Bisbee daily review., 1905-10-19
ROOSEVELT IN SOUTH
 MAKES GREAT SPEECH
Immense ThFORg Gathered at Richmond to Hear Him.
 FtIl of Republics
lConeluded from Page D

of thousands of combatants to return
 10 the paths of peace. They predicte,
 ceaseless disorder. wild turbulence
 the attenuation of anarchy and des
 potism. But the good sense and self
 restraint of the average American cit
 lzen falsified these prophecies. Thc
 great armies disbanded and the pri
 yate in the ranks, like the officer wht
 had commanded him, went back tc
 take up the threads of his life where
 he had dropped them when the cal
 70 arms came. It was a wonderful q
 marvellous thing, in a country conse
 crated to peace with but an infiinites
 imal regular army. to develop SC
 quickly the huge hosts which fronted one another between the James and the Potomac and along the Mississ
 ippi and its tributaries. But it was
 an even more wonderful. an even more marvellous thing. how these great hosts, once their work done. re
 solved themselves into the general fabric of the nation.
 Great though the need of praise is which is due the south for the soldierlv valor of her sons displayed during the four years of war. l think that even greater praise is due to her for what her people have accomplished in the forty years of peace which followed For forty years the south has made not merely courageous, but at times desperate struggle. as she has striven for moral and material we'll being. Her success has been extraor- dinary. and all citizens of our common country should feel joy and pride in it; for any great deed done. or any fine qualities shown by one group of Americans, of necessity reflects creSi' upon all Americans. Only a heroic people could have battled success fully against the conditions with which the people of the south found themselves face to face at the end of the civil war. There had been utter destruction and disaster, and wholly -ssiS business and social problems hao to be faced with the scantiest means
 The economic and political fabric had 10 be readjusted in the midst of dire want, of grinding poverty. The future of the broken. war-swept south seemed beyond hope. and II her sons and daughters had been of weaker fiber there would in very truth have been no hope. But the men and the sons of the men who had faced with ur- faltering front every alternaton of good and evil fortune from Manassas to AppomattoX whose courage and endurance had reached an even higher heroic level-these men and these women set undauntedly to the great task before them. For twenty years the struggle was hard and at time doubtful. Then the splendid qualities of your manhood and womanhood told. as they were bound to tell. and the wealth of your extraordinary natural resources began 10 be shown Now the teeming riches of mine and field and factory attest the prosperity of those who are all the stronger because of the trials and struggles through which this prosperity has come. You stand lOyally to your traditions and memories; you also stand loyally for our great common country of today and for our common flag. which sym bolizes all that is brightest and most hopeful for the future of mankind; you face the new age in the spirit of the age Alike in your material and iii your spiritual and intellectual de velopment you stand abreast of the foremost in the worlds progress.
 And now, my fellow-citizens, my fellOwAmericans, exactly as all of us, whether we live in the east or the west, the north or the south, have the right merely as Americans to feel pride in every great deed done by any American in the past, and exactly as we are knit together by this common heritage of memories, so we are knit together by the bond of our common duties in the present, our common in terests in the future. Many and great problems lie before us. If we treat the mighty memories of the past merely as excuses for sitting down Iazily in the present, or for standing aside from the rough work of the world, then these memories will prove curse instead of blessing. But if we treat them as I believe We shall treat them, not as excuses for inac- tion, but as incentives to make us show that we are worthy of our fathers and of our fathers fathers, then in truth the deeds of the past will not have been wasted, for they shall bring forth fruit hundred fold in the present generation. We af this nation, we the citizens of this mighty and wonderful republic, stretching across a continent between the two greatest oceans, enjoy extraordinary privileges, and as our opportunity is great, therefore our responsibility is great. We have duties to perform both abroad and at home. and we can not shirk either set of duties and re- tain full your self-respect.
 In foreign affairs we must make upI our minds, whether we wish it or not, that we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play the great part or not. We have to play it; all we can decide is whether we will play it well or i'll. And have too much confidence in my countrymen to doubt what the de- cision will be- Our mission in the world should be one of peace, but not the peace of cravens, the peace granted contemptuously to those who purchase it by .surrendering the right Noi Our voice must be effective for peace because it is raised for right