New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-10-05
THE PRESIDENT At YORK.
He Warns against Those Who Stir
I'm Glass Hatred.

YORK; Penn Oct 4-Presdent Roosevelt de-
livered an address at the fair grounds here To-
day to a great and enthusiastic crowd. which
stood In a drtzzlng rain. The President arrived
here at $40 p. m. from Harrisburg. and after
his speech went at once TO the station and
started for Washington.
The President in his speech at the fair grounds
said:
Mr.. CONGRESSMAN, Mr. Mayor and you. my fell
low citizens men and women of the great Key
stone State: 1t is peculiar pleasure for me 10
have the chance Of saying few words to you to-
day here in this old historic city-a peculiarly
American city in g. peculiarly American portion
OF our country. 1t was in this city that Tor q
considerable time during the darkest days OF
the Revolutionary War the national government
had its seat Here these men assembled VINO
won our independence; who then constituted US
into that perfect Union a failure to constitute
which would have meant that the struggle for
independence itself was an empty victory; and
from here went forth by the hundred your sons
10 preserve the Union which their forefathers
had founded We OF this day OF the younger
generation have not the same terrible trials to
undergo have not the same terrible problems
TO meet; but we have our trials and our prob
lens, and going to be judged as worthy
or unworthy OF our forefathers according to
the way in which we meet these trials and solve
these problems. Each generation has It's own
work TO do, and no generation can afford to Sit
back and merely gortfy the past, an excuse
for not doing It's duty in the present We must
be moved TO meet our problems to-day partly
by our pride in the deeds OF the men whS/in
needs Of the nation: but must not plead
these deeds as an excuse for not doing our work.
On the contrary, they must serve as spur to
make US do our work better.
POWER OF THE INDIVIDUAL.
This part Of your great state is a veritable
impressed. as always am impressed when
pass through it, by its wonderful fertility, by
the chances IT opens to every man to do well ell
we'll in the things that are not merely material.
This old historic city OF yours is now pulsing
with new life; II has become great end grow
ing manufacturing city. Your farm country
round about is studded over with prosperous
farms. And one thing I notice. each farm
that the right kind of owns the farm
When 6 farmers barn is smaller than his house
the farm is in danger.
Your people here have won out, your farmers
have made their great success. largely because
they have proved true TO the old proverb that
you will see practically applied in all farming
regions where there is good percentage Of
German blood and that is: However hard the
year lay up little II you DO you will find
such an unhappy nature to make you refuse
TO lay UP little because you cannot lay up a.
great deal, then you will never lay UP anything.
II is true always and everywhere that an ounce
OF thrift and hard work is worth q great many
pounds Of envy OF some one else, and Of state
ynent OF how we'll you could do If conditions
were little bit different There are plenty Of
apostles OF discomfort; there are plenty of men
who viii try to teach you that our social and in
dustrial conditions are all wrong and must be
completely overset Thers is urgent need for
hetterrnent in a great many of our conditions;
tbars is urgent need that we should each OF us
resolutely do his part in helping solve the great
problems of the day, the problems that need
governmental action But we never can afford
10 forget that the most important factor IN the
success Of this country is the factor Of individ-
nal citizenship. do not care If you had the most
arfact laws that could be devised by the wit of
man or the wit Of angels, they would not amount
TO anything If the average man was not pretty
! decent fellow; and base my hrIn belief in the
| future of this country because I believe the
| average American is a pretty decent fellow.
| Nothinp can take the place Of the individual
| factor or the average mans quality and charac-
| ter his industry. his energy, his thrift. his de-
! cency his determination TO be good man in his
! own home, a good neighbor. and a good citizen
q, b,s relations to the state OF all distrust
| mosr the man who tries to set one set of Amert-
| cans against another set OF Americans
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