he occupies {
position such. as no. one else in n othel
because We hold our citizenship SO high
because we feel and have the right to fee
satisfaction with. what our people. hav'
done.
other RepuBIics Have Failed.
1t is Of course a perfectly trite saying
hat In no country Is 1t SO necessary L
a decency, honesty and self-restraint II
racY, for successful self-government i
founded on that high average citizenship
AMONG our people; and America has 'gon.
| average OF. citizenship. Our government !
based on the s~elf-respectlng majority. GU
government has SO far escaped the "
dangers of the other republics, government
byJa plutocracy. or government by Q mob
either Of them absolutely alisn to Arneri
From the days of Washington to the day
qf-LiBooln, wo went onward and pwar'
because the average. American was of tn
upward. We cannot be dragged up, W
have got. to push ourselves up. All 20
h fMvs to 9 90 d is TO w iit1Sm ParsrT wnsd ot foana as
fame type Of laws, which nevertheless hav
did not have the right type of citizens be
hind the law, the right type of citizen t
work out the destiny Of the nation unde
the law; but we need even more. its hon
est and fearless enforcement, enforcement
r. Hbo a sP'T 4avS 81 s6so 10 no IalF dRoli ay 20 jUst ac
to each. We need such laws, such admin
tstration of laws, but most of all we nee
TO keep up Jlhl IOI. tnc ldCA Ol .NhiNh hObh
ing else can atone in any people, the aver
age standard of citizenship.
In our life what we need is not so niue
| genius, not so much ~brilltancy, as the OF
binary, commonplace, everyday ualiti
which a man needs in private life, an
which he needs just as much In public life
Thu president spoke also at Sisson and a
Montague.
He was greeted by 5000 as his trai
i pulled into Ashland this evening at GA
where he made his first stop in Oregon
Bands were playing, cannon were boom
ing and thousands were cheering as tn
president stepped on the rear platform c
his car for a hfteen-mipute speech, whic
he introduced by expressing the peculia
pleasure he felt at entering the state c
Oregon for the first time.
People gathered here from all section
OF southern Oregon to welcome him. H
will spend the night travelling, no stor
OF any length being scheduled after h
leaves Ashland.
He will arrive in Salem tomorrow morn
ing at Q and win be met by Governc
George e. Chamberlain and a commit
from the state legislature. Three hour
will be spent In the capital and the pres
dent will deliver an address from tn
4 state house steps. Governor Chamberlai
Will the presidential party
Portland, where they will spend tomorro'
night.
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