Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-10-26
GOES TO DIXIE LAND.
PRESIDENT MAKES A SOUTHERN
TOUR.
Keeping Promise Given More Than a
Year Ago, Roosevelt Takes Trip
South-Has Now Visited Every State
in the Union.


more than year ago, President ROose-
Eelt started Wednesday on an extend
ed trip through the States of the South,
intending to visit all of the Atlantic
coast States, Alabama, Arkansas and
Louisiana. On the completion of his
trip he will have visited during his adj
ministratiOn as President every State
in the Union
After tentative arrangements for the
trip had been completed, the epidemic
of yellow fever broke out in New Or
leans, one Of the principal points of
the Presidents itinerary. He was urged
by many of his friends that he ought
not to visit New Orleans at the time
scheduled, lest he be exposed
To officials of New Orleans the Pres
ident suggested that if they preferred,
he would postpone his visit to that city
until later date. Assurances were
given him, however, by Mayor Behr-
man and by officials of the marine hos
Tital service that at the time of his
proposed visit to New Orleans danger
from fever infection practically would
BE- out of consideration.
President Roosevelt left Washington
over the Southern Railway In his par
ty were Secretary William Loeb, .Ir.,
Dr.. p. NJ. RiXey, surgeon general of
the navy; John A. McIlhenNey of
Louisiana, member OF the Presidents
regiment of rough riders; John c..
Greenway of Michigan; John s. Elliott,
commissioner of the interior for Porto
Rico: NJ. c. Latta and John l.. Me
Grew, stenographers; Henry A. Stroh
meyer, photographer: Colonel l.. s
Brown, general agent of the Southern
Railway; representatives of the three
press associations, two secret service
officers and corps Of messengers.
Speaks at Richmond.
At Richmond the President made an
address in Capitol Square and was en-
tertained at luncheon by the citizens
and taken for a drive to points of in
terest in the city. In his speech the
President said in part:
l trust I need hardly say how great is
my pleasure at speaking in this historic
capital of your historic State; the State
than which no other has contributed
larger proportion to the leadership of the
nation: for on the honor roll of those
American worthless whose greatness is
not only for the age. but for all time,
not only for one nation, but for all the
world, on this honor roll Virginia's name
stands above all others.
And in greeting all of you. l know
that no one will grudge my saying spe
cial word Of acknowledgment to the vet
Grams of the Civil War. A man would
indeed be but poor American who could
without a thrill witness the way in
which, in city after city in the North
as in the South, on every public occa-
sion, the men VINO wore the blue and the
men who wore the gray now march and
stand shoulder to shoulder.
This gives tangible proof that we are
all now in fact as well as in name a re-
united people. a people infinitely richer
because of the priceless memories left
to all Americans by you men who fought
in the great war.
Many and great problems lie before us.
We of this nation enjoy extraordinary
privileges, and as our opportunity is
great, therefore our responsibility is
great.
In foreign affairs we must make up
our minds that, whether we wish it or
not, we are great people and must play
a great part in the world. 1t is not open
to us to choose whether we will play
that great part or not We have to play
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play it we'll or ILL., 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.
In particular we must remember that
in undertaking to build the Panama
canal we have necessarily undertaken to
police the seas at either end of it; and
this means that we have Il peculiar in
terest in the preservation of order in the
coasts and islands of the Caribbean
The extraordinary growth of indus
trialism during the last half century
brings every civilized people face to face
with the gravest social and economic
questions. This is an age of combina-
ton among capitalists and combination
among wage workers. 1t is idle to try
to prevent such combinations. Our eff
forts should be to see that they work for
the good and not for the harm of the
body polite.
Many republics have risen in the past,
and some Of them hourished long, but
sooner or later they fell; and the cause
most potent in bringing about their fall
was in almost all cases the fact that
they grew to be governments in the in
terest of a class instead of governments
in the interest of all.
1t was ultimately as fatal to the cause
of freedom whether it was the rich who |
oppressed the poor or the poor who |
plundered the rich. The crime of bru-
tai disregard Of rights of others is as |
much a crime when it manfests itself |
in the shape of greed and brutal AFRO
gance on the one side, as when it mani |
tests itself in the shape of envy and |
lawless violence on the other
Our aim must be to deal justice to |
ca ch man; no more and no less.
More than this no man is entitled to. |
and less than this no man shall have.
The idea of restoring ST Sayior'S |