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Show UTAH GREETS PRESIDENT. President Delivers Speech in Tabernacle Taber-nacle Which Was the Longest of the Trip. Friday was "President's Day" in Utah, and the chief executive of the "nation was given a royal welcome by the youngest state in the Union. The presidential train reached Salt Lake City at 8:: 30, and was greeted by one of the largest crowds ever congregated congre-gated in the capital city. At 8:35 the parade started, and the president was given a continuous ovation during his ride to the city and county building, where he made an adress to the school children. At 10:05 he arrived at the tabernacle, and at 10:20 began his -address. At 11:30 he was entertained at breakfast by Senator Kearns, leav- j Ing at 1:35 for Ogdcn, where he spoke at the city hall at 3:15, leaving at 4:45 for the east. j The longests peech made by Presl-: dent. Roosevelt on bis present trip was made at the tabernacle during I the visit of the president to Salt Lake City. In his spcoceh he spoke of the mining, agriculture and stock raising! of Utah. He made a plea against the destruction of the ranges and the forests. for-ests. The desirability of cultivating small farms well and of turning especial espec-ial attention toward agriculture was dwelt upon. The importance of irrigation irri-gation and the lessons in Utah were discussed. Promise of government aid was made, but especial stress was laid on the necessity for individual effort ef-fort in the building up of the state and nation. During the course of his speeech the president said: ' Here in this state the pioneers and those who came after thorn took not the land that was ordinarily ordi-narily to be chosen as a land that will yield return with a little effort; you took a state which at the outset was called after the desert (Deseret), and you literally, not figuratively lltorally made the wilderness to blossom blos-som as the rose. 1 believe in my countrymen In Utah here, and in your follows throughout this wide nation, na-tion, because I believe that you have in you that combination of practical cor.mion sense and generous and lofty enthusiasm which has made this nation na-tion great in the past and which, within with-in the limits of the present century, "will make it greater than any nation Tipon which the sun has yet shone." |