Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-03
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SHIP CHANNEL UP RIVER

give, he told his hearers that the only
way to make success certain was =
prepare themselves as to
render their arguments unanswerable
The speech was greeted with pro
onged applause and this endorsement
took the shape of words when Govern
Ors Folk, Deneen and Blanchard spoke
Was This the }. $:
The Mississippi was escorted down
the river from st. Louis all the way
to Cairo by 10 other boats and it was
met early in the morning by a huge
excursion steamer from this city which
carried several hundred passengers.
also vociferous steam calliOpe which
for the time mOnopolized the nois
making on the middle stretches of the
Father of Waters.
Cairo. ILL.,. Oct 3.-President Roosc-
welt and party arrived at the wharf
boat at Q O'Clock and were Saluted
the Danville battery and hundreds oi
steamboats, and other whistles Fifty
carriages, all drawn by white horses
the party to st. Mary's park
4 squad of police and the 4th regl
ment of the Illinois National guar1
headed by the 9Th regimental band
lead the procession.
Spoke More Than an Hour.
On arrival at the park Mayor GeOrg
Parsons introduced Governor Deneer
of Illinois who addressed the people
briefly and then introduced Presiden;
who began speaking al
$40 and continued until 1880, after
which the party returned to their boats
and remained i'll port until Il O'cloci
when the fleet made the start fOl
Memphis, amid the booming of cannon
and other popular demonstrations.
Governor Introduced President.
Cairo. H., Oct 3.-The president an,
party drove to st. Mary's park wher;
an immense crowd assembled. Mayor
Parsons introduced Governor Deneer
of Illinois, who in turn INTRODUCED
President Roosevelt. who spoke as fol
lows:
Talks of Great Men.
The president first addressed him
self to the people of the vicinity o
Cairo cOmplimenting them upon thei
showing as producers of agriculture
commodities and of men who hav;
helped build up a great and gloriou.
republic. Then he devoted some tim,
to an argument for larger navy, lik
ening the nation to an individual VIII
has become great and powerful ant
yet is without means of enforcing hi
will or of defending himself if attack
ed. In this connection he said:
Let us build up and maintain at tn
highest point of efficiency the Unite
States navy. In any great war on lant
we should have to rely in the futur
as We have relied in the past chief
upon volunteer soldiers; and althOug
it is Indispensable that our little army
an army ludicrCusly small relativel
TO the wealth and population of thi
mighty nation, should itself be traine
to the highest point and should be va
ued and respected as is demanded b
the worth of the officers and enliste
men, yet it is not necessary that thi
army should be as large as compare
to the armies of other great nations
Coast Line Is Long.
But as regards the navy all this
different We have an enormous cOaS
line, and our coast line is on two greS
oceans. To repel hostile attacks tn
| Notifications, and not the navy. mu.
be used; but the best way to parry
to h4-no fight can ever be won e.
cept by hitting-and we can only h
by means of the navy. 1t is utterl
impossible to improvise even a max
shift navy under the conditions of mo-
ern warfare. Since the days of Nap
leon no war between two great power
| has lasted as long as it would take
| build a battle ship, let alone fleet
battle ships; and it takes just as lor
| to train the crew of battle ship as
does to build it; and as regards Il
most important thing of all, the trai
ing of the officers, it takes muC
longer.
"The navy must be built and all /
training given in time of peace"
Speaks of Corporations.
Then the speaker turned to the su
ject of control of corporations sayin:
Here in this country we have foun
ed a great federal democratic republi
1t is a government by and for the pc
pie and therefore a genuine democr
cy and the theory of our constitute,
is that each neighborhood shall be le
to deal with the things that conce
only itself and which it can most rea
lily deal with; so that town, count
city, and state have their respecti
spheres of duty, while the nation dea
with those matters which concern ;
of us. all of the people, no matt
where we dwell
"Our democracy is based upon t