The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-05
ROOSEVELT PAYS TRIBUTE
 10 CONFEDERATE VETERANS
In His Address at the Auditorium the President Advocated Rapid ln- proVement of the Mississippi
 and Much Greater Navy.

l Memphis, October 4.-With bands play 1 ing, children singing and enthusiastic men shouting the slogan of deep waterways, l Memphis threw wide her gates this after
 noon to President Roosevelt, score of | governors and many other distinguished l personages from the states in the fertile Mississippi valley.
 The President arrived here on the United l States steamer Mississippi shortly after l o'clocks The bluffs overlooking the river | were packed with people, who gave the l chief executive a warm welcome. As the 1 steamer landed the whistles of all craft 1 in the harbor were sounded. Immediately | following the steamer Mississippi was the
 steamboat Alton, carrying visiting gover- | nors and other notables. When all had landed the President was conducted to Q
 carriage by Governor Patterson of Ten
 nessee and Mayor Malone of Memphis.
 and the most imposing parade ever seen | here began.
 | The President was continuously cheered | throughout the marcn. The city was l waving mass of color. not only along | the line of parade but on many other streets as well. When the Presidents l carriage turned into Main street he was | saluted by d regiment of confederate vet | tIdHS Nlb iipul tudl punt dNAeh dS h l body guard. The President arose and
 warmly greeted the grizzled warriors of 1 half century ago.
 School Children Sing. | Despite lively downpour of rain, which
 lasted until noon, the streets were damned with citizens and visitors. Passing north on Second street, 200 school children were
 seated on decorated arch and sang
 patriotic airs as the President passed | The President arose in his carriage and | bowed repeatedly to these little ones. l Arriving at the auditorium rink, where
 the deep waterways convention Is being held, President Roosevelt alignted, and 1 after chatting with several friends.
 ascended to the platform. Tie huge struc-
 ture filled up rapidly, and when Governor
 Malcolm R. Patterson of Tennessee arose
 to present the President an immense as-
 semblage greeted him.
 | President Roosevelt departed from his
 printed speech in several instances. 1 Speaking of the Confederate Guard of l honor he said 1t a touching sight | to see these old Confederate soldiers carry
 ing the flag of this great union. If | anyone wanted to know how they would 1 fight for that flag let him ask the boys | in blue how they fought against 1t. He | said. with emphasis, that he was as
 much the president of the south l as of the north and was devoted | to it's interests. He said he was half a | southerner, and when he told of two or l three of his uncles having worn the
 gray he was tremendously applauded
 Davy Crocketts Plan. l Speaking of deep water channel from 1 the gulf to the lakes the President said 1 he favored rapid improvement of the | Mississippi river Like Davy Crockett, | the great rennessean," he said, ''l favor | his motto: Be sure you are right then al,u Tar hlan1 | Is almost up to the go ahead stage, but l we want to be dead sure about it. l The Panama canal, he said, was getting
 on well and the reason it Is getting on | so well is because we did not allow our | selves to go off half-cocked. I received a telegram yesterday giving the excava- 1 tions made in the canal work for the
 month of September, and although 1 had not hoped that the record for the month of August could be exceeded. l am now told that the removal for September ex- ceeded that for the preceding month by
 POOL 900 cubic feet"
 When the canal has been completed he | said, this nation would not ask other governments to Kindly not bother the ] canal', that we would protect 1t. We must have d larger and highly efficient
 navy to patrol our coasts not only on thI Atlantic but on the Pacific" he said. "
 adjured the people to disregard pary
 lines in all purely national matters. Corporations Discussed In connection with his discussion of the corporations the President said his experience in the past few years had brought him to the point of feeling sin cere sympathy for certain gentlemen who
 are cast into a frenzy by the most com
 mon sense remarks"
 lt had come to the point where re- mark of his that honesty was the best policy is liable to lead to run on the
 banks, He did not want to punish any
 one except for wrong doing, but he would
 punish the wrongdoer who is poor, as
 freely the one who is rich
 ''l will use my utmost power to stamp
 out murderous and lawless anarchy" he declared and I will no more stay my
 hand because wrongdoer masquerades as labor leader than if he masquerades as a captain of industry. I have here tofore expressed myself on the subject of undesirable citizens and l stand by
 what l said alike when he Is a great capitalist who wins q fortune by chca-
 nery, and wrong doing and when he is
 man who. under the guise of standing
 up for labor, breaches and encourages
 violence and murder"
 When the President closed his address
 he was driven rapidly to his train at the
 Missouri Pacific railroad station and de-
 parted at o'clock for Lake Providence.
 La on a hunting trip.