Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-09-10
ROOSEVELT HAS
VERY QUIET DAY.

parative rest. ALI he did was to at
tend breakfast by the reception
committee, take luncheon at the
Field club, dinner at the Omaha
club attend an entertainment by the
Ak-Sar- make three speeches
and confer with numberless polite.
ians and old friends. The Auditor.
ium, where he made the principal
speech, was jammed but the people
did not get much other chance to
see and cheer him. He had asked
that the programme be cut down to
give him a little chance to rest. AT
the Auditorium Roosevelt found
time to speak a good word for Sena-
tor Burkett, who is struggling for
reelection. Burkett introduced him
as a man "Once the first citizen OF
the nation and now the greatest
man in the world" Roosevelt said
Il am greatly pleased to be introduc-
ed by a man like Burkett. That
am able to accomplish what l did in
Washington was due to the fact that
was backed by men like Burkett,
and as we have guests from Iowa
present, let me add, like Senator Dol
liver" He then took sharp issue
with the plan to neutralize the Pan
anna Canal zone and declared that
the United States should fortify the
canal.
After Roosevelt had finished
there were cries for Dolliver. Dolli-
yer said I'm American history, there
have been three men who stated the
central doctrine of our institutions,
so that all could understand. jeff
erson gave US the doctrine of equal
rights for all and special privileges
for none; Lincoln repeated the doc
Iine; it is a good providence that
IN or time that doctrine has been
STATED again, the doctrine Of the
square deal Delivers men
ton of the square deal brought tre-
mendous applause.
At the Field club luncheon, Roos-
evelt spoke contemptously of the
merely multi-millionares" and re-
ferred to mob rule, as bringing out
characteristics of cruelty, equal to
those they seek to suppress. Il
think you will aquit me of admira-
tion for a mere multi millionaire,
he said There are good men in ev-
cry walk of life and the man who
has done his duty and has a great
fortune is entitled to our hearty re-
spect, but l speak of that class of
multi-millionares of whom it is said
that it is easier for a camel to go
through the eye Of a needle than for
them to get to heaven. 1t is the
rich man who trusts solely to his
riches l speak Of, whose sole title to
distinction is that he has great
wealth. Such one is a poor citizen
and the most Objectionable Ameri-
can exhibit abroad" Roosevelt
leaves early tomorrow morning for
Sioux Falls.
At the Auditorium Col. Roosevelt
spoke as follows:
In travelling in Europe last spring
one thing which especially struck me
was the fact that the two feats which
made the deepest impression abroad
were the cruise of the battle feet
around the world, and the digging of
the Panama Canal. These were the
two feats to be credited to the
people during the past de-
cade, which had most profoundly and
favorable affected foreign judgement
of America during that time. Such
judgement depends not in the least
upon what they actually do; upon
their willingness to meet RESPONSE
bilities and the success of their eff
forts to met them.
Now, there is no use of a ma
ton claiming to be a great nation
unless it is prepared to play a great
part. A nation such as ours cannot
possibly play great part in inter-
national affairs cannot expect to be
reated as weight in either the At
antic or the Pacific, or to have it's
yoice as to the Monroe Doctrine, or
he management of the Panama Can
II, needed unless it has a strong and
horughly efficient navy. Within the
asst decade the American navy has
'een about trebled in strength and
much more than trebled in efficiency
lue to its extraordinary progress in |
craftsmanship and maneuvering. So |
ar from this increase in naval |
trength representing on our part |
ither a menace of aggression to
weaker nations or a menace of war
o stronger nations, it has told most
owerfully for peace. Everywhere
n Europe the cruise of the battle
eet around the world was accepted
ot only as an extraordinary feat,
efecting the highest honor upon
ur navy but as one of the move
tents which tended markedly to
remote peace relations in interna-
onal relations. No nation regarded
lie cruise as fraught with any men
'e of hostility to itself; and yet ev-
y nation accepted it as proof