The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-31
NOTABLE SPEECH
BY ROOSEVELT
President Orator of the Day at Brook
Ign Celebration.
MEMORY OF HERO HONORED
UNWILLING OF MONUMENT TO
GENERAL SLOCUM.

Anew YORK, May SO.-President
IN Roosevelt was the principal
figure in New York's Memorial
day celebration, the feature ev=nts of
which were scheduled to take place
in the borough of Brooklyn. There
the chief executive was to make the
principal address at the unwilling of
a statue TO General SIOcum. review a
parade Of veterans and attend a re-
ception at tn naval branch of the
Young Mems Christian association. His
special train reached Jersey City from
Washington at 1903 a m and was met
by delegation from the Brooklyn or
CARNATIONS, whose guest the president
was 10 be This delegation was headed
by former Mayor Schieren of Brook
lyn and President GunnisOH of the
Brooklyn Union League club and was
accompanied by a heavy police guard
which escorted the party from the de-
pot TO a ferry boat, which was 10 take
them across the river The boat was
gaily decorated in honor of the oc-
casion, and 1t was given many a cheer
during the short trip beween. shores.
Breakfast at Club
on the Brooklyn side the escort was
reinforced by Squadron c. of the New
York State National guard and the
president Was taken at once TO the
Union League club, where he had an
early breakfast, after which an in
formal reception was held.
The president remained at the Union
League club several hours and was
then driven TO the SlOCum monument
In the parade official recognition of
the fact that the veterans were rapidly
4 h.
first time. Always in the past it has
been the hOnoTed privilege Of some
veteran to bear the organization
standard in the long Memorial day
marches. Today, however. he task
was entrusted to younger men, three
members of the sons of veterans hav-
ing been delegated to perform the
task
Arrival of Roosevelt.
At the statue two immense stands
had been erected, one directly back
Of the statue and the other. from
which the troops Were to be reviewed,
only a short distance away. The ar
rival of the president was announcer
by salute of q guns, and the CeTe-
monies were begun without an in
stant's delay. In the opening prayer
Bishop Frederick Burgess referred to
the Russian naval disaster in the
contest be soon ended, not by exhaUs-
ton, but in amity, by comfy Of all
nations"
\ salUts of Is guns was fired, when
Miss Gertrude SIOcum, granddaughter
of the man in whose memory the mon
umenu was raised. drew aside the flags
which had concealed it. The formal
presentation of the statue to the city
was made by Park Commissioner Ken
nedy The gift was formally accepted
by Mayor Mcclellan in a brief ad-
dress
President Loudly Cheered.
President Roosevelt vas loudly
chesred when he arose to make the
principal address of the occasion. The
president said:
Mr.. Mayor Mr. Commissioner and
You my fellow citizens, and above all,
you who took part in the great war
in which the man whose statue is
raised today won for himself and his
country renown and honOT- tAppIaUseD
Triumph of Liberty.
"Day before yesterday I listened to
a sermon in which the preacher. dwell
ing upon the exercises to be held
throughout the Union today, preached
on the text which commentaries the
altar raised by command of Moses to
commemorate the victory gained by
the children Of Israel over the wild
tribes of the desert who sought to bar
their march towards the promised
land. wherein Amalek cams out OF
Israel, fought all day while Aaron and
HuU upheld the hands Of Moses until
as night fell the sun went down on
the Tsraelites and they raised an altar
to Jehovah, who stood as the expon-
snt of the principle for which Israel
warTed; they raised it to the people
of righteousness. which alone can JUS
tlfy any war OF any struggle TAP
plause). and, Mr.. Mayor. that Is the
thought that you developed in the ex-
CeIIent address to which we have Just
listened. that we may today cOmmem-
crate the great victory, the triumph
Of the cause Of union and liberty not
primarily because il was a victory,
but because IL was a victory for right
cousin SIS and the peace and the liberty
and the eternal spiritual welfare of
mankind. (ApplaUse)
Reunited Country.