NATION GREETS COLONEL ROOSEVELT. 



them I wish to thank the American people for their greeting. I 

 need hardly say I am most deeply moved by the reception given 

 me. No man could receive such a greeting without being made to 

 feel both very proud and very humble. 



" I have been away a year and a quarter from America and I 

 have seen strange and interesting things alike in the heart of the 

 frowning wilderness and in the capitals of the mightiest and most 

 highly polished of civilized nations. I have thoroughly enjoyed 

 myself, and now I am more glad than I can say to get home, to be 

 back in my own country, back among people I love. And I am 

 ready and eager to do my part so far as I am able in helping solve 

 problems which must be solved if we of this, the greatest democratic 

 Republic upon which the sun has ever shone, are to see its destinies 

 rise to the high level of our hopes and its opportunities. 



DUTY OF CITIZENS. 



" This is the duty of every citizen, but it is peculiarly my duty; 

 for any man who has ever been honored by being made President of 

 the United States is thereby forever after rendered the debtor of the 

 American people and is bound throughout his life to remember this 

 as his prime obligation, and in private life as much as in public life 

 so to carry himself that the American people may never have cause 

 to feel regret that once they placed him at their head." 



After the brief exercises at the Battery the land parade started. 

 Because of the great number of organizations from all over the 

 country that wanted to march, the parade was limited to little more 

 than an escort. A selection was made, therefore, and these bodies 

 were lined up on both sides of Fifth Avenue. 



The parade was led by a squadron of mounted police, followed 

 by the Squadron A mounted band. The Roosevelt Rough Riders, 

 who were holding their first reunion since 1905, came next, escort- 

 ing their former Colonel. 



The Rough Riders had assembled under Colonel Alexander A. 

 Brodie, who was a major in the old regiment. The men came from 

 all over the country, though mostly from the West. Colonel Brodie 



