The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-06
PRESIDENT IS
 TEXAS GUEST
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 the character of the men and women who make up that State. You have wonderful soil. wonderful climate You are developing great industries But all of that will not avail if you don't have the right type of men and women in the State That is what counts. I believe you are getting that type. I believe you are paying heed to the education of the young people of these girls and boys that see before me, who, in ten or fifteen years. will be running things. tApplause). l don't want to preach, but I do want to siay just a word or two to make you understand the responsibility that rests upon you. Rightfully we take the mos' intense pride in our country. We nave asright to say that this Is a pretty big c5untry because 1t Is. But even more important than being proud of 1t now IS that seeing that those who come a1tei us will have the same right to feel proud of 1t that we have. we are proud now of what our fathers dfo in the days that tried mems souls; ana in time of war or in time of peace we must conduct ourselves that those wn" come after us will have the same right to be proud of us as we are or our an cestors of the civil war" (Cheers ana app1ause). The Presidents remarks at Denni- son. Tex. were as follows: T cannot say what a pleasure 1t is to greet you today Nearly seven years nave r,assed since I was last in Texas. Al that time I was taking part in raising my regiment and from that time to this I have intended to come oack here. Let me most especially thank you, Miss Pauline Everett, for the gltt ...#a a school children hare.
 First Public School.
 %It svas in Dennison that the nrst public school of Texas was founded and Texas now has peculiar right to he proud of her public schools. It Is a. great empire State, one of two or three great States fin all the Union and she must educate the Texans of the future--and she is doing 1t.
 s'Tt gives me great pleasure to see you and to meet you here at the Threshold of Texas and I greet you with profound thanks for your cour- tesy in coming to see me"
 At Sherman, Tex, President Roose- velt said: You can have no idea what pleasure 1t is to me to be here again. If you are half as glad to have me as am to be here we will call 1t square. 1t Is nearly seven years ago that l came here to take part in raising the regiment. some of my comrades from which are here to escort me today. You who wore the blue and the gray know how lose the tie Is that bind you to the men by whose side you have faced bullets. with whom you have laid in the trenches, with whom you have known fatigue and hunger and thirst and danger I know that in greeting ell of you none of the rest Of you will object to my saying that there is a peculiar pleasure to me in being greeted by the veterans who wore the blue or the gray in the great civil var. It was the greatest war of the century and it left behind 1t the most perfecf peace of the century. Think what 1t means to our country to have the President of the United states, a man with both Northern and Southern blood in him, to drive up be- tween, as a guest of sLpnor. on one side the UnioIt and the other Confed- crate veterans. I cannot thank you for all that your coming here augurs. I want to say how deeply touched am by the reception accorded me. Except ing only the Union and Confederate veterans, the people whom have been most pleased to see here are the school children and the college girls. I ad- mire the men and women in Texas and I am glad to see the children of the right quality and quantity.
 A Mighty Empire.
 This mighty empire 1t Is going to he. it is now, one of the two or three greatest States in the Union. How