New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-22
PRESIDENT ON CANAL.
Calls 1t Great american Work Clear
of Partisansbip.

Jacksonville. Fla. Oct. 21-The Presidents
marty arrived here at 10: so o'clock this morning
on = special Southern Railway train in charge oS
II H Hodge engineer. and w d Gnann. con-
ductor. On its arrival at the station. where
thousands Of cheering people had gathered,
special reception committee Of one hundred
leading citizens lined up. making a passageway
through the station to the street. where car
riages were in waiting.
The President looked fresh and vigorous after
q nights sleeo and expressed himself as de-
lighted with being in Florida. The day was all
that could be wished for. There were no formal
exercises at the station. and as soon as the
President and his party were seated in carriages
General Lowell the grand marshal. ordered the
ist Florida Regiment which served as escort
to march and an imposing parade bagan
though the principal streets. The vehicle which
the President occupied was the finest landau IL
the city drawn by magnificent pair OF whlte
borses and in the Presidential carriage were
he President Governor Broward, Mayor Nolan
and Secretary Loeb
six carriages were used exclusively for the
Presidents party. and behind them came the
carriages Of the executive committee. Governors
staff. Cabinet officers and Supreme Court JUS
tees. State officials and the general reception
committee
After drive through the principal streets OF
the city the President was taken to the Seminole
Club. in the principal square in the city, where
thousands of people greeted him with rouslng
cheers as he made his appearance on the bal
cony. Mayor Nolan welcomed the President in
behalf Of the city and introduced Governor
Broward. VINO presented the President 10 the
multitude The President said:
Here in Florida, the first of the Gulf states es
which ! have visited upon this trip. wish 10
cay special word about the Panama CallaI-
believe that the canal will be OF great p@elent @
70 all our people. but most OF all 70 Ine EoIaIee
OF the South Atlantic, the Gulf and the Paclnc
slope. When completed. the canal will stand as
monument to this nation: for 1t Will De tlls
grea test engineering feat ever yet accop pllsIleo
In the world Il will be a good thing for the
world as a whole, and for the people OF me
isthmus and Of the northern pofnoAs oI oC.i oouCi
America in particular. Because OF our speclal pl
interest in It and because Of the posltion we
occupy on this hemisphere. II is matter OF
special pride 20 US that our latioIl' the LIIle s
nation. should have undertaken the pefior "
OF this world duty. A body of the most efninehI
engineers in the world, both Americans anu IGt 1
eigners has been summoned to advise as 10 the
exact type Of canal which should be bulIt AZ
no distant date [ hope TO be able TO aIblouICo aIblI
what their advice is, and also the action taken
upon their advice Meanwhile the work is al
ready well under way. and has advanced sum sum
GENTLY far TO enable me TO announce WIN Gel Ca
tsinty that it can surely be accomplished ana
proba bly, at rather less expense than was ahtIcl-
pated. But upon the last point, as Wen as upoLI ~
the question of time, no positive statement cdt5
be made until the report Of the commission OF
engineers as 70 the exact type of canal has been
received.
WORK DIFFICULT AND IMPORTANT
The v-o,ly &c as dif1cuit as it is important;
ard II is of course inevitable that from tlfne
to time difficulties Will occur ana cieeaS a .be
encountered Whenever such is the case tne
men or IiftIe Faith at home will lose that little
faith, and the critics who conIouh9 ~ 80 &c
with emphasis will act after their klhu PuI ~ ~
people as a whole possess not only 1alth, t Dut
resolution and are of too virie hbre 10 De sHePI
way or the other by mere sensatlolls itlir; t,
No check that may come VIII pe OF I, I'LL az. 80
trivial and passine consequence, VIII lhulct any
permanent damage or cause any serious 'Ii -
The work can be done is being done ana w VII - Oe 70
done What has already been accoiipIieii7o - "
guarantee TO the future. -, .,,aa ara
When any such work is undertaken there ar
always many mere Adventures Mno ~ +binL
where IL IS going on, and many men Mho Lii, ~
they are adventurers. but who are II s IeaIIty
either weak or timid. follow in their Ioo'stepS a
Some of the first class will now ano t~heI ~ aro
trouble in one 1vay or another. But every care
will be taken To detect any misdeed Oh InI
part and 10 punish them as soon as tne - p,iII
Is detected AS for the second class theS W. W.
cause trouble chiefly by losing heart retl- .Ina@
nome or writing home, and raising cry nc -
they are not happy and that the condltIoh,te, h,,e W
life are not easy or that the work is not e Sel.e
done as they think IL ought TO be done. 4Io~'
tnese stand just as the strasgIefs aiLu aer &c
CARDS stand who are ever TO be found in the rs -,
OF even a victorious army. The veterans o. u, IL
Civil War who here present VIII ten 80 s
that the very rear of an army, even "heii !. 80
victorious is arr 10 look and behave as II lh0
victory were defeat. And just the same tnlns
is true in any great enterprise In civil life; theor
are always weaklings who get trampled down OF
lose heart and there are always people WHO
listen 10 their complaints. They amount TO notl-
Ing ono way or the other so far as achieVlng re-
suits is concerned: and their complaints anu
outcries need never detain us.
call your attention specifically TO the matter
Of health on the isthrnus. The climate was sup
posed TO be deadly, and yellow fever in especial
was supposed to be epidemic. Yet since we have
assumed control there has been far less yelIo"
fhors sr7
don is steadily becoming better ana more et-
feetive, from the hygfenic well as from every
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