Show VAST CROWD Of i 1 PEOPLE PRESENT Roosevelt Delivers Several Short Speeches Before the Main Show in 11 Big Tent ADVICE TO LEGISLATORS ASKED TO HAVE FAITH Lausing lIch Mich May President 1 Roosevelt whose address this afternoon after afternoon afternoon noon on the campus of or the Michigan Agricultural college was the climax of the celebration of the founding round of that t at famous Institution ar arrived rived Jh n Lansing at nt 10 this morning over the Lake Shore railroad He made a number of or short addresses during the morning from his car platform plat platform form fonn at t small towns Special excursion trains had lad been bringing in thousands of people since daylight and when the ther r residents train arrived the number of strangers rs In the city was estimated at atI I Twelve Twelve companies of the Mich MichIgan MichIgan MichIgan Igan national guard had hod been brought Into the th city to escort and guard the president together with a troop of cavalry cavalry alry from South Haven Baven Mich and two di divisions of or the Michigan naval reserve serve r Vast Crowd Present j I ILI The presidents train arrived at tho the Lake LI e Shore station which is located i pon the riverfront river front fifty feet below belo the tho I level of or Michigan avenue Eight com companies companies companies of militia and the cavalry caal were In line tine on avenue to keep kc back the thousands of people who crowded around for tor a n glimpse JUm se of or the chief executive executive executive tive as he climbed the stairway to tho the street escorted by b Governor Varner Yarner and United States Senators Burrows rind and Smith Battery Batter A of or the Michigan national guard fired a salute of twenty ono guns as ns the president entered his c carriage The president was driven up UI I Michigan n avenue Denue to North avenue the main thoroughfare thence to Capitol I J avenue e and tg ti the main entrance of or orr r the state capitol grounds I IThe The thousands gathered there were held back in iw check by a line Une of troops extending a full square in front of the building 1 Lined along on on one side of oft tle t e walk from the avenue to the capitol steps were boys from the state in industrial industrial dustral school In whom the president took an especial interest as h y passed speaking to a number individually U UOn On th the other side of the walk was vas a I company of cadets from Flint and sev several several several eral hundred old soldiers Doffing his hat and bowing repeatedly the president president dent entered the capitol where wh re he heM held helda heMa heMar a ar reception In the executive parlors I After Arter shaking hands with about a thou thousand u thousand u usand sand persons he stepped out upon the balcony of the capitol and faced people gathered there in anticipation of ot ofa ota ofa a speech The president spoke for about five minutes making a special point of the I I pleasure it gave him to see the boys from the industrial school in their gray uniforms and with ith their hell wooden mus inus muskets muskets lie He spoke words of especial greet greeting greeting greeting ing to the veterans of the civil and Spanish wars war and the militiamen con continuing continuing continuing Presidents Military Service I served at Santiago beside two Michigan regiments of volunteers and andI I was waa instrumental In seeing that the Michigan naval brigade taught the mi militia militia militia litia and the seamen of the ocean that men know how to sail and shoot upon the inland waters One word of con congratulation congratulation congratulation to the state on what Mich Michigan h higan igan has done for the marksmanship of the citizens ns I dont have lave to tell you that one of the prime necessities is that when a soldier shoots he should be able to hit something Encourage marks marksmanship marksmanship marksmanship manship among our people as a whole Encourage marksmanship In n the na national tonal guard and give every chance to any body of private citizens to practice In the armories or elsewhere and give them all the opportunity that can bo be given them Build up the old Ameri Amer American American can power of shooting straight The president was given an ovation as he concluded his balcony balcon speech and went into the han halt of the house hous of representatives rep representatives rep representatives to address ad re s the members of the legislature Ho He spoke there about ten minutes He said that the railroad problem in this country must be dealt with unflinchingly but with sanity and andreason andreason andreason reason There Ther must mu t be steady progress along the th lines already laid down He I also mentioned some of of his own experiences II as a member of the New York legislature Duties of Legislators l I I f L The president urged upon upon the legisla I I tors tor the necessity for J men to be careful about making campaign prom prom Ilses and about keeping them when i made Applying this to the question of control of great corporations he said We Weare are still a n long way from the and he be pointed out o t the danger of or committing yourselves to a program that promises too much muchAs muchAs muchAs As to the foolish conservatives cons they failed herald to tu see se that we are the real conservatives the real friends of property when we try tr to do away awa with the abuse of the property We must not be misled either by these often well meant men who let a vague general desire to reform every everything everything thing supplant the place of exact thinking in their minds and who therefore promise too loosely what could not possibly be performed or else indulge in a general declamation against the evils without pointing out how the evils are to be cut out Continuing he said Sanity as s Well as s Courage I In the war against the abuses of great Individuals and especially of great corporate wealth we need to show absolute unflinching resolution and yet et to combine that with sanity as aswell aswell s swell well as with courage We need to show too the very reverse re reverse verse of any vindictive spirit The minute you begin to display any spirit of revenge or to administer the laws in ht ina ina hta a spirit of revenge you are starting to invoke trouble and ultimately reaction We Ve need to show the spirit of or Abraham Lincoln his sanity and his broad and kindly charity and yet his resolute determination de determination termination that the evil shall be e done away with You have been bei n very kind In alluding to certain things that I have done or have tried to do My power to do them depended entirely upon upon the support that I have received from the representatives tives Uns in congress ss frem Michigan and all allour allour allour our other states Applause We V have taken certain steps some good long iong steps in the line Une of securing a better of justice without without with without out regard to whether the man is rich rl h hor or poor and we have taken steps to toward toward toward ward securing better laws for the su supervision supervision supervision and control of the great for fortunes fortunes fortunes tunes especially of gnat great corporate for fortunes fortunes fortunes tunes used in business We are going steadily forward along alon those lines and the only party allusion I shall make today is to say that the Republican party in 99 39 per cent of its makeup and andin in ih ii all its highest thought is essentially the he party of Abraham braham plain people and shall continue to be such There will not be one backward ba step along the course which we have marked out to follow Loud and prolonged applause Asked to Have Faith I ask you to judge of present promises prom promises Iss by past performances and to re request request request quest from your our representatives from your public men not promises of the impossible but promises of certain things that can be done one which will not bring about a complete solution of the difficulties that confront us but which will be another long stride toward that complete solution and finally above aboc all allI things thing sf to approach the problem In a I proper spirit in the thc Lincoln spirit notto not I to be misled by b the Ute demagogues on one oneide side ide or reaction upon the other Letus Let Letus Letus us set our faces like Pint against pred predatory predatory predatory atory wealth but also against predatory preda predl predatory tory poverty with the thc emphasis on the predatory On leaving the capitol the president pres dent and party were conveyed in automo automobiles biles hues to t the residence of President Snyder Snyder 50 der of the thc Agricultural college At 2 k the president delivered I his formal address addre s from a n platform I erected at the head of the Ute college cam campus camI campus I pus |