The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-28
Meets His Old Guide, Bill Scwall,
Whom He Invites to Dinner
With the Governor.
DEPARTS FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE.
In Speech at Bangor He Draws
Distinction Between Aggr2s-
siye Good Citizenship and
the Other Kind.

Ellsworth, Ne. Aug. e7.-The P-ss!lea"s
| second day in the Pine Tree S:l.e Was full
| OF interest
Starting from the Coverno-'s rc ID nee -
| an early hour. he WIS taken for shirt
drive about the city Of Augusta and at
| $50 started for Bangor. where the pr'nriopl
! speech Of the day vas deiivcre til Fai
Grounds in the presence Of Al immense au-
! dieGce
At Watsrvillc. from far and near had
| come hunGr ds to So" and hear the first
| President who las visited cIa!ne in n my
! years. In anticipation Of his coming i Esn-
| eral holiday was decla-cl and al business
| was suspended.
! Jus: before leaving Augusta TIE P-csd ut
| heard tina: his Old guide Bill Scwa.! of Is
| land Falls. Ne. who had accompanied Vim
on many hurting expeditions and who raj
! for time been employed or Lis ranch n
! Dakota. vas at Bangor.
! He :mm diate!y wired Caacrsssnlrn Pow
/ ers at Bangor to corral 5ayaU and hold
on to him until he reached that city. ia.
the Congressman carried cut thcs, iEstruc-
| tions was fully proven when l. p-oGucei
the tall. raw-boned. red-wEi K r,d hume
upon the Presidents arrival:
President Iccts His Ole Guide.
'rl am glad to see you. Bill. said ,he
President. whersuron BIZ repI &:
You amt no eladder than I be"
Then the President invited him 10 6iIn ?.
! Bill, therefore had the distinction that
/ comes to but few cf ming with the Chief
| Executive of tn, nation and the Governor
of his State at the same tirIe
While at the Fair Grounds some one sug-
gested TO Sewall. who was seated on the
platform with the President. that h sho-lI
| go TO Washington and secure the appoint
! ment as Postmaster but Bill replied sue
/ cinctly:
Il be Postmaster already
! On the drive through Bangor the Pres
dents carriage was stopped in front cf the
portico of the Orphans Home. wh=re the
| little ones We're assembled. and they greeted
| him in song.
| Tonight the Presid IT diued here at the
home of Senator Hale, who accompanied
the party from Bangor. At The depot when
the train pulled in the President was as
corted to platform near by and deliver d
a short address. He departed al 10 o'clock
| for Nashua. X. H.. and other points in that
| State. where he viii speak tomorrow.
In the course OF his address 1T Bangor to-
| day, the Prcsid Mt said
American Spirit I'm the Country.
1 am glad to greet the farmers or Maine. Dur
! ing the century that has closed the growth ~
| industrialism has necessarily meant tnat cIti =
and towns have increased in population more
| rapidly than the country districts.
And II remains true now, II has ALWAYS
been that in the last resort the country districts
| are those IN which we are alrest 90 ind me oli
eSSan fbaTbi n9 sP re ne ,,Ir Tif America" habits OF
Almost all OF g.eat Presidents have been
| worked hard on the farms in their youth. and
| got their early mental training in the healthy
The forces which made these farm-b.ed boys
Leaders Of men. when they h9d come to their
districts. Sef-hgp and individual Initiative re-
ranch.
Neither the farmers nor their hired hands can
| work through combinations as readily as ne
| capitalists. wage workers Of cities can work
Much Progress in Farm Life.
1t must not understood from this thst there
has been no change IN farming ana farm he
change, much progress. The granger and simiac
organizations. the fgrm=rs' institute and all
the alegiances which promote Intelligent co
operation and give orpgItcniy iog .fcai sni
ers, have played large part in raising the level
OF In ne be ana 6oTsip w9E5 a9 ~ T G1nny S
OF AgIiSGnltqre % since IT, toundaton mas Se
under any other branch of the national admins
We live in an era when the best results can
only be achieved II to Individual self-heIp we
add the @ mutual al sgtheip which . comes @ By c9mbi
pacity and of citizens working through the State
But after all this has been said. it remains
| true that the countryman. the man on the farm.
called upon continually to exercise the qualities
hfd ne Fe @ Gf sGPbe typical Of & .he
ties Of rugged Independence, mas;erful resolution
| and individual energy anG resource.
Hard Work No Call for Pity.
He works hard 0or which no man is to be
be pleasant. but his life is passed in healthy
pf CiflZnnehip
In the country. moreover. the conditions are
tween man and man than too often we fnd
to be the case in the city. Men feel more
community Of intefest ','- u ''''"''"OOU' u
plenty OF problems connected with life the
| farm and in our rural districts There many
terested effort are needed for their soIItion
The The problem OF hoy ~ , TO do these duties is
cities. but it exists in the country too. A man
to be good eti5en must iirst & he good bread
the father Of many heauthy cltizens-just a
woman's first duty is TO be good housewife
The business duties the home duties the duties
bring up plenty Of healthy children. who leave
behind them many sens sens and daushters flted in
emphaticaly deserves well OF the State.
No Use Trying to Carry n Man.
Every one of us slips on some occasion. and
out the hand that should always be ready 10
help the man who stUmblss.
II is duty lift him up. but it is also our
duty to remember that there ls no earthly use
in trying TO carry him.
IL a will submit to be carried that is
sufficient TO show that he Is not worth carrying
In the long run the oil ly kind Of help that really
ayaiis is the help which teaches help
himself.
The other day picked up little book called
The Simple Life written by Asatian.
Charles Wagner. and he preached such whole,
some sound doctrine that I wish IL could be
used as tract throughout Our country.
To him the whole problem OF our complex
somewhat feverish modern life can be solved
only by getting men and women To lead bette-
ptTIllDnDgp q
and democracy depends upon a majority o: tne
people beng steadfast In that good. plain NOR
ality which. = national attribute. comes only
as the result of the slow and painful labor OF
centuries, and which be sJuandered In a
generation by the thoughtiess and vicious He
breaches the doctrine OF the superiority Of the
moral to the material
He does not undervaus the material but he
insists. as We Of this nation should always in
the soriid destruction which upon either
the nation or Individual X It or he becomes alb
sorbed only IN the desire to get wealth. The true
line Of cleavage lies between the good citizen and
the bad citizen. and the line OF cleavage may,
and often does, run at right angles to that whicn
divides the rich and the poor.
The siEns of virtue lie in mans capacity to
care for what Is outside himself.
Selfish Wan Bound for Destruction,
The who gives himself up to the service
Of his appetites. the man who. the more goods
he has the more he wants. has surrendered nm
self TO destruction.
Il makes little difference with him whether he
achieves his purpose or not II his point OF view