The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-10-03
THE PRESIDENT
IN IOWA TO-DAY
ROOSEVELT GREETED AT kEo-
kuK BY GREAT CROWD.
COMPLIMENTS TO THE STATE,
People Of Hawkeye Commonwealth
Are Typical American citlxens
"Trip Down the Great
River is Started.

| Keokuk, Ia, Oct. l. President
Roosevelt arrived here at 9:05 this
morning and was greeted by lavish
decorations of flags and bunting all
over the city. Thousands of people
from neighboring towns in great
throngs packed the streets to see the
president, especially along the route
from the depot to the Rand Park,
where he delivered the speech of the
day. The President was surrounded
by children singing national airs. The
PERCEPTION compittee was composed OF
Governor Cummins, the mayor of the
city, and other distinguished citizens
of the state. At Rand Park Roosevelt
was met by members of the inland
waterways commission, who will ac-
company him down the Mississippi.
| The President arrived at the Wa
bash depot and the grand parade was
formed immediately after his arrival.
The pageant moved from Union sta
ton to the foot of Main street thence up
Main street to Eleventh street, thence
on Eleventh street to Grand avenue,
thence on Grand avenue to Rand park.
The President spoke from a platform
erected just south OF the flower gar
| den.
After the speaking the line of march
commenced in the park and proceed.
ed down Grand avenue to Fourth
street, thence OH Fourth street to Full
ton street, thence on Fulton street to
Third street, thence on Third street
to Main street, thence on Main street
to Water street and thence to the
lower lock, the place from which the
President embarked. t-
The President and party go down
the river on the steamers Mississippi
and the Col. Mckenzie.
The triumphal trip down the Missis-
sippi to st. Louis began at IL o'clock
this morning. Steamers of all de-
scriptions with flags of all colors fiut
tering in gentle breezeS presented a
grand sight as the bright sunbeams
fell upon them. A more beautiful
scene has never been witnessed here.
I he patriotic feelings of the spectators
on the banks bubbled over with joy
as the parade of boats with the Mis-
sissippi leading started to move down
the great river, The cheering of the
people ashore and the whistling of the
oats was deafening. President Roose-
welt was greatly impressed by the
scene. The party expects to arrive in
st. Louis at 9:45 tomorrow morning.
The Presidents Address.
Men and Women of Iowa:-I am
glad indeed to see you and to speak to
you in this thriving city of your great
and prosperous state. / believe with
all my heart in thef people of Iowa,
for | think that you are good, typical
Americans, and that among you there
has been developed to q very high de-
gree that body of characteristics we
| like to regard as distinctively Ameri-
can.
During the last few years we of the
| United States have been forced to con-
slider very seriously certain economic
problems. We have made a beginning
| in the attempt to deal with the rela-
tions of the national government
| that is, with the relations of the peo-
pie of the country-to the huge and
wealthy corporations, controlled for
the most part by few very rich men
which are engaged in interstate bust
ness-especially the great railway cor.
1 nnrntinnG Won EnnNu INV uinUG
this matter. You know that believe
that the national government, in the
interests of the people, should assume
much the same supervision and con
troll over the management of the inter
state common carriers that it now eX
ercises over the national banks. You
know furthermore that l believe that
this supervision and control should be
exercised in a spirit of rigid fairness
toward the corporations, exacting jus
tice from them on behalf of the PEG
pie but giving them justice in return
No Alarm in Situation.
Recently / have been reading the
work of the eminent Italian scholar
| Ferrero on the history of the Roman
Republic, when the life of the Roman
state had become that of complies
and luxurious industrial civilization.
am happy to say that the differences
between that civilization and our owT
are more striking than the resem
blances; and there is no warrant fol
our being drawn into any pessimistit
comparison between the two civiliza
tons. But there is every reason why
we should study. carefully the past ii
order to draw from it lessons for use
in the present. One of the most strik
ing features of the years which saw
the downfall of the Roman Republic
was the fact that the political life o
Rome became split between tive
camps, one containing the rich who
wished to exploit the poor, and thu
other the poor who wished to plundel
the rich. Naturally, under such cir
cumstances, the public man who wa!
for the moment successful tendeG t
be either a violent reactionary or /;
violent demagogue. Any such condi
ton of political life is as hopelessl.
unhealthy now as it was then. ! be
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