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Show llOLLY SPEECH FOR MONTANA MADE BY ! ROOSEVELT TO BIG( CROWD AT HELENA power of your waters'. " In the next ' place those waters will' be, used under .wise schemes of' 'irrigation until you make this whole State blossom like the rose. - You need first of all to distribute the water -in space-through the Irrigating Irrigat-ing ditches, and then to preserve It In time by storage reservoirs, . so as to keep the floods that run to waste at one season for use at the season when they are most needed. And Congress, the national legislature, has not of re-t re-t cent years put upon the statute books I II II IISHI I II any law as. wise, as beneficent as the national irrigation act of a year ago." After the address, the President was escorted Into the State house, where took place an Informal reception In which former Senator Thomas H. Carter Car-ter and members of the Montana Legislature Legis-lature took part. ' After a short drive over the city, the President and party boarded the special train which had been transferred to the Great Northern, track, and . at 12:30 o'clock the trafn lett for Butte. HELENA,. Mont.,' May 27. President Iloosevelt's special ' train arrived here over the Northern, Pacific at 8:30 o'clock this morning on. schedule time.. An' Immense Im-mense crowd was at the ; station to greet the President. Around the station sta-tion a cordon of soldiers had. been 'stationed, 'sta-tioned, while a battalion, of the Twenty-sixth .United States Infantry'; from Fort Harrison was drawn 'up opposite the train. . .'( Among the delegation' at the' station were many old-time Western friends of ; President Roosevelt. One of .the first j persons he inquired- about -was John Willis, hunter and trapper of Thompson, Thomp-son, Mont.-, with whom he had camped years ago in this State. After an Informal reception' at' the station. President Roosevelt and Secretary Secre-tary Loeb, accompanied -by Gov. Toole ; and Mayor Edwards, entered, carriages and the parade moved to the capltol. On the way the procession' passed several sev-eral thousand school children, massed In front of the high-school bulldlrfg. The main audience was at the-cfcpltol, where the President made a thirty-minute thirty-minute 'address from the grand' stairway stair-way to main entrance. In the .course of the speech President . Roosevelt said: ' "It Is a ' great pleasure to come through' this State and to see legibly written for the most unobservant . to read assured promise of a future greatness. great-ness. -I sometimes think that you yourselves your-selves do not altogether realize how great that future will be. Your mines count for. much; your ranches count for much, but most of all is going to be' done by the water . (voices, . "Good! Good!" and applause) and In two ways: In the first place, thanks to Ibe rapid fall of the rivers from the mountains, there Is a well-nigh inexhaustible source Of power In your streams, which- will certainly be used in the building up of great manufactures. We are going to see great manufacturing1 centers here la Mc-tsr-a, f :vur i cl ila |