The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-11-11

ala III command the attention OF the whole
population of the United States and I am
sure speak for the whole people in saying
that they do not promise to be niggardly
in either the issuing of bonds or appropri-
alton of money out of the treasury to
make Improvements that really will be
Improvements in the matter of transport
tation and in the mater of affecting the
rates. But we have to be certain what
it is we are doing, and that we are not go
ing to pour money down into rat hole
when we put millions into the improve
ments that are contemplated We must be
sure we are right before we go ahead.
But what congratulate the people of Mis-
sissippi on is that of being with, they have
the river, half of which is magnificent for
transportation now, and that as you in
crease your levees, that wonderful work
that is now going on, and save your land
and that of Louisiana for agriculture in
stead of being devoured by the waves of
the river, you have almost manifested an
enterprise that entities you to the attention
of the United States. (Applause.)
don't know what speech this is that
l am making now in the order of
speeches to which / am committed during
the day. 1t is the second in order but
how many more there are and what, out of
my small CULVER, ought to save for fu-
ture use. am unable to say. (Applause)
Certainly, / shall not meet more intelli-
gent or better dressed or more friendly
audience at any other place. Your dis
tinguished Governor with that tendency
towards statistical information (applause)
which is most useful, and which is most
accurate, has recited to you, and / agree,
in most complimentary and altogether
too flatering way, the number of offices
| have held since was twenty-one Zap
plause), and I am obliged to admit that
whenever offices were raining from the sky
my plate was turned up. (Applause). He
has called attention also to the fact that
in the securing of these offices, at least
one of them, the affirmative influence
of the state of Mississippi was some
what indirect. (Applause.) But instead of
making my coming here, and my feeling in
being here more embarrassed and re-
luctant. it makes me proud to the point
that am afraid my head may be
swelled, that though you did not vote
,rtSr me for the presidency of the United
States, you gave me such cordial per-
sonal welcome. (Applause)
A United Country.
We are all near Washington--nearer
by reason of the elaborate reports
sent out by active newspaper
correspondents; nearer by reason of the
fact that you can get to Washington
in a remarkable short time; nearer because
if you can't go. you can reach your con-
gresham and senator with mandatory
kilograms that indicate that "you are on"
AS each part of the country is nearer to
Washington in that sense so all parts of
the country are nearer to each other in
the same sense. We, are by reason of
the improvements of the methods of
communication and transportation, much
more closely united than at any time in
our history and when you take into consid-
Grafton in addition to those physical means
of communication, the fact that our ideals
are the same, that our hopes of future pros
perity are founded on the same principle,
that we are looking forward in the same
way to the development of our citizenship
to the development of their education,
and to material prosperity that never was
seen in the world before, local ambitions are
the same this country over. have been on
this trip of mine from the Atlantic to the
Pacific ocean, down to the Pacific ocean
to the southwest corner of the country,
across through the territories and that
great domain of Texas to Saint Louis,
down the Mississippi into New Orleans,
and have made, the Lord forgive me,
and the Lord help those who heard me,
two hundred and odd speeches (applausc)
and have been able to sustain the hearing
of two hundred more, and | am able to
say that we never, in all our country's
history, were as homogeneous a people,
as closely allied in all our hopes and am
| billions, and in all our pride of country
and patriotism as we are today. (Ap-
plause.) 1t is possible that there are
corners in this country that have es-
capped me where there is discomfort, but if
so, have not found them. In every town
II have almost said every hamlet---in ev-
cry city and county, and in every state, I
have found the individual saying to him
self, II am contented here because know
what will make this city, or this town,
or this county, the best in the state,
and I am going to do that very thing"
And so with respect to the state of ambi-