The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1913-06-20
ON FLYING VISIT
TO The HUB
Thousands Greet Roosevelt as
Our Greatest Citizen
MIDNIGHT OPEN AIR ADDRESS


6attIeships, So No other Nation
Will Think 1t Safe to Do Anything
to Us-Hits the Red Flag
Boston, June 17.-Greeted as the
greatest living American citizen,
Theodore Roosevelt, ex-President of
the United States, supplied the fin
fishing touches to the greatest might
before" Charlestown has ever known.
Roosevelt was greeted and cheered
by thousands of citizens during the
six short hours he was in Boston last
night, and by making an address at
midnight at the foot of Bunker Hill
monument, established a precedent.
At the Hayes Square Outing club
banquet, where he was the principal
guest, Roosevelt listened to the most
gracious eulogies of himself from the
lips of some of Massachusetts lead
ing citizens, including Lieutenant
governor Walsh, Mayor Fitzgerald
and Congressman Murray.
Arriving after the eloquent speech
of Secretary of the Navy Daniels,
Roosevelt heartily endorsed the senti-
ments for international peace ex-
pressed by the distinguished member
of the cabinet, but made a strong
plea for the international arbitration
plan to be backed up with a strong
and ready hand, of which he declared
the navy is the punch"
At the monument Roosevelt spoke,
in part. as follows:
Il am very glad to have a chance to
say few words to you In this his
torfc spot, the cradle-and that is in
fact what 1t is-the cradle Of our
country, of American liberty. And,
friends, hope that all our people,
you and all of US, who celebrate this
anniversary, will remember that the
only way in which to be loyal to the
memory of the men who lived and
died to make what we SO love, the
way in which to pay most effective
tribute to their memory is to SO live
ourselves as to be worthy of the men
who have died.
Nov friends, was in the Spanish
war myself. 1t wasn't big war, but
1t was all the war there was, and we
were not to blame that there wasn't
enough war to go around among
everybody. And | have always felt
that my regiment in that war was a
microcosm of this country, because in
1t we had men of every creed, of
every nationality, religion and race,
as well as men from every section of
the country.
I'VE had in that regiment men
whose fathers had been born or who
were themselves born in Germany,
England, Sweden, France, Russia
and Italy, and men whose fathers had
come over here in the same ship that
bore the ancestors of the men who
died on the field of honor and fought
shoulder to shoulder, each recogniz-
ing in the other only a fellow Ameri- |
can and judged him for what he was.
Il want to say just one word more.
will go to the limit to get justice in |
this country. | will see to It that ev- |
erything that lies within me is given |
to the men who do right and square,
ly. | will do all can to get a square
deal for every man, to put down in
justice and wrong in high places in
politics and business life, but Il has
to be done under the American flag,
and not under the red flag of an
archy.
I'VE welcome to this country every
man who in good faith can come here
and perform his duties as an Ameri-
can citizen, but he is not to war
against our institutions. He is not
10 be disloyal to this country.
Il ask that We secure peace interna-
.ionally by keeping so prepared for
war that there Will be no danger of
thinking 1t safe to do any,
hing to US.
Keep up your battleships. And
make this country, which acts justly
o all other nations and which is able
o enforce in return justice from other
lations or from anyone within our
us strenuously strive to
make this in very fact a government
" the people themselves, and when
hey shall have full possession of the
then to make it a land in
which every man and every woman if
hey have the right s.Iff in them shall
ave a chance TO lea1 self-respecting
ives and bring up their children so
IS to be fit for the exacting duties OF
american citizenship"
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