IN WISCONSIN

"Don't boast. Don't insult anyone. Let us make up our minds cooly what is necessary for us to say, say it, and then stand to it, whatever

the consequences may be."

"Chicago always is proud of our President. Especially is Chicago proud of President Roosevelt. Gentlemen, I ask you to stand and drink to the health of Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States."

After the banquet, the President was escorted to the Auditorium, which was packed with people, an immense number of persons being unable to get inside for want of tickets.

Introduced by the Chairman, Mr. Franklin MacVeagh, Mayor Carter H. Harrison welcomed the President to the city "with a welcome which comes from every citizen, regardless of party, race or class-a hearty Western welcome of the sort you love."

The President was greeted with cheer after cheer. He bowed again and again, and, when order finally was restored, spoke as follows, his subject being The Monroe Doctrine:

ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT CHICAGO,

ILLINOIS, APRIL 2, 1903-THE

MONROE DOCTRINE.

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: To-day I wish to speak to you, not merely about the Monroe Doctrine, but about our entire position in the Western Hemisphere-a position so peculiar and predominant that out of it has grown the acceptance of the Monroe Doctrine as a cardinal feature of our foreign policy; and in particular I wish to point out what has been done during the lifetime of the last Congress to make good our position in accordance with this historic policy.

Ever since the time when we definitely extended our boundaries westward to the Pacific and southward to the Gulf, since the time when the old Spanish and Portuguese colonies to the south of us asserted their independence, our Nation has insisted that because of its primacy in strength among the nations of the Western Hemisphere it has certain duties and responsibilities

which oblige it to take a leading part thereon. We hold that our interests in this hemisphere are greater than those of any European power possibly can be, and that our duty to ourselves and to the weaker republics who are our neighbors requires us to see that none of the great military powers far across the seas shall encroach upon the territory of the American republics or acquire control thereover.

This policy, therefore, not only forbids us to acquiesce in such territorial acquisition, but also causes us to object to the acquirement of a control which would in its effect be equal to territorial aggrandizement. This is why the United States has steadily believed that the construction of the great Isthmian canal, the building of which is to stand as the greatest material feat of the twentieth century-greater than any similar feat in any preceding century-should be done by no foreign nation but by ourselves. The canal must of necessity go through the territory of one of our smaller sister republics. We have been scrupu