The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-09-02
RECEPTION
OF ROOSEVELT AT
KANSAS CITY.
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fGounlnuFn from rage Ome-f
road" he continued. construction vas
fropped for two weeks because Two
Hons established themselves On the
tracks and ate up all the men who
came 10 work. I think they ate about
100. Finally they were killed"
He said the survivor OF another en-
counter with the lion told him a story
which he would repeat
AT one railroad station" he beean,
"'he lions ate up the agent, and when
The next train came along IL afe up a
brakeman The division superintend-
ent. an F,ngiishman. took a Gerraan and
an Italian with him and went out there
TO kin the lion. They sat up during
the night waiting for the lion. ana
finally the italian went TO sleep at ore
end Of the car and the German got INTO
the berth. The EnElishman sat at the
window with his rifle on guard. lie
evidently went to sleep there
THE lion. with It's queer. sinister in
tcliiEeuce. saw that the man was asleep.
10 came NJ on the platform. pulled the
aiding door open with its paw ana
went In. The German was awakened
by the weight Of the lions hind legs on
him. The foreieEs Of the lion were on
the EnElishman. and the lion had the
mans head in his mouth.
Ate the EnEIIShmnn.
"The German shouted and awokc the
Italian. who leaped up and Jumped on
the lions back. He jumped off again
and ran 20 the other end OF the car.
The lion had its man and only wanted
60 get away with him II made its way
through the window. dragging the
Fnulishman with a.. and all through
the night the German and the Italian
could hear the dreadful purring OF tne
lion as 10 ate the Englishman-"
The school children liked the colonel
stories so well that they did not want
sim to stop, but he was late AM haa
&c leave.
Before he departed. however. he gave
them some advice. To the girls he said
II don't like to have girl dance an
night. 80 that she viii be tired neNl
day when her mother wants something
from the second story"
His a6vice to the boys was given in
terms Of football. Il was.
Don't shirl<: don't foul. and hit the
line hard"
Address on Honesty.
Colonel Roosevelts speech in the
auditorium was his principal address OF
the day. He said that honesty should
not be made a party matter ana tnat
the first men TO attack scOundreis
should be men in the scoundrels own
party. lie spoke OF corruption in New
York Missouri. Illinois and California,
and said that the duty OF the people
was TO war with equal sterhness
against the corrupt men OF great
wealth and the small man who makes
"a trade OF corruption.
I'VE need laws which shall put the
corporations out Of business 50 FAR as
concerns corrupting the servants OF the
public and betrayiug the rights OF the
people" he said. At another point in
his speech. ne asserted.
The people Of this country VIII get
Justice from the corporations only n
they do justice TO them and rigidly eN-
act 70 from them
In hts speech at Kansas City. Kas.
Col. Roosevelt advocated the enactment
OF a federal wOrl1men's compensation
Commercial Club speech.
Col Roosevelt's speech at the lunch
con given by the Commercial club fol-
lows.
when 7 began as President. rebates
were universally demanded and given.
and the practice was SO general that
the fact OF giving them and asking for
them had become a purely conventional
crime" said Colonel Roosevelt.
NO one spoke OF the giving Of re-
bates as n crime. and as that practice
was freely INDUCED in by the great
mass Of people. others were driven to
commit the crime. having the alterna-
tive OF being ruined by their competi-
tors ~ they did not get them. The ship
pers demanded rebates OF the railroads
and the railroads granted rebates 10
certain shippers until they got in net
work Of preferences from which they
were unable TO eNtricate themselves by
any individual action on their part
Had Practice stopped.
After some difficulty accompanied
by the usual statement that it was
country. we got the rebate practice
definitely stopped.
"Of course. no great change OF that
kind has ever been made without incl
dental hardship being suffered by many
good people. You can not make a
change and not suffer from the dislo-
cation. Some good people and some
communities did suffer and 7 think that
Kansas city was the community that
for the time being suffered consider
ably.
Kansas City had rebates that
think az times were as high as - per
cent. and I was quite prepared Tor an
outburst Of dissatisfaction from Kan
sas City. But 70 IS immensely 10 your
credit that I received unanimous ap-
prevail Your people said that this
change was right. that the thing ought
TO be done and that they were for n.