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Show Aftermath I Of the Visit. The visis of President Theodore Theod-ore Roosevelt to Salt Lake and Ogden was a memorable event in the history of those towns and of Utah. In Salt' Lake scores of thousands of people swarmed the streets and thousands of officers, troops. roughriders, veterans and other organizations formed the parade that marched after the President's carriage. At the city and county building he made an address to the r-hilrl ren, the keynota of which was, j."Work hard while you work; play hard when you play." At the tabernacle, Gov. Wells delivered an address of welcome, and then President Roosevelt uttered one of hia characterestic speeches, and the longest one as yet made on this trip. He complimented com-plimented the pioneers, spoke on irrigation, and urged active and patriotic citizenship. Fie greeted greet-ed President Joseph F. Smith and church and political dignitaries digni-taries pleasantly, and they occupied oc-cupied the stand-with him. A large party lunched with the' President at Senator Kearn's home. Congressman and Mrs. Josepn Howell being amonjr the number. M r. Roosevelt spoke in part as follows: Governor, Mr. Mayor, Senator, and you, my fellow-Americans: I It is indeed a pleasure to greet you today here in your beautiful city here in this wonderful state. And of course 1 believe in the nr..i t ..u i. u , j American if I did not. And 1 may say at the outset that the thing that has struck. me most in gcing from the Atlantic acros?, this continent to the Pacific and now half way bac' again, the thing that has struck me most is i th - essential unity of our people for wherever I go the men and 'women to whom I speak arc responsive to the same appeal, are endeavoring to shape their lives in accordance with the sam; ideals 'and with the same practical methods of applying these ideals. Andl am particularly particu-larly glad to have the chance to speak t-T you her" in this city here in Utah this morning, because you exemplify a doctrine that it H?ens to m9 is esot'a! for oui oeopl ever to keep fresh in their taiiv"! the fact that, nntur.it requrc33 cai do a grant dual, that though law caa liof gmd deal, the fundamental requisite ir. buildici; up prosperity aad (.iv lLaticr. is the requisite oi il.e individual tnuu oi wouvvo. Here in this State the pioaa- rs ai.d those who have come after I '-e : took do, the land ih'it would ordinir-ly be L-hosPu as Intel that v.-uvld yield ra-turr. ra-turr. with litt'e effort. You too a stale which at the ruttet was called after the d'-ssr!, and ou jitp.ally, not tig'.i-a'.'vely h ive mfid tho wildera39S to blotsocu is I be r is. At the conclusion of the President's Presi-dent's address Gov. Wells introduced intro-duced Sec. Muody, who sec die audience almost wild with enthusiasm en-thusiasm by the promise that r.extyear, if five new battleships ivere built, cne of them should be named Utah. The rough riders from Cache coutitv, 51) strong, made the trip with their horses safe y, arriving ar-riving home Sunday. They made a banlsome appearai cs in the parade. Secretary Wilson is pleased to ie?.rn that the Russian wheat he sent to the Agricultural' college at Logan some time ago has been successfully grown here. The yield was 89 bushels to 4? bush-e'.s bush-e'.s to the acre. |