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Show UTAH GREliTS 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, leaving leav-ing at 1:35 for Ogden, where he spoke at the city hall at 3:15, leaving at 4:45 for the east. The longests peech made by President Presi-dent Roosevelt on his present trip was made at the tabernacle during the visit of the president to Salt Lake City. In his speeceh 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 them took not the laud 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 literally made the wilderness to blossom blos-som as the rose. I believe in my countrymen in Utah here, and in your fellows throughout this wide nation, na-tion, because I believe that you have in you that cbmbination of practical common 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 upon which the sun has yet shone." |