The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-20
A DAY IN IDAHO.
Gov. Roosevelt Advises Dealing
Gently With the Trusts.


PocatelIo, Idaho, Sept 2o.-The Roose-
welt special train arrived at PocatelIo a
few minutes after o'clock last evening.
During the day stops were made at Rex
burg St Anthony, Idaho Falls and Black
foot. Short speeches were made by Gov
ernor Roosevelt, by General Curtis Guild
Jr-, by John Proctor Clark, and others.
Senator Shoup and Senator Carter accom-
panied the party through the day. At
Rexburg Governor Roosevelt was intro
duced by Ben f. Rich, a wealthy and in
fiuential Mormon, who has charge of the
missionary work of the Mormon church
in eleven states Of the south. Most of
the people of this place belong to the
Mormon church.
Governor Roosevelt in his speech said:
Imperialism you hear talked of What
does it mean? 1t means nothing. There
is not an imperialist in the country that
I have yet met Expansion, yes; playing
the part of great nation. Why am
speaking to you? Because you and your
forefathers expanded into this country;
topped wagons, and came across the
plains. and over the mountains of Utah,
10 become miners and ranchmen. and
when you got here you began to irrigate
the SOIL And that is one of the prob
lens 70 OF the nation; an1 the natien has
came here to make the wilderness blossom
rose. i
morning saw the rising sun throw its
light, not against the sage brush but
been irrigated, and I saw the houses you
have built here, because you have ex-
banded.
Expansion has been the law of our ma
uonal growth. 1t is a great thing to have
material prosperity It is a great thing
to be able to establish factory and farm
It IS greater thing to be able to point
to men of the nation who do the deeds
of the nation. What is it that we look
back to with the greatest pride? 1t is the
mighty deeds done by men of American
name. 1t is the fact that the wilderness
the west 1t Is the way our people have
moved forward and suffered death, en-
were mighty men of the people who have
inherited the earth. To each generation
out its duty to perform. and if they finch
and turn their backs on their tasks. what
of the west, those who have conquered
the frontier, to sit down idly now with
worked, we rest; our fathers toiled. en-
dured and dared, and we stay at home
the west. but we are feeble folk. and we
cannot hold the Philippines. Are we to
sit down and do that? Base is the coun-
sci and base will be our people if they
take that counsel. We must go and play
At St Anthony the governor was driven
part: 80. s,a Us. ~Is.s ns S--u N
1t stops doing its work it is because it
has stopped doing things that make it
in the forefront of the nations of the
earth at all times. You have come so far
towards the west: that you look toward
Puget Sound and the mouth of the
Columbia and where the Golden Gate
looks through the long heaving waters
across the greatest of all oceans. There
for US to double, treble. and GuadrupIe
our wealth and our power and our ma
tonal renown. We have taken Hawaii;
taken Ph11fnTfncc ic 7.k
now question of expanding, but it
is a question of whether we are going to
At Idaho Falls the train made a short
stop during which Governor Roosevelt
spoke in part as follows:
You should turn and laugh to scorn
the politician who tries to make you turn
citizen BY the cry Of militarism. have
yet to meet in this country the first i'm
Democratic platforms. I have not found
him yet III tell you what have found,
sionist; the man who believes in the
growth of America; the man who believes
an even greater part than it has played in
the past, and that 1t will play that part
well. Expansion! That is the reason why
you are here 1t is because you have ex-
banded over this country. But wherever
this nation has expanded there have been
people Who wanted to head ba OK There
have been people who have been speaking
against it, and as great a statesman as
Daniel Webster some fifty years ago de-
clared that it was useless to purchase
this northwestern territory, where you
now are a great state. because it
was not worth a county in Maine. That
useless wilderness as it was called then
has now become a part of one of the great
states of the American union"
At Blackfoot Governor Roosevelt made
which he said:
Some seventeen or eighteen years ago
was, was here. L lived in parts. of the west
a man would occasionally escape a licking
II ne accepted a kicking. He could get
permanent peace; because when it was
discovered that he took a kicking easily
Now If We had let the southern states
60, we would have had war after war,
In consequences. Exactly as the genera
ton of the past did it's great work WELL
well. When the men Of our nation cease
70 give to our enemies aid and comfort,
peace VIII come IN the Philippines. 1t is
a great thing that the law of progress
does obtain For the last forty years
a snd t ib9rn5Tg has has gone steadily forward
Democratic party has been Just as stead
lily pulling backwards. By the slow pro-
dagged forward, protesting much as it
goes on. It is great thing to point to
docks and herds and the he fact o and the the
railroads that are in this country. 1t is
ance when compared with the fact that
we can point, not merely to the country
itself as it is, but to the men who made
the country 1t is a heritage of great
deeds; a heritage of mighty work well
performed; a heritage of lofty ideals that
find realization not only in words but in
action 1t is that that makes the coun-
try great Sixty years ago one of the
great statesmen of the east wanted TO
give up and not to contend for this land,
arguing that it was fit only for cactus
and jackrabbits. and we did not want it
In the union. We have always had men
of small souls and men who were short
sighted, and who did not see clearly.
They have been against us at every stage
of national expansion. The expansion of
fG n w # re ORC n =
has grown not merely by the material
upraising. of the country, but by the build