The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26
ROOSEVELT IN NEBRASKA
Yesterday Three States Had
 President as Guest.
Today VIII Bs Spent Quietly on th< Train tt Grand IslanA-Sevsra1 short Addresses 1rAds by
 the Chief Executive.

Alliance, Neb.. April 2s.-Presidens Roosevelt completed hard day today with fifteen-mdnuts stop at Aiuance this evening"
 Captain Seth Bullock. superintendent of the Black Hills Forest Reserve. who joined the President at Gardiner yestr- day, left the train here. Presdsnt Roosevelt. who has great admiration for Captain Bullock. invited him to sccoml- pany him on his trip to tho coast. but Captain Bullock was forced to decline the invitation.
 During the day the President traveled in three States and made e number of addresses both from the rear platform of his car and from stands erected for the purpose.
 The most unique demonstration of ths day and the one that undoasbtedly pleased the President most was the cowboy show at Edgemont. S. D. The demonstration was arranged by the socisty of Black Hits Pioneers and consisted of cxhIbs- tions of cowboy riding. Special trains brought in large crowd from the sur rounding country and they were all at the station with three bands of music to greet the President. As his train pulled in the cowboys yelled. the bands played and a salute was fired.
 A Disappointment.
 The exhibition stand was but short distance from the depot and after ths President had made an address the boys began bucking the horses and only horses | that would buck were ridden by the COW. boys. The Presiaent partoolx of luncheon | at the mess wagon. Tho only disap- | pointment of the day was the failure of the prize bucking horse of that section to perform. This horse has a record of a | champion bucker and but few persons can ride him. Today, however. he was gentle and greenhorn would n0t have had | much trouble in keeping on his back | At the conclusion of the exercises the | cowboys formed an escort to the train and after it had started they dashed alongside the Presidents car and he
 shook hands with many of them from | the window.
 In his speech at Alliance the PreAdent | referred to the work accomplished by the early pioneers an ''honor to all good | citizens," he said, hut honor most of all | to the men who took the lead in tanning the shaggy wilderness. to the traii-blak- | CTS, to the men who first of the world marked out that earliest of highways. | the spotted line. the biazed trail. the men | who first on horseback steered across the | great lonely plains and drove their cattle l up to feed upon the ranges from which | the buffalo had not yet vanished. To you | from the Black Hills who. coming here | in 1876 or at the time immediately around | that date have developed the wonderful | mines of that region, have built up in ! what was then an Indian haunt. a wild-
 erness, cities like Deadwood. and Lead, | 1t has fallen to your lot to see one of the epoch feats of the century.
 The Right Kind of Stun.
 ''You are among that body of men who
 conquered a continent for race and a | people; who did your full share fin mak- | ing the nineteenth century the most won- derful upon which the sun has ever shone.
 The pioneer days have gone. but the need | of the only pioneer virtues remains the same as ever. (AppIause.) You won and you could only win because you had in | you the stun out of which strong men | are made."
 At Newcastle. wyo., where half hour
 stop was made, the President was es- corted to the speakers stand along a patchway strewn with flowers. The stand from which he spoke was gaily decorat- ed. a stuffed bear and deer standing on
 either side and a large stuffed eagle sur-
 mounting the top. Tn opening his ad- dress he said he wished publicly to ex- press his acknowledgement for the way | in which the Wyoming Senators and Con- gressmen have co-operated with him in l Washington. He referred to the irrfga- ton law passed at the last session of Congress and said he believed much good
 will come from 1t as the government will | he able to undertake enterprises which 1t cannot be expected that private caDt- tal will undertake. He then spoke on the subject of good citizenship, saying that
 what counts most Is the honesty. the
 courage. the common sense and the ca
 pacity for hard work of the average man.
 No Royal Road.
 "Nothing can take the place of tlhoss
 qualities in the average man." he eaid.
 Just as on the battlefield. 1t is the man
 behind the gun who sounts most. so in
 civil life 1t is the average citizen back
 of the law who counts most. In closing
 let me repeat one thing. There is no
 royal road to prosperity any more than there Is any royal road to good govern
 ment Good government does not come by any special genius or brflliancy, good .government comes from the average man showing the qualities which we recognize
 as making a good friend and good !, neIghbor. Prosperity comes not by any tugglinR with the laws. not by any effort
 to show a smartness unaccompanied by moral sense; 1t comes by the constant exercise on the part of the individual of
 those qualities which each or us recoK~
 nize as making desirable citizen of our
 neighbor in private life.
 The President was given a military
 welcome at Crawford, Neb.. when his train reached there. The 10th Cavalry. mounted, met him with drawn sabres and the regirnental band played '4fail to the , Chief" He spoke few words of greet 1 ing to the soldiers. md also briefly ad- 3 dressed the large crowd that gathered about his car. stops were also made at r Gillespie and MooFcroft, Mont, and at . Ardmore, S. D., and at each place the President spoke briefly.
 :. Tomorrow will be spent quietly on ths
 train at Grand Island, Ne6.