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Show REFERS TO DISASTERS President Talks of Tornado Tor-nado and Floods in Speech in Iowa. DENISON, la.. June 2. During, the early morning President Roosevelt passed through much of the flooded district of Iowa. Extra precautions had been taken by the railroad authorities and the tracks over which the train passed was carefully watched and in some cases the train was slowed up. Secretary Shaw and Senators Allison and Dolliver Joined the party here. President Roosevelt was greeted by a large crowd and spoke as follows: "Friends: At this time as I come into your beautiful State there have come calamities ca-lamities upon your people here in Iowa and to even greater degree In Kansas and Missouri. 1 see by today's papers the awful aw-ful disaster In Georgia. "We have Biblical authority, as well as the authority of common sense for the statement that the. rain falls on the Just and the unjust alike. "When the hand of the Lord Is heavy on anybody the wisdom of man can do but little. Now and then in our country from drought, from flood, from pestilence, trouble trou-ble and misfortune will come, but oh, my friends, as I drive through your city this morning and now as I look at you. the men and women of this State, I know that all your troubles are temporary, that misfortunes will be met and overcome, because be-cause in heart and hand the American citizen cit-izen is able to win his way in the long run." |