Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-10-03
FAvORS CONSTRUCTION
Of SHIP CHANNEL
Tells Business Mems League of
st. Louis That he VIII do
all In His Power to
Help the Plan
Along.

Cairo. ILL.,, Oct. 3.-When the
president stepped ashore here at 8
o'clock this morning, he manifested
every evidence of having passed
comfortable night. He was the guest
at dinner last night on the steamer
Alton of the Business Mems League
of st. Louis, and with that enter
tainment, speech making, and con-
versation his time until almost mid
night was fully taken up. The dim
ner was regarded by all as very i'm
portant and it is believed that the
gulf to the lakes received a great
impetus. The president requested
that his remarks be not reported,
but he consented to the statement
that he had announced unequivocal-
ly his endorsement of the general
principle involved in the scheme for
the creation of a ship channel up
the river and to the great lakes.
At the same time he was most
careful to say that he would not give
his assent to any particular scheme
of Improvement. He also pointed
out that there are many obstacles in
carrying into effect any plan of such
vast proportions and involving so
much expense, and while promising
all the assistance he could give, he
told his hearers that the only way
to make success certain is to so
thoroughly prepare themselves so as
to render their arguments unanswer-
able. His speech was greeted with
prolonged applause and this en-
dorsement took the shape of words
when Governors Folk Deneen and
Blanchard spoke. AL pledged their
utmost efforts in the furtherance of
the enterprise. The gathering at the
dinner was a notable one and in
cluded the governors of sixteen
states.
Tba nrasidapt,s snaacb todav uas
delivered in the presence of a great
throng, which frequently applauded
his hearty ideas. He spoke as fol-
lows:
Presidents Speech.
'fMen of Illinois, and you, men of
Kentucky:
II am glad to have the 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 to 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 its past
and its present alike IL is typical of
our country. 1t Is curious and anus
ing to think that even as genuine a
lover of his kind, a man morally so
Charles Dickens, should have select
ed the region where we are now
standing as the seat of his forlorn
Eden in Martin Chuzzlewit. The
country he so bitterly assailed is now
one of the most fertile and produc-
tive portions of one of the most fer
tile and productive territories in all
the world and the dWellers in this
territory represent a higher average
of comfort, intelligence, and sturdy
capacity for self-goVernment than
the people in any tract of like ex-
tent in any other continent.
A Delicate Work.
Government in its application is
often a complicated and delicate
work, but the principles of govern
ment are, after all, fairly simple. In
a broad general way we should ap-
ply in the affairs of the national ad-
mlnistration, which deals with the
interests of all our eighty-odd mill
lions Of people, just the same rules
that are necessary I'm getting on with
our neighbors in our several neigh
borhoods; and the nation as whole
should show substantially the same
qualities that we would expect an
honorable man to show in dealing
with his fellows. To illustrate this,
consider for a moment two phases
of governmental action.
First as to international aHalrs.
Among your own neighbors among
your friends, what IS the attitude
you like to see a man take toward
his fellows, the attitude you wish
each of your sons to take when he
goes out into the world? Is IL not a
combination of readiness and ability
to hold his own If anyone tries TO
wrong him, while at the same time
showing careful regard not only toT