The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-31
HE SPEAKS WHERE
LINCOLN SPOKE
President Roosevelt Takes Part
in The Memorial Services
at Gettysburg.

GETTYSBURG, Pa, May 80. = On
historic Cemetery hill, overlooking
ground hallowed by the blood of half a
hundred thousand brave men and in
the presence of concourse of thou
sands President Roosevelt today deIiv-
cred an address.
On nearly the same spot, on Nov. 10,
1863, President Lincoln delivered his
immortal address.
President Roosevelt was escorted to
the cemetery on the battlefield by a
body of several hundred veterans of
the Civil war. They were preceded by
several organizations, including a
squadron of United States cavalry, the
Third United States artillery and the
Marine band of Washington. Mrs.
Roosevelt and other members of the
presidents party followed in carriages.
The rear of the procession consisted of
civic organizations and citizens in car
rlages. Gov. Pennypacker presided at
the ceremonies, which were held in the
rostrum in the cemetery. After the
Memorial day exercises of the G. A. r.
had been concluded, and the pupils Of
the public schools had strewn flowers
over the graves of the thousands Of
dead, during which ceremony the Ma
r1ne band played a solemn dirge, Rev.
DR.. Edward Everett Hale, chaplain of
the United States senate, pronounced
invocation. The president was then in
troduced by Gov. Pennypacker in an
address.
Talks in Heavy Rains.
AS President Roosevelt rose to speak
a downpour of rain began and contin-
ued throughout the time he addessed
the great assemblage. Referring in
the beginning of his speech to the al
fusion of Gov. Pennypacker to the
death of Senator Quay, the president
said:
Gov. Pennypacker alluded to the fact
that today Pennsylvania mourns its senior
senator. The regiment which Senator
Quay was instrumental in raising took
part in this battle of Gettysburg-the
battle in which Gov. Pennypacker shared.
Senator Quay was not with it.. He had
gone with another regiment, and it is ap-
propriate at this time to recall the fact
that, when the term of service of that
regiment expired, just before Fredericks-
burg, Senator Quay declined to accept
the discharge and continued as volun-
teer with the army that fought at
Fredericksburg and won the medal of
honor on that bloody day.
In his speech President Roosevelt
said:
He is but a poor American who, look
ing DIT THIS nelQ, OO6S not feel WlJHln MINI
self a deeper reverence for the nations
past and a higher purpose to make the
nations future rise level to her past.
The men who made this field forever
memorable did SO because they combined
the power of fealty to a lofty ideal with
the power of showing that fealty in hard,
practical, common sense fashion.
They stood for the life of effort, not the
life of ease. They had that love of coun-
try, that love of justice, that love of their
fellow men, without which power and re-
sourceful efficiency but make a man
danger 70 his fellows. Yet in addition
thereto, they likewise possessed the power
and the efficiency; for otherwise their
high purpose would have been barren of
result. They knew each how to act for
himself, and yet each how to act with
his fellows. We can make and keep this
country worthy of the men who gave their
lives to save it, only on condition that
the average man among us on the whole
does his duty bravely, loyalty, and with
common sense, in whatever position life
allotS to him.
Courage and Honesty.
Exactly as in time of war, courage is
the cardinal virtue of the soldier, so in
time of peace, honesty, using the word
in its deepest and broadcast significance
is the essential basic virtue without
which all else avails nothing.
The men who went into the army had
to submit to discipline, had to submit
to restraint through the government of
the leaders they had chosen, as the price