Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-30

the easiest course they can pursue,
but will see that they rather choose
the hardest, that they trample down
the obstacles which intervene in their
way to success That is what makes
men and women like the citizens Of
Iowa.
Grateful to Iowa.
81 owe peculiar debt of gratitude
to Iowa. because | have taken a quar-
ter of my cabinet from this state. !
Somebody has intimated that this is
more than lowa's share, but | say
that when any other state does as well
relatively in citizenship, then | will
take quarter from it.
81 have travelled all day. through
Iowa with my valued friend, Secretary
Shaw, and now l would say few
words regarding the absent secretary
Mr. Wilson. II was very fitting that
from Iowa should come the secretary
of agriculture, for no state in the
union has done more to develop the
highest grade of farming than has
this Both the experimental work by
the government and educational work
by the state have been employed to
make the farmers work one Of such
scientific skill as to put it fairly be-
side any of the more prominent pro
LESSONS.
Welfare of State.
'iIt is mere truism to say that up
on the welfare of the farmer and wage
worker rests the welfare of the en-
tire state. If the conditions of these
two great classes are we'll the rest of
the state is also right. And therefore,
residents of this city of manufactures
and waeeworkers, in this state of far
mers, congratulate you on having so
well solved your share of the prob
lens which confront the entire nation.
Il don't have to do much preaching
in Iowa. | think your practice sets a
mark for my preaching here. don't
| have to preach in the presence OF
| these men of the great war except to
/ remind us younger men that we
should be held thrice shamed il we
do not remember to do well so that
you may feel that our homage to your
memory is not simply coming from
the mouth but from our hearts.
81 am not preaching the gospel OF
work. You made your standard OF
work as well as your standard OF
play, but let me say Just this-Play
4 when you play, but don't play when
you work. ] am glad to see any harm
| less enjoyment from which anyone
can derive benefit, only don't let il
interfere in doing each his or her duty
as the chance comes.
/ Adnires Iowa.
GAS / have have passed through
/ Iowa today today | have been strucl
with the soil, the climate, the ricf
farms, the prosperity and happinas:
of the towns and cities. and by thu
4 high average of citizenship which il
/ noticeable everywhere. 1t has been m.
pleasure in the country districts to nc
! tice how the electric cars, the tele
phones, and the rural free deliver.
have joined to make the life of thu
farm less weary and to bring it mor'
4 upon an equitable plane with the pleas
ures and the conveniences of the city
admire the people and I congratulate
them upon their crops and their prod
lucts.
To the Children.
a think the thing that has pleas ct
me most, with the possible exception
, of the meeting with the old veterans
, is the representation from the othe
! end of the Iine-the children. ! CO,
: graduate you upon all your crops, an
? especially upon your crop of children
!, They are certainly all right in quaIit
and they seem to be all right in guar
tity.. | like your stock and am ala
, it is not dying out. (Much Iaughte
and appIause.)
> | l,Nr Il {oi, jnn trni
/ have only come to say that | believ
: in YOU, believe in you, heart and sou
) and that | wish for you in the futuf
greater measure of prosperity an
]. happiness than you have enjoyed i
the past. And now will bid you goo
!. night
; Calls for Shaw.
I The Presidents last few words weT
2 drowned in the storm of approving al
: plause which arose from the vast al
: dience, the biggest assemblage
people ever gathered together in an
v auditorium in Ottumwa Preside1
Roosevelt bowed and smiled in reco'
e milton of the monster ovation, and pr
e pared to leave the tent But the aud
e ence led by an ardent Iowan, who ha
0 caught sight of the former governt
t of the state, showed its unwillingnes
I to leave by setting up cry. SHAY
S Shaw, Shaw and it was not until tt
secretary of the treasury had refuse
n an urgent request from the commltte
0 to speak that the audience was WIFI
a to consider the meeting at an end.
: At the Luncheon.
II From the tent the President and h
: party were escorted to the depot NJ
S tel, where the most elaborate prepar
: lions had been made for the banquf
t Although the guest of honor had ask
J" the committee to do away with tn
v feature. he consented to spend a fe
d minutes at the banquet tables al
@ spoke few words to the members
d the local reception committee befo
D he retired to his car and his sta'
:: room. After all had been seated Cha
/. man Waterman announced that {
IT President had consented to say Il
words.
II President Excuses Himself.
= President Roosevelts last spec
"a was to express his sincere gratitude
=, - the people of Ottumwa for the splt
p did racantion thew accorded him.