The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-30

Daniel, and spoke from the rear plat
form Of his car. He said;
II am very glad not only to meet the
people of the city of Lynchburg, but to
be presented by your distinguished Sem
ator. 1t is a matter of no public in
terest. but only one of pure personal
recollection that the first time l ever
tried TO come to Lynchburg l did not
succeed. / came here with a number
Of other gentlemen VINO sought en-
trance, hut the gates were closed. We
could not open them, and you would
not. And so we departed to seek an
other host if not more hospitable, less
formidable than the one that greeted
us here.
TT is a happy tin.e for me to come
to Lynchburg now-the war over. no
exchange of greetings with shot and
shell as then, but with the friendly vel
come of ell the people. which typifes
the regard and good will that subsist
between all sections of our common
country
A number of short stops were made
during the day, at which no speeches
We're delivered. At these the President
shook hands with few of the people
from the platform of his car. There
was a large crowd at Culpcper, the
home Of Alfred J. Stofer. At Roanoke,
one of the prosperous towns of southern
Virginia, the President made this
speech:
My Fellow Citizens: l am informed,
and do not wonder at it, that your
committee which was to extend me
welcome to Roanoke has been lost in
this great crowd. But there can be no
warmer or more sympathetic welcome
than greets me from the hearts of your
people. L congratulate you and / con-
graduate myself upon the glorious
country in which we live and that once
more and forever we are devoted TO
the same cause and to the same flag
Il congratulate the citizens of this
and progress. Twenty years ago you
had less. 1 am told. than a thousand
people In this community. You have
more than 20,e00 now. and think if a
census were taken today you would
have much greater number than that.
/ congratulate you, therefore, on your
progress as well as your prosperity. We
never had so much TO do in all our his
tory as we have now. We never had
SO much business at home. nor so much
abroad We never made so much, and
never sold so much as we sell this year.
we are expanding cur markets; our
productive capacity has eecome So great
that we are not only able to supply
the home market, but we require a
foreign market for our surplus, and so
we are seeking TIE open door in the
Orient for the products of American
agriculture and American labor.
What We want to do now is to be
prudent in our prosperity; save while
we can. ana be strong if a storm should
come-aEd they do. now and then. |
Whenever it comes. let US be fortified !
by the practice of economy while we
are all so well employed. We are not
only expanding our markets, but we
are expanding our territory The policy !
Of the United States has always been
TO keep what it originally started with
and hold all it honorably gets. We re- (
fused TO divide our original possessions. {
and we will be the last to desert our
new possessions
The President and his party will ar
rive at Memphis tomorrow afternoon
at 4:S0, and will remain there over /
night This is one of the objective
points of the tour. and an elaborate |
programme has been arranged by the |
citiZens.