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President Would Treat All vi0-
Iat0rs of Law Alike.
SYMPATHY FOR "JINGOES'

Mr.. Roosevelt Says They Fear Run Or
Banks When He Declares Honesty
IL the Best PoIicy-off On Hunting
Trip.
Memphis, Tenn, Oct. with bands
playing, children singing and enthusi-
astic men shouting the slogan OF deep
waterways. Memphis threw wide her
gates to President Roosevelt, score
OF governors and many other dlstln-
xuished personages in the Mississippi
Valley.
When all had landed, the president
was conducted to carriage by Gov
ernor Patterson, of Tennessee, and
Mayor Malone, of Memphis, and the
most imposing parade ever given here
was begun The president was con-
tinuously cheered throughout the
march. When the presidents carriage
turned into Main street he was saluted
by q regiment of confederate veterans,
who thereafter acted as bodyguard.
Arriving at the Auditorium rink,
where the deep waterways convention
n holding, President Roosevelt al1ght
ed, chatted with several friends and as
cended the platform. The huge struc-
ture filled up rapidly, and, when Gov
ernor Malcolm Patterson rose to pre-
sent the president, an immense assem-
blage greeted them.
Speaking of a deep water channel
from the gulf to the lakes, the pres1-
dent said he favored rapid improve
ment of the Mississippi river.
Like Davy Crockett, the great Ten
nessean," he said, 81 favor his motto,
BE sure you are right. then go ahead,
and this deep water problem is almost
I'D to the go ahead stage, but we want
to be sure about it,
The Panama canal, he said. was get
ting on well, "and the reason it is get
ting on so we'll is because we did not
allow ourseles to go off half cooked
When the canal has been completed,
he said, this nation would not ask
other governments kindly not TO
bother the canal" that we would pro-
tect It.
1--WE must have larger and highly
efficient navy to patrol our coasts, not
only on the Atlantic, but on the Paci-
fic," he said
He urged the people to disregard
party lines in all purely national al
fairs
In connection with his discussion
of corporations, the president said his
experience in the last few years had
brought him to the point of feeling
sincere sympathy for certain persons
who were cast into a frenzy by the
most common-sense remarks.
1t had come to the point where re-
mark of his that honesty was the best
policy was likely to lead to run on
the banks He did not want to punish
anyone except for wrong doing: but
he would punish the wrong doer who
was poor as freely as the one who was
rich.
"I will use my utmost power to
stamp out murderous and lawless an
archy," he declared, land l will no
more stay my hand because a wrong.
doer masquerades as labor leader
than IL he masquerades as captain OF
industry I have heretofore expressed
myself on the subject of undesirable
citizens, and l stand by what l said;
alike when he is great capitalist who
wins fortune by chicanery. and wrong
doing, and when he \ is man, who,
under the guise of standing up for
labor, breaches and encourages vio-
lence and murder"
When the president closed his adj
dress, he was driven rapidly to his
train and departed for Lake Provi-
dence, Ia, for a hunting trip.