The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-28
BACK IN IDAHO.
Eight Thousand People Greet
the President at POcatellO.
People Gather in from Fifty
Miles Around Butte
To See the President of the
United States.
UNION LABOR'S GUEST
He Speaks to a Crowd of Twenty
Thousand People.
Spanish War Veterans Act as a
Guard of Honor.

Uuar0 OF HONOR
Pocatello. Idaho, May 2s.-President
Roosevelt re-entered Idaho this morn
ing and received a warm welcome here.
His train was met several miles out of
town by a band of Indians from the
Blackfoot reservation, who raced along
side of it into Pocatello.
Eight thousand people were at the
station to greet the president. who was
met by a committee of citizens headed.
by Governor Morrison, Mayor Steeley,
National Committeeman D. w Stal-i
rood. State Committeeman Frank Good
ing and United States Senator Hepburn.
The members of the party took carriages
and escorted by a guard of honor from
Kimball lodge Brotherhood of Locomo.
tive Firemen. of which order President
Roosevelt is an honorary member. the
G. A. r.. the Philippine veterans and a
squad of cavalrymen, were conducted
to the high school building, where from
a pavilion erected for the purpose the
president delivered a Commute speech.
At o'clock the presidents train left
for Boise.
Butte. Mont. May 2S.-As the guest
of the labor and trades assembly OF
Silver Bow county President Roosevelt
last night addressed twenty thousand
people al the Columbia garden Frank
A. Boyle. president of the Silver Bow
labor and trades assembly. introduced
the president.
President Roosevelt arrived in Butte
over the Great Northern from Helena
He was met at the depot by Mayor
Mullins, escorted by company o.
militia. a platoon Of police and the
Spanish war veterans, who are holding
their state convention in Butte.
United States Senator W. A. Clark
of Montana was one of the first to greet
the president. Mr.. Roosevelt then en-
tered a carriage in which the senator.
Mayor Mullins and a secret service man
We're seated
The drive through the streets OF
Butte waS one long ovation. Such a
crowd has never been seen in the his
tory of the city. The neighboring towns
for fifty miles had poured in their thou
sands and the line of march was
crowded to sufocation.
From the depot the president was
driven to the court house veterans or
the civil war and the SDanish-AmerI-
can war militia and police formed the
escort. Carriages containing a hundred
distinguished citizens brought up the
rear. The Spanish war veterans were
the guard Of honor At the court house
1000 school children, appropriately
dressed in the national colors, saluted
the president. He stopped a few min
utes and spoke kindly words to the lit
tie ones. Two squares further down
Granite street the citizens of Anaconda
who had come over 1.500 strong. pre-
sented the president with a handsome
vase made of silver. copper and sap
ph:re.
The line Of march was then started
to the Finley hotel, where the presl-
dent made a five minute speech A
banquet at which 100 plates We're laid
was given at the Thornton hotel Mayor
Mullins presided and the guests m
cluded Senator Clark and other dis
tinguished Montanans.
From the banquet table the president
was driven to the Columbia garden.
where the principal speech of the dap
was made. Here he was presented with
a handsome souvenir in the shape of
his photograph, engraved on copper
and framed in copper frame. in the
name of the citizens of Butte.
President Roosevelt said. Mr.. Chair
man, and you. my fellow citizens. Il
would have been a great pleasure to
have come to Butte in any event. but
1t is a double pleasure to come here at
the invitation of the representatives OF
the wage workers of Butte. I do not
say merely working men, because hold
that every good American who does no
work and does his duty must be u.
working man. (ApplaUse.) There are
many different kinds Of work to do but
so long as the work is honorab bic IS
necessary and is well done. the man
who does it well is entitled to the re-
spect of his fellows It is a great pleas
uTe to come here to see this marvellous
city which has grown to a degree weh
nigh unparalleled. and which I do not
see how it can be equalled in the futur =
ours is a government of liberty
through and under the law. No man
is above it and no man is below it. The
crime of cunning. the crime of greed and
the crime of violence are all equally
crimes and against them all alike the
law must set its face. (Applause) This
is not and never shall be government
of plutocrats or the mob 1t is, as it
has been and a. 1t viii be. govern
ment Of the people including alike the
people Of great wealth, of moderate
wealth the people who employ Others
the people who are employed, the wage
worker, the lawyer the mechanic, the
banker, the farmer. including them ALL
protecting each and every one if he
acts decently and squarely and dis
eliminating against any one of them.
no matter from what class he comes if
he does not act squarely and fairly, if
he does not obey the law. While all
people are foolish if they violate or rebel
against the law, wicked as well as fool
iSh. but all foolish vet the most foolish
man in this republic is the man Of
wealth who complains because the law
is administered with impartial justice
against or for him. CHEERS and ap-
plause1 His folly is greater than the
folly of any other man who so com
plains. for he lives and moves and has
his being because the law does in fact
protect him and his property. We have
the right to ask every decent American
citizen to rally to the support of the law
If ii is ever broken against the interest
of the rich and we have the same right
to ask that rich man cheerfully and
gladly acquiese in the enforcement
against his seeming interest of the law
if it is the law. Incidentally. whether he
acquiesces or not the law will be en-
forced Whoever he may be, great OF
small, at which ever end of the social
scale he may be, whether his offense
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