CHAPTER VII. ST. LOUIS TO SAN FRANCISCO. During the evening the President visited the Music Hall, where a meeting was held under the auspices of the General Franz Siegel Monument Association. He said a few words to fully 3,000 people in appreciation of General Siegel and the cause for which he had fought. The President reached Kansas City at 9 a. m., May 1, and spent five hours in the city. His reception was intensely enthusiastic, it being estimated that fully 100,000 people were in the crowds. The schools were closed and business generally suspended. He passed first through the Pazo, a driveway a mile in length and lined by 20,000 school children, each of whom waved a small American flag. The convention hall, where the President made a speech, was beautifully decorated. The seating capacity, 18,000, was fully occupied. A feature was the greeting of sixty Harvard graduates, who gave the university yell, ending with the word "Roosevelt." Mayor Reed introduced the President, who said: “I do not usually say anything about our being a reunited country, because it is not necessary. Of course, we are a reunited country, and in every northern audience, whenever I see a group of men wearing the button of the Grand Army of the Republic, I am certain to find a group of men ready to cheer every allusion to the gallantry of the men who wore the gray." He discussed the question of good citizenship, saying, "In our complex relation of employe and employer, of one class with another class, of one section with another section, we can work out a really successful result only if those interested will get together and make an honest effort each to understand his neighbor's viewpoint, and then an honest effort each, while working for his own interests, to avoid working to the detriment of his neighbor." After an elaborate luncheon at the Baltimore |