The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-10-24
SAW THE MIDWAY
AND ATE PICKLES AND SAND
WlCHEs IN A TENT.
Some Of the Features Of President
RooseveIt's Second Day in the
South Land.

South Land.
Charlotte, N. c., Oct 19.-President
Roosevelts second day in the southland
was period of hard and hot work, of
dust, of sightseeing and Of ringing
cheers and footing whistles. Although
the enthusiasm that greeted the Presi-
dent was just as genuine as that which
met and took him in Richmond, 1t
lacked the fire and spirit which char
acterized his reception in the old capi-
tai of the confederacy.
If the President felt any weariness
after his day of toll, he did not show
1t this evening, yet he worked harder,
in all probability, than most of the
sons and daughters of the fields who
listened to his words or followed his
carriage through the Carolina dust.
In Raleigh he presented loving cup
to a poet, selected as the best in the
Old North state; saw the midway of
the state fair at it's hottest and noisi-
est, and ate pickles and fried chicken
sandwiches in a tent behind the grand
stand, where the country folk gather
year after year to see the races.
At Durham he talked to the workers
who prepare much of the tobacco that
is smoked throughout the world.
At High Point he greeted the em-
ployes of the furniture factories.
At Little Lexington, where his train
paused but two minutes, he made an
address to 300 wee orphan children.
who sang songs to him and waved
flags as merrily as though they had an
equal start in life with the more for
tunate sons and daughters of the hap
piest homes.
The President said many good things
during the day, preaching for the most
part the gospel of friendly h1nds across
the Potomac of upright citizenship, of
honesty, courage and common sense.
At Durham he paid high compli-
ment to Trinity college, which is locat-
ed at that place. The aim of that in
stitution, he said, was to assert a
faith in the eternal union of knowl-
edge and religion" He added that he
knew OF no college that so nobly sets
forth this principle.
"These," he said, "are the principles
to which every college should be de-
voted in whatever portion of this union
it may be placed. You stand for all
those things for which the scholar
: must stand if he is to render real and
lasting service to the state. You stand
for academic freedom, for the right OF
private judgment, for the duty more
incumbent upon the scholar than upon
any other man, to tell the truth as he
sees 1t, to claim for himself and to give
to others the largest liberty in seeking
after the truth. There can be no coer-
+ cion Of opinion if collegiate training is
to bring forth full fruit"
At Greensboro the President said in
} part: I'VE respect the son of worthy
father If he feels that the fact that his
father did we'll makes it incumbent
upon him to strive to do better. We
despise the boy who treats the fact
that his father counted for something
| as being an excuse for his counting
, for nothing. So am glad to note the
care that you in this state are giving to
; education. The greatness of the coun-
try in the time Immediately to come
will depend upon the way in which the
young generation of today is trained to
citizenship in the future. ! am sorry
to say that there is probably no one
here who is not acquainted with some
, kindly, we'll meaning and most foolish
father or mother who, because life has
been hard with him or her in the past,
, takes the view that the children are
not to have to face any difficulties. The
, worst thing that you can do for child
is to bring him or her up so as to dodge
difficulties. The children that will rise
up to call their parents blessed are
those to whom the parents have given
the inestimable privilege of training
thom to meet difficulties, not to shirk
7 them; to overcome obstacles, not to get
out of the way of them. Neither the
individual nor the community is worth
anything If it seeks after that which is
easy. The thing to do is to find out
what is worth doing, and do it Show
the manly quality that allows of this
being done"