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Show ROOSEVELT TALKS GOOD CITIZENSHIP MISSOULA, Mont.. April 11. Apparently Ap-parently unmindful of a bitter wind that swept down from tho snow-covered mountains towering about tho city, Theodore Roosevelt preached his doctrines doc-trines of good citizenship today to a crowd of several thousand who stood quietly in the cold for over an hour to hear hlra speak. The former president presi-dent mado only one concession to tho cold that turned his hands red as he swung them about In characteristic gestures to emphasize his words. Half way through his address he remarked, remark-ed, "I'll put on my hat," and tugging the familiar black slouch headgear down over his 'brows, plunged back into tho discussion of tho elements of character which go to make up the good citizen. .Mr. Roosevelt wore no overcoat and scorned gloves, thought those with him on tho stand erected at the intersection inter-section of the- main .streets of tho city, where every breeze' that blow' swirled about him as a storm center, but not by word or look did ho pay tribute to the unfriendly weather At ono point In his remarks Mr. Roosevelt was saluted by the shrill cry of the range-land by way of applause. ap-plause. He stopped In the middle of a gesture and smiled broadly. "He's a cowpuncher, all right," he said, turning toward the point from which the cry came, "He gave mo a fleeting memory of the roundup. I could almost fancy it was the cook, when he calls 'All set." .Mr. Roosevelt opened "his address with a review of his first visit to Mib-soula, Mib-soula, 25 years ago. Ho had paused hero long enough to chance cars, he said, and recalled that as ho looked "pretty rough", he only managed to get in the dining car of the train after considerable argument. His return today to-day was at the Tcqucat of Senator DLxon, he declared, and of the senator ( he said Uiat while In tho White House ho found no member of either house of congress with whom he could work more heartily tiinn Mr. Dixon, cither as a representative or senator. "If I were In the eastorn part of tho state," Mr. Roosevelt said, leaning lean-ing forward to gaze about over the hhhhhWMhhhhhhhhHKB crowd, "I'll bet that there would be somebody in the audience with whom I had eaten dinner at the tall end of a chuck wagon more than once." He referred to his life as a cattleman cattle-man on the Little Missouri many years ago and repeated tho assertion he has made so often on this tour that he never lived in the "short-grass country" coun-try" and learned to know and love the West, he never would have become be-come president of the United States. Clean living and proper conduct at homo, Mr. Roosevelt said, wt?ro tho fundamental principles of good citizenship, citizen-ship, though that was not enough A man must do his dut by the stato and Insist on honest conduct of its affairs. "If you do not see for yourself that you have good government," he said, "you may rest nssured that the other fellow will tako Interest enough to see that you have the other kind. I would have you hunt down the dishonest dishon-est man in public or business life. It is not the crook who is u failure whom I condemn It Is the skilfull crook. Ho is the dangerous man. In any place where admiration Is yielded tb skilfull crookedness, you will nnd something rotten in that community." Senator Dixon Interrupted Mr. Roosevelt to ask that he speak on the commission form of government. The former president complied at once, saying that in muniqipalities not swollen swol-len to great size where this form of administration of public affairs had boen tried, it has proven successful. The short ballot, he said, provided the means by which tho average citizen could take an unjust part in tho affairs af-fairs of the community in which he lived. It meant that when a man accepted ac-cepted public office he also accepted direct responsibility for all his acts. The votor could tell by the results achieved how able he was to fill tho office. The direct election of United States senators by the people Mr. Roosevelt advocated with great vigor. His remarks re-marks drew prompt applause from hh hearers. Ho reforred again to the senate's efforts to "disinfect itself" ltora tho results of the last election of a senator under the old system in Illinois. Illi-nois. Mr. Roosevelt warned his hearers that changing the machinery of government, gov-ernment, after ail, was only a part, though a necessary part, of tho establishment estab-lishment of good governmonL It was moroly an up-to-date weapon, he said, and any weapon, no matter how modern mod-ern in construction, must be in tho hands of the right man to be effective. |