The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-02
Former President Addresses
Audience of Nearly 10000
in Convention Hall.
VALUES THE ILL-WILL
OF DISHONEST POLITICIANS
Says America Must Be Example
for World in Good Self
Government.

NaNCAo CIIf sept. 1.-The peopld
Of Missouri today kept up with a vim
the roar of enthusiastic welcome that
is following Theodore Roosevelt every
where in his wanderings through tho
west.
Crowds that blocked the streets of
Kansas City cheered him whenever hs
made an appearance and the three
speeches which he made here were re-
celyed with shouts of approval.
The colonel was told that he was an
lnsurgent through and through in song
which was sung in his honor at lunch
con today, but he said it would be bet
ter to call him progressive. The mem
bers Of the Commercial club, who were
entertaining him, cheered bis definition
Of his political status.
Although 1t was raining hard when
Colonel Roosevelt, after stopping at
reached this city, thousands Of
people were at the station to cheer
him. After parade through the bust
ness section Of the city and the lnnch-
con, the colonel went to the Weestport
and talked to the pupils. He wound
up the day by making speech to tho
throng that filled Convention hall. His
speech was about honesty in public and
private life.
Continuous Ovation.
The crowds that came out to see the
colonel jammed the sidewalks and at
points blocked traffic. The colonel was
cheered continuously and was kept on
his feet, bowling and waving his hand.
The auditorium of the high school
was crowded with students when the
colonel arrived and they stood on their
fnn l. "a
salute, - while at the same time they
shouted at the tops of their voices.
AS soon as they would let him speak,
the colonel said he had confession
to make; that he was little afraid Of the
audience, because half of it were com
posed of girls, whom he never knew
how to handle.
~ have four boys of my own" said
he, f'and only two girls. The girls were
both in charge of their mother until
they grew up and then they took charge
Of me. They have treated me kindly,
but firmly
Colonel Roosevelt said he was going
to tell them some stories of Africa.
African "reminiscences.
"The natives are perfectly wild saw.
ages,' he said, ''and their enemies
accuse them of occasionally and play
fully lapsing into cannibalism That is
a delicate subject and l never inquired
into it.
"One day while I was riding up the
railroad to Nairobi telegraph cOmmuni.
"that was because a herd Of giraffes
had captered across tho tracks and
pulled down the wires with their
necks.'
Then Colonel Roosevelt told soms
stories about lions.
"When they were building the rail
road,' he continued. construction wa.
lions established themselves on the
tracks and ate up all the men who came
to work. I think they ate about 1oo
Finally they were killed"
He said the survivor of another en-.
counter with the lion told him story
which he would repeat.
AT one railroad station" he be.
gan, the lions alto up the agent, AND
when the next train came along it ate
tendent, an Irishman, took German
and an italian with him and went out
there to kill the lion. They sat up dur.
ing the night waiting for the lion, and
finally the Italian went TO sleep ut one
end Of the car and the German got
into the berth. The Englishman sat at
the window with his rifle on guard. He
SSlQculiy WcuI W siSep
Pretty Fierce Story.
HThe lion, with its queer. sinister
intelligence, saw that the man was
asleep. 1t came up on the platform.
pulled the sliding door open with Its
paw and went In The German was
awakened by the weight of the lions
hind legs on him. The forelegs of the
lion were on the Englishman, and the
lion had the man. g head in his mouth.
"The German shouted and awoke the
Italian, who leaped up and jumped on
the lion IS back. He jumped off agnin
an to tif other end END o1y on tnT @onfed Sa
to get away with him. 1t made Its
way through the window, drar-ing the
with it. and all through the
night the German and the italian
could hear the dreadful purring of tho
lion as it ate the Englishman.
The school children liked the col
onel g stories so well that they did
md had to leave,
Before he departed, however, hd
rave them some advice. To the girls
Ie said:
"I don't like to have a girl dance
Ill night, so that she will be tired next
lay when her mother wants something
rom the second story
His advice to the boys was given in
erms Of football. 1t was:
f'Dnn't shirk; don't foul and hit
he line hard
Honesty as Keynote.
Colonel Roosevelt y speech in the
auditorium was his principal address
f the day He said that honesty should
lot be made a party matter, and that
he first men to attack scoundrels
houId be men in the scoundrels own
,arty, He spoke Of corruption in New
FORK, Missouri, Illinois and Cnal
fornia, and said that the duty Of the
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