The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-12
! LONG TRIP ENDS.
Col. Roosevelt Makes His Last
Speech at Pittsburg.
COngraulates People on Their
Fight Against Graft.
SAW NOTHING LIKE 1T.
Ovation Was the Greatest Ex-
perienced on His Tour.
Tells How He Aided in Cleaning
Up the City.
SAW NOTHING LIKE 1T.


dress at a citizenship rally here and
appealed to the people to follow up the
work of reform which they have be-
gun.
THE people that hurt Pittsburg are
the people that are corrupt" he said.
The crowd which filed the music hall
at the exposition grounds cheered him
wildly as he spoke.
you first put the wealthy corrupt
business man in stripes" He went on.
amid loud applause. Men of wealth,
who after coming out of the prison still
had their wealth, were sent to the pen
itentiary by you. You have sent that
man, the crooked man, the big business
man to the penitentiary, just as you
sent the crooked politician to the peni-
tertiary"
Col. Roosevelt appealed to the people
of Pittsburg to place civic honesty
above party in their fight upon cor
ruption.
when the question is one of hon
esty all Americans should stand to-
gether," he said.
At the conclusion of his speech Mr..
Roosevelt hurried away to catch the
11:10 Pennsylvania train for New York.
The last day was one of the most spec
tacular of Col. Roosevelt's long trip.
Leaving Cincinnati in the morning he
cut across Ohio into West Virginia and
western Pennsylvania. At the several
short stops made throngs were on hand
to greet him.
First Visit in Eight Years.
The last of the rear platform speech
es of the trip was made at Steubenville.
Ohio. The ex-president talked about
the homely virtues, which have been
his texts many times before. At Lon
don, Ohio, a man crowded up close to
the platform holding gourd, which re-
hembled the big stick, The colonel
laughed heartily at it and took it in
his arms and held it there while he
talked about corporations. Thousands
of Pittsburg people sacrificed their u.s.
town streets to welcome the distin-
guished guest, who had not paid Pitts
burg a visit for more than eight years.
After an informal dinner he was
driven cross-town, where from his
toric balcony of the Monongahela
he addressed an enormous crowd.
From this rostrum Henry Clay, the
late King Edward y Chen Prince, of
Wales), General Grant and the mar
tyred president, Lincoln, Garfield and
Mckinley, have addressed the Pitts
t-rg people. Standing where these
notable figures in history had stood,
Col. Roosevelt silently viewed the sea
of humanity before. him, the waters of
the Monongahela shimmering in the
flood of electric light from surround
ing buildings.
Il have seen many extraordinary
sights in the past two and a half
weeks, but 1 have met nothing like
this he said.
Il have peculiar feeling in speak
ing from this historic bacony. The
many great names associated with this
place and so many national memories
of which we are proud spur us to ac-
ton IN our turn, but they are worse
than useless if We treat them merely rs
excuses for fdleness in ourselves. We
of today have great problems and we
must face them as our fathers and
forefathers faced the problems of their
generation. Our first and greatest
problem is to secure rigid honesty in
business and politics and congratu-
late Pittsburg in what Pittsburg has
done. That man is the true benefactor
who exposes crookedneSS and who
hunts out of public life the crook, great
or small"
The cheers which greeted the colonel
kept him on his feet most of the time
bowling his acknowledgements.
At Exposition Hall.
Exposition hall a citizenship rally"
awaited the colonePs coming Five
thousand men jumped and danced and
waved their hats and yelled themselves
hoarse for several minutes as the
guests assembled to the platform. The
band struck up IA Hot Time" and the
colonel raised first one foot and than
the other as though to dance. The
crowd broke out anew. Women helped
in the ovation too, for in boxes on
either side was a reservation for the
leaders of prominent women's civic
clubs and civic organizations. 1t was
five minutes before Mayor Magee and
President English of the civic COM
mission were allowed to make intro
ductory speeches Over the stage from
which Col. Roosevelt spoke hung Il
huge map of the world, on which were
Roosevelt's travels since he left the
white House over Africa, Europe and
America The colonel said in part:
81 have always liked Pittsburg- 1
think Pittsburg represents In many
respects an epitome of the American
people 1t has the characteristics of
our people developed to an unusual
degree, energy. power, force, keen
business intelligence, rigid industry,
immense versatility of mind, all or the
qualities of vigorous, masterful peo-
ple / wish 1 could stop there but
there are certain American traits,
which you all possess, that are less
desirable. AS a nation, we have some
times seemed drunk with material
prosperity, as nation we have some
times tended to think only of the
things of the body; as nation we
have sometimes taken hard, ma
terial short-sighted pride in being
merely practical and not dreamers.
1.-THE short-sighted men, timid
men, and the men of sordid mind al
ways turn, when such work as that
which this association has done under
Mr. English, has been accomplished
and say: You ought not to do that;
you hurt Pittsburg.'
People That Hurt Pittsburg.
THE people that hurt Pittsburg are
the people that are corrupt 1t was
my good fortune to have a connection
with the beginning of the inquiry in
this city that developed the extraord-
mary crookedness. At the time was
president and after some correspon-
dence one or two of your representa-
tive citizens came to me and said
that they had every reason to believe
that an examination of certain banks