Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-05-11
PRESIDENT WILL
FIGHT TO A FINISH
Speech in Denver on the Rate
Question Is Full Of His Ear
nest Determination.
ANSWER TO OBJECTIONS
1t Rate Regulation Power is Liable to
Abuse, He Says, So Is Taxing
Power, but Both Powers
Must Be Exercised.

Denver Colo. May 1.-THE presi-
Dental special train left here over the
Union Pacific for Chicago at o'clock
this morning. The curtains in the
presidents private car We're closely
cedng the presidents special train by
ten minutes went the pilot train, and
every precaution was taken to insure
the presidents safety.
Denver Colo. May 1.-THE Rio
| Grande train bearing the presidential
party arrived at the Union station in
this city promptly on time. o: 80 yes
terday u. m.. and not hitch occurred
in the arrangements at the station.
The entertainment of President
Roosevelt by the citizens of Denver
was a fitting conclusion of day of
royal welcome as he journeyed through
the state of Colorado from Glenwood
Springs.
All the towns along the Denver and
Rio Grande railroad, over which the
presidential party Travelled, centered
their populations at the stations to
greet the president, and every evidence
of hearty good will was seen and heard.
The crowning event came last night
President Roosevelt by the Denver
chamber of commerce at the Brown
Palace hotel This was. perhaps. the
most sumptuouS affair ever held in the
state, and the president was visibly
pleased by the picture that unfolded it
self as he entered the banquet hall.
Every hing known to the decorators
art Was called into use to embellish
the commodious banquet hall. Tri-
colored steamers and shields, iner-
spersed with pictures of the president
framed in flags, almost hid the wall.
and on the tables American Beauty
roses added color to the scene Plotted
plants We're literally distributed
through the hall. lending an effective
green. The menu was perfect.
Throughout the services of the courses
stringed Instruments blended in beau
tiful melody. The banquet began at
S o'clock and continued until IL o'clock,
when the president was escorted to
his private car Rocket, where he all
most Immediately retired to await his
departure for Chicago at O'Clock in
the morning.
The Banquet.
Promptly at $50 O'Clock the last
course OF the elaborate menu was fin
ished and President James S. Temple,
of the chamber of commerce. called
the guests to order and introduced
acted as POSTMASTER In a brief speech
Judge Gabbert introduced the pres-
dent. who arose amid cheers and APP
rlause. He responded to the toast,
The Nation"
He WAS followed by Gov. Jesse Nc
Mayor Robert w Speer. who respond
ed to the toast "The City
The president devoted a large por-
ton of his speech to the question of
governmental supervision of railroads.
After leading up to the subject of their
great growth and power and possible
abuses, he said:
The President on Rates.
AS with everything else mundane,
when You get that supervisory and reg
ulatory power on behalf of the nation
You Will not have cured all the evils
that existed and YOU will not equal
the expectations of the amiable but i'll
regulated enthusiast who thinks that
You will have crushed All those evils.
A measure of good will come Some
good will be done. some injustice will
have been prevented, but we shall be
long way from the millennium. Get
That fact clear in Your minds or YOU
will he LAYING up for yourselves Il store
of incalcnlable disappointment in the
future. That is the first thing.
Now. the second and the more inn
portant:
when You give a nation the power,
remember that harm and not good will
come from the giving unless You give
1t With the firm determination not only
to get Justice for yourselves, but to do
justice to others: that you will be as
Jealous to do justice to tho railroads
as to exact justice from them. We
cannot afford in any shape or way i'm
this country to encourage a feeling
which would do injustice to man of
property any more than we would sub
NIT to injustice from a man of prop
erty. Whether the man owns the big
gest railroad or the greatest outside
corporation i'm the land and whether he
makes each days bread by the sweat
of that days toll he is entitled to JUS
tice and fair dealing. no more and no
less. A spirit of envy on the part
of those less we'll off against the bet
ter off is as bad and no worse than
spirit of arrogant disrepard for the
rirhte nf the man of small means on
the port of the man of large means
The arrogance and the envy are not
two different qualities: they are the
same quality. shown by men under
different circumstances.
Exact Justice Wanted
We must make nm our minds that roth
ing hut harm will come from any scheme
to exercise such supervision as that ] ad-
vocate over corporations. and especially
tho common carriers. unless have 1t
clearly fixed in our minds that tho scheme
is 20 be one of substantial justice alike
TO the common carrier and TO the public
If ] have the appointment or retention of
amy commission and power to administer
law of such increased powers shall
neither appoint nor retain tn" man who
would fail to do Justice to the railroad
amy more than | would appoint or retain
he man who would fail to enact Justice
from the railroad. | want hat UNDER
stood as a preliminary that is If have
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