The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-06-23

forever civilization all around the
world? This historic undertaking in
the interest of all the race, planned by
American craftsmanship, to be
wrought by American hands, to stand
through the ages protected by the
American flag; this vast achievement
which will endure when our day shall
have become ancient, and which alone
is enough to make the name Of Theo-
dore Roosevelt illustrious through all
time this fulfillment of the Repub-
lies dream accomplished by Repub-
lican effort, finally received votes en-
ough from an Opposition that had
tried to thwart it.
Of what measure Of Theodore
ROOSEVELT administration does the
Opposition dare even to propose the
repeal? And when has the record of
any President won greater approval?
And so the people trust him as
statesman. Better than that, they
love him as man. He wins admira-
ton 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
Republic, cherishing the beautiful in
life and guarding the morality of the
Nation-in the American home the
name of Theodore Roosevelt is not
only honored but beloved. And that is
a greater triumph than the victory of
battlefelds, greater credit than sue
cessful craftsmanship, greater honor
than the Presidency itself would be
without it. Life holds no reward so
noble as the confidence and love of
the American people.
The American people! The might
est force for good the ages have evol-
we'd. They began as children of iber-
ty. They believed in God and His
providence. They took truth and JUS
, tice and tolerance as their eternal
ideals and marched fearlessly forward
Wildernesses stretched before them
they subdued them. Mountains rose
they crossed them. Deserts obstructed
they passed them. Their faith failed
them not and a continent was theirs.
From ocean to ocean rose, fields bios
somed, railroads ran; but everywhere
:, church and chool were permanent
! proof THAI the principles of their orr
- gin were the life of their maturity.
y American methods changed, but
:, American characters remained the
: same. They outlived 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 Ocean, but distance and climate
- altered not their Americanism. They
- began as children of liberty, and chill
dren Of liberty they remain. They be-
J gan as servants of the Fathers OF
i Lights, and His servants they Re
main. And so into their hands is
daily given more of power and OPP
portunity that they may work ever
larger righteousness in the worlc
=. and scatter over ever widening fields
- the blessed seeds of human happiness
l. Wonderful beyond prophecy
s forecast their progress; noble beyond
the vision of desire their future II
v 1901 Jefferson said, "the United
II States (then) had room enough fol
e our descendants to the thousandtl
n and thousandth generation;' three
V generations behold the oceans ou1
boundaries. Washington never dream
i ed Of railways. Today electricity ant
d steam make Maine and California
J. household neighbors. This advance
l. which no seer could have foretold, W,
made because we are Americans
, cause a free people with unfetteret
l. minds and unquestioning belief joy
G. fully faced the universe of human
J. possibilities. These possibilities ar
not exhausted; we have hardly passe,
t. their boundaries. The American PEG
lie pie are not exhausted; we have onl,
# tested our strength. Gods work 70
:. usin the world is not finished; Hi
III come we will accept and accomplish
~ pie will be grander than any He ha
IF given us, nobler than we now ca
tn comprehend. And these tasks as the
It. come we will accept and accomplis
as our fathers accomplished theirs
n, And when our generation shall hav
at passed and our children shall cate
e.; from our aging hands the standar
m we have borne, it will still be the oil
ng flag of Yorktown and Appomatto
ly and Manila Bay; the music to whic
We they in turn will then move onwar
ly will still be the strains that cheere
he the dying Warren on Bunker Hi
and insured tho mon who ansvaro