The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-25
TUSKEGEE WELCOME
 IS FULL OF TREVOR
Speaks From Platform Made of cotton Bales Valued at
 $3o,ooo.

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 Tuskegee October 4-fSpecial. )-Presl- dent Roosevelt and party reached Iuske- gee according to prearranged schedule promptly at S:3O o'clock this morning, and was immediately driven through town to the campus of the Alabama Conler- ence Female college where from thirty thousand dollar platform erected or cot ton bales he addressed a large crowd or citizens of Tuskegee and surrounding country.
 The path of the President from the de- pot to the college was profuseiy decor ated in national colors and on every nand he was made to feel a genuine welcome.
 Especial pains were taken with the dec- orations on the college campus and no expense was spared to render the speak- CTS stand and platform one or rare peau ty. As the Presidents carriage passed under the arch at the college gate ana up the avenue to the stand humper ol small negroes were set to picking cotton from stalks set out for that puIpoee; The President was particularly pleased with this feature of the unique arrange ments made for his entertainment during his half hour visit here.
 Lewis Welcomes President.
 Mayor O. S Lewis in d few well chosen words welcomed the President to Tuske- gee. and in passing paid a high compli- ment to the noble institution under the caves of which the President was to ad- dress the people. Following MT. Lewis speech of welcome came short address from President Roosevelt, in which he expressed his great pleasure at the cor dial reception given him and Tn ms ad- dress he paid particular attention 10 the children of the public school ana the young ladies of the college, saying among other things that "of all the crops of the country the most important of all was the crop of children" He said that the older ones would soon pass; that upon the children rested the future of the country. MT Roosevelt dwe1t largely on the sup feet of religious and civic duty ana eS- pressed particular pleasure at being re- ceived on the platform by the two preach- CTS of the Methodist and Baptist churches.
 As the President was driven from the grounds the band from Alabama Poly technic institute played Yankee Doodle breaking off into "Dixie' before the President passed out.
 The Presidents visit is an important event in the history of the town ana one long to be remembered
 Peculiar Pleasure in GreetIng
 The President said
 MT Mayor and friends and telloW Americans, it is indeed peculiar pleas ire to be here this morning and be greet ed as you have greeted me- MT Mayor, I feel that those gathered here to greet me symbolize what we most like to thihk of as a typical American and our national life When you brought me here, MT. Mayor I was met on the platlorm py the pastors of the Methodist ana baptisI churches in the shade of an institution of higher learning, in the presence ol these students and of the children ol the public schools, while at the same time see the industries of the nation typinea hoth by cotton being picked as l came m and also by the fact that l am speak ing on the most valuable platform nave ever spoken on, and finally nave us guest of honor members or the hatlo'iai guard who as l look at them leel Una they are my own comrades, TOT they are inst the type I had in my own regiment in the Spanish war
 ""These elements, as l say, typily Wha. we hone and believe are the elemants representing what is most vital m Amer ican life the deep religious feeling or our neople the understanding of our peoplc that material prosperity amounts to i nothing if behind it and under 1t there 1 IS not the spiritual sense, the sense or moral obligation. the fealty to an iueai ai, inc realization that in addition to that vou must have as the foundation or national prosperity, industry, energy and thrift and the fruits of that industry, energy and thrift, devotion to the arts and practices of peace. devotion to CIVIC 1 duty and yet the readiness Of the man who does his duty in civil life to do 1t Tn d military life if ever the need arises ana finally the recognition of the fact that 1 though a great many crops are impor- | tant the most important crop is the crop l of children that the one thing this na- ton cannot afford to neglect is the edu- cation of the nation of the future. You 1 Mir Mayor, I, all of us here, will pass away and the nation of the future Will rise higher or higher. or not Just as the boys and girls of the present are and are not trained to do their duty as men and wom- en- So I take a particular pleasure in being here and greeting the children of the public schools and those past child hood. for studying in this college itself.
 Good Men and Women.
 "The one all-essentia thing in America, the thing that underles everything else, Is to have the average American good 1 man, or a good woman and II there IS ! any one thing that l respect more than | a good man, 1t is a good woman. l think 1 she is just a trife more useful and she has harder time in life, and she Is a | little more entitled to our respect thar even the best man. And there is not a man here who is worth his salt, who does not agree with me Of course, it Is a mere trueism to say that ultimate factor
 in determining the welfare Of the na- ton, is the life of home; that is. the way in which the ordinary man, the ordinary | woman, performs his or her ordinary duties of the most sacred and intimate kind, if the man is good father, a good husband. if he is decent and clean in his domestic life; If he does his duty by his nighbor; if he is the kind of a man whom are glad to have neigh Dor, that man is all right, he is going to be a good citizen.
 "It is just the same with women. If the woman is a good wife, and mother she is a good citizen. and not merely a | good citizen, but she Is the very kind of citizen that this country can pro- duce What we need Is not the desire to perform the heroic duties under all together exceptional circumstances but the steadfast determination to perform the rather commonplace duties of every day. day by day as, they arise. speaking broadly. the man who does that is the man whom you can trust If the need for l heroism arises
 Is Not Kindness.
 Each boy here should remember that the way to fit yourself to be of the ut most possible use. is to act so that your family likes to have you at home, in stead of feeling relief when you are gone: it is the same with the girl We