The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-18
old REBEL YELL.
1t Greets the Presidents Ar
rival at Richmond.
Business Suspended in Former
Confederate Capitol.
EVERYBODY WAS OUT.
After a Parade People Assem-.
bled at Capitol Square.
President Addresses Greatest
Multitude Ever Seen in City.

Richmond, Va, Oct. 18.-Today
was Roosevelt day in Richmond and
the city was in gala attire. Business
was practically suspended and nearly
the whole population was on the
streets, gathered at the depot or
lining tn esidewaIk along the route
announced for the procession.
At II o'clock noon the presidential
train pulled into the Main street depot
and a special committee formally well
coined the president to Richmond.
Then the president was escorted to
the speakers stand in Capitol square.
The line of march was through the
principal streets to the western part
OF the city and return to the capitol
square. All along the route the presi-
dent was enthusiastically cheered.
When the procession arrived at the
capitol square and the president and
party called at the executive mansion
and paid their respects and then re-
paired to the speakers stand which
was faced by one of the greatest multi
tudes ever assembled in Richmond.
Mayor Mccarthy presented the gov
! ern0r, who in a brief speech, intro
duced the president who spoke as fol-
lows:
Il trust I need hardly say how great
is my pleasure at speaking in this his
| tOric capital of your historic state; the
state than which no other has con-
tributed a larger proportionto the honor
! leadership of the nation; for on the
roll OF those American worthless whose
greatness is not only for the age but
for all time NOS only for one nation
but for all the world. on this honor
roll NirginiaS S name stands aboEe all
others. And in greeting all of you, L
know that no one will grudge my say
! ing special word of acknowledgment
| to the veterans of the civil war. A
man would indeed be put poor Amer
/ lean who could without a thrill witness
the way in which, in city after city in
the north as in the south, on every
public occasion. the men who wore the
I blue and the men who wore the gray
now march and stand shoulder to
shoulder, giving tangible proof that
we are all now in fact as well as IN
name a reunited people, a people in
dnitely richer because of the priceless
memories left to all Americans by you
men who fought in the great war.
Last Memorial day I spoke in Brooklyn,
at the unveiling OF the statue OF a
4 northern general, under the auspices
! of the Grand Army of the Republic,
: that great audience cheered every al
| fusion to the valOr and self-deVotlon OF
the men who followed Lee as heartily
as they cheered every allusiOn to the
vaIor and if-devotion of the men who
/ followed Grant. The wounds left by
/ the great civil war have long healed
but it's memories remain Think OF 1t,
l OH my countrymen, think Of the good
! fortune that is Oursl That whereas
! every other war OF modern times mas
left feelings of rancor and bitterness
to keep asunder the com batants, our
great war has left to the sons and
| daughters of the men who fought, on
/ whichever side they fought, the same
right to feel the keenest pride in the
great deeds alike of the men who
/ fought on on side and of the men
who fought on the other The proud
seIf-sacrifioe, the resolute and daring
courage, the high and steadfast de-
votion to the right as each saw 1t,
| Whether northerner or Southerner,
these qualities render all Americans
forever the debtors of those who in
the dark DAYS from 81 to '65 proved
their truth by their endeavor.
Counted Death as Little Thing.
Here around Richmond, here in
your own state, there lies battlefield
after battlefield. rendered forever
memorable by the men who counted
death as but a little thing when
weighed in the balance against doing
their duty as it was given them to
see it. These men have left US of the
Younger generation not merely the
/ memory of what they did in war, but
of what they did in peace. Foreign
/ observers predicted that when such a
great war closed it would be impos-
sibIe for the hundreds of thousands of
com abatants to return to the paths of
peace They predicted ceaseless dis
/ order. wild turbulence, the alterna-
ton of anarchy and despotism. But
the good sense and self-restraint of
the average American citizen falsihed
/ these prophecies. The great armies
disbanded and the private in the
ranks. like the officer who had COM
manded him, went back to take up
the threads of his lire where he had
dropped them when the call to arms
came 1t was a wonderful, a mar
4 veIous thing, in a country consecrated
4 TO peace with but an infinitesimal reg
Il1Iar army, to develop SO quickly the
! huge hosts which fronted one another
between the James and the Potomac
and along the Mississippi and its trib-
| utarfes But it was an even more
| wonderful, an even more marvellous
thing. how these great hosts, once
their work done, resolved themselves
/ into the general fabric of the nation.
sGreat though the need of praise is
/ which is due the south for the soldier
" vaIor her sons displayed during the
| four years of war, I think that even
| Greater praise is due to her for what
| her people have accomplished in the
! forty years OF peace which followed.
For forty years the south has made
/ not merely a courageous, but at times
1 a desperate struggle, as she has
/ striven for moral and material we'll
! befng. Her success has been extra
4 ordinary, and all citizens of our COM
mon country should feel Jay and pride
/ in it; for any great deed done, or any
/ fine qualities shown, Dy one group OF
/ Americans of necessity reflects credit
upon all Americans. Only heroic
people could have battled successfully
AGAINST the conditions with which the
people of the south found themselves
face to face at the end of the civil war.
There had been utter destruction and
/ disaster and wholly new business and
social problems had to be faced with
the scantiest means. The economic
and political fabric had to be read
I justed in the midst of dire want, of
grinding poverty.
Prosperity Out Of Adversely
'sThe future Of the broken war-swept