Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1907-10-04
PRAISES MIDDLE WEST.
Many Nice Things Said Abou,
People at Cairo.
ARE TRULY AMERICANS.
After a Delightful Trip Down Father
OF Waters the President Addresssa
Tremendous Coneourse at Southern
Illinois City.

Cairo. m. Oct 3.-when President
Roosevelt stepped on shore at 2 o'clock
Thursday morning from the steamboat
Mississippi he gave every evidence o.
having spent a good night He retired
at midnight and there was little distur
bance Of his slumbers except two or
three demonstrations. which. though
violent. were brief
There was vast throng AZ the
landing TO greet the president and par.
~. and great was the cheering En-.
tering carriages the distinguished
visitor was driven 10 81. Mary's park.
where nm immense gathering wa In
waiting When the chief executive
mounted the platform the applause
was deafering
In well chosen words Governor
Deneen introduced the president
Mayor Parsons having first introduced
the Illinois executive
Men Of Illinois and YOU men OF Ken.
tucky and Missouri was the sllufa.
ton Mr Roosevelt employed in bis
opening remarks Re asserted thai
this Is region where the people are
distinc'ively American in an ther
thoughts in all their ways az iookin
% life. and IN its past and its present
alike Il Is typical Of our country. III
Oldest men present can still rcmew.
ber the pi1recr days the days Of the
white-tilted OK wagon. of the emigrnut
and of the log cabin in which that omt
grant first lived when he settled o.
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 for.
bidding 'p visitors who could not lool,
below '' surface. II Is curious and
smuslnr o think that even as genuine
n lover 90 his kind. man normally 50
free from national prejudices es
Charles Dickens. should have selected
the region where we are now standing
as the scat Of his forlorn Eden iu
Martin Chuzzlewit The country he SO
bitterly assalled Is now one OF thu
most fertile and productive portions
of the one OF the most fertile and
productive agricultural territories In
all the world. and the dwellers In this
territory represent a higher average oi
comfort intelligence. and sturdy ca.
parity FOR self-government than the
people in any tract Of like eNten, In
any othe: continent. The land teens
with beauty and fertility. and hut a
score OF years after Dickens wrote II
was shown TO be a nursery and breed.
ing grouni ~ heroes. of soldiers and
statesmen Of the highest rank. while
the rugged worth Of the rank and file
OF the citizenship rendered possible
the deeds Oi the mighty men who led
In council aad in battle This was the
region that brought forth mighty Abra.
ham Lincoln. the incarnation ~ all
that l. best In democratic life: and
from the loins of the same people, liy.
Ing only little farther south. sprang
another of our creates president,
Andrew Jackson. "Old Hickory
man who made mistakes. like most
strong men. but man of iron will
and incorruptihle integrity. fearless
upright. devoted 20 the welfars OF his
countrymsn. bone Of our bone and
flesh OF our flcshr. a typical American
n ever there was one
commend careful reading ~
Martin ChrzElewit 10 the pessimists %
today. to the men who. instead OF fight
ing hard to do away with abuses while
AZ the same time losing no jot ~ their
huoyant hcTefulness for the country.
insist that all our people. socially and
industrially. In their private lives no
less than as politicians, newspaper
men. and business men. are AZ a lower
ehh than ever before, II ever any one
- YOU feels a little downcast over the
peculiarly gloomy view of the present
taken by - me wcll.meaning pessimis'
OF today. you will find Il a real comfort
20 read Martin Chu~-'Nwit 20 see what
n wellmcanin - the past
thought cf our .'. siVt,.iivs years
agn. and then think of the extraordt
nary achievement, the extraordinary
gain. morally no less than materially.
Of those si,tv.five wears.