Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-09-17
WESTERN TOUR ends
EX-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is
HOME AGAIN.
Great Crowds Cheer His Speeches in
Dear Old Pittsburg-Delivered Two
Addresses and Attended an Informal
Dinner-Was Handed a big Stick
When in Ohio.

Pittsburg, Sept. 1.-THE western tour
of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was vir-
tually concluded in Pittsburg Saturday
night. He stopped here long enough
to deliver two addresses and attend an
informal dinner. He arrived at home
at Oyster Bay Sunday.
The last day was one of the most
spectacular of Colonel Roosevelt 5 long
trip. Leaving Cincinnati in the morn
ing, he cut across Ohio into West Vir-
ginia and western Pennsylvania. At
the several stops throngs were on hand
to greet him. The last of the rear plat
form speeches of the trip was made at
Steubenville, Ohio, Saturday afternoon.
The expresident talked about the
homely virtues which have been his text
many times before.
At London, Ohio, a man crowded up
close to the platform, holding a gourd
which resembled the fbig stick.' The
colonel laughed, and took it in his
arms and held it there while he talked
about corporations.
Thousands of Pittsburg people sacri-
feed their usual dinner hour and crowd
ed down to welcome the distinguished
guest, who had not paid Pittsburg a
visit for more than eight years. After
an informal dinner he was driven across
town, where from a historic balcony of
the Monongahela house, facing the river
of that name, he addressed an enormous
crowd.
On Historic Rostrum.
From this rostrum Henry Clay, the
late King Edward (when prince Of
Wales), General Grant, and the
martyred presidents, Lincoln, Garfield
and Mckinley, have addressed the
Pittsburg people.
Standing where these notable figures
in history had stood Colonel Roosevelt
reviewed the sea of humanity before
him, the waters of the river simmer
ing in the flood of electric light from
surrounding buildings.
81 have seen many extraordinary
sights in the last two and half weeks,
but L have met nothing like this" he
said. 81 have peculiar feeling in
speaking from this historic balcony.
The many great names associated with
this place and so many national memo
ries of which we are proud spur us on
to action in our turn, but they are more
than useless if we treat them merely
as excuses for idleness in ourselves
We of today have great problems, and
we must face them as our fathers and
forefathers faced the problems of then
generations. Our first and greatest
problem is to secure rigid honesty IN
business and politics, and L congratu
late Pittsburg on what progress has
been made. That man is the true bene
factor who exposes crookedness and who
hunts out of public life the crook
great or small. T"
The cheers that greeted the colonel
kept him on his feet most of the time
bowling his Acknowledgements.
At Exposition hall a citizenship
rally' awaited the colonel's coming
Five thousand men jumped and danced
and waved their hats and yelled them
selves hoarse as the guests assembled t,
the platform. The band struck up /;
eliot Time and the colonel raises
first one foot and then the other al
though to dance.
The colonel said in part: ST have
always liked Pittsburg. I think tina
Pittsburg represents in many respect
an epitome of the American people. I
has the characteristics of our people de
il veloped to an unusual degree, energy
d. power, force, keen business intelligence
rigid industry, immense versatility o
mind, all of the qualities of vigorous
masterful people,