The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-28

SPEECH TO ALL CLASSE'
UNITED STATES LAW Is FOR THE
RICH AND POOR ALIKE.

BUTTE, Mont. May N.-President Roose-
velt was-met at the Butte station this aft
ernoon when he arrived from Helena by
Mayor Mullins, a company Of militia, a
platoon of police and Montana Spanish
convention in Butte.
United States Senator w. A. Clark, Of
Montana, was one of the first to greet the
President. Mr.. Roosevelt then entered a
carriage in which the senator. Mayor Null
Inns and a secret-service man sat The
drive through the streets Of Butte was one
long ovation. Such a crowd has never been
seen in the history OF the city. The neigh
boring towns for fifty miles had poured in
their thousands and the line of march was
crowded.
From the station the President was driven
to the courthouse Spanish war veterans
formed a guard of honor. At the courthouse
1000 school children dressed in national
colors saluted the President. He spoke to
the little ones briefly. Two squares farther
down Granite street 1900 citizens Of Ana
conda gave the President a handsome vase
Of silver, copper and sapphire. The line of
march was then started to the Finley Hotel
where the President made a five-minute
speech.
A banquet. at which $500 plates were laid
was given at the Thornton Hotel. Mayor
Mullins presided.
From the banquet table the President was
driven to Columbia Gardens, where the
principal speech of the day was made. Here
handsome souvenir. his photograph en-
graved on copper and framed in a copper
frame. was presented to him in the name
of citizens Of Butte. In his address Presi-
dent Roosevelt said:
81 am In a city at the gateway of this
State with the great railroad systems Of
the State running through to the Pacific
ocean. This State will owe no small part
Of it's future greatness to the fact that it
is doing its share in acquiring for the
United States the dominance of the Pa
cifc Those railroads. the men and the
corporations that have built them have
rendered great service to the community
The men who are building the great steam
ship lines have likewise rendered a great
service to the country. Every man who
has made wealth or used it in developing
great legitimate business enterprises has
been of benefit to the country at large
Great good has come from the development
of our railroad systems; great good has
been done by the individuals and corpora
tons that have made that development pos
to them and not harm when they are re-
quired to obey the law.
A GOVERNMENT OF LIBERTY.
"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 vio-
lence are all equally crimes, and against
them all alike the law must set its face
This Is not and never shall be a govern
ment of the plutocracy or the mob. 1t is,
as it has been and as 1t will be, a govern
ment Of the people, including alike the peo-
pie 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 discriminating against any
one of them IL he does not obey the law.
while all people are foolish IL they vio-
late or rebel against the law, yet 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. His folly Is greater than the
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 IL II is ever
broken against the interests of the rich
man, and we have the same right TO ask
that rich man cheerfully and gladly TO
acquiesce IN, the enforcement against his
seeming interest OF the law If 1t is the law
incidentally. whether he acquiesces or not,
the law will be enforced. Whoever he may
be, great small, at whichever end of the
social scale he may be, whether his offense
take the shape OF q crime, of greed and cum
ming. or whether IL take the shape of a
physical violence. IL IL is an offense against
the law. IL must be stopped, and, If need be,
punished"
At Helena this morning an immense
crowd greeted the President. Around the
station a Gordon of soldiers had been sta
toned, while a battalion of the Twenty
sixth United States Infantry, from Fort
Harrison, was drawn up opposite the train
Among the delegation at the station were
many old-time Western friends of Pres
ident Roosevelt. One Of the first persons he
inquired about was John Willis, hunter and
t;apper, of Thompson. Mont. with whom
he had camped five years ago in this State
After an informal reception at the station
accompanied by Governor Toole and Mayor
moved to the Capitol. On the way the pro-
cession passed several thousand school chill
dren massed in front of the high school
building. The main audience was at tn
Capitol, where the President made a brief
address. After the address the President
was escorted to the StatehCuse, where oc-
Cured formal reception. in which former
Senator Thomas II. Carter and members OF
the Legislature took part. After short
drive over the city the President and party
boarded the special train which bad -haav,