The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roosevelt edited by J. Martin Miller

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the engine rooms. It is too late to prepare for war when war has come; and if we
only prepare sufficiently no war will ever come. We wish a powerful and efficient
navy, not for purposes of war. but as the surest guaranty of peace. If we have
such a navy—if we keep on building it up—we may rest assured that there is but
the smallest chance that trouble will ever come to this nation ; and
we may likewise
rest assured that no foreign power will ever quarrel with us about the Monroe
Doctrine.
THE ARRIVAL AT MADISON
At midnight the President left for Madison, Wis., where he
arrived at four o'clock the following morning. He remained
on the train resting until nine o'clock, when he was met by a
party of State, legislative and city officials, headed by Gov-
ernor La Follette, and escorted to the Capitol. Here, in the
Assembly Hall, he addressed the Legislature in joint session,
and several hundred guests invited by card. The President
then made his second speech to a large crowd, not able for
lack of room to gain admittance into the building, from a
stand erected at the east entrance. In his address he said he
was glad to come to Wisconsin, because of the fact that there
the people had put into practice to a peculiar degree the
principle of "All men up, rather than some men down." He
continued:
We are passing through a period of great material prosperity. There will be
ups and downs in that prosperity, but, in the long run, the tide will go on, if we but
prove true to ourselves and to the beliefs of our forefathers. To win we must be
able to combine in a proper degree the spirit of individualism and the spirit of coop-
eration. Each man must work for himself. If he cannot support himself he will
be but a drag on all mankind, but each man must work for common good. There
is not a man here who does not at times need to have a helping hand extended to
him, and shame on the brother who will not e.xtend that helping hand.
At the conclusion of his second speech the President was
escorted to the executive office, where for several minutes he
held a reception for members of the Legislature and their
wives. The reception concluded, he returned to the special
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