The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-21
ENTERS OREGON.
President Roosevelt Sees State
for First Time.
Passed a Day in Region OF
Mount Shasta.
HIS LONGEST SPEECH
Of the Day Was Made at Duns.
muir, Calf.
Says If u Man Is Worth His Salt
He viii Work.

Salem. Ore, May 21.-Salem presented
a gala appearance this morning when
President Roosevelt and party arrived.
When the special train drew up to the
station the air was filled with music
from three brass bands and as the
president appeared on the rear platform
of his private car he was greeted with
deafening cheers from thousands OF
people The president was met at the
depot by Governor Chamberlain, George
G. Brownell, president of the senate,
Speaker Harris of the house, Mayor
Bishop and a citizens committee. After
exchanging greetings, the presidential
party were escorted to carriages In the
presidents carriage, which was first in
line and was surrounded by a local
militia company as guard of honor,
We're Governor Chamberlain, Mayor
Bishop and Secretary Loeb. The presi-
dent was greeted along the line of
march by enthusiastic cheering which
he acknowledged by barring his head.
The procession went direct 10 Marion
square. where about 1000 school chill
dren We're assembled and the president
/ delivered a few words Of greeting and
encouragement to the children, who re-
sponded by singing America" The
president Joined heartily in the chorus
The party again entered the carria ges
and the procession proceeded to the
capitol building, where the president
was escorted through a double line of
Grand Army veterans. with all of whom
he shook hands and exchanged a few
words.
Some moments were spent in the
governors suite meeting and convers-
ing with state officials and prominent
citizens after which the president
passed out the west entrance where IN
elaborately decorated platform had
+ been erected. Governor Cham berlain
delivered the first address of welcome,
ana ana was followed by Senator Brownell
ana Mayor Bishop. The president de-
! liyered q 80 minute address At the con
clus1on Of his address the president was
/ qrlVen TO the train again and the party
left for Portland
Ashland, Ore. May 21zPresident
/ EooseVesf $ completed lis tour of
California ana entered upon the last
stages Of his long trip which is to end
at Washington June 5. His Journey
yesterday was through the noun
famous region around Mount Shasta
Where the towns are few and far be-
tween and consequently he was called
/ upon to DO but little speech making
! Where his train did stop, however. he
| was met by large and enthusiastic
/ crowds Governor Pardee of California
who has been with the president almost
continuously since he entered thatstate.
pade MN goodbye at HornbrOOk and
In the short address the president made
at that place, he said he was very sorry
to part with him. The president MADE
his longest speech of the day at Duns-
muir, Gala.
I think that I can say he said,
that came to California a pretty
good American and 1 go away a better
one. (Applause.)
"Cslad though, that I have been to
see your wonderful products. your
plains and your mountains. your rivers,
to see the great cities springing up,
most of all have l enjoyed meeting the
men and women to whom we owe what
has been done with mine and railroad,
and numbering camp and irrigated field
and the ranch and the counting house,
the men and women who have made
California what she is.
Il pity no man because he has to
work If he is worth his salt he will
work. I envy the man who has a
work worth doing and does it well; and
surely no men alive are more worthy
of admiration than these men to whom
it is given to build up giant common
wealths like this. 1t is the fact of doing
the work well that counts, not the kind
of work, as long as that work is honor
able. 1 speak to citizens of a COM
munity which has reached its present
pitch of prosperity because they have
done each his duty as his lines are laid.
To the true American nothing can be
more alien than the spirit either OF
envy or of contempt for another who is
leading a life as a decent citizen should
lead it. In this country we have room
for every honest man who spends his
life in honest efforts, we have no room
either for the man of means who in a
spirit of arrogant baseness looks down
, upon the man less we'll off, or for the
man who envies his neighbor because
that neighbor happens to be better off
Either feeling is a base feeling, un-
worthy of a elf-respecting man.
used the word envy myself just now,
but l did not use it in bad sense If
you use envy in the ordinary sense Of
the word its existence implies a Teellng
OF inferiority in the man who feels il,
feelin that a self respecting man Will
be ashamed to have
IF the man is a good American and
is doing his work squarely he need not
+ envy anybody, because he occupies a
position such as no one else in any 9TH
/ er country, in any other age has oc-
: T cupied; and because we hold our cid
zenship so high. because we feel and
have the right to feel satisfaction with
; / what our people have done. we should
also feel that the only spirit in which
) to regard any other man who does well,
is a spirit of kindly regard and good
will if he acts squarely; If he does not,
then you regard him as a man to feel
public scorn, and public contempt. It is
of course a perfectly trite saying that
/ in no country is it SO necessary to have
decency. honesty, self respect in the
average citizen as a republic a democ-
racy, for successful self government is
founded upon that high average citizen
ship among our people; and America
: has gone on as she has gone because
we have that high average of citizen
ship. Our government is based upon the
self respecting majority Our govern
: rnent has so far escaped the twin dan
gers of the other republic, government
by pIatOcracy OF government BY a
mob, either of them absolutely alien to
: American ideals From the days Of
Washington to the days of Lincoln we
went onward and upward because the
average American was Of the stuff that