The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-08
MT. Roosevelt Speaks
 With Much Feeling.
NATIONS LOSS AND GAIN
New Secretary is a Worthy
 Successor.
President on the UAselhshness Which is Shown by Public Men of the United States In Great Ma
 tiOnal Crisis.


 welt paid an appropriate and eloquent tribute to the life and services of the late Secretary John Hay in his address before the National Educational Asso- citation at Ocean Grove today He followed this tribute with an estimate of the personal sacrifice Elihu Root had made in becoming Secretary Hays successor in office. The example of these two men. not entirely unique. as the President indicated in reference he made to other members of his cabi- net, enabled him to point d most eff fective moral.
 At the conclusion of his prepared ad- dress, the President put aside his notes and with manifest earnestness and feel ing spoke as follows to the great audience:
 Tn closing I want to speak to you of how certain things, some of which have happened, and some of which have been suggested to me by what has hap pened in the past week, emphasizes what I have said to you as to the im- portance to this country of having within its limits men who put the realization of high ideals above any form of money making.
 within a week this country has lost a great statesman, who was also a great man of letters. a man who oc- cupied a peculiar and unique position in our country, a man of whose ex- istence we could each of us be proud, for the United States as whole was better because John Hay lived. John Hay entered the public service as young man just come of age. as the secretary of President Lincoln.
 Trusted by Lincoln.
 He served in the war and was member of the Loyal Legion. He was trusted by and was intimate with Lin- coin as hardly any other man was. He then went on rendering service after service, and always able. This was one of his great advantages, and great merits. ready at any moment to go to private life unless he could con tinues in public life on his own terms He went on rendering service after ser vice to the country until as the climax of his career he served as Secreatry or State under two successive administra- tions, and by what he did and by what he was he contributed in no small de- gree to achieving for this republic the respect of the nations of mankind. Such service as that could not have been rendered save by man who had before him ideals as far apart as the poles from the ideals which have in them any taint of what Is base or sordid.
 Now, I wished to secure as John Hays successor the man whom recos- nized as of all men in the country best fitted to be such a successor. In ask ing him to accept the position or sec retary of State. I was asking him to submit to very great pecuniary sac rifice, and I never even thought of that aspect of the question. for l knew he would not either. I knew that what ever other consideration he had to weigh for and against the knowledge of the position, the consideration or how it would affect his personal TOT tune would not be taken into account by Elihu Root, and he has accepted.
 Typical Examples.
 q am not speaking of Hay and Root as solitary exceptions. On the con trary, am speaking of them as typical of a large class of men in public life.
 Even when we hear so much criti- cism of certain aspects of our puollc life and of certain of our public ser wants, criticism which I regret to state is in many cases deserved, it Is well for us to remember also the other side of the picture, to remember that here in America we now have and always have had at the command of the nation III any crisis. in any emergency, the very best ability to be found within the nation and that ability has been given with the utmost freedom. given lavishly and generously, although at great pe.uniary loss to the man giv- ing it.
 There is not in my Cabinet one man to whom it is not a financial disadvant- age to stay in the Cabinet. There is not in my Cabinet one who does not have to give up something substantial, often very much that Is substantial, sometimes what is very great hard ship for him to give up, in order that he may continue in the service of the nation and have the only record for fRr hinI the consciousness of having done ser vice that was worth rendering. I hope more and more throughout thls ation to see the spirit grow which makes such services possible"
 President Roosevelt's references to both Mr. Hay and MT. Root were re ceived with tremendous applause, his statement that the latter had accepted the office of Secretary of State. a fact of which many of his auditors were not aware. bringing the audience to its feet. cheering.