Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-10-04
COURAGE MUST NOT Be QUESTIONED
while Seeking to Avoid War, Other
Nations Should Not BE Allowed to
Think We Arc rlmla-Araumen. for
Federal Control of Corporations
Continued in Cairo Speech.
lby Assoclatod preaa.l

n
Roosevelt ana party arrived NJ tha
Cniro wharf boat promptly M q
O'Clock and We're saMted hy the Dan.
v'lie battery. and tho whistles of
hundreds of steamboats,.
Tho party was met by tho recan.
uon committee hended by Mnvnr
NroIse PARSONS and fifty carringes
uH drawn by white horses, conyeved
mem along the line OF march In at.
n,'urys fark. squad OF police md
.ne rour,h regiment of Illinols Mn.
tlonal Guard headed by the Fifth reg.
mental band, led the procession.
oh arriving Mt the park Mayor Par.
son introduced Governor Dencen. who
nuuressed the people briefly and then
introduced the President, who began
s sng ut 9:4O and continued until
/Later the party returned 70 mo
hoats and remained in pourt ,nt,, ' 10
O'Clock when the fleet started for
MemphiH amid the booming of can.
lions. iINf .'''
Over 10000 people listened to the
ar9s,uent's address. ovation after
ovation was given the rresident
m saiuted by Children.
Two thousand school children nm
ph'iorms saluted the PresIdent'a mar.
ty. par
full below: % Sven -
Men of Illinois, and you, men of
Nentucky and Missouri am glad
w. y, nave tne chance to speak to you to.
uuS' ihis Is the heart of what NAV
now call the Middle West. uslng tho
term to denote that great rroIn nf
rich aud powerful states which literal.
~ forms the heart OF the country. 1t
IS region whose people are .iis.
t.hotively American In all thor
thoughts, In all their ways of looking
NJ HE; and In Its past and ita pres-
ent life 1t is TYPICAL of our country.
inc Oldest men present can still re-
member the pioneer days, the dave or
the white-tilted OK wagon, of the emf
grant and of the log cabin In which
mat emigrnnt first lived when he set.
lied TO his task as pioneer farmer.
Ihey were rough days, days of hard
work ana the people who did that
WORK seemed themselves uncouth and
iorDidding to visitors who could not
look below the surface. 1t is curious
and amusing to think that even ma
genuine lover Of his kind. n man
normally so free from national preju.
dices as Charles Dickens, should have
selected the region where We are now
standing ms the seat OF his forlorn
Eden" in Martin Chuzzlewit. Tho
country he so bitterly assailed is now
one of the most fertile and productive
portions OF one of the most fertile ann
productive agricultural territories In
ali the world, and the dweliers I'm
this territory represent q higher aver
age of comfort. intelligence and sturdy.
capacity for self-government than the
people in any tract of like extent IL
any other continent. The land teens
with beauty and fertility, and but a
score OF years after Dickens wrote 1t
was shown to be nursery and breed
Ing ground of heroes, OF soldiers and
statesmen of the highest rank, while,
the rugged worth of the rank and Ole
of the citizenship rendered possible
The deeds of the mighty men who led
in council and In battle.
Lincoln and Jackson.
This was the region that brought
forth mighty Abraham Lincoln. the
incarnation OF all that Is best in ,lamo.5
cratic life; and from the loins OF the
same people. living only lt.le
farther south. sprang another of oiir
greatest Presidents. Andrew Jackson.
"Old Hickory.-a man who mace
mistakes. like most strong men, bu.
man Of iron will and incorruDtiblo In
tegrity, fearless. upright. devoted to
the welfare of his countrymen, hone
OF our bone and flesh of our flesh. a
typical American If ever there was one.
81 commend careful reading OF
Martin Chuzzlewit to the pessimists
of today. to the men who, instead OF
! fighting hard to do away with abuses
while Mt the same time losing no Jot
of their abundant hopefulness for the
country, insist that all our people. so.
cially and lndustrIally, in their private
lives no less than as politicians. news
paper men. and business men, are at
n lower ebb than ever before. If ever
any one OF you feels a little down.
cast over the peculiarly gloomy View
of the present taken by some we'll
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