Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-03
ROOSEVELT ON LABOR DAY.
His Speech Well Received by Vast
Audience.

Chicago. Sept. 3.-Coming on in the
place announced in the days programme
Governor Roosevelt's speech made a
great hit with the vast audience. His
speech was upwards of an hour in length
of which the following are brief extracts:
BY far the greatest problem the most
far-reaching in it's StupendOuS import
ance, is that problem which we have
grown to speak of as the labor question.
LABOR THE FOUNDATION OF So
CIAL STRUCTURE.
'"Ihe foundation of our whole social
structire rests uopn the material AMI
moral we'll being, the intelligence, the
foresight, the sanity, the sense of duty
and the wholesale patriotism of the Wa, 2
worker This is doubly the case now,
for, in addition to each mars indi yidu.il
action we have nation of laborers to
consider. In addressing you, the one
thing that l wish to avoid is any glitter
ing generality, any mere high sounding
phraseology and any appeal whatsoever
made in demagogic spirit or In spirit
of mere emotionalism. When we come
to deal with social and industrial needs.
remedies, rights and wrongs, a ton Of
oratory is not worth an ounce Of hard
headed, kindly common sense. The fun
damental law of healthy political life in
this great republic is that each man shall
in deed and not merely in word be treat
ed strictly on his worth as man that
each shall do full justice to 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: 70" the
spirit of brotherhood in Amerioan citiz-
enship, when rightly understood and
rightly applied, is more important than
aught else. Let us regard the special
interest of the wage worker. the farmer
the manufacturer and the merch"nt,
giving to each his due and see tha' ne
does not wrong his fellows. but let us
keep clearly before our minds the great
fact that where the deepest chords are
touched, the interests of all are a;lke
and must be guarded alike. We must he
ware of any attempt to make hatred in
any form the basis of action. Most en-
phatically Zach of us needs to stand up
for his own rights All mel ana all
groups of man are bound to retain their
self respect and in demanding this same
respect from others to see that they are
rot injured and that they have secured
10 them the fullest liberty of thought and
action But to feel grudge against 9TH
ers. whether or not it may harm them,
is sure in the long run to do far greater
harm to the man himself. The more
a healthy American sees of ones fellow
men, the greater grows his conviction
that our chief troubles come from mu-
tual misunderstanding from failur, to
appreciate on anotHer pom. " view
In other words, our great need is fellow
feeling, sympathy, brotherhood and all
this naturally comes by associa tion. 1t
is therefore of vital Importance that
there should be such association. Th"
mcst serious dsad vantage in city !ife is
the tendency of each man to keep isolat-
ed in his own little set. and to look upon
the vast majority of his fellow citizens
indifferently, SO that he soon comes to
forget that they have the same blood,
the same love and hatred, the
same likes and dislikes. the same
desire for good ana the same
perpetual tendency, eve needing to ne
checked and corrected. TO lapse from