The evening world., 1912-05-30
ROOSEVELT At
z GETTYSBURG TELLS
Of: LINCOLN IDEALS
Should Apply to Issues Of To-
DAY, He Says on Spot Where
Martyr President Stood.
HE LAUDS VETERANS.
Delivers Two Addresses, but
Makes No Direct Political APP
peal-Talks Square Deal.
HE LAUDS VETERANS.

GETTYSBURG. Pa. May s0.-De-
ciaring that I'VE should consecrate
ourselves anew toward trying practic-
ally to apply the issues Of to-day to
the spirit Of lofty idealism and homeiy
common sense in which Abraham Lin
coin worked" Col Roosevelt spoke In
the national cemetery here this after
noon and again be fore the brotherhood
OF Locomotive Engineers. There was
no direct reference to politics In either
speech.
Roosevelt arrived here from New
Yuk by way Of Baltimore. ana was
met at the station by Warren $.
Stone. Grand Chief OF the Brotherhood
Of Locomotive Engineers, who accom-
panied him over the battlefield. Later
he attended a luncheon given by the
engineers in a great tent and MADE
speech on the spot where Lincoln mace
his famous address nearly fifty years
ago.
The town was packed with more than
cc.aOO visitors to-day, brought by scores
Of excursion trains.
WAR VETERANS TAUGHT us
USEFUL LESSONS.
Al the cemetery Col. Roosevelt SAD;
"The veterans of the civil war not
only left us a reunited country, united
forever. and not only left us the price,
less heritage Of the memories or vaior-
ous self-sacrtfce shown In tho civil war,
hut also by their careers and their whole
attitude in the war and after the war.
have taught us lessons which We should
AMY to ourselves in civic life."
During the war they showed that
mixture OF intense and lofty ideal.sn
with sound, practical common sense.
which 10 essential to a nations success
IN peace as In war. The war could only
have been fought by a people imbued
with a capacity for the highest Ideal
lam, and yet Il could only have been
fought by a people which only possessed
sound common sense.
PEOPLE SHOULD INSIST ON
RUIE OF JUSTICE.
primo necessities OF this nation are that
our people shall show both a lofty IDEAL
Ism In Insisting on the rule OF justice
and hard -heaied practical common sense
In recognizing that we must secure ma
teraai prosperity. and that so far from
there being any necessary antagonism
between justice and material prosperity.
neither can be given its full development
unless the development OF both goes
hand In hand.
THE true test OF mans worth ana of
the respect in which he should be held
ny his fellows Is not the position wnich
ne holds. but the way In which he does
his duty In that position.
''Every man In the army" he contin-
ued, ''would have recognized as every
man In civil life ought to recognize. that
equality Of reward where there is an ut
ter inequality Of service, Is itself a very
gross form OF injustice. But no soldier
bore patiently the sight OF reward com
inH to a general. not because OF SER
vice hut because OF political OF
financial intrigue, and no soldier Vas pa
tient with the giving of reward where
a service had not been rendered. 1r
Just the same way In civil life no goot
citizen should withhold his hearty pra!
from those who succeed in business OF
any other career as the result of hon
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