The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-05
ROOSEVELT
 TO NEIGHBORS President Speaks at
 Qsster Bay. MARES HIS USUAL ADDRESS ID ;sney" in Private and Public Life the Text. says That to Re Good Citizen of the Nation is to Be a Good Cif-
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 Oyster Bay L.. l., July 4.-President Roosevelt today delivered Fourth of July oration to his townspeople in natural amphitheatre in a grove at Oyster Bay. Addressing his auditors as my old friends and neighbors, you among whom I was brought up and among whom I have lived for SC many years," the President said. 1t was great pleasure to be here and say a to give an account of his stewardship. Mir. Roosevelt 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:
 Tn any great national triai here- after the men of that day as compar- ed 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: 50 long as I have been President I have not planted a thorn in any amn's 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 be 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 a wrong calling for vengeance. but for reme- dy and 1t Is In just that spirit the President said that the American peo- pie must approach their problems of today.
 We have not as great problems as Lincoln had he said, but we have problems 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
 Hear, hear" came from the assem- bled crowd.
 Annoyed By Talking.
 twill you stop talking over there, ejaeulated the President pointing to a distant carriage in which some per- sons were talking. -- -
 "Is he deaf. he added as the conver- sation continued, well make him dumb also.' CLaughter,)
 Thank you" added the President as the annoyance ceased.
 Continuing he said that our duty calls for the exercise of more than ono quality on our part First honesty which meant disinterested devotion to what Is right. Without this all oth- CTS would count for naught. In 1860 the sentiment, the union must bs preserved" was the saving quality. It was patriotism first and then, the courage to make that patriotism avil.
 The old soldier. he saw before him. knew this.
 T don't care how devoted the old soldier was to the union,' said tho President, If when the crisis came. he ran away" uaughter)
 We needed then first and foremost moral courage and back of 1t. the phy-
 That was what we needed wasn't 1t comrades?" addressing a veteran be- fore him.
 Exactly" was the reply.
 You needed sanity and common sense in addition to the qualities of patriotism and courage and that Is just what you need today. You must bs You will not be worth much without these and back of these we must have the sanity and common sense. We must not blindly refuse to recognize wrongs that exist.
 Now, gentlemen" he continued, wa have heard during the past year Of frightful iniquities in business life and moral delinQuencles in moral life :"
 At this point a severe shower came over and after the President had don. men present. the President continued ned a rubber cape, saying he was sor- ry for the women but ashamed of the men present, the President continued his speech. Let us try to remove the cause of the wrong doing" he contin- ued But not to cultivate spirit Of rancorous hatred, which will most sure ly come back on ourselves. Do not ever get into the frame of mind to which, under great provocation Abra- ham Lincoln refused to yield. Do not hesitate to visit punishment where 1t must be inflicted for the good of oth- CTS. but do not inflict punishment vim dictively There Is enough wrong to fight Cut 1t out.
 Twisted Morality.
 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 morali- tv he will show that twisted morali- ty wherever he may be-. b
 At this point the rain ceased and the President congratulated those who had
 
 of this congress in the direction of fed eral control over business.
 eve have accomplished fair amount because we have not tried too much" said he. and because we ap- nroach it without rancor."
 Tn this task, the President said i've have come in contact with some people we did not like and in protec- ing property we have been forced to protect some of the property of the fell low we did not want to- When 1t comes to the control of corporations, the ones that need control, I will curb without regard to others" (Ap- plause,)
 The rain began to fall again at this noint. but the President went on with out his rubber cape.
 Reverting again to good citizenship the President said the way to be a good citizen of the republic was to be a good citizen of Oyster Bay.
 "If a man goes to a Fourth of July ce1ebration," said he, and then goes home and conducts himself in such way that his wife and children wished he had never come home. he Is not a good citizen. The supreme test Is a mans own family"
 The President then told a story of the man in his regiment who wanted to fight for his country and not dig kitchen sinks. He told the man to go on digging and dig we'll We must do the duties of hum drum citizenship" he concluded. There is need for us to take this attitude. Then in time if