The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-10-26
GOES TO DIXIE LAND.
PRESIDENT MAKES A SOUTHERN
TOUR.
Keeping Promise Given More Than q
Year Ago, Roosevelt Takes a Trip
South-Has Now Visited Every State
In the Union.

In accordance with promise given
more than year ago, President Roose-
velt 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, enc 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 a later date. Assurances were
given him, however, by Mayor Behr-
man and by officials of the marine hos
pital service that at the time of his
| proposed visit to New Orleans danger
from fever infection practically would
be out of consideration.
The quarantine of other Southern
States against Louisiana aud New Or
leans still is in force, however, and in
order rot to violate the quarantine reg
ulations the President changed his itin-
oysv co 70 nr1 thr>
last place he should visit.
President Roosevelt left Washington
over the Southern Railway. In his par
ty were Secretary William Loeb, Jr.,
DR.. p. M. Rixey, surgeon general of
the navy; John A. McIlbenney of
regiment of rough riders: John G.
| Greenway of Michigan; John s. Elliott,
commissioner of the interior for Porto
Rico; NJ. c. Latta and John J.. Nc
Grew, stenographers: Henry A. Stroh-
meyer, photographer; Colonel l.. S
Brown, general agent of tie Southern
Railway; representatives OF the three
| press associations, two secret service
officers and a 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 drive to points of in
terest in the city. In his speech the
President said in part:
/ trust need hardly say bow great is
| my pleasure at speaking in this historic
| capital of your historic State; the State
than which no other has contributed a
| 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 Virgtnia's name
| stands above all others.
| And in greeting all of you, l know
that no one will grudge my Saying a spe
| cial word of acknowledgment to the vet
Grams of the Civil War. 4 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 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 mus. make up
our minds that, whether we wish it or
not, we are a great people and must play
q 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
it; all we can decide is whether we shall
play it we'll or i'll. Our mission in the
world should be one of peace, but not
the peace of cravens, the pesce 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 a peculiar in
| lereSL III the preScfVdllOu VI Cruer III 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 fourishei long, but
sooner or later they fell; and the cause
most potent in bringing aboGt their fall
was in almost all cases the fact that
they grew to be governments in the in
terest of class instead of governments
in the interest of all.
1 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 manifests 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
each man; no more and no less.
. | More than this no man is entitled to-