New-York tribune., 1910-09-02


building with every modern appliance
There some eighteen hundred boys and
girls were gathered to welcome the eX-
President, the large hall and galleries.
being filed to overlooking, besides a
large gathering outside which could not
get in. Mr.. Roosevelt explained that
while he never had any difficulty in talk
ing to boys, he was afraid of an audience
that contained any large proportion oil
young girls. but when he suggested that
he might tell his auditors some stories OF
his African experiences there was hearty
applause.
The former President proceeded to tell
a number of experiences of his own and
of others, and some of the feats OF man
eating lions he described so graphically
that a number of the girls covered thelr
ears with their hands. He heartily rec
commended both boys and girls to read
The Man Eating Lions of Tsaro, by
Colonel Patterson, and he appeared
somewhat to surprise not only the pupils
but their teachers when he referred TO the
description in the Bible of the man eating
lions which at one time devastated Sa-
maria. while Governor Hadley, who was
on the stage, remarked to his neighbor
that he had never discovered that pass
age.
Uraes Hard Work and Play.
In closing. Colonel Roosevelt urged his
hearers to play hard and work hard. and
assured them that the constant pursuit OF
he fiT6S0ne
disrnal-occupation in the world.
All during the trip to the Westport
school, a part of which led through Kan
sas City's beautiful boulevard SYSTEM
Mr. Roosevelt was kept continually bow
ing his acknowledgements of the greetings
from the streets and windows. AS the
police commissioners pilot automobile
gave notice of the coming of the ex-
Presidents car, men, women and chill
dren came running from all directions
many of them waving flags On his re-
turn to the hotel Mr.. Roosevelt secured
a brief rest. and then dined informally
with the officers of the Commercial club.
In the evening Colonel Roosevelt ad-
dressed a monster audience in Kansas
Citys magnificent Auditorium, which
seats eighteen thousand persons. Every
seat was filled, and many stood at the
back, but so perfect are the acoustics
that all could hear without difficulty. AS
is customary, Mr.. Roosevelt had great
reception when he entered the hall ana
another when he began speaking, Whlie
cheers and applause followed the close OF
his remarks. This is the Auditorium Tor
which Kansas City strove so earnestly
to secure the last Republican National
Convention, and the effort will be re-
newed with increased vigor when the
national committee takes up the question
again, in December, 1911.
William T Bland, president of the
Commercial Club in introducing the
former President, declared that the well
come being given Mr.. Roosevelt the
man was warmer than that which sew
eral years ago had been given him as
President.
THE American people owe nothing to
a man who has been President of the
United States compared to what he owes
the American people, declared Colonel
Roosevelt, referring to the words OF the
speaker who had presented him.
While President, he said, ne had IN
structed his Attorney General to proceed
against any man who was corrupt,
whether he was a Republican Senator
from Oregon or Kansas or a Democratic
Governor of Oklahoma.
Il think I value the i'll will of those
men almost as much as l value the good
will of honest Senators, honest Governors
and other honest men with whom it has
been my privilege to work" he said.
Speech at tho Auditorium.
Mr., Rooseve1t's speech at the Audi
torium follows:
There are certain matters which should
never be treated as party matters, and fore
most among these is the great and vital
ed as q prime necessity to our success as
a nation. The minute that a question of
honesty as against dishonesty is involved,
then we must all act together as Americans
without the slightest regard to party af-
filiations. Honesty is not a party matter,
and the first men to attack scoundrel of
party. When in Office 1 always proceeded
upon the theory that there would be no need
OF my opponents raising the cry of Turn
the raScalS out, because l would turn
them out myself just as soon as, by vigilant
and Intelligent industry, I could discover
them.
AS we dealt with the crooked public Of
fetal, whether in Kansas or Oklahoma.
so we dealt with the crooked private
citizen; with the rich swindler in New
York or Chicago a with the horse thief or
homicide in Indian Territory. We never
attacked man because he was d man of
one political faith or another. because he
did or did not possess wealth: and we
never shielded him because he was poor or
| rich, because he belonged to any particular
church or TO any particular party. But
also wish you especially to renlem-
Der that We never hesitated to shield him
convinced that he was improperly at
tackled. There is no greater foe of honesty
than the man who, for any reason in any
capacity, attacks, or seeks to attack, an
honest man for crime which he has not
committed Falsely accusing an honest
on the same level of infamy with that of
the dishonest man himself; and IL is no
higher duty to attach the dishonest man
than it Is TO exonerate the honest man
falsely accused; and [ should be ashamed
to hesitate the fraction of a second longer
in one case than in the other.
Remember that honesty cannot be unilat-
eral. Good citizens should cordially dis
trust the man who can never see dishonesty
excepting In men of the class he dSlkes
The reckless agitator who invaria bly, sin
giles out men of wealth as furnishing the
only examples of dishonesty, and the equal
| ly unscrupulous-but no more unscrupulous
--reactionary who can see dishonesty only
| III blackmailing politician or a crooked
labor leader; both stand on the same plane
esty from politicians until you exact hon
esty from business men; on the other hand
| YOU brand yourselves as fools or as hypo-
| critics II you say that the corporation