Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-10-03

CAIRO H., Oct 3.-President
Roosevelt and party arrived here today
and were welcomed by the Danvillo
battery and hundreds of steamboat
and other whistles.
Fifty carriages drawn by white
horses conveyed the party to st.
Marks park. A squad of police and
the Fourth regiment of the Illinois ma
tional guard headed by the Fifth Regf-
mental band, led the procession. The
president was greeted by thousands OF
people, who listened to his address
with impressive attention, though fire.
quently interrupting with applause
Men of Illinois, and You, Men of Ken
lucky and Missouri:
! I am glad to have the chance to
speak to you today. This is the heart
Of what may be called the Old West,
which we now call the Middle West,
using the term to denote that great
group of rich and powerful states
which literally forms the heart of the
country, 1t is region whose people
= are distinctively American in all their
thoughts in all their ways of looking
at life; and in it's past and it's present
alike it is typical of our country. The
oldest men present can still remember
the pioneer days, the days of the
whte-tilted OK wagon, of the emigranJ,
and of the log cabin in which that en-
. igrant first lived when he settled to his
j e.,
l. rough days, days of hard work, and
the people who did that work seemed
themselves uncouth and forbidding to
visitors who could not look below the
Z surface. 1t is curious and amusing to
: think that even as genuine lover OF
y his kind, a man normally so free from
national prejudices as Charles Dick
ems, should have selected the region
y where we are now standing as the seat
of his forlorn Eden in Martin Chuz-
zlewit. The country he 50 bitterly as
sailed is now one of the most fertile
- and productive portions of one of the
:" most fertile and productive agricuI-
tural territories in all the world, and
the dwellers in this territory represent
a higher average of comfort, intelli-
gence, and sturdy capacity for self
government than the people IN any
tract of like extent in any other COM
"A tnent. The land TENS with beauty
and fertility, and but score of years
~ after Dickens wrote it was shown to be
a nursery and breeding ground OF
heroes, of soldiers and statesmen Of
the highest rank. while the rugged
Cd worth of the rank and file of the citi-
zenship rendered possible the deeds Of
the mighty men who led in council and
in battle. This was the region that
brought forth mighty Abraham Lin
coin. the incarnation OF all that is best
in democratic life; and from the loins
of the same people, living only little
farther south. sprang another of our
- greatest presidents, Andrew Jackson
u tOld Hickory"--a man who made mis-
= takes, like most strong men. but a man
of iron will and inoorruptible in
ie tegrity fearless, upright, devoted to the
= welfare OF his countrymen bone Of our
= bone and flesh of our flesh, typical
American if ever there was one
/ commend careful reading of Mar
tin Chuzzlewit to the pessimists OF to-
= day, to the men who instead of flglft~
." ing hard to do away with abuses while
at the same time losing no jot of their
buoyant hopefulness for the country,
insist that all our people. socially and
industrially. in their private lives ne
y less than as politicians, newspaper
men, are at lower ebb than ever be-
fore. If ever any one of you feels 8
- little downcast over the peculiarly
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