The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-25

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 s"As I came up the street nothing pleased me as much as the sight of the school children drawn up along side the line of march. Remember that we leave this country in the hands of the children of today and that the American or tomorrow will be what we train the boy or girl to be. It Is more trueism to say that if the children are not well educated. If they are not brought up as they should be, the State will to down. We of this generation have re- | cetved splendid heritage from you men Of the years of go to '65. Honor to us if we treat your great deeds as spurring us onward. and shame to us # we treat your great deeds as excuses for our own idleness or folly. When I speak of education, I do not mean only education in intelligence. That counts tremendously: but education In char acter counts more. It is character that determines the nations progress in the long run. Organizations of veterans after the Civil War each halls the other as comrade. It makes no difference whether the man was lieutenant gem erai or whether he was the youngest recruit that served at the very end of the war. All that Is asked is did he do his duty in the place in which he was. If he did, you are for him. If he did not, you have no comradeship with him.
 scsrn Arrogance of the Rich. T ask that the same question that you of the Civil War applied practi- caliy to your persons during and since that war, be applied by the rest of us in civil life. ask that we scorn alike the base arrogance of the rich man who would look down on his poorer brother and the equally base envy of the poor man who would hate his rich brother: and that you apply to every citizen of this republic just as one test. the test that gauges his worth as a man. Does he do his duty fairly by himself, his family, his neighbor and the State and nation? If he does be for him. whether he is rich or poor. be- cause if you do not you are recreant to the spirit of Americanism." a Following the Presidents speech Ex- Governor Joseph F. Johnston spoke as follows:
 Tt is made my duty. as it is my pleasure. MT. President. by unanimous vote of Camp Hardee. No. 3s, United Confederate Veterans. to present to you these young ladies, descendants of Con- federate soldiers and sponsors and maids of honor of our camp, who will tender you badge of our camp.
 we do this to express to you our respect for the President of the United States. our confidence in the courage. unsectional patriotism, and generous im- pulses of Theodore Roosevelt. and in appreciation of your many kindnesses to Confederate veterans, and especially for the unsought honor recently confer red upon member of the camp.
 We present this. too, sir, because we believe that you come nearer standing for the ideals that have inspired our lives than any President that we have had since the war. Had we been born north of Mason and Dixon's Line. Mir President, many of Us in the war be- tween the States might have followed the flag of our fathers, the stars and stripes, but we are sure that had you been born twenty years earlier, and in Georgia, where you should have been born, that you would have been a gal iant leader of brigade under Forrest or Stuart. Home in Alabama.
 Should misfortune ever overtake you sir, which God forbid, or should you be a hungered or athirst, or be a stranger in distress, remember sir. that the doors of ten thousand Confederate homes fin Alabama, and a hundred thousand Con- federate hands and hearts will minis ter unto you.
 sir, with your permission these young ladies, the sweetest and loveliest product of the old South or of any coun- try in the world. one of them having in her gentle veins the blood of Raphael Semmes, will now in behalf of the camp present you this badge with our good wishes for your good health and happi. ness"
 The Confederate badge was presented to the President by Miss Sophia witti- chen.
 From Capitol Park the party went to Third avenue and Twentieth street ana boarded magnificentiy equipped special electric train and proceeded tc the Alabama State Fair Grounds, Al the grounds the President was intro. duced by T. H. Motion. President of the Birmingham Commercial Club. The crowd at the fair was also enormous and greeted the President enthusias. tically as he rose to speak.
 The President congratulated Alabama for the wonderful progress made In the past few years along both indus. trial and agricultural lines. He prais. ed the men who wore the grey and the men who wore the blue. In conclusion he said:
 Likenesses are Fundamental. During the time that I have been President have gone across the coun. try from the Atlantic to the Pacific and | from the Canadian line down to the
 gulf. I have met our people by the hundreds of thousands, and the thing that has impressed me most in the au. diences that I have addressed, has been the essential likeness of our people
 The differences are slight and super the essential likenesses of o4r peopIe
 tai and feel that the average Ameri- can Is a pretty good fellow and that all that is necessary is that he should meet the other average American in ] order to get on all right with him. and that applies. gentlemen. not only as between those who live in one To- | cality and those who live in another, but as between those who earn their
 livelihood in one way and those who