The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-10-27
IN ALABAMA
THE PRESIDENT NET MOST
HEARTY RECEPTIONS.
Roosevelt's Speeches Contain Worde
Which Tend to Weld the North
and South and to Advance
Higher Citizenship.

each other today in giving President
Roosevelt the most hearty welcome OF
his southern tour. At Birmingham the
largest crowds he has yet seen in the
land OF cotton jammed the streets, the
park and the fair grounds to pay him
homage. Montgomery, where he spoke
from the steps Of the old capitol of the
contederacy, could not muster as many
enthusiastic friends, but what there
greeting for their lack of numbers.
Tuskegee gave the President most
unique entertainment at the Normal
School and Industrial Institute con-
Quoted by Booker r. Washington.
There were 1,500 colored boys and
girls marched before him and present.
ed parade of floats representing oil
day life. While at the school the Pres
ident rode in carriage made by the
students, inspected buildings construct
ed by their hands and rode over a por-
ton of the 2,300-acre farm that they
cultivate. Before leaving he told Mr..
Washington that he was amazed at the
progress his students show in every
branch of eadeavor.
Tomorrow the President will visit
Memphis and Little Rock and on the
following day will end his southern
tour at New Orleans, where he is
sche duled to take a warship for Wash
ington.
There is just the bare possibility that
the quarantine against New Orleans
will be raised by Mississippi. If it is
the President may change his plans ana
return to the national capital by rail.
The President said at Birmingham in
part:
Think what 1t means for our ma
ton to have the President of the United
States greeted as he has been today
with on his right and his left hand.
as the guard of honor, the veterans of
the civil war, the men who wore the
blue, the men who wore the gray, unit
ed forever.
81 have some of my comrades Of the
lesser war here to greet me also. Our
war was not a very big war, but it was
all the war there was, and we had TO
do the best we could with it. All we
hope is that we showed ourselves not
wholly unworthy of you of the mighty
days
'As came up the street there moth
ing pleased me as much as the sight of
the school children drawn up alongside
the line of march, Remember that we
leave this country in the hands of the
children of today, and that the Ameri+
can of tomorrow will be what we train
the boy or girl to be. 1t Is q mere
truism to say that If the children are
not we'll educated, If they are not
brought up as they should be, the state
will go uown. We of this generation
have received a splendid heritage from
you men of the years of 80 to '65.
Honor to us if we treat your great
deeds as spurring us onward, and
shame to us If we treat your great
deeds as excuses for our own idleness
or folly.
When | speak of education, don't
mean only education in intelligence;
that counts tremendously, but educa-
ton in character counts more. 1t is
character that determines the nations
progress in the long run"
At Montgomery the President said in
part:
I 81 cannot sufficiently express the
pleasure feel in being here and in be-
ing greeted with the more than lavish
wealth OF hospitality as you have
greeted me. My friends and fellow cit
izens, think what privilege ours is!
Think what 1t means for this nation
that there is no place in this Union
where the President of the United
States can feel more at home, can feel
more he's the President of all the ma
ton, a knitted and indissoluble union,
than here under the shadow of the
| first capital of the Confederacy. Here
| have come to your mighty and beau-
ture, its wealth of manufactures, and
more than ever am impressed by the
solidarity of our interests as people.
"As the governor pointed out, the
greatest and most important single ex-
port OF our people is the export of cot
ton. That Is the most important crop
among our exports, and the whole ma,
ton is concerned in the welfare of the
cotton growers, 1t is not only impor-.
tant for Alabama and the rest of the
gulf states; 1t is important for the en-
tire Union, because 1t is the cotton crop
which determines the balance of trade
as being In favor of this nation. The
business of any mart of this nation ia
the business of the entire nation, and
the national government Is bound to do
everything 1t can in the interest of the
cotton growers to preserve your mar
kets, to do everything that can possi-
bly, be done to see that the natural de-
mand for cotton abroad is kept up and
is met here under fair conditions by
our own people, Perhaps no state In
the Union Is more interested than this
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