The National tribune., 1903-04-09

accompanies the train, which consists OF
six cars, and there are q people aboard
In addition to those officially designated
as members of the Presidents party, three
Secret Service men and two Post-office
Inspectors accompanied the President as
personal bodysuard. The journey as
planned will occupy nine weeks and three
days, and the party will travel a little
more than 14.Ooo miles;
While the President is away he will be
in close communication with the White
House. He can be reached any hour of
the day or night if necessary. Even while
in the Yellowstone Park, telegraphic and
telephone communications will be per-
feet. The Special will be side-tracked
at Cinnabar, and Secretary Loeb will re-
nication with the President by telephone
and by courier. There will be n direct wire
from Cinnabar to the White Horse, also.
While in Chicago the President was on
perfectly safe ground. He discussed the
Monroe Doctrine at the Auditorium be-
fore an audience which pleased him, and
which he pleased nightly He said many
good things. some that jolted a little.
''The Monroe Doctrine" he said, sis
not International Law, and though l
think one day it may become such, this
is not necessary as long as it remains
cardinal feature of our foreign policy and
as long as we possess both the will and
the strength to make it effective. This
last point, my fellow-citizens, is all-impor-
tant, and is one which as a people we can
never afford to forget. l believe in the
Monroe Doctrine with all my heart and
soul; | am convinced that the immense
majority of our fellow-countrymen so be-
lieve in it, but 1 would infinitely prefer
to see us abandon it than to see us put
it forward and buster about it."
Has anybody been ''blustering" about
our Monroe Doctrine? The President
evidently thinks so; for he went on to say:
"Boasting and clustering are as ebjec-
tiOnable among nations as among indiyid-
uals, and the public men of great Ma
ton owe it to their sense of National
self-respect to speak cOurteously of for
eign powers, just as brave and self-re-
speeding man treats all around him cour,
teously. But though to boast is bad, and
causelessiy to insult another, worse; yet
worse than all is it to be guilty of boast
ing. even without insult, and when called
to the proof be unable to make such boast
ing good. There is a homely old adage
which runs: Speak softly and carry n big
stick; you will go far If the American
Nation will speak softly, and yet build,
and keep at pitch of the highest train
ing a thoroughly efficient navy, the Mon
roe Doctrine will go far"
Admiral Dewey seems to be pretty well
satisfied with our Monroe Doctrine and
our Navy.
The President will have a string of
titles as long as there are miles in his
trip before he returns. At Chicago, his
very first stop, he visited the University of
Chicago, and was invested with the cap
and gown and the title doctor Of Laws
of the University" He rode on the en-
CINE into Pittsburg, and limited that as
he was member of the brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen he ought to be per-
mitted to run the engine, but the man with
the shovel only smiled at the suggestion.
The students of the University of Chi
cago, who managed to get good location
in the Auditorium, greeted the President,
when he appeared, with their college yell,
which made him laugh heartily, and then
they perpetrated song, of which
the following is one verse and the chorus:
''There is sturdy gent who is known on
every hand.
His smile is like a burst of sun upon a
rainy land.
He'll buff the Kaiser, shoot a bear, or
storm a Spanish fort, ,,.c-.-.
Then sigh for something else to do, and
write book on sport.
Chorus: ooh, Mr. Roosevelt,
He makes his blows felt
Whene'er he hits-he's always hittin',
And one year more, sir,
In 1904, sir,
l guess Wen have to vote for Teddy
Roo"
At Milwaukee the President reviewed
the veterans, at the Soldiers National
Home. and was magnifcently welcomed
everywhere. So the first of his factions"
was met and conquered. In response to
the address of welcome of the Mayor, he
to the many natiOnalities repre-
scented by the people before him, but said
that they came together as Americans and
nothing else.
.WOe will beset this country" he said,
eff we draw lines of distinction between
class and class, or creed and creed. or
along any other lines save those which
divide good citizenship from bad citizen
ship. 1t is a bad thing for a public man
not to perform what he promises. Every
promise made in public life should be
held as binding on every honest man as
promise made in private life. The people,
iohtNCi. must tHdt thts thSAh
selves will be to blame if they ask for
promises which from the nature of things
cannot be kept"
He was entertained by the Milwaukee
Press Club and made an honorary MEM
Der. At Madison he visited the Capitol
and viewed the collection of old regimen
tai flags, of which the veterans are very
proud. and the captured rebel flags, which
are also displayed in a glass case, and
number n dozen or more. He had. too, a
view of Old Abe. who In stuffed glory
broods over the G. A. r. Memorial col
lection.
At Lake Mills, Wis, the train stopped
but three minutes, but a great crowd was
there to see the President, and closed in
round the rear car just as the train was
backed. good many were bruised and
got their Sims skinned in the inevitable
crush of getting away, but no calamity
occurred. 1t ought to be lesson for the
remainder of the trip, but it is not at all
likely that it will.
At La Crosse, Wis, the Mayor of the
city, Mr.. Rose. greeted the President most
graciously. and the President did not
know until later that Mr.. Rose had crossed
half the continent to meet him, leaving
in Tucson, Ariz., a son who is dying of
to be at his post of duty
when the President should arrive I'M