Arizona republican., 1907-10-04

Cairo, H., Oct. 3.-The flotilla con- veying President Roosevelt and the deep water ways commission to Mem phis arrived here in the night. The president and his party came ashore this morning. The president was warmly greeted by throngs gathered from southern Illinois, northwestern Kentucky and eastern Missouri. He addressed a monster audience saying: Men of Illinois. and You. Men of
 Kentucky 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. It is region whose people are distinctively American in all their thoughts, in all their ways of looking at life: and in its past and present alike it is typical of our country. The oldest men present can still remember the pioneer days, the days of the white tilted OK wagon. of the emigrant. and of the log cabin in which that emigrant first lived when he settled to his task as a pioneer farmer. They were rough days, days of hard work, and the people who did that work seemed themselves uncouth and forbidding to visitors who could not see below the surface.
 THE SAME OF MARTIN cHUZ-
 ZLEWIT.
 Tt is curious and amusing to think that even as genuine a lover of his kind, man normally so free from national prejudices as Charles Dick ems, should have selected the region where We are now standing as the seat of his forlorn Eden" in Martin ChUZ- zlewit- The country he so bitterly as- sailed is now one of the most fertile and productive portions of one of the most fertile and productive agricul- 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 con- tinent. The land teens with beauty and fertility, and but a 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 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.
 SOME IMMORTAL PRODUCTS.
 This was the region that brought forth mighty Abraham Lincoln, the incarnation of all that is best in dem- ocratic life; and from the Joins of the same people living only a little farth- CT south. sprang another of our great est presidents, Andrew Jackson. "Old Hickory"-a man who made mistakes. like most strong men, but a man of iron will and incorruptible integrity, fearless, upright, devoted to the wei fare of his countrymen. bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, a typical American if ever there was one.
 "I commend a careful reading of Martin ChuZzlewit to the pessimists of today. to the men who, instead of fighting hard to do away with abuses while al the same time losing no jot of their buoyant hopefulness for the country. insist that all our people, so- cially and industrially, in their private lives no less than as politicians, news paper men and business men, are at a lower ebb than ever before. If ever any one of you feels a little downcast over the peculiarly gloomy view of the