The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-21
our DUTY TO KEEP
CARIBBEAN OPEN
President States His Policy Of
Non-Interference with the
Well-Behaved.
BUT LITTLE NATIONS
MUST KEEP PEACE
Chief Executive Pays a Roose-
veltian Compliment to Critics
of Canal Work. !,

of Canal Work.
Jacksonville, Fla, Oct 21.-The pres,
idential party arrived here at 1880 this
morning on a special Southern train.
On its arrival at the station, where
thousands of cheering people had gath.
cred, a special reception committee pro-
ceeded to the president IS car and gave
him cordial greeting. The president
looked fresh and vigorous after q
lighted with being in Florida.
The day was all that one could wish
for. There were no. formal exercises
| at the station, and as soon as the presi-
dent and his party were seated in car
| riages, General Lowell, the grand mar
shall, ordered the First Florida regi-
ment, which acted as the escort, to
march, and an imposing parade began
thru the principal streets.
The Presidents Address.
! After driving thru the principal
streets the president was taken to the
Seminole club, where thousands of PEG.
pie greeted him with rousing cheers
as he made his appearance on the bal
cony. Mayor Nolan welcomed the pres
ident in behalf of the city and intro
|
the president to the people. The presi-
i dent said:
ssHere in Florida, the first of the
gulf states which | have visited upon
this trip, [ wish to say a special word
about the Panama canal. | believe that
the canal will be of great benefit to all
our people, but most of all to the states
Pacific slope. When completed the
canal will stand as a monument to this
nation; for it will be the greatest EN-
gineering feat ever yet accomplished in
the world. It will be good thing for
the world as a whole, and for the peo-
A pie of the isthmus and of the northern
: portions Of South America in particu-
lar. Because of our especial interest
in it, and because Of the position we oc-
cupy on this hemisphere, it is matter
: of special pride to. us that cur nation,
the American nation, should have un-
4 .dertaken the performance of this world
A body Of the most eminent engi-
: neers in the world, both Americans and
E foreigners, has been summoned to adj
. wise as to the exact type of canal which
should be built. At no distant date I
, hope to be able to announce what their
! advice is, and also the action taken
. upon their advice. Meanwhile the
' work is already well under way, and
me to announce with certainty that it
can surely be accomplished, and prob
q ably at rather less expense than was
n anticipated. But upon the last point,
q as well as upon the question of time, no
e positive statement can be made until
q the report of the commission of engi-
: neers as to the exact type of canal has
= beer received.
9 .--. Faith Is Necessary.
; | : n Z j d
i "The work is as difficult as it is i'm
J portant; and it is Of course inevitable
. that from time to time difficulties will
;; occur and checks be encountered.
. little faith at home will lose that little
Is faith, and the critics who confound
! u hysteria with emphasis will act after
y their kind. But our people as a whole
e possess not only faith, but resolution,
u and are Of too virile fiber to be swept
u one way or the other by mere sensa-
= tionalism. No check that may come
e will be of more than trivial and pass.
ing consequence, will infict any per-
manent damage, or cause any serious
delay. The work can be done, is be
- ing done, and will be done. What has
- already been accomplished is guaranty
,e as to the future.
"a HWhen any such work is undertaken
as there are always many mere adyen
e. turers who flock to where it is going
re- on, and many men who think they are
X adventures, but who are in reality
70 either weak or timid, follow in theil
= footsteps. Some Of the first class viii
d. now and then cause trouble in one way
I'd or another. But every care will b.
az taken to detect any misdeed on theil
n part and to punish them as soon az thu
r. misdeed is detected. AS for the SECOND
IN class they will cause trouble chiefly b.
losing heart, returning home, or writ
ing home, and raising a cry that the,
;, are not happy and that the condition
at of life are not easy, or that the worl
ey is not being done as they think i
ms ought to be done.
l u.s. Like Laggards in War.
al CHOW these men stand just as tn
ci stragglers and laggards stand who ar
CHI ever to be found in the rear Of even
X victorious army. The veterans of tn
is, civil war who are here present will tel
rn you that the very rear of an army, eve
it. when it is victorious, is apt to loo
and behave as if the victory were ds
he feat. And just the same thing is tru
to in any great enterprise in civil life
We there are always weaklings who e
his trampled down or lose heart, and theI
ng are always people who listen to the
he one way or the other, SO far as ACHE,
ill ing results is concerned; and their con
ng, plants and outcries need never d
to I.tain US.
IRE 81 call your attention specifically
the matter of health on the isthmu
til The climate was supposed to be dead.
IN and yellow fever, in especial, was SUI
Id posed to be epidemic. Yet since v
at have assumed control there has bee
it far less yellow fever than in our ow
The country. The administration is steadi
on becoming better and more effectiy
cir from the hygienic as well as fro
every other standpoint.
"The work Of building the canal
great American work, in which Il
ur- whole American people are intereste
in It has nothing to do with parties
;er- partnership, and is being carried 4
an with absolute disregard to all mere
lat, political considerations; with regal
nd, only to efficiency, honesty and econom
lag HThe digging of the canal will,
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