The sun., 1900-09-04
CHICAGO HAD A
GREAT CELEBRATION
OF LABOR Day
w. }. Bryan and Theodore
Roosevelt Deliver Speeches
to Many Thousands.
WORKMEN IN GREAT PARADE
What They Heard From the Demo
cratic Presidential Nominee and
Republican Vice Presidential
Candidate--Much Enthu-
siaSm Shown.

Chicago, Sept. 3.-OrganiZed laDor
passed in review before Colonel William
J. Bryan and Colonel Theodore Roose-
welt. Hour after hour the labor unions
marched down Michigan avenue past the
Auditorium hotel. ON the loggia of which
stood the Democratic nominee for presi-
dent, the Republican vice presidential
candidate, together with Charles a.
Towne Senator w. Il. Mason and
dozen other political leaders. Both Bry-
an and Roosevelt were heartily greeted
by the men as they marched by the hu-
tel.
When the last man of the long line Of
marchers had swung round Michigan
avenue into jackson boulevard, Colonel
Bryan and Colonel Roosevelt went in-
side the hotel, where soon after they sat
down to a luncheon given by labor repre-
sentatives. 1t was flag of truce
luncheon, for tho trades unions declared
that in the celebration of Labor day
there was to be no politics.
While the parade was moving n host
of people. mostly the families of work
ingmen. gathered in Electric park,
where the speeches of the day were de-
livercd. The principal speakers We're
Colonel Bryan and Colonel Roosevelt
The latter delivered his speech before
Colonel Bryan spoke.
ROOseyeIt's Speech.
He said in part:
The fundamental law of healthy political life in
this great republic is that each man shall in deed
and not merely in word lie treated strictly on his
worth as man; that each shall do full justice 10
his fellow and IN return shall exact full justice
from him. Eac! group of men has its special IN
tcress, and yet the higher, the broader and deeper
interests are those which apply to all men alike,
for the spirit OF brotherhood in American citizen
ship. when rightly understood and rightly applied,
is more important tlan aught else. Let us
scrupulously guard the special interests OF the
wage worker, the farmer, the manufacturer and
the merchant, giving to each man his due ana
also seeing that he does not wrong his fellows,
but let us keep ever clearly before our minds the
great fact that where the deepest chords are
touched the interests of all are alike and must
be guarded alike.
We must beware of any attempt TO make hatred
in any form the basis of action. Most emphatical'
ly each OF us needs to Stand up for his own
rights. All men and groups Of men are bound
to retain their self respect and demanding the
same respect from others to that they are
not injured and that they have secured to them
the fullest liberty Of thought and action, but to
feed fat grudge against others while it may
or may not harm them, is sure in the long run
to do infinite harm to the man himself
The more a healthy American sees of ones fell
low Americans the greater grows his conviction
that chief troubles come from mutual nls-
understanding, from failure to appreciate one an
others point OF view In other words, the great
need is fellow feeling. sympathy, brotherhood
and all this naturally comes by association. 1t is,
therefore, of vital Importance that there should
be such association.
Before us loom industrial problems vast in
their importance and their complexity. The last
half century has been one Of extraordinary social
and industrial development. The changes have
been farreaching, some of them for good and some
of them for evil. II is not given to the wisest
of us to see into the future with absolute clear
ness No man can be certain that he has found
the entire solution of this infinitely great and in
tricate problem, and yet each man of us, il he
would do his duty, must strive manfully SO far
as in him lies to help bring about that solution.
All say is that the need has been shown
the one hand for action by the people, in their
collective capacity through the state, in many
matters; that in other matters much can be done
by associations of different groups of individuals,
as in trade unions and similar organizations. and
that in other matters il remains true as
NJ ever that final success will be for the man who
trusts in the struggle only to his cool hand, his
tf brave heart and his strong right arm. There are
s spheres in which the state can properly act and
4 spheres in which a comparatively free field must
be given to individual initiative.
& Colonel Bryan's Speech.
% Colonel Bryan said in part:
3 No civilization can be considered perfect which
born into the world. The nearer we approach to
this ideal the better is our civilization. Those
who complain of existing conditions cannot be
put aside disturbers of the peace. To seek a
remedy for every abuse of government is more
patriotic than to profit by bad systems and then
frown down all criticism.
There should be antagonism between those
engaged in the various occupations, and there will
be none when all recognize the mutual obligations
which are due between citizens. Our desire should
be not to separate the people into warning fac
tisns, but to develop wider acquaintance and
greater sympathy with each other.
The enmity which the poor sometimes feel to-
ward the rich and the contempt which the rich
sometimes manifest toward the poor would be
avoided II each knew the other better and bot
were content to be guided by the strict rules o.
justice.
The extremes Of society really not fal
apart as they appear Those who work for wages
TODAY may under a good government, be EN-
ployers in a few years, and the sons Of those whC
are employers today may in short time. be da,
laborers. --..
Since no one can save posterity from the evi
effects of bad law, all should strive for legisls
tion which will protect leach citizen in his rght
and in the enjoyment bf the fruits of his owl
genius his own industry and his own integrity.
Several years ago the isccret ballot was demand
ed by the wage earners for their own protection
That ballot has been obtained, and through iti
operations those who toll for individuals or cor
poratons are able to protect their political right
and TO use the ballot according to their owI
judgments. This is long step in advance
The labor organization has done much to lesser
the evils of child labor. No one can visit th'
factories where children employed without
contemplating the crime which Is being perpe