The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-09-20
Mr.. ROOSEVELT IN IDAHO.
TALKS WITH THE MEN WHO HAVE
MADE THE WEST.
Tells Them of His Earlier Visits
When Idaho Was i'm Its Rourbcr
Period and Draws a Word Pie

fOSAIELlsO, Idaho. Sept. 4--Ihe
Roosevelt special train arrived at Poca-
tello few minutes after o'clock this
evening During the day stops were made
at Rexburg. st. Anthony. Idaho Fails
and Blackfoot At Rexburg Gov. Roose-
Welt, In his speech, said:
Imperialism you hear talked Of. What
does 1t mean2 1t means nothing There
Is not an imperialist in the country that
! have yet met. Expansion, yes; playing
the part of a great nation Why am
speaking 10 you? Because you and your
forefathers expanded into this country;
because you moved in in your white
topped wagons, and crossed the plains
and over the mountains OF Utah TO be-
come miners and sanchmen. and when hen
soil. And that f. one OF the problems
OF the nation. and the nation has got 20
help in solving II. Your forefathers came
here To make the wilderness blossom like
the rose, and as | came along this morn
ing ! saw the rising sun throw its light
not against the sagebrush, but against
the green alfalfa fields that have been
irrigated, and l saw the houses you have
built here. because you have expanded.
Expansion has been the law of our
have material prosperity. II is a great
thing to be able 10 establish railroads,
factory and farm II ~ great thing 70
ne able to point to men of the nation
who did the deeds OF the nation.
What 1t is we look back TO with the
greatest pride, 1t Is the mighty deeds
uone by men OF American name. III Is the
fact that the wilderness here has been
conquered by you men Of the West II
Is tine way our people have moved for
ward and suffered death. enduring risks
and hardships because they were the
mighty men of the people who have in
herited the earth.
To Each Its Task.
ITO each generation is allotted its task
No generation Is without its duty to per-
form, and IL they finch ana turn their
backs on their tasks, what shall we say
TO them? Now Is this giant of the West.
those who have conquered the frontier, TO
sit down idly with folded hands and
say: Our fathers worked, we rest. our
fathers toiled, endured and dared, and
we stay at home TO avoid trouble: our
fathers conquered the West but we are
feeble folk and we cannot hold the
philippines? Are we to sit down and do
that? Base IL the counsel and base win
ue our people II they take that counsel.
We must go on and play. the part among
the nations OF the world"
At ST. Anthony the governor was
driven TO the opera house, where he said
"a great nation must do its great
work. When it stops doing It's work 1t
IL because II has stopped doing things
that make u a great nation. We have
got to stand i'm the forefront of the ma
tions of the earth at all times You
have come so far across the continent
that you look towards the West that
you look towards 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 across the great ocean
lies the chance for us TO double, treble
and auadruple our wealth and our power
and our national renown. We have taken
Hawaii, we have taken the Philippines
II ls not now question OF expanding
but II Is n question Of whether we are
going to contract"
Had Been There before.
At Blackfoot Gov. Roosevelt made
speech In the court house square in
Some seventeen or eighteen years ago
l was here. lived In parts OF the West
where IL was middling rough, and where
a man would occasionally escape lick
Ing II he accepted a Kicking. He could
get peace on those terms, but II was not
a permanent peace; because which IL was
discovered that he took kicking easily,
other people took part In the exercise.
Now. * we had let the Southern states
so. We would have. had war after war.
and we would have trodden a bloody path
I'm consequence. Exactly as the genera
ton of the past did it's great work well.
so we have got to do our lesser work
well. When the men OF our nation cease
to give aid and comfort TO our enemies
peace will come to the Philippines.
ut was great thing that the law OF
progress does obtain. For the first forty
years this country has grown steadily
forward and throughout the most 81 that
time the Democratic party has been just
as steadily pulling backward. BY the
has been going forward protesting much
az II goes on. II Is a great thing 10 point
70 tho wheat fields and the ranches and
the Jocks and the herds and the fac.
tories and the railroads that are In this
cuuntry. II - nothing itself II sinks
into unimportance when compared with
tho fact that we can point, not merely
TO the country itself. q Il Is. but TO the
men who made the country. 1t Is a
heritage Of great deeds, heritage OF
mighty work well performed: a heritage
OF lofty ideals that find realization not
In works hut IN actions. II IL that that
makes the country great Sixty years
ago one ~ the great statesmen af the
East wanted 20 give Mp and nos 20 con
tend for this land on the ground that
It was only ~ for cactus and back fab-
bits. and We ana not want IL in the
Union We have alwaya had men ~
small souls and men who were short
sighted and men Who aid not see clearly
They have been against IA at every
stage % national expansion. The eN-
rauslnn ~ our country ia the law ~ iis
growth IL has RroRn not merely hy the
material uprising - the country, hut by
the building ~ o great nation which each
ane 81 rs sons is proud 20 belong co."
Al pocAtrlle Gov. Roosevelt addressed
two mcctings one az Pavilion hall. ana
s4tar nF garfs hall Roth Nara fnrUe-