Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-23

mony with the principle of protection
Americans have memories.
While he is President peace with every
nation will be preserved at any cost. except
ing only the sacrifice Of American rights;
and the vigor with which he maintains
these will be itself guarantee Of peace.
Serves the People Well.
The American people will elect him be-
cause. in word, they know that he does
things the people want done: does things
not merely discusses them-does things only
after discussing them-but does things; and
does only those things the people would
have him do. This IL characteristically
American; for wherever he IS, the Ameri-
can IL he who achieves
On every question all men know where
he stands Americans, frank themselves
demand frankness in their servants. I'm
certainty Is the death Of business The
people can always get along if they know
where they are and whittier they are going
His past is his proof, Every great meas
ure Of his administration was so wise that,
enthusiastically sustained by his own party,
1t won votes even fr9mgthe opposition.
Do you name Cuban reciprocity? The
opposition resisted and then opposition
votes helped to ratifY II.
Do you name corporate. legislation? The
opposition resisted and then opposition
votes helped to enact it,. Is
Do you name the canal - that largest
work Of centuries, the eternal wedding of
oceans. shrinking the circumference Of the
globe, making distant people neighbors
advancing forever civilization all around
the world? This historic undertaking in
the interest of all the race, planned by
American statesmanshfp. to be wrought by
American hands, to stand through the ages
protected by the Amerisan=hag; this vast
achievement which WIFI endure: when our
day shall have become aAcient. and which
alone Is enough to make the name of
Theodore Roosevelt illustrious through all
time-this fulfillment Of the republics
dream accomplished by republican effort,
finally received votes even from an OPPOSE
ton that had tried to thwart II.
OF what measure of Theodore Rooseveit'S
administration does the opposition dare
even to propose the repeal? And when has
the record of any President won greater
approval?
Trust Him as a Statesman.
And so the people trust him as states
man. Better than that. they love him as a
man. He wins admiration in vain who wins
not affection also. In the American home
that temple Of happiness and virtue where
dwell the wives and mothers OF the repub-
lie. cherishing the beautiful in life and
guarding the morality OF the nafion-in
the American home the name OF Theodore
Roosevelt is not only honored but beloved.
And that Is a greater triumph than the vic
tory Of battlehelds greater credit than Sue
cessfui craftsmanship, greater honor than
the presidency itself would be without it.
Life holds no reward SO noble as the con
The American people! The mightiest force
for good the ages have evolved They be-
gan as children Of liberty. They believed
in God and His providence. They took
truth and Justice and tolerance as their
eternal ideals and marched fear1essly for
" ard. WtIdernesses stretched before them
they subdued them. Mountains rose-they
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passed them. Their faith failed them not
and a continent was theirs From ocean
to ocean cities rose, fields blossomed. rail-
roads ran: but everywhere church and
school were permanent proof that the prin-
ciples Of their origin were the life of their
maturity.
American methods changed. but American
| character remained the same. They out
| lived the stage coach, but not the Bible.
| They advanced but forgot not their fathers.
| They delved in earth, but. remembered the
| higher things. They made highways OF the
| oceans but distance and climate altered not
| their Americanism. They began as chill
dren of liberty, and children of liberty they
| remain. They began as servants or the
Father of Lights. and His servants they re-
main And so into their hands Is daily
given more of power and opportunity that
| they may work even larger righteousness in
1 the world and scatter over ever widening
| fields the blessed seeds Of human happiness.
| Wonderful Progress.
| Wonderful beyond prophecy's forecast
| their progress: noble beyond the vision of
desire their future. In 1901 Jefferson said:
THE United States then) had room enough
for our descendants to the thousandth and
thousandth generation three generations
behold the oceans our boundaries. Wash
| ington never dreamed, OF, railways. Today
electricity and steam make Maine and Cali
| fornia household neighbOrs. This advance,
which no seer could have foretold. we
made because We are ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS a
free people with unfettered minds and
questioning belief joyfpllY faced the uni
verse of human possibilities.
These possibilities are net exhausted; we
have hardly passed their boundaries The
American people areAnot exhausted; we
have only tested our strength. Gods work
for us in the world is not finished; His
future missions for the American people
will be grander than any He has given us.
nobler than We now can comprehend. And
these tasks as they come We will accept and
accomplish as our fathers accomplished
theirs. And when our generation shall
have passed and our children shall catch
from our aging hands the standard we have
borne, 1t will still be the old flag of York
town and Appomattox and Manila bay;
the music to which they in their turn Will
that cheered the dying Warren on Bunker
Hill and inspired the men who answered
Lincoln's call: and the ideals that will be
In them triumphant as they are in us will
still be the old ideals that have made the
American people great and fronored among
the nations of the earth
This is the republican idea OF the Ameri-
can people: this the thought we have when
we nominate today our candidate for the
nations chief: this the quality of Ameri-
canism republican stanIlard-bearer must
have. And this Is just the Amerfcanism OF
Theodore Roosevelt. Full of the oid-time
faith in the republic and its destiny;
charged with the energy OF the republics
full manhood: cherishing the ordinances Of
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heart the fear Of God: inspired by the sure
knowledge that the republics splendid day