Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-03
PRESIDENT MOVING ON.
In Wisconsin To-Day-Discussed Mon-
 roe Doctrine in Chicago.

Mau1SOn, WIS, AprM S.-1u0 pE6Sl- dential party reached this city at 4 o'clock this morning and at o'clock Governor Lafollette and Mayor Groves, at, the head of members of the legisla- ture, were received. The president was escorted to the capitol through cheering crowds by a military guard, including the University of Wisconsin regiment. Tn the assembly chamber he addressed the two houses in Joint session and 700 specially invited guests. Immediately afterward he spoke from a platform to a much larger crowd which it had been impossible to accommodate inside. Then he was es- corted to the executive mansion where he received state officers and members of the legislature.
 CHICAGO, April 8.-The train bear ing the presidential party departed for Madison at an early hour this morn ing. There was no demonstration.
 Six thousand people in hall the seating capacity of which is but 5000 gave enthusiastic greeting to Presi- dent Roosevelt when he stepped upon the stage of the Auditorium last night. The great building has held many a throng, but never one that was more hearty and unstinted in it's applause for any man than the crowd that filled 1t last night. From the first floor to the roof it was packed to its utmost ca- pacity.
 Tn the street outside for more than an hour before the time set for the opening of the presidents address small army of policemen was kept busy.
 When the president, escorted by the members of the local committee, ap- peared on the platform, he was met with great enthusiasm, the vast crowd rising to it's feet and supplementing its hearty cheers with waving programmes and duttering handkerchiefs.
 The president acknowledge his re- ception with repeated bows and at once took his seat between Franklin Mac and Mayor Harrison, who was to de liver the formal address of welcome.
 As soon as his voice could be heard MT. MacVeagh in a few words an nounced that the nations chief execu- tive would be made welcome to the city by Mayor Harrison, who then spoke briefly, extending to the presi- dent hearty welcome and expressing the pleasure felt by the people of Chi cago at his visit and offering to him their best wishes for a happy and pleasant trip during his two months of vacation.
 The president bowed his thanks to Mayor Harrison and then to MT. Mac Veagh, who introduced him to his au- dience, and expressed his pleasure at the cordial reception extended to him upon the first stop of his long trip and then, turning directly to the audience In front of him, proceeded in his pe- culiarly energetic manner to deliver his address.
 The president spoke in part as fol- lows:
 ToSay S wish to speak to you not our entire position in the western hem aogsnt aiSghP tRes sitoR aa o peculiar Ss ro%p aId sSe cardinal feature of our foreign policy, and been done during the lifetime of the last CorQanoS with tniE historic policy.
 Ever since the time when we definitely extended our boundaries westward to the Pacific and southward to the gulf, since guese colonies to the soGth of us asserted their independence, our nation has insist among m @ the d nations m 1 of ~ the western M 5,S hem m Sar Dtii sbsTsds waeh RS %a So as t6 ts4ssfs In this hemisphere are greater than those of any European power possibly can be Wsaker @ i rSpubiicsy @ who Y are our @ neighbors @ requires us to see that none of the great pon ts Fo df f ss aha can republics or acquire control there- oyer; ;;. .o,,ou 4,ouo.o =. , s.,. us to acquiesoe in such territorial acquisi- ton. but also causes us to object to the it's effect be. equal to territorial aggran-
 as steay g y fK th bs gnt stss rIai feat of the Twentieth W tie S eeshtury-greater eater oentury-,shQnld be done by no foreign nation, but by ourselves. The canal must Ss @ os sa farGHs ssstsr the tf0ry % have h been sorppulously careful to abstain fE6e f6eas I Sny uPon any of least. but, while carefully safeguarding nroVsioas Which wifi enaSie ua # neees nas[ sary to. police ana protect t and tp guar snss a oar os Ssns s hs so1s We desired action taken so that the canal ees eeaee ana a4%aays De s ssd us too in tine ag of could never De used to our detriment by any nation which was hostile to us. Such action by the circumstances surrounding # wag nj Ane@Gessariiy e for ths bsneft and not
 After considerably more than half of fulfilled by the legislation and treaties of the the last tyo years I've years ago we eonatruotion Of the isthn1ian canal on
 ekssK kssKEy ysated iH tae nsy 1sG13 3oh az 2lS S.dI treatY with Great Britain the canal should be constructed under the auspices of the. government of the United States and that this government should have the exclusive right to regu- late and manage it, becoming the sole guaranty of its neutrality:
 gress passed 8 law under which the presi- dent was authorized to endeavor to secure q treaty for acquiring the right to finish the construction of and to operate the RRsg1n, Rrgsgn, in ool the . serTitory 9f colonS by treaty negotiated With fRearsa fRe repubiie dRo of # Soiomb1a. This treaty has just been rati- ned py the senate It reserves all of Co., our own and those of neutral nations and specinoally permits us to take any and all measures for the defense of the canal and Tor the preservation of our interests