was greeted by Governor Van Sant and a committee. An escort of Civil and Spanish War Veterans, National Guard and the 21st U. S. I. accompanied him to the capitol, where he spoke to the members of the legislature on Good Citizenship.

The nation, he said, could do no better than the individuals who compose it, and if we wish for a strong and progressive nation we must cultivate strength and individuality among our citizens. He referred to his letter on "Race Suicide," saying that, while the letter had attracted much more attention than he imagined it would, he was glad of it; that he reaffirmed in strong tones the sentiments he had therein expressed, and believed that the discussion which had been created would have a marked effect upon the race. We were, he said, by the amalgamation of foreign nationalities, the intermarriage of the sturdy foreign emigrants who had sought our shores, evolving a new race-an American Race. He referred to the great sums being spent by

western states in the education of Young America, commended it, but added that this public school education must be supplemented by the education of the home. Home influences counted for much. No matter how much the father may seek to instill wise precepts into the mind of his child, if he did not enforce those precepts with his own good example, he could not expect his child to become a good citizen. "Furthermore, we must not allow our children to be reared in the lap of luxury. Put them out in the world to struggle for themselves, and thus gain an education in the rough school of experience that will teach them to be strong, to be independent and to be manly. Maintain a high standard of individual citizenship, and the nation will never deteriorate."

The President was taken to Minneapolis in an electric car. The streets were lined with people, and his reception was most enthusiastic. He spoke for a few minutes to the students of the University of Minnesota, and then attended a

banquet at the Nicolette Hotel, at which were present 225 persons, including Governor Van Sant and other state officials, congressmen and members of the reception committee and other prominent citizens.

In responding to a toast, the President, talking on The Tariff, said:

ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., APRIL 4, 1903-THE TARIFF. My Fellow-Citizens:

At the special session of the Senate held in March the Cuban reciprocity treaty was ratified. When this treaty goes into effect, it will confer substantial economic benefits alike upon Cuba, because of the widening of her market in the United States, and upon the United States, because of the equal widening and the progressive control it will give to our people in the Cuban market. This treaty is beneficial to both parties and justifies itself on several grounds. In the first place we offer to Cuba her natural market.

We can confer upon her a benefit which no other nation can confer; and for the very reason we have started her as an independent republic and that we are rich, prosperous, and powerful, it behooves us to stretch out a helping hand to our feebler younger sister. In the next place it widens the market for our products, both the products of the farm and certain of our manufactures; and it is therefore in the interests of our farmers, manufacturers, merchants, and wage-workers. Finally, the treaty was not merely warranted but demanded, apart from all other considerations, by the enlightened consideration of our foreign policy. More and more in the future we must occupy a preponderant position in the waters and along the coasts in the region south of us; not a position of control over the republics of the south but of control of the military situation so as to avoid any possible complications in the future. Under the Platt amendment Cuba agreed to give us certain naval stations on her coast. The Navy Department

decided that we needed but two, and we have specified where these two are to be. President Palma has concluded an agreement giving them to us an agreement which the Cuban legislative body will doubtless soon ratify. In other words, the Republic of Cuba has assumed a special relation to our international political system, under which she gives us outposts of defense, and we are morally bound to extend to her in a degree the benefit of our own economic system. From every standpoint of wise and enlightened home and foreign policy the ratification of the Cuban treaty marked a step of substantial progress in the growth of our Nation toward greatness at home and abroad.

Equally important was the action on the tariff upon products of the Philippines. We gave them a reduction of twenty-five per cent, and would have given them a reduction of twentyfive per cent more had it not been for the opposition, in the hurried closing days of the last session, of certain gentlemen who, by the way,