The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-26

who wore the blue in the Civil War; and respectively wish to emphasize this on behalf of my comrades of the Ma tional Guard. forming the guard of honor here today, with whom I myself went to war in 1898, There could be no better augury than that the escort of an American President should be those who once were enemies walking shoulder to shoulder.
 Rivalry to Serve Country. What a joy 1t is to think of the services of the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the grey, glo- rious record for the North and South Allusion has been made to the war of 9S, in which I had the good fortune to command regiment. Of that regi- cent the fathers of more of them wore the gray than wore the blue, but the only rivalry was to see who could do the most for their common country. have spoken all over the country. but l would not make remark here that l would not make anywhere else. am fortunate in being President of a country where to praise one State you do not have to run down any other. am for all of them. have been im- pressed not by the superficial differ ences of the people, but by the positive likenesses. The average American Is a pretty good fellow. All that is necessary for the average American of all sections to get along well Is that they should know each other.
 What is true of sections Is true of occupations and positions. Thank heaven, we are free now from all dan ger of territorial antagonisms. Now we must see that there shall never come any antagonisms of the classes or antagonisms between capital and labor. Treat each man according to his worth as a man. Hold not oer sp1 I{ hot ha iu ait rirh nj poor. But if he is rich and crooked hold 1t against him; if not rich but is crooked, then hold 1t against him. But if he is a square man, stand by him. Distrust all who would have any one class placed before any other Other republics have fallen because of url- scrupulous rich or the interruptions poor who gained ascendancy who sub stituted loyalty to class for loyalty to the people as a whole.
 Abolish the insolent and arrogance of the rich who look down upon the poor; if they lost their wealth. they would be ready to plunder the rich, and the unscruplous poor man who be- comes rich would oppress the poor. The poor man who is true to you is the ultimately righteous and the man who will steal for you will steal from you. The men who will seek to persuade you that he will benefit you by wrong ing any one else will wrong you when 1t will benefit him What we must do as a nation is to stand for the im- mutabie principles of decency and vir-s tue, regarding vice with abhorrence- If we make any artificial divisions we have done irreparable Injury to the people.
 Reference to Lynch Law.
 'tGovernor, you spoke of hideous crime that is often hideously avenged. The worst enemy of the negro race is the negro criminal, and above the ne- gro criminal of that type; for he has committed not only an unspeakaoiy hideous and infamous crime against the victim. but he has committed a hideous crime against the people of his own color and every reputable col ored man, every coiored man who wishes to see the uplifting of his race, owes it as his first duty to himself and to that race to hunt down that crimi- nal with all his soul and strength.
 Now for the side of the white man. To ayenge one hideous, crime by an- other hideous crime is to reduce the man doing it to the bestial level of the man who committed the bestial crime. The horrible effects of lynch law are shown in the fact that three-fourths of the lynchings are not for that crime at all. but for other crimes. And above all other men, Governor, you and
 
 resentatives of the law owe 1t to our law, owe to our people, to the cause of civilization and humanity to do ev- erything in our power, officially and unofficially, directly and indirectly, to free the United States from the menace and reproach of lynch law.
 "We can afford to be divided on questions of mere partisanship for comparatively the differences Of tariff and the currency are of no conse- sequence. After all the real question Is that of decency in the life of the home and honesty in public life. It makes little difference in the long run whether a Democratic or a Republican Is President, but-it makes every dif- ference to have all our public officials honest and clean. The candidate is the candidate of his party, but the President. if he Is worth his salt. is the President of the whole people.
 Decency and Cleanliness.
 r'You cannot have good public life unless you have good private life. The country will be all right If the average man Is decent and clean in his home life. but if 1t goes below that average you can't make the country right. have a great respect for a good man, and the only one have greater re- spect for is a good woman and. If there Is any one here who does not agree with me I don't think much of him.
 We young men have great herit- age in this free country of ours and let us see that we transmit 1t unim paired to our children. Let their valor and heroism in war and in peace be an incentive to greater efforts
 He closed with a tribute to the vet erans of the civil war and said: "The only people I feel as glad to see as the veterans are the fathers and mothers with babies In their arms. Arkansas has cause to feel proud of its natural resources and It's great crop is the crop of babies and those of Arkansas seem to be all right in quantity and quality. I like to see the children, for I have a few myself. See that the children are educated for citizenship in intellect and when they grow up they may have the three cardinal virtues of American citizenship-courage. honesty and com mon sense"
 The exercises in the City Park were brought to q close at t2:3O D. m, and the Presidential party was then escort ed through streets densely packed with cheering men, women and chill dren to the Arkansas Consistory, where luncheon was given. beginning at 2 o'clock p. m.
 One hundred representative men of the State sat at the tables and sev- eraI hundred others occupied balcony seats overlooking the scene. At Pres ident Roosevelts right sat Lieutenant Governor John P. Lee. United States Senators Berry and Clarke and Gen. eral Powell Clayton, former United States Ambassador to Mexico. were among those occupying seats of honor.