New-York tribune., 1903-06-03
ROOSEVELT TO IOWANS
President IN Flooded District-His
Tram Safeguarded.

Denison. Iowa June The Presidents train,
which entered Iowa on schedule time at 3oo
this morning. on its way here. the home of Sec
retary Shaw. passed through much of the
flooded district Of the State. Extra precau-
tons had been taken by the railroad authorities
and the tracks were carefully watched and in
some cases shored up. Secretary shaw and
Senators Allison and DoIlivcr joined the Presi-
dent here. President Roosevelt was greeted by
a large crowd. He spoke as follows
Friends: At this time as enter your beau
tiful State. there have come Calamities upon our
people here in iowa, and. to an even greater de-
gree in Kansas and Missouri | see, also. by
to-day's papers the awful disaster in Georgia.
We have Biblical authority. as we'll as the gu
thorty of common sense, for the statement that
, the rain falls the just and the unjust alike.
When the hand of the Lord Is heavy upon any
body of men the wisdom of man can do hut lit
tie Now and then iii our country, from drouth.
from floods. from pestllence, troubie and mis-
fortune, will come but, oh, friends as drove
through your city this morning. and now as l
look at You. the ard women OF this state,
know that all Eonr froubes are tenlPo-1rs' ls
that misfortUnes will be met and overcome De
cause in heart and hand the American citizen IS
able to win his way in the long run. tApphuseD
When misfortune that human wisdom cannot
avoid comes of course there will be suffering;
there will be misery Those OF US VINO are free
from It can try, and must Try 70 hshten IL an
we can but we cannot help the fact that there
will be much suffering. Furthermore, II through
our own folly We do what IS wrong, we dct
fooIishly in matters of Legislation We SHdII pay
the penalty If the business world loses It's mead
it has lost what no law can supply, but IN spite
of that we shall 90 forward. We shall keep on
the plane not only Of abiding. but OF increasing
prosperity. if people we only keep our san
ity as a people If we keep the qualities Whch
made us win out in the Civil War and Wnlcn
have brought us in triumph through other crises
far.
Something, {, good deal. can be done by law;
a. good deal can be done by the honest ana up
right administration of the law l think you
will do me the Justice TO admit that DO not say
what | do not mean. / never said anything Oh
the stump that 7 would not say on the stump
so what l say now you can take as sincere we
have in the persons of Iowa's representatives N
both branches of the national Congress ana ID
Iowa's representatives in the administrative
branch of the national government men 10
whom I can turn illustrating what mean
when say that helped greatly oy good
laws and by intelligent, fearless and honest ad-
rl1iufstration of those laws. We need the aolllly
that you in Iowa have furnished in your puollc
servants. We need the standard of integrity
that you have set in public life. We need that
uprightness and fearlessnesS in a puDlc servant
which makes him do his duty. disregardlng
either the clanor of the many or the snarHng OF
the few, which is directed against course OF
conduct demanded by regard for the imnutaple
law of righteousness