The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1905-11-02

of Children All Right in Quality and
Quantity.
President Roosevelt's last public
address on North Carolina soil was
made ut Charlotte 1t was also the
lengthiest outside of his Raleigh
speech, and the most interesting be-
cause of its local references and per
sonal characteristics showing the hui
man side of the man. We therefore
make no apology for giving it here.
copying from the Charlotte Observer
Upon being presented by Mayor Me
Ninch the President said
Mr.. Mayor, Mr.. President, and you,
my fellOw-citizens, men and women
of North Carolina:
| have enjoyed more than ! can say
passing through this great State to-
day. | entered your borders a pretty
good American, and | leave them IL
better American, and have rejoiced
III the symptoms of your abounding
material prosperity. | am here IN Il
great center of cotton manufacture
Within Il radius of hundred miles
of this city, perhaps half of the cotton
manufacturing in the United States
is done. realize to the full, as does
every good citizen, that there must
be a foundation of material prosper
ity upon which to build the welfare
of State or nation, but | realize also,
as does every good citizen, that ma
| terlal rOsperlty-material well-be-
inG-can never be anything but the
foundation. 1t is the Indispensable
foundation, but if we do not raise
upon it the esuperstructure of n higher
citizenship, then we fail in bringing
this to the level to which it shall and
will be brought. And SO, though |
congratulate you upon what you
have done i'll the way of material
growth, | congratulate you even
more upon the great historic memor-
les of your State. 1t is not SO very
far from here that the Mecklenburg
Declaration of Independence was
made-the declaration that pointed
out the path on which the thirteen
United Colonies trOd few months
later
Refers to rlr. StOnewall Jackson.
As | got Off the train here, | was
greeted by one citizen of North Caro-
lima (and | know that neither the
Governor, the Mayor nor the Sena
tors will blame me for what | am go
ing to say whose greeting pleased
and touched me more than the greet
ing OF any man could have touched
me. was greeted by the widow O
StOnewall jackson. And we of this
united country have a right to chal
lenge as Il part OF the heritage o
honor and glory of each American
the reunion of one peope-Americans
who fought in the Civil War-wheth
er they wore the blue or whether
they wore the gray. The valOr showr
alike by the inen OF the North an,
the men OF the South us they battleC
for the right, as God gave them to
see the right, is now part of what we
all of US, keep with pride 1t was my
good fortune to appoint to Wes
Point the grandson of Stonewal
Jackson.
Spoke of the Shipp Monument.
Here, as came up your streets,
saw a monument raised to Il fellow
soldier of mine who fell in the Span
ish war at Santiago-to Shipp q
North Carolina. The morning of th'
fight, he and | took breakfast to
gether. 1t WASH t much of breakfast
but it was the only breakfast tha'
was going, and we We're glad to ge
1t. The night before. ! had no sup
per, and he and lis comrades gave
that they had sandwich. In th'
moring, they had no material fo
breakfast, but by that time my thing,
had come up, and | shared ny
breakfast with them. That was Il,
dawn. Before noon, one of them wa,
killed, and the other (as we theI
thou"ht) fatally wounded.
And now, there are here men who
fought in the great war. We who
went in in '9S had the opportunit,
to fight only in "a small war, and al
that we claim is that We hope ",
showed Il spirit not entirely umworth,
Of men who faced the mighty and ter
rible days from 'G1 to Go.
Here the President turned asid,
and asked how much more time H.
had-if it was not two minutes Som'
one told him to speak as long as h.
wanted to, when he made the charac
terlstic utterance tsottO voice. tha'
he would like to 90 Oh all night.
Every Man Has Duty to Perform.
And now, gentlemen, though ",
glory i'll the memories OF the past, W
must remember ever to keep thes
memories. not as excuses for iailIn.
to do we'll in the past, but as incent
ives to spur Us on 10 action In llie
every victory Won inevitably bring
US face to face with n new struggle
The men of one generation have t'
do their allotted task. If they fail to d.
it, they accumulate misfortune upol
those who come after them. If the,
do it, it vet remains true that tin
men who come after them must dr
their tasks in return. 1t is just as !
is with you, my escort, the men O
the National Guard, the artillerymen
the infantrymen. II there comes ;
war. / know | can count on you ant
those like you, because the memory q
what your fathers did will make yo'
. ashamed not to rissa level to the de