Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-10-04
President Hammers Home His
Argument for Broad Super
vision of the Interstate Rail-
roads by the Nation
HOLDS SOCIAL REFORM THE
PREVENTIVE OF SOCIALISM
Constructive Change Offers the
Best Method of Avoiding De-
structive Change-The Cos
pei of the 0ptimiSt,

JCl VI tllG ORlllIllol
Cairo, H., oct 3.-President
Roosevelt and party arrived at the
Cairo wharf at o'clock this morning
and were Immediately conveyed in
carriages to St Mary's park. Cover
nor Dineen OF Illinois introduced
President Roosevelt, who began
speaking at 9:40 and continued until
1850. The party then returned to the
boats. and shortly after the start was
made for Memphis. over ten thou
sand people heard the presidents ad-
dress in the park, and the crowd
would have been much larger had not
the arrival of many excursion trains
been delayed The president said:
The Presidents Address.
Men of Illinois. and You, Men Of Ken
Ky and Missouri
am glad to haY ,ne 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 10 denote that great
group of rich and powerful states
which literally forms the heart of the
country. 1t is a region whose people
are distinctively American in all their
thoughts, In all their ways of looking
at life; and in It's past and its pres
ent alike il Is typical of our country.
The oldest men present can stiil re-
member the pioneer days, the days or
the white-tilted OK wagon, Of the emf
grant and of the log cabin ia which
hiat emigrant irst lived when he set
tied 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
forbldding to visitors who could not
look below the surface IL is curious
nj n, tn think that even
as genuine lover of his kind, man
normally SO free from national preju-
dlces as Charles Dickens. should have
selected the region where we are now
standing as the seat of his forl0rn
Eden" in Martin ChuZzlewit The
country he so bitterly assailed is now
one Of the most fertile and productive
agricultural territories in all the
world. and the dwellers In this terri
tory represent a higher average OF
comfort intelligence and sturdy capa-
city for self-government than the peo-
pie in any tract of like extent in any
other continent The land teens with
beauty and fertility, and but score
of years after Dickens wrote it was
shown TO be a nursery and breeding
ground Of heroes. soldiers and states
men OF the highest rank, while the
rugged worth of the rank and file oi
the citizenship rendered possible the
deeds Of mighty men who led in cou1-
ell and in battle. This was the req
that brought forth mighty Abrah n
Lincoln. the incarnation Of all that is
best in democratic life. and from ie
ioins Of the same people, living onlA n
little farther south, sprang another oi
our greatest presidents. Andrew jack
son. "Old Hickory man VINO
made mistakes. like most strong men
but a man of iron Will and moor
ruptible integrity, fearless. upright
,-evoted To the welfare of his cOun-
trymen. bone Of our flesh and flesh OF
our flesh, a typical American II ever
there was one
The Gospel of Optimism.
I commend careful reading OF
Martin Chuzzlewit TO the pessimists OF
today. to the men who. instead OF
fighting hard 10 do away with abuses
while at the same time losing no lot
Of their buoyant hopefulness for the
country. insist that all our people. so
cially and industrially In their prl-
Vate lives no less than as politicians
newspaper men. and business men,
are al "A lower ebb than ever before
n ever any one Of YOU teels little
dnwncast over the particularly gloomy
view of the present taken by some
well meaning pessimist Of today, you
will find t A real comfort 10 read
Martin Chuzzlewit. to see Mhat
thought Of our people siNty-five years
ago. and then think Of the eNtraordl-
main. morally no less than materially,
Of these sixty-five years. Dickens can
b. read By us now with proht' Elilan
Program Hannibal ChOllOp. Jefferson
Brick and 9cadder have their repre-
seniatives today. plenty of them; ana
the wise thing for us 10 do D. 10 recus-
nize that these are still types OF eNll
in politics. Journalism, business ana
private life. and 20 war against them
with an our hearts But it is rank
folly 10 regard these as the only, OF
the chief types in our national NE
n was not of much consequence
whether Dickens made such an error
or not but @ would BE- of great con-
sequence N We ourselves do; Tor
foolish nezsIimism is an even greater
foe Of healthy national growth than
foolish optimism. II was not that
Dickens invented characters or scenes
that had no basis On fact. on the con-
frarv. what he said was true. az far
as ID went the trouble was that out
81 many such half truths BE- maoe
picture which a. a whole was absurd
for often a half truth D. the most dan
Rnrous fa1sehnod 10 would b. -lWl-
plv silly 20 b. angry over Mattlh
f-huzzlewff- on the contrary read ii.
be amused by g. profit By H; ana
don't be- mlsied by O. Keep nNeA
watch aaHfnsf the present naf ffp-
grams and Bricks; but above all
trust the man who would Nef-ualt
you 10 feel downhtarted aunut lnt
country because ~ these same TO
grams and Bricks. past ~ pfe7ent
Il would b. foolish 10 ignore their eN-