Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-26
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 It has always been pleasure fer me to com5 to Arkansas and t8is city he said, and naturally appreciate the eoui te-v q. d the addrs ss of he Goyernor-eleet.
 T am gr atly pleased to stice cn every sile' the extras I'd nary develop- ment and greater ss.ll it's abounding pl1 mises. No state in the lfnioa. of iers l greater promise han Arkan- s2!s. That s an actual fact. The de- velopment of it's great coal fields would be Cf gr at importance to net only Arkansas, but to tae United States government. But we must al- 50 have the development of ..'fe watsr- ways.
 The Colonel spoke ef the rc ce in- dustry in this state asd commented at length upon the great pessib litles that confront it. iiA declared that the government offers tne greatest inst1u- ment in accomplishing social and in- ,lus;lia reforms For instaaea,' he salGs take the rice that is "a sod in tn IS state. YOU cannot expect an or dina4y man 10 spend a couple of years ard his money to, experiment in r ce growing that may be a failure. The veinment can we'll afford to make the experiment"
 Colonel Roosevelt won applause when he sa d he government should irr gate the swamp lar ds and must cer,ainly develop the waterways. He said GcVefnCT Robinson was kind enough to speak of his appointment of Judga Rose to the Hague. My feeling, wh le President" he con;in- ued, was no, that my aDpointee owed me gratitude fer ali appointment, but tha. when found man c@mrete@t to perfclm government service, ' owed him a debl Oi gratitude fer per forming t. l recogn ze3 Judge Roses qualities. He is just he type of a public servant that Uncle Sam needs. l felt that ia order to get peace we must show the nation that we want T,11C i,n Hague and the Battleship flee: around the world i, tended more to the peace of the werl3 thaa anything that could have been done along tat line.
 "I sent the fleet around the world to see what battleship fleet was god for. They told me the battle ships would be strewn along the coast of South America, that our ships could never make it. l wanted to know if they were ary good. Ii they are not capable of making such tri3 I wanted to find it out dur ne peace and not wait for war.
 Tt has been my good forture t3 touch my fellow countrymsn on all sdes. l have gone from ccw punch CT to police commissioner and l know them. But I'm no hero. l was only a commander of a first class volun- teer regiment They were brave and true and among them were poss bl! more men whose fathers wore the gray than whose fathers wore the 1 blue. l know the people n commeI cial development and in bear hunting and walf hunting. No man is fit tc he pre:icert who hasn'J learned te appre eeiate or instinctively appre- ciate his peopl and their whims. knew every locality and it's perspective peoples.
 "My bel eff is that every part of tut country is concerned in anything TRa 1 concerns every other part. No mal is fit to hold public off ce unless ht has the interest of all the country a heart. His bus ness is to be the ser want ef all the people.
 Senator Clarke kept the assemblag' in an uproar with a .br.ef speech, il which he happily discussed the Col onel,s record from start to fin sh ant ha defended hs own attitude on tn Panama Canal. Seriously. however, n