The Red Cloud chief., 1905-05-12
PRESIDENT EN- ROUTE
CHEF EXECUTIVE coNGRATu'
LATEs PEOPLE OF NEBRASKA.
Train Sent From Fremont &c Cross
River at Blair and Then Speeos
Across Iowa Homeward Bound
Met by Cheering Crowds.

Across Iowa Homeward Bound
Met by Cheering Crowds.
Omaha. May lot was decided 20
change the route Of the presidential
train and send 1t across the Missouri
river at Blair. Neb, twenty-five miles
north of Omaha. When the train
reached Fremont ii was turned over &c
the Northwestern road, which took
the train across the cutof TO Missouri
Valley. Ia, where the main line
branches on and runs direct 70 Chi
cago. Quite a large crowd had gath
cred at the Union station In this city
in the hope Of securing a glimpse Of
the president. Upon learning OF the
change Of route they waited for the
special train, which arrived at 1890,
highly decorated. and with the presi.
dents car missing.
The Northwestern sent a pilot train
out of Omaha at $3.50 p. NJ. TO Ms.
souri, Valley. la. where II net The
presidents special and took il east.
The trip across Nebraska was a
most pleasant one for the president.
Several speechs. all brief, were deliv.
cred by the president from the rear
platform Of his car.
Talks on irrigation at North Platte.
The president spoke longest at
North Platte, where he said:
This is the third time in recent
years l have been in North Platte. and
II is a peculiar pleasure TO be with
you once again. This neighbo:hood Is
one Of the pioneer spots Of the west In
irrigation. 1t was your good fortune
TO lead in showing just what could be
done by les of irrigation for the
prosperity Of this country. Nothing
will count more in the next half cen
fury in building up the United States
than what Is done in irrigation. ! am
particularly glad to see all OF you
here, but especially the children. ]
heartily believe in you people. and
am glad that the stock Is kept up.
Although l congratulate Nebraska on
many crops. the best crop of all Is the
crop OF citizens. What counts in any
nation more than anything in the end
Is the average of the citizenship
here, as everywhere else In the west
see men who wear the button that
shows that they fought In the great
civil war. In the civil wal the win.
ming or losing Of that fight depended
upon the average quality Of he aver
age soldier. We saved the nation be.
cause the average man was OF the
right stamp. So II Is In civil life.
The one thing that We have got to
have Is the average man and the aver
& woman of the right type. Ard
you cannot have that II you do rot
have the children taken care OF and
trained up as they should be. So
congratulate you Of Nebraska upon
your school system and your family
life as being the two things thai
count most In training up the children
Of the present to be the men and
women OF the future. Success for any
community, and therefore success fol
the nation, means success in having
the average family the kind of family
that II should be. We need materia
prosperity. We must have that az
the foundation, but Upon It we mus
build the structure of a happy famil.
life In order to make the nation wha'
il should be. Two years ago | wen
from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
have Just been a little while ago dowr
in Texas, as had been previously II
Maine and Oregon, and there is on,
thing that strikes me more than any
thing else In going through this won
derful country Of ours, and that Il
that fundamentally wherever you ad
dress q crowd Of Americans, II Is
pretty decent crowd"
Train 10 on Time.
Despite the rain 5000 people ha,
gathered at the Union Pacific depot q
Grand Island to see and hear Pres
dent Roosevelt. The pilot train al
vided at & 10 and promptly At the mir
ute the presidential train pulled int
the station. The president, smilin
and happy. was out upon the rear pla'
form and lost no time in greeting III
Nebraskans gathered there. He ha
already begun to address the thron
when Miss Anna Garmire and tn
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