Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-09
At FORT WORTH, TEXAS
President Roosevelt Accorded
a Rousing Welcome
BYAN ORMOUSCROW
PRESIDENTIAL PARTY PARTICI-
PATED IN LARGE PARADE.
Brief Address Delivered From Stand
Bedecked With Flags and Flowers
OFF for Oklahoma.
BYAN EN- ORMOUS CROWD


OFF for Oklahoma.
FORT WORTH, Texas, April S.-President
Roosevelt and party arrived in Fort Worth
at 9:45 o'clock this morning. The night run
from San Antonio to the northern connncS
of the state was uneventful. When the
PRESIDENTS special entered the Texas and
Pacific railroad station an enormous crowd
vas on hand and gave him hearty wei
come. A committee representing the city
council and board of trade entered the
Presidents car and formally welcomed HIM
to Fort Worth.
After chatting a few minutes with ms
VISITORS President Roosevelt entered a car
rage and took part in large parade. Inc
line of march was headed by mounted po-
lice and a company of Texas national
guards Then came the President and lis
party in carriages followed by organiza-
tons of Spanish War Veterans, United Con-
feGerate Veterans, Grand Army men, state
militia and civic associations
The line of march was to the court house
and down Houston street to the arge
square facing the Texas and Pacific rail-
road station The President was every
where received with enthusiasm Dense
crowds packed the streets along the line
L
bowed his acknowledgements.
Delivered Brief Address.
When the square was reached the Presl-
dent assembled stand covered with hags
and flowers and delivered a brief address.
From the square the President proceeded
directly to his train and left shortly be-
fore noon for Vernon, Texas. When the
train left the station the Pres dent stood
upon the rear platform and waved his hand
repeat eddy to the people. who continued to
cheer him until he was lost to sight
with the departure of the President from
Fort Worth the public part of his trip
may be said to have ended. He will reach
Frederick, Okla. on the st. Louis and San
Francisco railroad some time this after
noon and will spend several days on
hunting excursion. The telegraph office at
Frederick has been enlarged so as to keep
the President in touch with Washington
and other points.
An Empire in Itself.
You have here territory that is an en-
pire in itself, and you have what counts for
more than all else, the stuff out of which
good citizenship is made. We need in this
country good laws, and we need fearless
and honest officers of the law, but what
we need most is the right type of men and
women behind the law. If the homes are
right if the average citizen is all right,
there is not much question of our getting
our problems solved successfully. and we
are going to have them solved successfully
because the home is all right, because the
average man is a man and the average wo-
man u woman in the true sense of the
word.
After all. l have come to the conclusion,
travelling through this great land of ours
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and over
Maine. Washington, and Montana and
Texas. that the chief thing we need is to
have Americans know another. l am
wiling hat the result If Will lust
get them together. Now that is what i'm
pressed me most in going through this coun-
try and speaking to the various audiences.
not the points of divergence which are
only small, but the points of fundamental
unity. We have got our troubles the same
as all nations, some of them belonging to a
given locality, but We are going to solve all
the problems ahead of US. because as ma
ton / think we have the necessary courage.
honesty and common sense to enable us to
work out our salvation
A Word to the Stockmen.
And now, here at Fort Worth. 1 want to
say a word of special greeting to the repre-
sentatives OF the great industry in which 1
have always felt a peculiar interest, the
stock men. l lived number of years in
COW country myself, and always look back
not only with keen pleasure TO that time,
but with the realization of what it taught
me to have lived in country where all the
wood did not grow on trees. But things
were "A little different from what they We're
in the east and ii gave chance to re-
alize the immense Importance of a matter
which concerns western Texas little and
which concerns still more the Rocky noun
tain states. and that is the question of irri-
CATION, and there is nothing that l am
prouder of in connection with my admins
tration than in having done my part in
making the movement for irrigation a ma
tiOnal one.
Here in Texas you have rivers and har-
bors. and want to improve them
uOnally so as to make them navigable; and
en- the other hand you have regions
where We want to take care of the head
waters OF the stream so that the farmer in
security can take care Of his crops.
Texas a Great State.
Texas has such an enormous extent of
territory. a territory so widely diversified
that almost all the things, which eliminate
In some particular state, come to the front
In Texas, and therefore we have right to
expect that, more than almost any other
state. Texas shall contribute to the aggre-
gate OF our national wealth, and let me re-
peat here what have said TO various audi
ences. and l mean it literally, every word
Of it,. | did not need TO come here in order
TO be a good citizen and a good American,
but II | had needed II, l would have got
what | needed here. And although l came
TO Texas pretty good American. / want
you TO understand that feel that no Presi-
dent, no matter who he may be, while he
Is President can afford not to come to
Texas, for he will leave a better American
than he was when he came"
Greeted at Wichita Falls.
WICHITA FALLS, Tex, April S-The
Presidents special train arrived at 2:45
O'Clock. An enthusiastic crowd greeted
him when the train stopped at the station
The President spoke of the country
through which he had passed from Fort
Worth TO Wichita Falls. and said 1t was
all familiar to him. as he had spent sew
eral years of his life in a similar country
in the west. where one would ride for
miles without seeing house. He congrat-
ulated the people in having redeemed the
land of waste in short time from a
frontier To n land of homes, farms and
thriving towns.