The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-19
PRESIDENT BEGINS TOUR
 OF THE SOUTHERN STATES

| war-swept South seemed beyond h of weaker fiber there would in .cfy | truth have been no hope. Struggle of Twenty Hears.
 But the men and the sons of the men | who had faced with unfaltering. front ! every alienation of good and evil | fortune from Manassas to Appomattox | and the women. their wives and moth- | reached an even higher heroic level- | these men and these women set them selves undaunted1y to the great task before them For .nS twenty y,,.s years Ta.b, the ful. Then the splendid qualities of your manhood and womanhood told, as they, were bound to tell. and the | resources began. to be shown. Now the teeming riches of mine and l field and factory attest the prosperity | cause of the trials and struggles l through which this prosperity has come. You stand Loyalty to your tra- Loyalty for our great common country of today and for our common flag. which symbolizes all that is brightest and most hopeful for the futurey of man spirit of the age. Alike. in your ma terial and in your spiritual and in- tellectual development you stand | ooANhSt OA tAS iOASihVSt III tHC WI io Q
 And now. my fellow-citizens, my fel- low-Americans. exactly as all of us, whether we live in the East or the West. in the North or the South. have | the right merely as Americans to feel pride in every great deed done by any are Knit sas by Sna this eommoa heritage of memories, so we are knit together by the bond of our common duties in the present. our common in- | Iafa21&
 Many and great problems lie before us If we treat the mighty memories | of the past merely as excuses for sit- | standing aside from the rough work ! of the world, then these memories will prove ws sSrss sr,Is instesd rSr,p of n,s blessing But If we treat them as I believe we shall treat them, not as excuses for | inaction. but as incentives to make us CTS and of our fathers. fathers. then in truth the deeds or the past will not have been wasted, for they shall bring ent generation. We of this nation, we | the citizens of this mighty and won derful republic. stretching across a oceans, enjoy extraordinary privileges. | and as our opportunity is great. there fore our responsibility Is great. We and at home, and we can not shirk either set of duties and fully retain our | self-respect.
 In foreign affairs we must maks up our minds that whether we wish 1t or l not, we are great people and must 1, play great part in. the world. It Is not open to us to choose whether we | will play that great part or not We have to play 1t; all we can decide is whether we shall play 1t well or III . And I have too much confidence in my Icountrymen to doubt what the decis- ion will be. Our mission in the world should be one of peace, but not the lcontemptuously to those who purchase 1t by surrendering the right. No! Our voice must be effective for peace be- cause it Is raised for righteousness maiden of righteousness We must be lscrupulous in respecting the rights of the weak, and no less careful to make it ift evident that we do not act through
 We must be scrupulous in doing Jus tice to others and scrupulous in ex- beware equally of that sinister and l cynical teaching which would persuade us to disregard ethical standards in iihpternatlonai inter- l.. relations: and of which "1 would ieSS stop nurTl"i the wSoIs IoDIs work of civilization by a weIl-meant, but silly. persistency in trying to apply theories of government and of national 1 action which are only suited for the l most advanced races.
 Panama and Sea Police.
 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 1t; and this means that we have a peculiar | interest in the preservation of order in the coasts and islands of the Carib- bean. l firmly believe that by a lit- l tie wise and generous aid we can help even the most backward of the peoples in these coasts. and islands forward along the path of orderly liberty so that | they can stand alone. If we decline | to give them such help the result will be bad both for them and for us; and will In the end in all probability cause us to face humiliation or bloodshed
 The problems that face us abroad are important, but the problems that face us at home are even more important
 The extraordinary growth of industrial ism during the last half century brings every civilized people face to face with the gravest social and economic ques- tions. This Is an age of combination among capitalists and combination among wage-workers. It is idle to try to prevent such combinations. Our efforts should be to see that they work the body polite. New devices of law are necessary from time to time in order to meet the changed and chang ing conditions. But after all we will do we'll to remember that although the problems to be solved change from generation to generation, the spirit in which their solution must be attempted remains forever the same.
 It is in peace as 1t is in war. Tactics change and weapons change. The Con- 1 tiinental troops in their blue and buff
 who fought under Washington and Greene and Wayne, differed entirely in arms and in training from those who in blue or gray faced one another in the armies of Grant and of Lee of Sher- man and Of Johnston. And now the sons of these same Union and Confed- l crate veterans who serve in our gallant little army of today wear a different uniform, carry a different weapon. and Of the soldier has remained the same throughout, and the qualities which drove forward to victory or to death the men of '76 and the men of '61 are the every qualities which the men of today must keep unchanged if in the hour of need the honor of the nation Is to be kept untarnished.
 Must Not Vary in Least
 So 1t Is in civil life. This govern. ment was formed with as its basic idea the principle of treating each man on his worth as a man, of paying no heed to whether he was rich or poor no heed to his creed or his social standing, but only to the way in which he perform ed his duty to himself. to his neighbor. to the State. From this principle we can not afford to vary by so much as a hands breadth. Many republics have risen in the past. and some of them flourished long, but sooner or later they fels; and the cause most potent in bringing about their fall was In almost all cases the fact that they grew to be governments in the interests of a class instead of governments In the in-
 terest of all. It made no difference
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