The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-06
President Roosevelt's Train Ar
rives in Wheeling, w. Va.
He Still Carries Black Eye
and Swollen Cheek.
FROM THREE STATES
The People Gather to Welcome
the Nations Head.
He Addresses an Enormous
Crowd From Hotel Balcony.

Wheeling. w. Va, Sept 6.-President
Roosevelt and party arrived over the
morning from Washington. He was
greeted by vast crowd at the depot
and smiled his appreciation despite his
badly discolored face. His right cheek
eye showed signs of discoloration.
Mayor Sweeney, President Laughlin
and Secretary Birch of the board OF
trade: Postmaster Hall and Councilman
Waterhouse formed a committee which
received the president.
The entire party, which embodied
Secretary Cortelyou, secret service men
and a staff of correspondents, entered
vehicles and were driven to the Mcclure
house, headed by military band.
Throughout the entire route enthusiasm
was rife, the streets being lined with
the people from western Pennsylvania,
eastern Ohio and West Virginia. At the
hotel the chief executive met delega-
ton of prominent citizens of Wheeling,
introduced by Senator Nathan Bay
Scott. President Roosevelt seemed in
very jovial humor and joked with his
newly-made acquaintances. He address,
ed an enormous crowd from the balcony
of the hotel, standing where he had
range of three different states. He
spoke long beyond his scheduled time
hich necessitated the curtailment of
the regular programme.
The president said in part:
MY Friends and Fellow Citizens:-It
is pleasure to come to your CITY. 1
wish TO thank the mayor and through
| the mayor all of your citizens for the
! way in which, upon your behalf, he has
greeted me and I wish to state that it
| is special pleasure to be introduced
| by my friend. Senator Scott, because
! when he gives you his word, you do not
have to think about it again.
Il am glad to have the chance of say
! ing a few words here in this great in
| dustrial center. in one of those cities
| effect of the great period of prosperity
! through which are now passing.
Probably never before in our history
| has the country been more prosperous
! than it is at this moment and it is q
prosperity which has come alike to the
tillers of the soil and to those connected
/ with our industrial enterprises. Now.
F.! gentlemen, every period has its own
| trouble and difficulties. A period of ad-
versity. of course troubles us all, but
=! there are troubles in connection with
! the period of prosperity also. When all
! things flourish it means that there is a
| good chance for things we do not like
to have flourish just exactly as there is
| for things that we do like to have
flourish and a period of great national
material well-being is unavoidably one
| in which human minds are turned to
the way in which those interested in the
| management of the gigantic capitalistic
| corporations, whose growth has been SO
noted a period of the past half century,
/ flourish.
I'VE have grown to speak of certain
corporations rather loosely as trusts US
| ing the word in it's usual and common
significance of a big corporation usually
doing business in several states at least
| beside the state in which it is fncorpor-
ated. IT seems to me that in dealing
with this problem of the trusts Cper-
| haps it would be more correct to call ii
| a groop of problems) we have a class
all of our fellow citizens. One is COM
| posed of those men who refuse to admit
| that there is any action necessary at all
| The other is COMPOSED of those men
who advocate some non-effective action
or if effective. would be effective only
by destroying everything good and bad
connected with our industrial develop
ment. In every governmental process
the aim that a people capable of self
government should steadfastly keep in
mind, is to proceed by evolution rather
| than by revolution. On the other hand
every people that has self-government
| must beware of this fossilizat ton OF
mind which refuses to allow of any
change. as conditions change
At the conclusion the party re-entereC
the train of carriages and were driver
| over route of the principal thorough.
fares of the city. The decorations were
of an elaborate and festive order. AL
along the route vast crowds cheered the
| president to the echo. The party was
| driven to the southern portion of the
city where the Baltimore & Ohio specia
was boarded and the trip to the soutl
| continued