The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03
Gov. ROOSEVELT
SPEAKS TOLABOR
The Republican Candidate for
Vice President
Addresses Assembled Thousands
at Chicago Celebration.
A MAMMOTH PARADE.
LIS Reviewed by Him and Bryan
From Same Stand.
They Then Sit Down to a
Luncheon Together.
ALL OVER THE LAND.
Day is Appropriately Observed
in Many Other Cities.
Twenty-Five Thousand Men in
Line in st. Louis.
Is Reviewed by Him and Bryan
From Same Stand.
They Then Sit Down to a
Luncheon Together.
ALL OVER THE LAND.
Day is Appropriately Observed
in Many Other Cities.
Twenty-Five Thousand Men in
Line in st. Louis.

Chicago. Sept. 3.-Organized labor of
Chicago today passed in review before
Colonel William J. Bryan and Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt. Hour after hour
the labor unions marched down Michi-
gan avenue past the Auditorium Hotel
logga where stood the Democratic
nominee for president the Republican
vice presidential candidate, together
with Charles 4. Towne, Senator William
E. Mason and a dozen other political
leaders Both Bryan and Roosevelt were
heartily greeted by the men as they
marched past the hotel When the last
man of the long line of marchers had
swung around Michigan avenue into
jackson boulevard, Colonel Bryan and
Colonel Roosevelt went inside the hotel
where soon after they sat down to a
luncheon, given by labor representatives.
1t was flag of truce" luncheon for the
trades union men had declared that in
the celebration of Labor Day there was
to be no politics.
While the parade was moving host
of people, mostly the families of work.
ingmen gathered in Electric park where
the speeches of the day were delivered:
Tn programme of speeches was as fol-
lows:
Charles A Towne, Samuel Alschuyler.
Democratic candidate for governor of
Illinois; Richard Yates, the Republican
gubernator1al nominee; William E.
Mason, Mayor Rose of Milwaukee, Mayor
Harrison of Chicago, r. NJ. Patterson
and P, ]. O'Donnell, to speak in the or
der given; p m, Colonel Bryan
This evening there will be more speak
ing, commencing with an address by
John r. Finerty.
Colonel Roosevelt will leave here late
this afternoon and Colonel Bryan at 8
o'clock tonight. The latter takes the
Baltimore & Ohio to Cumberland, Md,
where he will open the campaign in that
state tomorrow.
ROOSEvELTS SPEECH.
In his address Governor Roosevelt
said:
BY far the greatest problem, the most
far-reaching in its stupendous import
ance, is that problem, or rather that
group of problems which we have grown
to speak of as the labor question. The
foundation of our whole social structure
rests upon the material and moral we'll
being, the intelligence. the foresight, the
sanity, the sense of duty and the whole
sale patriotism of the wage-worker.
This is dOubly the case now, for, in ad
dition to each mans individual action
you have learned the great lesson of
acting in combination. It would be i'm
possible to overestimate the far-reach-
ing influence of, and on The whole, the
amount of good done through your as
sociations. In addressing you the one
thing that I wish to avoid is any gilt
tering generality, any mere high sound
ing phraSeOlOgy, and above all any ap
peal whatsoever made in a demagogic
spirit, or in a spirit of mere emotion
alism. When we come to dealing with
our social and industrial needs, rem
edies, rights and wrongs, a ton of ora
tory is not worth an ounce of hard
headed, kindly common sense. The
fundamental law of healthy political
life in this great republic is that each
man shall in deed and not merely in
word be treated strictly on his worth
as a man; that each shall do full JUS
tice to his fellow, and in return shall
exact full justice from him. Each
group of men has it's special interests;
and yet the higher, the broader and
deeper interests are those which apply
to all men alike; for the spirit of broth
erhood in American citizenship, when
rightly understood and rightly applied,
is more important than aught else. Let
us scrupulously guard the special in
tereStS of the wage-wOrker, the farmer,
the manufacturer and the merchant,
giving to each man his due and also
seeing that he does not wrong his fell
lows; but let us ever keep clearly be-
fore 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 emphatically each of us
needs to stand up for his own rights;
all men and all groups of men are
bound to retain their self-respect, and
in demanding this same respect from
others to see that they are not injured
and that they have secured to them the
fullest liberty of thought and action
But to feel a grudge against 9TH
ers, while it may or may not harm
them, is sure in the long run to do in
finitely greater harm to the man him
self
The more a healthy American sees of
ones fellow Americans, the greater
grows his conviction that our chief trou-
bles come from mutual misunderstand-
ing, from failure to appreciate one an
others point of view. In other words,
the great need is fellow feeling, sympa-
thy, brotherhood; and all this naturally
comes by association. 1t is therefore, of
vital Importance that there should be
such association. The most serious dis
advantage in city life is the tendency of
each man to keep isolated in his own lit
tie set, and to look upon the vast ma
jority of his fellow citizens indiffa<ently
so that he soon comes to forget that
they have the same red blood the same
love and hate, the same likes and dis
likes, the same desire for good, and the
same perpetual tendency, ever needing
to be checked and corrected, to lapse
from good into evil. If only our people