The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-07-05
MADE ADDRESS
IN LARGE GROVE
President Gives Extempora-
neous Fourth of July Ora
ton for Neighbors.
THE TRIALS OF LINCOLN
RAIN INTERRUPTED THE CELE-
BRATION, BUT 1T DID NOT
STOP RooSEvELT'S SPEECH
GOOD CITIZENSHIP IN HOME.
Publishers Pressl

Oyster Bay, n. Y, July 4.-Presi-
his neighbors in celebration of the
Fourth.
Oyster Bays celebration was an
open air gathering at Locust Grove, at
the outskirts of the village. Excur-
siops crossed the sound from the Con-
necticut towns of Stamford, Bridge
port, Greenwich and Norwich, and
New York trains brought their quota.
The president did not prepare his
The president said that while there
were two or three things about which
he wanted to talk, he would take for
his text the words of Abraham Lin
coin just after his election: In any
great national trial hereafter the men
of that day as compared with those
of this will be as weak and as strong,
as base and as good. Let us therefore
study for the future" And later: so
long as l have been here, | have not
planted thorn in any mans bosom.
Speaking on the conditions at the
time when Lincoln spoke those words,
the president said it was possible for
Lincoln to say with entire truth that
he bore no rancor and did his work
without hatred to the doer of evil.
Lincoln did not treat anything that
was done against him as wrong call
ing for vengeance, but for remedy,
and it is in just that spirit, the presi-
dent said, the American people must
approach their problems of today.
1--WE have not as great problems as
Lincoln" he said, but we have prob
lens, and the way we face them will
give our children cause for pride or
for shame. If citizens of Lincoln's
time had not done their duty we could
not have held up our heads today"
He said that our duty calls for the
exercise of more than one quality on
our part First, honesty which means
disinterested devotion to what is
right Without this all others would
count for naught. In 1860 the senti-
ment, the Union must be preserved"
was the saving quality. 1t was patriot
ism first and then the courage to
make that patriotism prevail.
1--WE have heard during the past
year." said the president. "of frightful
iniouities in business life and delin-
quencies in moral life"
At this point severe shower came
over. The president donned rubber
cape and continued his speech. Let
us try to remove the causes of the
wrongdoing," he continued, but not
to cultivate a spirit Of rancorous
hatred which will most surely come
back on ourselves"
Do not ever get into the frame OF
mind to which, under great provoca-
ton Abraham Lincoln refused to yield.
Do not hesitate to visit punishment
where it must be inflicted for the good
of others, but do not inf1ict punish
ment vindictively. There is enough
wrong to fight Cut it out. Then,
again, there is enough wrong done by
men of large means and enough wrong
done by men of small means. If a
man has a twisted morality he will
show that twisted morality wherever
he may be-"
The president then referred to the
work of this congress in the direction
of federal control over business.
I'VE have accomplished a fair
amount, because we have not tried too
much,' said he, "and because we ap-
preached it without rancor."
I'm this task" the president said,
I'VE have come in contact with some
people we did not like, and in protect
ing property we have been forced to
protect some of the property of the
fellow we did not want to. When it
the ones that need control l will curb
without regard to Others"
The rain began to fall again at this
point, but the president went on with
out his rubber cape.
REWRITING again to good citizenship,
the president said the way to be a
good citizen of the republic is to be
good citizen of Oyster Bay. IF a
man goes to Fourth of July celebra-
tion," said he, land then goes home
and conducts himself in such a way
that his wife and children wished he
had never come home, he is HRt a
good citizen. The supreme test is a
mans own family"
The business which naturally will
come to the president as result of
the operation of new laws and the be-
ginning of the fiscal year, has not as
yet reached him from Washington. In
quiry at the executive Office developed
that the salary of Secretary Bishop
OF the isthmian canal commission will
be $4,000 year. This leaves Bish-
ops compensation exactly as it was
before, when he drew $500 as a men,
Der of the commission and $4,000 as
its secretary.
Roosevelt Asked to Preside.
New York. July 4-William Hoge,
president of the Commercial Travel
ers' Antitrust league. sent a letter to
President Roosevelt inviting Mr..
Roosevelt to preside at the reception
to be rendered William J. BRYAN in