The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-10-03
NEGROES SHOUT
FOR PRESIDENT
Roosevelt Received in True
Southern Fashion


| CAIRO, Oct. 3-President Roosevelt
| was given a typical southern welcome,
| today when he arrived here on the
steamer Mississippi. When the old
fashioned side wheeler hove in sight
! he negroes jumped up and sand and
shouted. The president was greeted
/ by a reception committee and driven
| to ST. Mary's park where he delivered
an address.
| President an Optimist.
| After condemning the pessimist
| try for their optimism and urging
nigh standard of citizenship the pres
der,t spoke in part as follows:
| Friends, there is every reason why
present. But there is also every rea-
son why we should feel sturdy and
confident hope for the future. There
are many wrongs to right; there are
many and powerful wrong doers
against whom to war; and it would be
| base to shrink from the contest, or to
! fail to wage it with a high, reso-
lutte will.
But 1 am sure that we shall win il
the contest, because l know that the
| heart of our people is sound. Our av-
erage men and women are good men
and wonderland this is true in all
| sections. of our country and among
all classes of our couLtrymen.
There is no other nation on earth
] with such vas natural resourcen, or
with such a high standard of living
/ and of industrial efficiency among its
workers. We have as nation. an era
of unexampled prosperity ahead of us;
we shall enjoy it, and our children
will enjoy it after us. The trend of
well-being in this country is upward,
not downward; and this is the trend in
! things of he soul as we'll as in the
things of the body.
Be Game and Decent.
In dealing with other nations we
/ should act as we expect a man who is
! both game and decent to act in pri-
! vate life There are few things cheaper
and more Objectionable, whether on
, he part of the public man or the pri-
| vate man, on the part of a writer OF
of a speaker, an individual or a
group of individuals, than a course Of
conduct which is insulting or hurtful,
whether in speech or act to individ-
uals of another nation or to the rep
! presentatives of another nation or to
| another LatiOn itself.
But the policy becomes Infamous
! from the standpoint of the interests
of the United States when it is COM
| bined with the refusal to take those
measures of preparation which can
alone secure us from aggression on
! the part of others. The policy of
! peace with insult is the very worst
policy upon which it is possible to
embark, whether for a nation or an
! Individual. To be rich, unarmed, and
| yet insolent and aggressive, is to court
| we'll nigh certain disaster.
The only safe and honorable rule of
| foreign policy for the United States
is to show itself courteous toward other
nations, scrupulous not to infringe up
on their rights. and yet able ard ready
to defend it's own. This nation is now
on terms of the most cordial good
will with all other nations. Let us
make it prime object of our policy
to preserve these conditions
Army LudicrousIy Small.
In any great war on land we should
! have to rely in the future as we have
relied III the past chiefly upon volun-
teer soldiers and although 1t is in
dispensable that our little army, an
| army ludicrously small relatively to
the wealth and population of this
mighty nation, should itself be trained
to the highest point and should be
valued and respected as is demanded
,, by the worth of the officers and enlist
| ed men, yet it is not necessary that
this army should be large as compared
to the armies of other great nations
But as regards the navy, all this is
different. We have an enormous coast
line, and our coast line is on two great
oceans. To repel hostile attacks the
| Notifications, and not the navy, must
be used; but the best way to parry is
to hit-Lo fight can ever be won ex-
cept by hitting-and We can only hit
by means of the navy.
1t is utterly impossible to impro-
wise even a makeshift navy under the
conditions of moder,, warfare Since
the days of Napoleon no war between