Big Roosevelt Day

BIG ROOSEVELT DAY

The Governor of New York Speaks to the Students.

URGES POLITICAL ACTION

Every Subject Owes a Duty to the State.

The  Address of the Famous Rough Rider, the Man Who Has Both Made and Written American History.

"Teddy is here," is what was heard on all the streets Tuesday morning. The words were generally uttered with an expression of feeling bordering on affection, and certainly with great respect. The Michigan Central 7 :45 train from the west was 25 minutes late Tuesday. Profs. Demmon, Trueblood and a large delegation of the members of the Students' Republican Club were at the depot awaiting the train. At last when the train did arrive, there was a rush for the rear where Governor Roosevelt's special car was attached. When he alighted he was warmly greeted by Profs. Demmon and Trueblood. The crowd of students gave the U. of M. yell, which pleased the governor, who raised his hat. He looked just like his pictures, carries his shoulders very upright, and his quick, energetic style of walking gives a good indication of his well known character. He has a direct, friendly way of looking into a man's eyes when talking that is very re-assuring to an honest man and as disconcerting to a man with a scheme. His accent is that of a New Yorker but he pronounces his words distinctly and sharp, clearly indicating that he is accustomed to give commands. He is a typical American of whom all the people can be proud as one of the best products of American citizenship, education and civilization. In his person can be seen the fact that a through college education to a man who has the stuff in him, only makes the man a so much more useful member of the body politic.

Owing to the serious illness of Mrs. Demmon, wife of Prof. Demmon, where Govennor Roosevelt was to have been entertained, a change had to be made in the arrangements and Dr. Angell acted as his host. The governor is accompanied by a member of his staff. The party were driven to Dr. Angell 's residence where they rested until the hour appointed for the governor to speak in University hall. Among those whom the governor expressed special pleasure in meeting was his old classmate of Harvard, Prof. Gardner S. Lamson, of the University School of Music.

University hall was crowded and standing room was at a discount when Gov. Roosevelt stepped upon the platform at 11 o'clock Tuesday. He was accompanied by his military secretary, Col. Treadwell and by Dr. Angell, Ex Senator Tom Palmer, Rev. Rufus Clark and George W. Bates, of Detroit, and the university faculty. Dr. Angell introduced the speaker as one of the rare men, who has both written history and made History, and done them both equally well.

" Mr. Roosevelt said he was glad to talk to any body of undergraduates of a great university because he felt that so much of the future depended upon them and men and women like them. It had been his good fortune in the recent war to have in his regiment so many members of different colleges and he paid a tribute to gallant young Norton who was killed at his side. He had always believed in developing the physical as well as the mental side of men, because it meant development of character. One of the things which had pleased him was the way in which so many applicants in the army showed that they could turn their former athletic training to good account. The thing he liked especially about all college men who went into the war was that they asked no favors. He only learned that they were college men accidentally. The university man in the war earned the gratitude and respect of America because he went in not as a university man but as an American. The attitude these men took in the war, he said, I hope to see them take into the strife in civil life. I have very small respect for the man who wants to get through life without trouble to avoid the shock of conflict, with the outside world, who wants to have things made soft.

"We have a right to expect that you who have had such exceptional advantages, will not only to do your duty to your family and yourselves but to the state. If we do not get the leaders of public thought out of such a body, where shall we look look them?  "We have a right to expect from you common honesty and common sense. I don't know which is the worse, the mere machine politician or the fool reformer. That organization is worse than worthless that has not breathed into it the aspiration for higher things. The minute a public man ceases to realize that all through his public life he must strive to make things better, he becomes useless. You have got to have the sincere reformer. Organization is useless without them. It is simply a mass of dead machinery. You have got to have this machinery put in motion by the reformer, but the reformer must have common sense or he will run the machinery wrong or break it. 

" I hope all of you will go into public life to some extent. Always live up to what you say. Don't say anything before election you don't mean. Always put into effect after election what you have said. If you say something you can't do or have      no serious intention of doing, you know in the bottom of your heart that you lie. The effect upon yourself is bad. Don't promise the impossible and don't put the standard so high that you can't live to it. Make up your mind what you can do. Then make your performance a little better than your promise. I have never seen why a lie told on a stump or in a platform is  different from any other lie.   

  "If you start to do something in the way of social reform, don't start with the hope that in three years you can bring about a condition of happiness to all mankind. You can't do it, and then you are apt to be so disappointed that you may say there is do use trying. Strive for what is attainable. You will not be able to lift all mankind at a jump. Mankind are not built that way. Bad as it is to be one of those men who strive to do too much, it is worse to be one of those who try to do nothing.

"The questions of the day bring you face to face with dealing with great corporations, with dealing with the poor even with the vicious and disorderly. There is material enough here to occupy each of you here if you lived many years. But you can do something and you are bound to try. Approach these questions in a spirit of zealous enthusiasm but don't forget to use your common sense. You can work for the practical betterment of conditions as you see them.

"You will be brought face to face with the fact that there are men who combine primarily to get wealth for themselves. There is nothing detrimental to the community in that. He instanced armor plate. It was necessary to get the best plate and to get these men of the best business ability must be had and they would not work without a good profit. There are some men who look at it from the point of view not of being that good armor plate is obtained, but that no man makes anything out of it. They represent hostility to wealth gone crazy. in New York we have found ourselves confronting the fact that great corporations get franchises have gradually trained themselves to look upon the public as legitimate prey. They pursue a most short sighted policy when they fail of their own inanition to see that the public in every way gets its share, because when they do so they add to the forces of discontent.

"If you set yourselves against trying to solve the new problems or laugh at them, you merely bring it about that the lead will be taken by the demagogue. And instead of having to rely only on the ignorant, the envious or the discontented, that demagogue will find behind him, in addition, the force of men who feel the evils that should be remedied and can't get the proper leader. In the interest, of order, of keeping unbroken the heritage received, it behooves all of you to work for intelligent solution of the problems of the day. Always distrust those who seek to reform by revolution and not by evolution.

" In speaking of the sweat shops of New York city, the hot beds of socialism, he said the anti-sweat shop law was not strong enough because certain employers were so short sighted that they would rather keep things as they are even at the risk of an explosion.

"I am no believer in that kind of legislation which seeks to do a way with inequalities between men. It will not benefit one who is not strong to have another man handicapped. But there is an inequality that comes by accident and is fostered by law. Yon want to go step by step, but let every step be in advance. The very fact that we oppose revolutionary legislation makes it incumbent upon us to hunt up and apply all rational remedies.

"I have small respect for the man who looks forward merely to a life of mere selfishness. No man is excused from doing his share in working for the general good. "

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