New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-25
THE PRESIDENTS TRIUMPH
VAST CROWDS GREET HIM
Speaks in Three alabama Cities Be-
fore Hmrying to arkansas
tBy Telegraph to The Tribune. !

+rsin tonight is hurrying west He will, ,.s,.
memphis and Little Rock and then turn south
ward 10 Orleans where his Southern tou-
will end
There IS just the bare possibility that 81 +ba
quarantine against the fever territory be raised
b Mississippi before Wednesday night the Pres
,ssrt will change his plans and return to WASH
.,gton by rail instead of ship. dispatch
reached Secretary Loeb to-day, conveying the
trforTstion that the bars might be raised before
the time the President plans TO leave Louisiana
At montgomery the largest throng assembled
+o see him that has ever been within the city
limits since the last time jefferson Davis was
1reIoomed to the old capital of the Confederacy
Many southerners say that Mr.. Roosevelt has
o5de5 still another triumph to his victorious
.-Aer in the enthusiasm which he has evoked
4, +he South and that he has strengthened the
honds OF North and South 10 an inestimable de-
gree The President greatly pleased with
che greetings given 70 him At Tuskegee where
,be 800 colored boys and girls under Booker
washington's direction are striving to uplift
their race. he expressed himself as amazed at
.he progress shown by their work He rode in
carriage which the students had made. in
spected a small city Of buildings which their
hands had built and witnessed a parade OF sew
en+v floats representing among the students all
the important crafts Of modern civilization
The Presidents day began at o'clock in the
,,-r,rr when the special train left Montgom-
erv for Tuskegee. Visits TO the Tuskegee Nor
-nsI and Industrial Institute and TO the Meth
.,djst Female College were crowded into a little
less than two hours. and the noon hour had just
arrived when the Elk x=cutive stepped from his
car in Montgomery Here he spoke to great
+brong under the shadow of Confederacy's first
Csn,roI and was on his way again sharply at
ococ, 4 few minutes before 5 o'clock the
President was the guest of Birmingham. and
until his train left here, at GAS p m. on the
night run to Little Rock. the President was
cheered AT every turn.
The day was unmarked by any special Incl
dent save at Birmingham. Here, at the corner
Of 5tn-ave and 20th-st.. an intoxicated man in
his excitement dropped pistol from his pocket
on the pavement The President saw the Incl
dent and called the attention of officers TO the
man who was Immediately arrested
Al Capftol Park under the glamour. of thou
sands of electric lights. the party entered the
speakers' stand. General Rufus n. Rhodes,
Editor of The Birmingham News" welcomed
TIE President on behalf of the citizens Of Bir-
mingham
ALABAMAS RISE FROM WRECK
G-e~- .ppIause greeted the President as he
arose . speak. He said:
wished 10 say that I stirred most deeply
Nv mis- raasnif7cert reception from what Mr..
I3hodes has so well called the Magic City of the
contb Wo American worthy OF the name could
fail to be stirred with patriotism as ne comes
into your State, into this magnificent city. AIao
hama has made a wonderful record. At the
close Of the war shattered, war swept 1t
seemed impossible for her people, IN the grap I %
poverty as they were, to rally ana any pSopio p
less strong than you of Alabama Woulu nav M
failed but you had the stuff in you ana you
succeeded. -
About the wear 1880 the tide turned and the
last quarter of century has seen IN AlLpaili 4I I
a progress that would have been absolutely m
oTEa aQ n
ZION than ours The agriculture OF the otato
went upward by leaps and bounds: put etei1
more marvellous was your rnechanlcaI aiiG 60 tt
dug+rsaI success You have here in your stare
coal and iron. the two basic elements III lll NO
industrialisrn. and you have also e,,d d With
OF water power only partially used, aiIo ~ ;c1bt
that amount of natural resources anu lItS ne ne
type of man TO use them the result Is ttig VIZ
have seen But my friends, there Is sornethiIls
that IS ahead of any kind of natural resouf -
and that is the citizenship OF the f!lai an ~, VI -
soil I want now to say that. pIoud lIloust. l,t,-
an of 1,o17r extraordinary industrial prospeLIty'
am prouder OF the men who nave @ dciilo' 70. - va
Think what it means for our ereeted as he
has been greeted to-day on his right aIo ms +be
hand as the guard of honor. the veterans S % n ,r
Civil War the men who wore the oiue' 'i'
who wore the gray, united forever. ,7 mo os
As came mn the street nothing pleased me O. -
much as the sight of the schooI emu t9oeInber
up alongside the line OF t illaISli ,,o,,Se of the
that we leave this country in the ha1luS o, u Of
children Of to-day, and that the AIIei INC - or
tomorrow will be what we Tram ~, +ba+ If
gi-1 to he II is 4 mere truisnl 70 say liIt @ 80 20
{ba cLi15-ar ra not we'll educated II they az
not brought up they should pc ,.e I received
go down We of this generation nave , II ,aare
q splendid heritage from you men ol Ut 1.our
Of 1860 10 1865. Honor 10 us II we ,d shame
great deeds as spurrng US ohwalG, SS as excuses
10 US II We treat your great deeuS q o. - e5u-
@or o1lr idleness or folly When speoI ;I,+eIIi-
cation 40 not mean only education III 5..ao
genCa thai counts tremendously. but +n eaut.a lt,
ton in character counts more II &c - in the
that determines the nations progress "
In the organizations of veterans after she de-
Civil War each halls the oIher 1,a,, was a
It makes no difference whether the i!Ie ,,o1In
lieutenant general or whether he was g tn Of tbe
est reruft that served at the Feis A. bie duty
W. al 49, is asked is Did he 90 hIo - 80
in the place in which he was2 II ne 'lii, ,1Ta de-
for him. II he did not you nav h,a lesson that
shin with him I ask that the sd IN 1your
Z,oIi of te Civil war applied practicaiIy ~ 5ed
persons during and since that 81 ,you scorn
by the rest of US in civil life. aSh ih man who
alike the base arrogance OF lIig I.I.ar and the
would look down on his poorer brolheLt; to r.ould
equally base envy Of the poor tEI-- -, anulv to
hate his richer brother. and ina ma tbje one test
every citizen Of this republic just Li -oan-T)oes
+be ;aet 49, ,-anges his worth as a man hts
he DO his duty fairly by himseI' L IF he does
neRhbor and the State and fa ~ ,,oo, because
he for him, whether he is r1ch oI re spirit of
II you do not You are recreant TO the ''
Americanism. .-,or
Follgvine, the Presidents speech eN-0o
Joseph F Johnston spoke in behaIi % ~,re
Far7aa T-,it.s Confederate Veterans, ana pr
sented 70 the President several young ~"0i- ~
descendants Of Confederate soldiers anu .te
sors and maids of honor. who presence
President badge from the camp ,o1
From the fair grounds the Presioen. -, for
70 the city. and the special train left the cry
Mennb,e ~ 40 O'clock forty-fve minutes pc 3e.
hind schedule time. which. however inc
driver hopes to make up on the way
lDVICE FOR NEGROES.