The San Francisco call., 1905-05-31

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paid splendid tribute TO the men who
composed the Northern armies, but did
not forget those who fought for the
Confederacy. Most notable in his speech
were an expression of the hope that, as
the nation increased in strength, there
would come a corresponding increase in
its sense Of responsibility which would
prevent its people from either injuring
or insulting other people. and his dec
laration that the surest way for a ma
tion TO invite disaster is to be opulent,
aggressive and Unarmed.
Significant, I'm the light of recent
events, was his assertion that, "if our
navy is good enough, VIC have n long
career of peace and prosperity before
us and the only likelihood of trouble
ever coming 70 us n nation Will arise
IL we let our navy become too small or
inefficient. frst-class navy. first-class
In point of size, above all first-cIasS I'm
point of efficiency, and the Individual
unit acting ns units and In cOmbina-
tion, is the surest and cheapest guarmn-
tee of peace. L should think TINT anv
man looking at what is happening and
has happened abroad and i'm our history
during the past few years must indeed
be blind IL he cannot read that lesson
clearly
DEMONSTRATION BY PEOPLE.
The President was in New York City
I'VE hoars. but during that time did not
pat his foot in Manhattan, passing
AROUND the Island in a ferry boat to the
Brooklyn side Of East River, and after
the exercises returning in the same
fashion The entire trip was without un-
happy incident
The President arrived in Jersey City at
7:0S a. m, and was met by committee
headed by Frederick H. Cunnison ef the
Union League Club. w Z. Pulitzer and
eX-Mayor Charles A Schieren Of Brook,
lyn- He travelled in a special car at
tached TO regular express on the Penn
sylvania railroad. The President was ac-
compaHied only by Secretary Loeb and
DR.. Stokes.
The party Immediately boarded a ferry
boat and was landed at the foot of Fulton
street, Brooklyn. There the party was
met by Troop c and escorted to the
Union League Club rooms. Along the
route flags were flying and thousands Of
people lined the streets. Mr.. Roosevelt
was constantly acknowledging the en-
thusiastic reception rendered him. Thou
sands Of people were in waiting at the
club but they had only a glimpse of the
Pres dent.
Breakfast was served to a party of 100,
after which there was a brief reception.
on leaving the Union League Club the
President proceeded between cheering
4ll1H OF people 10 the Plaza. Wlere the
great bronze statue of General Slocum by
MacMonnies was to be unveiled Two
scat stands facing the statue were
filed with people. The arrival of the
Presidential party was signaled by the
firing Of 2 salute of twenty-one guns.
Mayor Mcclellan greeted the President
cordially, and the multitude gave him an
ovation.
GENERAL SICKLEs CHEERED.
The crowds burst into cheers as Cen
eral Daniel Z. Sickles. who fought with
General Slocum. walked on cruUches
toward the unveiling platform. The gen
efal had to be lifted almost bodily up the
steps.
The exercises at the unveiling began
with an invocation by the Right Rev.
Bishop Frederick Burgess, Episcopal
Bishop of Long Island
The statue Of General Slocum was un-
veiled by Miss Gertrude Slocum, the IL
year-old granddaughter of General Slo-
cum. amid the cheers Of thousands. A
salute of thirteen guns was fired as Miss
Slocum drew aside the flags which veiled
the statue.
. In accepting the statue Mayor Nc
Clellan made reference TO President
RooseveIt's own service as a soldier, and
said that il was fitting that the Chief
Magistrate Of the country, himself
gallant soldier, should be present at the
unyeiling Of statue to one Of the ma
riOn's greatest heroes
The crowds rose and stood bareheaded
while the band played THE Star-Span-
gled Banner after the Mayor had con-
Guided his speech. As the last note of the
hymn died away. the President began
his address, He spoke for about thirty
minutes. He said:
SPEECH OF PRESIDENT.
Cso-,rofSsiorer .or1 my
ge low citizens. and above all. you who took
psyt in the great war in which the man whose
statue Is raised to-day won for himself and
has country renown and honor: Day before
yesterday I listened TO a sermon in which the
preacher dwelling upon the exercises TO be
heio throughout the Union to-day, preached on
the text which commentaries the altar raised
by command OF Moses 70 commemorate the
victory gained by the children OF Israel over
the wild tribes OF the desert. who sought to
bar their march toward the promised land,
wherein Amalek came out OF Israel fought
all day while Aaron and Hur upheld the hands
OF Noses until s night fell the went down
on the Isrselites and thev RAISED an altar 10
Jehovah who stood as the exponent Of the
principle for which Israel warred They raised
It 10 the principle OF righteousness. which
alone Justify any any struggle
and. Mr.. Mayer. that is the thought that you
developed in the excellent address 10 which
have just listened. that make to-day
commemorate the great victory. the triumph Of
the cause OF Union and Liberty: not primarily
because IL was a victory, but because Il was
q victory for righteousness and the peace and
the liberty and the eternal spiritual welfare
OF mankind
I see before me men here who won
high honor comrades In arms of
General SlOcum, and / know that there
exists I'm the Union men who will
appreciate more the fact that now,
forty years after the war, the c-oynIacs
triumph of what they did is to be found
i'm the fact that we have genuinely
reunited country. country in which
the man y.hO wore the blue stretches
out the hand of loyal friendship to his
erEfwhfIe Zoe, his devoted friend
and fellow cOuntryman, the man who
wore the gray.
BLESSINGS FOLLOW WAR.
A short while ago I passed through the
great State Of Texas Wherever l stopped in
that great state / greeted by represen-
tativts of the Grand Army marching side by
SIDE with or internIingled with men clad in
the gray uniform that showed that they had
fought in the armies OF the Confederacy. men
who had tested another's worth the
stricken field: who knew each that The
other had been ready when the hour Of
premc appeal come 10 show his worth by his
eudea1ors and men who leave 70 their
children and their childrsns children as q
heritage OF honor forever the memory Of the
great deeds done alike by those who fought
under Grant and by those who fought under
Lee, Tor we. because of the very fact that the
Union triumphed now have the right to feel 4
ike Yrlde IN the valor and devotion of those
wsn vaitsntiy Fought against the stars in