The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-25

| Nashville, Tenn, October 22.-Never
before was Nashville SO elaborately
decorated as it was today to give wei
come to President Roosevelt. Bunting
banners and pictures OF the president
weIe on almost every house in the
up town 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, changing bells,
screaming whistles and the cheering Of
! thousands of people
! The procession was through strets
lined with great and enthusiastic
crowds. 1t was headed by the presi-
dents carriage in which Governor Pat
terson and Samuel Douglass, president
of the board of trade also rode Then
followed battalion Of the state guard,
company of confederate veterans in
uniform and state and city officials
At one point the president was greet
ed by thousands of public school, uni
versity and college pupils who sang
patriotic songs as he passed on.
Near the state capitol the parade
was stopped to enable the president to
view the tomb of President James K.
Polk, after which the march to Ryman
auditorium continued.
AS the president entered the audi
| torium the immense audience arose
and gave him a reception that will not
! soon be forgotten Governor Pat
| terson welcomed the president in 4
brief speech and the presidents ad-
dress followed
President Roosevelt then proceeded
| in an automobile to the Hermitage,
the home of President Andrew Jack
son, twelve miles from the city, where
| he was accorded a reception. He was
| followed by a long line of carriage;
and automobiles
On returning to the presidents train
at the Hermitage station, the party
| stopped at the Tennessee Soldiers
| Home The confederate veterans re-
! ceived the president in line and re-
quested his autograph which was writ
ten in a register prepared for the oc-
casion.
In his speech at the auditorium the
president said:
"There has been trouble in the
| stock market; in the financial. world
during the past few months. The
statement has frequently been; made
that the policies for. which I stand,
| legislative and executive, are respon-
rS1 %T~@@
men, these policies of mine can be
summed up in one brief sentence. They
represent the effort to punish success
full dishonesty. I doubt if these poll
cies 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 perse-
vered in unswervingly.
"If to arouse that type of civic man-
hold in our nation it were necessary to
suffer any temporary commercial de-
preston, should consider the cost
but small All we have done has beer
to unearth the wrOng-dOing. 1t was
not the fact that it was unearthed thac
did the damage. All did was to turn
on the light. l am responsible for
turning on the light, but I am not
responsible for what the light showed.
mo material well-being can save
this nation if it loses the lift towards
higher things. I am we'll aware that
in any such movement as that in
which we have been engaged there are
sincere men who take advantage OF
the movement to do away with the
wrongs of wealth, themselves to in
weigh against wealth.
'I will permit neither the dema
gogue upon one side nor the reaction
ary on the other to drive me away
from the course or policy which re-
gard most vital for the we'll being oc
this nation. And the thing most i'm
portant to remember is that that poll
cy has two sides. 1t would indeed he
an evil day for this nation--it would
indeed mean the beginning of the end
of our nations greatness If, We. ever
permitted in this republic to grow UP
spirit which would discriminate
against the honest man who achieves
business success. --.,.
= There is nothing baser and meaner
than the hatred of the man who pros
pers honestly, simply because he has
prospered, and I challenge the spirit
of every good American, when 1 say
that the honest railroad man, the hon.
est banker, and the honest business |
man, the man who makes fortune |
because his exceptional business ab1l- |
ity enables him to render exceptional |
service to the community challenge |
the spirit of every good American cit
izen when I say he shall receive the
amplest protection and be safeguard
ed against all Injustice