The Topeka state journal., 1901-11-08
TURNED AWAY.
Thousands Unable to Gain Ad-
mission to Hear Cleveland.

Pittsburg, Pa. Nov. S.-The exercises
celebrating Founders day at the Car
negie institute which have come to
be recognized as an event of great in
terest not only to the people of Pitts
burg, but those of other cities. were held
In Music hall yesterday afternoon Sell
dom, if ever, before has the occasion
been SO interesting and attended by so
many people Long before the hour set
for commencing the exercises the ca
pacity of the hall was strained and the
doors had to be closed, barring out at
least 1900 disappointed people, who had
Jtood in line for a long time hoping to
gain admission Aside from the national
interest attaching to the opening of the
Institutes winter season of art and
music, the presence of Grover Cleveland
as orator of the day and of Mrs Cleve-
land as hOnOred guest, served to aug
ment the desire of the people to partici-
pate in the exercises The entrance of
Mrs Cleveland into one of the boxes
was the occasion of hearty and prolong-
ed applause. Hardly had this noise
Subsided when another OutburSt greeted
the appearance of ex-President Cleve-
land on the stage The vast audience
received the distinguished guest by ris-
ing and giving expression to its pleasure
by hand clapping and waving of hand
Ex-President Cleveland spoke of 1.-THE
Obligations of National partnership"
saying in part:
1.-THE most serious and persistent evil
that disturbs cooperation among our
people is found in the contentious and
quarrelS between employers and en-
ployeS. Surely as an original proposition
there should be no antagonism in this
country between labor and capital. On
the contrary they should be in close al
lance and friendship Our institutions
forbid that an explanation of such an
tagOniSm should be found in class jeal-
ousy and abuses. No American citizen
was ever yet doomed by birth to a life
OF labor or poverty, and fortunes are the
products of industry and intelligent en-
deavor Labor and capital touch and
m1ngleso-constantly and naturally among
us that the laborer today is frequently
the employer of labor tomorrow. They
should always supplement each other as
the warm rain supplements the fertile
soil. to produce in Joint contribution an
abundant store of the riches of nature
Nor can the most consuming desire for
happiness excuse contentious envy of
capitalistic wealth, for it is beyond rea-
sonable dispute that the bulk of happi-,
ness among the American people is
founded on plane OF our social life far
below that occupied by the rich. The
money getting and money keeping and
the strangling of genuine pleasure which
IS so often the result, certainly ought
not to excite the envy Of the man who
contentedly works with his hands and
who by an irrepealable fiat may find in
his work the way to real. simple, unper-
vel tC0 AdpPIHcSS- w Lille skAedILfIl4 ana
normal conditions of national partner
ship forbid envy and unfrfendliness on
the part of the employed toward en-
ploying capital, so also such conditions
most emphatically forbid the grinding
Eelfshness, the greedy rapacity and SUI
percilfOus haughtiness which too often
characterizes the treatment of the
1aborer employed by capital
Il desire distinctly to disclaim any
intention TO suggest what may be the
cause or causes of the dislocation which
unfortunately frequently occurs in
the relationship of labor to capital
Whether it results from unreasonable