The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-13
In Speech to Knights of Colum-
bus at Peoria. ILL.,, Tells
of Missions.
MAKES AN EARNEST PLEA
FOR RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE
Declares That 1t Is Probable
That Some Day a Catholic
Will Be President.

PEORIA. Ill. Oct Eek President
Roosevelt came up from the south into
Illinois today, denounced corrupt legis-
latures and commended work which the
Roman Catholic. church is doing.
Leaving st. Louis early in the day.
he Travelled across the southern end Of
Illinois. speaking at several places on
| the way. In Peoria he was the guest
or the knights OF Columbus to whom
he made a speech at dinner tonight,
| II was Colonel Roosevelt's first public
utterance TO Roman Catholics since the
vatican incident last spring. He said
that he favored the broadest measure
| OF religious tolerat ton.
In brief speech TO the crowd at the
railway station in Springfield, Colonel
Roosevelt made what was construed as
tion In the Illinois legislature. Hardly
had he begun 10 speak when man in
| the crowd called out:
Give 1t 10 the jack-potters. colonel"
Jack Pot Under Fire.
The others in the crowd. TO whom the
expression had become familiar. since
| the confession Of members OF the Iii.
nois legislature that they had shared In
a corruption fund which was called the
Jackpot. appauded.
Colonel Roosevelt took il up, and at
tackled the men involved in the Icgisla
tive scandal as vigorously az he did
in his speech last month at the Hamil-
ton club banquet in Chicago. from which
Senator Lorinaer was excluded after the
colonel had refused to attend the dinner
unless the Invitation to the senator was
Withdrawn.
Good my friend. I am glad 10 hear
you say that" he said. NO man who
is worth his salt will have anything TO
do with any one OF the creatures who
important thing before us as people is
20 drive from public life the corruption
LIST the hribe taker the brlbe -giver. The
men whom you speak OF as ack-potters
are traitors to the American people,
traitors OF the basest kind, and il is
Infamous in any one 10 condone their
iniquity or to support them and stand
behind them, directly or indirectly.
The presence In public lIfe OF such
men Is shame and a scandal. and !
do not care a rap whether they belong
to my party or TO some other party. L
hold il my duty TO be equally hostile TO
them In either event"
Visits Bishop spalding.
When Colonel Roosevelt arrived in
Peoria he went TO the Country club for
luncheon. then visited the home OF Bish-
top Spalding. A public reception fol
lowed Long before the Time for the
reception. the clubhouse in which it was
TO be held was crowded. By the time
the colonel got there the stree, outside
hour in shaking hands with hundreds OF
people, the crowd In front OF the build
ing was larger than when he began.
The people outside were told that the
colonel could not shake hands with ali
of them. but they refused TO go away
until the doors were closed. Colonel
Roosevelt made little speech from the
steps TO pacfy those who could not get
inside.
Al the dinner tonight Bourke Cochran
Of New York. Richard Little. Henry OF
Chicago and DR. r Emmtt Kane OF ST.
Louis made speeches before Colonel
Roosevelt delivered his address.
Governor Deneen, who reached Peoria
Roosevelt train in the afternoon 10
address county fair, arrived in time
for the dinner.
After Dinner Speech.
In his address tonight Colonel Roose-
vel, said:
Last winter visited various Catholic
mas / was at one OF them. Bishop Han
Ions. on the shores of the great Vic
toria Nyanza lake. just under the equator.
There ] met one ot our fellow Ameri-
cans. Mother Mary Paul. who was at the
head OF the religious sisters of the estab-
lishment. She had already been in corre
spcndencs with me. saying that ! must
not go through Africa without stopping
and seeing theE mission. because she
was the only American missionary in
Uganda. right In the heart OF the Dark
continent.
80 of course l stopped. and it was
really like being suddenly brought home.
message contained in letter she had
just received from two New York police
men whom | had appointed on the force
when ! was police commissioner,
Warm Words Of Praise.
Now. the mission TO which Mother
Paul belongs is doing striking and ad
mirable work in Africa and | promised
her that would publicly tell about this
the Catholics OF the United States take
an interest in this Catholic mission in
mid Africa, where such good work is
beig done by an American nun. Uganda
is one of the places where missionary
effort has been signally successful. From
personal knowledge ] say this. and from
testimony 70 the good work done by the
Catholic missions. and hope the charita-
BILE Catholics in the United States will
gladden. the heart OF Mother Paul by
backing up in substantial fashion the
missionary work TO which she has given
her life.
where there is such really broad religious
liberation, such good will among good
people OF different religious creeds as In
where Catholic and Protestant get on
as We do here. each treating the other
on The basis OF our citizenship and iudg-
but on his conduct toward his fellow
men. OH his own worth a man. We
must never permit anything TO make us
deviate from this standpoint
Gives Good Illustration
Perhaps | can give you my own theory
In short form by telling you OF n CORE
spondence | once had. or course in
every church there are some good men
who narrow cas- we'll az some men
who are narrow without being goodl. and
one OF these good narrow men. a Protes-
tant clergyman. wrote me a letter OF
protest about my receiving Cardinal Sa-
toll at the White House.
Il wrote him back. saying that | had
received the cardinal just AS. for in
I had .gsi. -
man Lutherans and Welsh Methodists
and as | expected to receive rhe Arch
bishop Of Canterbury. and that / would
hold myself 10 be poor representative
OF the American people. an unworthy
president. II | failed 10 treat with good
- will and friendliness all good men no
oNE What their religious faith might
roo,ns sie.r,]}, a added that / could best
IooulS. Sle1Il %. it--afr saving that he
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