The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-10-03
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ON live ISSUES
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Goes to Tennessee
Y. Tomorrow

CAIRO, H., oct. S.-The Presidents
trip from St. Louis down the Missis.
( SssipDt 10 Cairo was one of ovations all
d along The. line. He arrived here at
nine a m, and was driven from tine
wharf to St. Mary's Park. where May.
or George Parsons introduced Gov.
Z Dersen, who in turn introduced Presi.
dent Roosevelt. After speaking the
President left for Memphis. In his
saddress the President said:
ateu u !linois, and You, Men OF Ken
tilckyful Missouri.
i amt sled 70 have the chance to
speak to you to-day. This Is the heart
Z OF what may be called the Old West.
which We now call the Middle West.
using theS term TO denote that great
group Of rich and powerful States
Which literally forms the heart Of the
country. It IS region whose people
ssare dlstinctlveIy American In all their
thoughts, in all their ways of looking
Lat life: and in its past and It's present
alike 1t is typical OF our country. The
s-oldest men present can still remember
the pioneer days, the days of the
whlte;tilted OK wagon, of the emigrant
and Of the log cabin in which tnat emil.
z grant first lived when he settled to
his task rs a pioneer farmer. They
were rough days, DAYS of hard worl
and the people who did that worl;
Z seemed themselves .uncouth and for
bidding to visitors who could not look
below the surface. 1t Is curious and
: amusing 10 think that even rs GEM.
inc a lover of his kind. a man norma!-
Z ly so free, from national prejudices as
4 Charles Dickens. should have select.
Z ed the region where we are now stanj.
ing as the seat OF his forlorn eden"
in. Martin Chuzzlewit. The country
he SO bitterly assailed is now one of
3 the most fertile and productive Dor.
tions of one Of the most fertile and
productive agricultural territories in
all the world. and the dwellers in this
TERRITORY represent HIGHER average
OF comfort, intelligence and sturdy
capacity for self.goyernment than the
people in any tract of like extent In
{ any other continent The land teens
] with beauty and fertility. and but n
score of years after Dickens wrote !,
was shown to be nursery and breed.
ing ground of heroes of soldiers anil
ii statesmen of the highest rank. Will.
the rugged worth of the rank and file
Of the citizenship rendered possib,c
the deeds OF the mighty men who tof
in council and In battle This was the
region that brought forth mighty
Abraham Lincoln the incarnation of
nil that is hest In democratic life.
and from the lolns Of the same people
I living only little farther south
spranc another OF our greatest pre,,.
dents Andrew Jackson "old Hickory"
e "a man who made mistakes like most
strong men. but a man of iron will
and incorruptible integrity fearless
3 upright devoted to the welfare of his
countrymen. borne of our bone and
flesh Of our flesh. a typIcaI American
I IL ever there J. as one.
Advice TO pessimists.
commend careful reading of Mar.
lin ckuzzlewit TO the nessimlsts of IN.
day, to the men who. instead of fight.
ing hard TO do away with abuses Will,
4 at the same time losing no lot of their
5buoyant hopefulness for the country.
Insist that all our peopfe socially and
sindustrially, in their private lives no
less than as politicians, newspaper