The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-10-23
President Is on Ills Way to
Alabama.
MOBILE TO-DAY
Spoke In st. Augustine on Good
Citizenship and Received the
Floral Key.


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the president Ia biz ssqI.uA 40 IN
conclusion ~ tho scrsic~s iiic pF,siieul
was takcn Got q short drive abpu, The
city
Tho drive brought tie president and
biz party through the enci.ni city gates
built nearly 80 ycnrs ago By tho span
lard. Alpyc the archway wcfc huns
hugr letters spelling out the wonl
"wclcome." aud on each side % The
portal at a PRETTY giTi dressed a.
Columbia.
A. The presidents carriage reached
the Fnic IL paused aud one Of q b-vy
q schoolgirl. hapd.d him a great noral
KEY. the key 70 the city. After rcoclV'
lng the kcy the president was driven
10 tie Ponce de Leon hotel. which was
opened ~ especially foE the party. aud
where be- rc-t.i for half "a hour bs.
fore proceeding 10 Fort Marion. where
be- made nn address.
In bis speech 40 Fort Marion The
president dwclt ON the subject Of
'Good Citizenship AMI the aims and
oblccis % this government
This republic u not and never shall
be government Of a pluiocrat" he
said. This government il not and
never shall be the government Of n
mob II shall remain as II was found.
ed In the beginning. a government Of
Justice. through the form OF law. a
government wherein every man II
guaranteed la his own rights and Il
forbidden 10 wrong his ncigiiborS."
Little enthusiasm was manifested by
the white residents OF jacksonville In
the presidents visit, taken as a whole.
although there was nothing In the re.
ccptlon TO which even Mr.. Roosevelt
could take exception.
Negroes OF the city. on the other
hand. were enthusiastic 20 nm extreme
Between four and five thousand mem.
beers Of that race men. women aud
children. assembled at the academy.
Decorations In n negro section through
which the drive extended were profuse
Speaking TO the negroes the president
said:
40 your very best TO develop good
teachers. TO develop good preachers;
preachers who shall preach TO the col
ored man as II should De preached TO
the white man. that by your fruits you
shall know them and. that the truly re
ligi0hs man Is the man who IL decent
aud clean In his private life, who Is
orderly and law abiding: the man who
hunts down the criminal and does all
he can 10 stop crime and wrongdoings.
the man who treats his neighbor WELL
who is n good man in his own family
and therefore a good man In the state.
That II Is what we have Il right TO ex-
pect from the Christian leadership
which we see In the churches"
81 wish to say Il special word abou,
the Panama canal" Mr. Roosevelt said
at 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
gulf and the Pacific slope. When com
pleted the canal will stand as monu.
ment to this nation, for it will be TIN,
greatest engineering feat ever yet-ac
in the world. 1t can sure
ly be accomplished and probably AT
rather less expense than was antici
pated. t
'The work is as difficult as it Is i'm
portant, and it is of course inevitable
that from time to time difficulties win
occur and checks be encountered
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 whole
possess not only faith, but resolution
and are of too virile fiber to be swep,
one way or the other by mere sensa.
ionalism.
'The digging of the canal will OF
course greatly increase our interest In
he Caribbean sea. It will be our duty
% police the canal, both in the interest
IF other nations and in our own inter
est. TO do this 1t is of course indis-
to have ian efficient navy land
am happy to say that we are well on
,ur way toward having one) and also
10 possess, as we already possess GER
ain strategic points to control the ap-
)roach to the canal. Only as last
'esort it may occasionally be necessary
o Interfere by exercising what Is viz
.ually an international police power, II
,nly to avoid seeing some European
power forced to exercise it,
After luncheon the president, accom-
panied by Secretary Loeb. Surgeon
General Rixey. John sMcIlhenny and
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