The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-10-11
WATERWAYS
ROOSEVELT RECEIVES HEARTY
WELCOME AT ST. LOUIS.
ADDRESSES AUDIENCE OF 5000
Men and Women In Jai AIal Cheer
as He Declares the Deepwater
Way q National Affair.

A'heSNp oiu itS COIldT anu ueCklLS
soaked by the rain which beat on him
during his five-mile drive In an open
carriage, President Roosevelt spoke to
an audience of 5000, more than half
OF them women, in the Jai Alai build
ing Wednesday.
The president declared 1t the ma
lions duty to restore the Mississippi
river to Its proper place as a great
artery OF commerce, and termed the
proposed deep channel to the gulf "a
national task" He warned against
plans which might entail reckless ex-
~travagance or be tainted with job
berry,"
He followed with the statement that
the Panama canal would be dug within
five or six years MORE, and with the
declaration that the United States
needs a great fighting navy"
President Roosevelt in his speech
reaffirmed his belief that the Missis.
sippi river was soon to resume its
place as one of the nations great ar
teries Of m of the country.
He declared it the nations duty to
do its share in making a channel which
will accommodate the craft, and In
building the levees to protect 1t and
the lands through which the river
flows.
He said that our world position de-
manded that we maintain a great fight
Ing navy, our present one being elel
mentary.
The president closed his address
with a strong plea for an interpreta-
ton of the constitution along lines de-
manded by the present condition Of
industrial Capitalization. He upheld
the right of the nation to control not
only interstate railways, but corpora
lions engaging in interstate business.
This he declared to be the greatest
economic question of the times. He
commended this control was not the
province of the individual states.
Goes After the Trusts.
He then gave more than half OF
the $500 words Of his address to the
trust question, or, as he termed 1t,
the problem Of regulating interstates.
business.
OF the constitution and the govern.
ment's powers over interstate bust
ness, the president said:
Il believe that the nation has the
whole governmental power over inter-
state commerce and the widest dis
erection in dealing with that subject;
of course under the express limits
| prescribed in the constitution for the
exercise Of all powers, such for in
stance as the condition that due pro-
cess of law shall not be denied. The.
nation has no direct power over the
purely intrastate commerce, ever
where 1t is conducted by the same
agencies which conduct interstate
commerce.
The president and the escort of
governors and st. Louis citizens rode
from the levee to the Jai Alai building
through q rain which commenced a
few minutes after the arrival of the
presidential flagship Mississippi at the
wharf.
The governors put up the tops Of
their carriages, but the president
would not have the top of his car.
riage, the first in the line raised. He
stood in the carriage, his collar I'M
protected by his raincoat, and let the
rain fall alternately on his silk hat
and on his head, which he repeatedly
barred as the throng along the route
cheered him.
Gov. Folk, in introducing the presi
dent, joked about the drenching the.
parade got, and then in seriousness
turned to President Roosevelt, Of
whom he spoke as the ideal executive
a man whose principles result in obed
fence to the laws and in equal righta
to all.
81 introduce to you," he said, in con
clusion, President Roosevelt, patriot.
American and man."
After the speech the president start.
ed on his drive to Hotel Jefferson, the
place selected for the luncheon in his
honor and that Of the visiting govern
ors. The plan for the banquet provided
for no speeches by anyone.
The presidents departure by the
river, at the foot of Olive street, tooh
place at 8 p. m, following a ride along
Washington avenue, Broadway and
Pine street to the levee.
Gen. Wallace,s Widow Dead.