Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-23
Plainly Set Forth by Pres
ident at Nashville.
Will War Against Dishonesty
and Protect the Honest.
Believes In Enforcement Of Law
Among All Glasses.

Nashville. Tenn. Oct 22-Never be-
fore was Nashville SO deliberately dec
GRATED as today to welcome President
Roosevelt Flags. banners and pictures
of the President were on almost every
house in the uptown section of the
city which was crowded with people
from radius Of a hundred miles.
The weather was cool and bright.
When the special train rolled into the
Union station it was greeted with
booming cannon and changing bells.
The procession was through streets
lined with great and enthusiastic
crowds. II was headed by the Presi-
dents carriage. in which Governor Pat
tarson and Samuel Douglass, president
Of the Board of Trade, also rode.
Near the state capitol the parade was
stopped to enable the President to view
the tomb Of President James h. Polk.
after which the march to Ryman Au-
Gitorium continued. Governor Patter-
son welcomed the President in the Au-
ditorium and the Presidents address
followed
President Roosevelt then proceeded
in an automobile to the Hermitage, the
home Of President Andrew jackson, II
mires from the city.
Light refreshments were served in
the historical dining room. The Presi-
dent visited the tomb of President
Jackson and then proceeded to the
sreak.i s stand. where he made anoth-
er 1drcss.
OH returning to the Presidents
tram at the Hermitage station. the
party stopped at the Tennessee Sol
diers' Home. The Confederate veterans
requested the Presidents autograph,
which was written in register pre-
pared for the occasion. The special
train then left for Chattanooga.
President Roosevelt in his speech at
the Auditorium, said:
There has been trouble in the stock
market: in the high financial world
during the past few months. The
statement mas frequently been made
tina; the policies for which I stand.
legislative and executive, are RESPONSE
Die for that trouble. Now, gentlemen,
these policies of mine can be summed
up in one brief sentence. They repre-
sert the effort to punish successful dis
honesty. | doubt if these policies have
had any material effect in bringing
about the present trouble, but if they
have. It will not alter in the slightest
degree my determination that for the
remaining sixteen months of my term
these policies shall be persevered in I'M
sWervinCly."
1T to arouse that type of civic man.
hood in our nation. it were necessary
to suffer any temporary commercial de-
preston. | should consider the cost but
small All we have done has been to
unearth the wrong doing 1t was NOT
the fact that it was unearthed that did
the damage. All l did was to turn on
the light. | am responsible for turn
ing on the light but I am not RESPONSE
BILE for what the light showed. 1t ia
impossible to cut out a cancer with
out making the patient feel for few
days rather scker than he felt before.
NO material well being can save this
nation Of it loses the lift towards high
or things. ! am well aware that in any
such movement as that in which we
have been engaged there are sincere
men who take advantage of the move
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