The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1905-05-10
PRESIDENT ON IRRIGATION

fMOlULlu WN INNIuhllUM
CHIEF EXECUTIVE coMGRATu.
LATES PEOPLE OF NEBRASKA.
, DISAPPOINTMENT AT OMAHA
Train Sent From Fremont to Cross
River at Blair and Then Speeds
Across Iowa Homeward Bound
Met by Cheering Crowds.
Omaha, May lott. was decided to
change the route of the presidential
train and send it across the Missouri
river at Blair, Neb., twenty-five miles
north of Omaha. When the train
reached Fremont it was turned over to
the Northwestern road, which took
the train across the cutoff to Missouri
Valley, Ia, where the main line
branches off and runs direct to Chi
cago. Quite large crowd had gath
cred at the Union station in this city
in the hope of securing glimpse of
/ the president. Upon learning of the
! change CT route they waited for the
special train, which arrived at 10:30,
! highly decorated, and with the presi.
dents car missing
| - The Northwestern sent a pilot train
! out Of Omaha at $50 p. m. to Mis-
+; souri, Valley, Ia, where it met the
i presidents special and took it east.
The trip across Nebraska was
most pleasant one for the president.
Several speechs, all brief, were deliv-
| cred by the president from the rear
| platform of his car.
Talks on Irrigation at North Platte.
The president spoke longest at
| North Platte, where he said:
I "This is the third time in recent
years have been in North Platte, and
| it is peculiar pleasure to be with
| you once again. This neighborhood is
one of the pioneer spots of the west in
| irrigation. 1t was your good fortune
to lead in showing just what could be
done by means of irrigation for the
! prosperity of this country. Nothing
will count more in the next half CEN
tury in building up the United States
than what is done in irrigation. am
particularly glad to see all of you
here, but especially the children.
heartily believe in you people, and
am glad that the stock is kept up.
| Although | congratulate Nebraska on
| many crops, the best crop of all is the
| crop of citizens. What counts in any
nation more than anything in the end
Is the average of the citizenship
Here, as everywhere else in the west,
] see men who wear the button that
shows that they fought in the great,
civil war. In the civil war the win
ming or losing of that fight depended
upon the average quality of the aver
age soldier. We saved the nation be-
cause the average man was of the
right stamp So it. is in civil life.
The one thing that we have got to
have is the average man and the aver
age woman of the. right type And
you cannot have that If you do not
have the children taken care of and
trained up as they should be. So
congratulate you of Nebraska upon
your school system and your family
life as being the two things that
count most in training up the children
OF the present to be the men and
women of the future. Success for any
community, and therefore success for
the nation, means success in having
the average family the kind of family
that it should be. We need material
prosperity. We must have that as
the foundation, but upon it we must
build the structure of happy family
life In order to make the nation what
1t should be. Two years ago went
from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
have just been a little while ago down
In Texas. as | had been previously In
Maine and Oregon, and there is one
thing that strikes me more than any
thing else in going through this won
derful country of ours, and that Is
that fundamentally wherever you adj
dress crowd of Americans. it is a
pretty decent crowd"
Train is on Time.
Despite the rain 5000 people had
gathered at the Union Pacific depot at
Grand Island to see and hear Presi-
dent Roosevelt. The pilot train ar
vided at 6:10 and promptly at the min
ute the presidential train pulled into
the station. The president, smiling
and happy, was out upon the rear plat
form and lost no time in greeting the
Nebraskans gathered there. He had
already begun to address the throng
when Miss Anna Garmire and the
members of the high school gradual.
ing class worked their way through !.
the crowd and presented the president
with fine bouquet of roses and East
err lilies on behalf of the business men
of Grand Island and the schools, He
expressed his appreciation, especially
as coming from the school children.
venturing the assertion that he need
not call attention to his fondness
for school children. After referring