Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-31
Ex-President Dedicates a
Park to the Hero of
Slavery Days.
SERMON TO KANSANS
Says Crisis Is Not as Great, But
Quite as Real as in Days
of Civil War.

Ottawa, Kan, Aug. Ex-Governor
Stubbs of Kansas Joined the Roosevelt
party at Usage City this morning. The
private car of the governor and staff
was attached to the Roosevelt train.
Roosevelt greeted Stubbs warmly and
In response to the cheers of the crowd
delivered short speech.
For Common Veal.
After expressing pleasure at being
back in the United States, Roosevelt
said he was ''to work for whatever is
for the benefit of our country" and
continuing he said:
1T is just the same now as it was
with you men of the civil war in
those dark days from 1861 to 1865.
Crisis just as Real.
''The crisis is not as great as it was
then, but there is real crisis. Our ef-
tort is to secure a better and more
even chance for the average man. We
do not wish to do any injustice to the
man of wealth or to great corpora
lions, but we wish to see that they do
not do any injustice to the little man"
Dedicates Park.
Osawatomie. Kan. Aug. 31.-Roose-
velt arrived this morning to dedicate
1.-The John Brown park battle field of
Osawatomie, where over half a cen
tury ago the noted abolitionist and his
meager force fired their first gun in
DEFENSE or liberty RoosevsTt's train
was met at the station by troops and
the 18th cavalry. At the Masonic tenn
pie reception was held. The pro-
gram then provided for a visit TO John
Browns old cabin and luncheon at the
state hospital for the insane.
Parade to Park.
This afternoon the exercises include
a parade, to be reviewed by Roosevelt
and including the regular troops, mill
tia Grand Army veterans and civic So
cieties. The parade is TO pass the mod
est monument erected to Captain John
Brown in a park a few blocks north
of the business district, and dedicated
in 1877 by the late Senator John J.
ingalls,. After brief stop at the mon
ument the parade will continue to the
battle field.
Survivors Present.
There, following Introductory re-
of the board of trustees named by the
legislature to manage the park, and
by Governor Stubbs, Roosevelt will de-
liver an address dedicating the grounds
as a state park. Seated on the plot
form in the park will be five survivors
of the battle of Osawatomie. They are
William w. Caine of Winona Mimi,
aged "A; Luke F. Parsons of Salina,
Kan, aged n; Robert Sherar of Paola,
Kan, aged rs; D. w. Collins of Santa
Monica. Cal, aged "a, and E. P. Bridge
man of Madison, Wis, aged 76. With
the veteran Bridgeman will be two of
his sons.
Crowd CIamors for Speech.
The big crowd that surrounded the
train before the days program began
were insistent in their calls for Roose
velt and several members of the party
made speeches to entertarl the impa-
tient people Roosevelt finally ap-
peared and made few remarks. Rep
resentative Madison delivered glow
ing tribute to Roosevelt.
He has made an impression upon
the whole world because ne stands for
the things that make men better and |
nobler," said Madison.
James R. Garfield talked briefly of
THE New Order of Things" He said |
this new order. represented by pro-
gressive republicans, simply meant
better citizenship.
Clifford Pinchot said he had read /
the recent Kansas platform and that |
1t was "the finest document written by |
any party
who wrote it." shouted a man in
the crowd
Il don't know who wrote it, but the |
people will write it next time, re-
sponded Pinchot
Keep Them Out of OfIice.
Garfield spoke on the relation of the !
special interests toward politics "Spe-
cial interests of all kinds, whether cor
porate or otherwise he said, "are en-
titled to just and fair consideration,
but not to representation in any pub
lie Office"
He pointed out the danger to the peo-
pie in a legislator being under the in
1uence of special interests, and declar-
ed the present great fight for the
perpetuation of political liberty is to
free ourselves from that kind of inf1u-
ence."
Pleads for Conservation.
Pinchot followed with plea for the I