Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-28
NOWSSTETO ALABAMA
President Goes to Cotton Plan.
tation State From Florida.
GETS FLORAL KEY TO ST. AUGUSTINE
RooKeveIt In PeninsuIar state spoke
on Coed Citizenship and Benefits
10 Accrue TO South From
Panama Canal.


and last night started on his tour OF
Alabama He left St Augustine at
O'Clock and is not scheduled to make
stop of any length until he reaches
Mobile today at 80.
His day in ST. Augustine was quiet
one. He attended services in Presby
terian Memorial church, where the pas
tor. Rev James Coffin Stout preached
from the text, Worthy the Lamb Tha,
Nas Slain" He made no reference to
the president in his sermon. At the
conclusion of the services the president
was taken for short drive about the
lefty.
The drive brought the president and
ibis party through the ancient city gates
lbuilt nearly 400 years ago by the Span
liards. Above the archway were huns
huge letters spelling out the word
welcome" and on each side of the
lportal sat a pretty girl dressed as
Columbia.
AS the presidents carriage reached
the gate it paused and one of bevy
of schoolgirls handed him great floral
key, the key to the city. After receiv-
ing the key the president was driven
to the Ponce de Leon hotel, which was
opened up especially for the party, and
where he rested for half an hour be-
fore proceeding TO Fort Marion, where
be made an address.
In his speech at Fort Marion the
president dwelt on the subject of
eGood Citizenship and the aims and
objects of this government.
This republic is not and never shall
be q government of plutocrat," he
said. This government is not and
never shall be the government of a
mob 1t shall remain as it was found
ed in the beginning, a government of
Justice, through the form of law, a
government wherein every man is
guaranteed in his own rights and is
forbidden to wrong his neighbors."
Little enthusiasm was manifested by
The white residents of Jacksonville in
the presidents visit, taken as whole,
although there was nothing in the re
ception to which even Mr.. Roosevelt
could take exception.
Negroes of the city, on the other
hand, were enthusiastic to an extreme.
Between four and five thousand mem
bers of that race, men, women and
children, assembled at the academy.
Decorations in a negro section through
which the drive extended We're profuse.
Speaking to the negroes the president
said:
''Do your very best to develop good
teachers, to develop good preachers;
preachers who shall preach to the col
ored man as it should be preached to
the white man. that by your fruits you
shall know them and that the truly re
ligious man is the man who is decent
and clean in his private life, who is
orderly and law abiding; the man who
hunts down the criminal and does all
he can to stop crime and wrongdoings;
the man who treats his neighbor we'll;
who is a good man in his own family
and therefore good man i'll the state.
That 1t is what we have right to eX-
pect from the Christian leadership
which we see in the cnurcnes."
81 wish to say special word about
the Panama canal" Mr.. Roosevelt said
st the board of trade banquet. II be-
lieve the canal will be of great bene-
fit to all our people, but most of all to
the states of the south Atlantic, the
guif and the Pacific slope. When COM
pleted the canal will stand as monu-
ment to this nation, for it will be the
greatest engineering feat ever yet ac-
complished in the world. 1t can sure.
ly be accomplished and probably at
rather less expense than was antici-
pated
The work is as difficult as it is inn
portant, and it is of course inevitable
that from time to time difficulties will
occur and checks be encountered.
Whenever such is the case the men of
little faith at home will lose that little
faith, and the critics who confound
hysteria with emphasis will act after
their kind. But our people as a whole
lpOasess not only faith, but resolution,
ana are of too virie fiber to be swept
one way or the other by mere sensa-
tioualism.
ihe digging of the canal will Of
course greatly increase our interest in
the Caribbean sea. 1t will be our duty
to police the canal, both in the interest
OF other nations and in our own inter-
est. TO do this it is of course indis-
peasable to have an efficient navy (and
i am happy to say that we are well on
our way toward having one) and also
TO possess, as we already possess. GER
tain strategic points to control the APP
lprOach to the canal. Only as Il last
resort it may occasionally be necessary
10 interfere by exercising what is vir-
tually an international police power. il
oniy to avoid seeing some European
power forced to exercise it,"
After luncheon the president, accom-
panied by Secretary Loeb, Surgeon
General Rixey, John McIlhenny and
John Greenway, the last two of whom
have been his guests ON the trip south
a.