The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-09-04
GOV. ROOSEVELT
AND COL. BRYAN
Speak on Labor'S Power at Chicago,
and Politics We're Barred at Earnest
Desire Of the Organizations.

cult 10 see why the burden OF this reform
should be thrown upon the laborlng man.
Surely. the employer. II he would take a
comprehensive view OF his own interests,
would be as much benefited by arbitra-
ton as the employe, and because every
prolonged contest between labor and cap
ital brings interruption to business and
pecuniary loss to those who are in no
way responsible for the disagreement, So
ciety I'm general is more interested than
employers or employees.
THE desire for justice r. so universal
that the public can be depended upon TO
support the finding OF an impartial board
or arbitration as certainly as IL can 10
support the successful contestant OF
law suit. The court of arbitration is one
OF the certainties OF the future, and when
IL Ia secured and perfected we shall won
der why it's coming was delayed SO long"
Mr.. Bryan then proceeded to make
strong speech on Imperialism and trusts.
GOV. RoosEvELT's SPEECH
Gov. Roosevelt spoke at some length,
his remarks being. i'm part, as follows:
The fundamental law of healthy politi-
cal life I'm this great Republic Is that each
man shall I'm deed and not merely I'm
word, be treated strictly on his worth as
man; that each shall, do full justt1e 10
his fellow. and In return shall exact full
justice from him. Each group OF men has
its special interests; and yet the higher,
the broader and deeper interests are
those which apply to all men alike: for
tho spirit OF brotherhood i'm American
citizenship. when rightly understood and
rightly applied. is more important than
aught else Let us scrupulously guard the
special interests of the wage worker, the
farmer. the manufacturer and the mer-
chant. giving 10 each man his due and al
so seeing that he does not wrong his fell
lows; 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 bewars 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 10
retain their self-respect. and demanding
the same respect from others 10 see that
they are not injured and that they have
secured TO them the fullest liberty OF
thought and action. But TO feed fat a
grudge against others, while II may or
may not harm them. IL sure In the long
run TO do infinite harm 10 the man him.
self
The more healthy American sees of
ones fellow-Americans, the greater
grows his conviction that our chief
troubles come from mutual misunder-
standing, from failure to appreciate one
another's point OF view. In other words.
the great need is fellow feeling, sym
pathy. brotherhood; and all this natur-
ally comes by association.
FAIR PLAY FOR ALL.
II is therefore, OF vital importance
that there should be such association.
The most serious disadvantage TO city
life liz the tendency of each man to keep
isolated in his own little set, and TO look
upon the vast majority of his fellow-cit-
izens indifferently. so that he soon comes
to forget that they have the same red
blood. the same love and hate. the same
likes and dislkes, the same desire for
good. and the same perpetual tendency,
ever needing TO be checked and corrected,
10 lapse from good into evil. III only our
people can be thrown together where
they act on common ground, with the
same motives and the same objects, We
need not have such fear OF their failing
TO acquire a general respect for one an
other and with such respect there must
finally come fair play for all.
Ii is not possible to lay down a hard
and last rule. logically perfect, as TO
when the state shall and when the ind-
vidual shall be left unhampered and un-
helped.
we nave exactly the same r1Rnt TO
regulate the conditions of life and work
i'm factories and tenement houses that we
have to regulate fire escapes and the like
in other houses. In certain communities
the existence of thoroughly efficient de-
partment of factory inspection is just as
essential as the establishment OF a fire
department
How far we shall go In regulating the
hours of labor or the liabilities of en-
s.l..x L.. n
each case may be determined on it's own
merits, exactly as IL is a matter of ex-
pediency TO determine what so-called
public utilities" the community shall
itself own and what ones IL shall leave
to private or corporate ownership, secur-
ing TO itself merely the right to regulate:
sometimes one course is cxpedient,
sometimes the other.
WAGES AND EMPLOYMENT.
During the last two years the Board Of
Mediation and Arbitration has been es-
pecially successful Not only have they
succeeded I'm settling many strikes after
they were started. but they have succeed
ed In preventi.g "A much larger number
of strikes before they got fairly under
way. Where possible. Il IL always better
to mediate before the strike begins than
to try To arbitrate when the fight Is on
bitter.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has
done moro than merely gather the sta
tistics. for by keeping I'm close touch
with all teh leading labor interests IL
has kept them informed on countless
matters that were really of vital con-
cern to them. Incidentally, one pleas
ing feature Of the work OF the bureau has
been the steady upward tendency shown
during the last four years. both I'm the
amount OF wages received and in the
quantity and stcadiness Of employment
No other man has benefited SO much as
the wage-worker by the growth In pros
pcrity during these years
EACH ONE HIS SHARE.
have come here t~lay not 10 preach
to YOU. but partly 90 tell YOU how these
matters look and seem TO me. and part-
~ To set forth certain facts which seem
10 me 90 show. the essential community
OF interest that there Is among all Of us
who strive in good faith 10 do our duty