The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-28
TOUR OF THE
 PRESIDENT MT. Roosevelt Spends Day
 in Nebraska. IS ACCORDED 0vATl0NS Addresses on Audience of 10000 in Omaha Delivers Brief Eulogy on the Type of General Grant, Yesterday Being
 the Anniversary of
 His Birth.

Omaha, Neb.. April N.-President Roose- welt. after circuitous trip today through Nebraska wind. dust and rain, tonight ad dressed 10000 persons in the Coliseum at Omaha. He was accorded an enthu- siastic ovation by the shrong. The build ing was decorated with flags of the United States and with colors of the Ak Sar-Ben Society. As the President and his party and escorts entered the Coli scum. the band struck tip Hail to the Chief" The President bowed his greet ing to the audience, and after the prelim- mary remarks. made his speech.
 The President devoted most of his speech to the question of good citizen ship and thoroughly went over the ground he has heretofore covered on this sub ject. He also delivered a brief eulogy on the type If Gen. U. s. Grant. today be- ing the anniversary of his birth.
 Omaha is threatened with an industrial strike on May 1. and the President was asked to say something bearing on this subject.
 Word as to Strike.
 "If I might give a word of advice to omaha,' said the President, q should like to see your daily press publish in full the concluding portion of that re- port of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission signed by all the members thereof, signed in a special sense by the champion of the wage-worker and in a special sense by those identified with capital. organized or unorganized. because. men and women of Omaha, those people did not speak first as capitalist or as laborer; did not speak first as judge. as army man. as church nt.n. but all of them who unanimously signed that report spoke as American 'clt'zens. anxious to see right and justice prevail Cheers and loud applause.
 "Capitalists and wage workers alike should honestly endeavor each to look at any matter from the others stand point, with freedom from the contempt ible arrogance which looks down on the man of less means, and with a freedom from the no less con:emptible envy, jeal- ousy and rancor which hates another be- cause he is better off. Applause.) Any many who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do 1t in the interest of the class he is addressing is in the long run WitH dDSOtute certainty that ClaSS s own worst enemy. (Applause.)
 My fellow citizens, men and women of Omaha. let me close in expressing the abounding confidence have that you of this city. that you of this State will in the end work out your fate alright, because I hold you to be in a peculiar sense typi- cal of all that Is best in the American character. l believe in you with all my heart. The able, fearless unscrupulous man who is not guided by the moral law, Is curse to be hunted like the civic wild beast and his ability and his courage, whether in business. in politics or any where else. only serve to make him more dangerous and a curse"
 Welcomed by 5o,O00.
 President Roosevelt arrived in Omaha at b:i0 o'clock and was welcomed by 50,- 900 persons. The sand driven by a wind that followed the President from the time he left Grand Island this morning and which has pestered him at Hastings, at Fairrnont and at Crete. was washed away temporarily at Lincoln by rain. Brief stops at Wahoo and at Fremont gave the party another taste of sand and all were tired when the train rolled into Omaha. The train will leave with the Presidential party at o'clock tomorrow for a trip through Iowa. Much preparation had been made for the Presidents coming and he was greeted by thousands who lined the streets for a mile and a half along the route of the carriage drive. The drive ended at the Omaha Club where banquet was given to the Presi- dent and his party. General Manderson presided and introduced the President.
 After the banquet the President was escorted to the coliseum which Is two miles from the busin ess portion of the city. Although the start was not made until o'clock. thousands again turned out to cheer the President and catch a nlinnnsA of hIa faca