The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-14
GREAT OVATION GIVEN
 TO PRES. ROOSEVELT
SPEAKS ON THE RACE PROBLEM
 IN NEW FORK. j;

Friendship to the South All the
 Greater Because of 'The Embarrass-
 ment of Conditions for Which She is Not Alone sponsibIe"-Progress in South Against Lynching. Fl
 New York, Feb. 1S-As the guest of honor at the Lincoln dinner of the Re publican club ill this city tonight Pres ident Roosevelt made speech on the race problem. He appealed to the north to makes it's friendship to the south all the greater because of the enbarrass- ment of conditions for which she is not alone responsible declared that the heartiest acknowledg are due to the ministers, law officers, grand ju- .ries. public men and great daily newspapers in the south who have re- gently done such effective work in Iead-55 ing the crusade against lynching, and said that the problem was to .so ad- just the relations between the two races of different ethic type that the backward race be trained so that it may enter into the possession of true freedom. while the forward race is en- abled to preserve unharmed the high civilization wrought out by it's forefa- thers.
 Following the president, Senator Dol liver of Iowa responded to the toast Abraham Lineoln;; George A. Knight of California spoke on The Repub- lican Party, l" and James M. Beck, for mer assistant attorney general of the United States, on The Unity of the Republic.
 Among the distinguished company att tending the banquet were men promi- nent in all the highest walks of life. life. Among those who sat at the pres ident's table were. Secretary of War Taft, Elihu Root Whitelaw Reid, for ner Governor B. B. Odell, jr., Senator J. F. Dolliver~ Joseph B. Bishop. Dr., John Huston Finley, president of the College of the City of New York; Oscar $. Straus, Rev. Bishop c. H. Fowler of the M. Y. church; Lieutenant Cover nor M. Linn sBrucey Seth Low, Secre- tary William Loeb, jr., George Al. Knight of California, Andrew Carnegie, General 0. o. Howard, u. s. A. retired; Brigadier General Fred D. Grant, U. s. A., Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U. $. N: Surgeon Charles E. l. Stokes. U.. $. N: James N. Peck, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia
 university, former Governor Frank s. tBlack, General Grenville M. Dodge,
 Rev. Dr. Henry M MacCracken. chan cellor of New York university; William R. HaIpin, Rev Dr. Silverrnan and Lieutenant General $. B. Young, U. s. A, retired. x
 The president was introduced by 1 Louis Stern, president of the Repub- lican club, in q brief speech. MT. Stern referred to his as having earned the right .'by the quality of his administra- ton to be called the successor of Abraham Lincoln. The sentiment evok- | ed a demonstration lasting many min-
 utes. There was prolonged handclap- ping and the ladies in the gallery way ed their handkerchiefs. A mention of
 MT. Mckinley also caused a demonstra- tion. The president said. | In his second inaugural, in a speech
 which will be read as long as the mem ory of this nation endures, Abraham
 Lincoln closed by saying:
 ! With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the i right, as God gives us to see the right, ilet usNstrive on to finish the work we are in; * to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting
 peace among ourselves, and with all nations Immediately after his reelection he
 had already spoken thus: X
 "The strife of the election is but hu-
 man nature practically applied to the facts of the case. What has occurred
 in this case must ever recur in similar
 cases Human nature will not change. 1 In any future great national trial, com
 pared with the men of this, we shall
 have as weak and as strong, as silly
 and as wise, as bad and as good. Let
 us, therefore, study the incidents of
 this as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to l be revenged. x x x May not all
 having common interest reunite in a
 common effort to (serve) our common
 country? For my own part, I have
 striven and shall strive to avoid plac-
 ing any obstacle in the way. So long
 as I have been here have not will lingly planted 8 thorn in any mans bo-
 som. While am deeply sensible to
 the high compliment of a reelection,
 and duly grateful, as trust, to AL
 mighty God for having directed my
 countrymen to a right conclusion, as I
 think, for their own good, it adds noth-
 ing to my satisfaction that any other
 man may be disappointed or pained by l the result. l May I ask those who have not diff 1 fered with me to join with me in this ] same spirit toward those who have?" 1 This is the spirit in which mighty
 Lincoln sought to bind up the nations
 wounds when it's soul was yet seething with fierce hatreds, with wrath, with rancor, with all the evil and dreadful passions provoked by civil war. Sure.
 1y this is the spirit which all~ Ameri.