The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-06
Hnd Comrades There.


 The President at Caddo, I. T., said:
 q have just moment in which to greet you and to wish you we'll It was from Caddo that very many of my old regiment came. and you can hardly imagine what a pleasure 1t Is to me to be here today to see you. All day long I have been travelling through your beautiful territory-a territory that very soon I not only hope, but earnestly believe. will be part of a great State in the Union. If your citi- zens act as well in peace as those of them knew in war, 1t will be a mighty good State. I want to congratulate you upon the type of men you have got and upon the quantity and quality of your children. I want you to remem- Der now that you are on the verge of Statehood, that whether you can feel proud or not of your State in the future is going to depend upon the citizen ship of the average man and average woman One thing I have been par ticularly pleased to see today Is the evil dent attention you are paying to schools. In any territory like this schools and roads are mighty we'll paying investments in the long run."
 The President at Durant, I. T., spoke as follows.
 'In thanking all of you for coming here, let me thank first the Union and Confederate veterans, the men who wore the blue and the gray; the men who proved their truth by their en- deavor, who risked life itself for their convictions in the great days of the civil war ,and who left us as a herl- tage the duty of doing no less should ever the call to arms come again. Also let me say how glad I am to see the school children here You of the civil war left us the duty to be true to the standard you set. Let us so live that these children when they grow up shall feel equally proud of the country we leave to them and we have got to do it by the way we do the small duties of life.
 In a Small Way.
 You who fought during the civil war. you who wore the blue and the gray, know that 1t was not only the battles that tried you, but the march, ing, the lying out in the winter in the trenches, the carrying the blanket when 1t was too heavy by day and not heavy enough at night. You have been there. I was there for a little while myself in the small war. 1t Is the same way in citizenship. The chance to do heroic deeds does not come often. The thing to do is each day to do that day s work. That makes a good soldied in time of war and it also makes good citizens in time of peace.
 "Rennember, above all things, here in this Territory so soon to be part of a great and mighty State--and I do not think I have to impress 1t upon you your duty to the generation that Is coming up. Nothing has pleased me as much today in coming through this country, not the soil. not the climate. nor anything as the evident care you are taking about bringing up the chill dren, I think they are of the right type, You have all got all the physical materials for a great and wonderful State, a State great in agriculture, great in industrial enterprises. But they will avail nothing unless you have in yourselves the root of the mat fer unless you are able to develop the right type of citizenship"
 The President at South McAlester. I. T., addressed the gathering as fol- lows:
 "My Friends and Fellow Countrymen: II has been a very great pleasure to come through Indian Territory today and to realize that if I am spared shall in the next year or two be greet ing Senators and Representatives in Congress from the great State of which you will be part
 Glad to See Children.
 "I am particularly glad to greet everywhere have been today so many school children. need not tell you that what really counts in any State is fron1Suuaa o,, Page FsiKht,l