Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-09-02
ROOSEVELT At
MINNEAPOLIS.
Vice President Visits the Minnesota
State Fair Opening.
DELIVERS SHORT ADDRESS
Minnesota Volunteers Reviewed and
General Good Fine Had
La his Honor.

Minneapolis, Sept 2--vlce President
Theodore Roosevelt arrived here THIS
morning from Chicago to participate In
the exercises Of the opening day OF the
state fair on the invitation Of the MIN.
nesota state agricultural society The
Ice president viii be the guest during
ms stay in Minneapolis Of Senators
Nelson ana Clapp and VIII stay at The
nome Of National Committeeman Il. ii,
Shiveley.
committee, consisting OF Governor
Van SAINT, United States Senator Moses
y, Clapp w. Il. Merriam, United states
director OF the Census ii. a. Boardman,
president OF the Commercial club Of 81.
Paul; George Thompson, editor OF OF
The 81. Paul Dispatch. a. II. Lindke
and George r. French, boarded the car
at ST. Paul and accompanied the Vice
President to Minneapolis where he was
greeted by President John Cooper, of
the Agricultural society, while humid
reds Of people thronglng the station
platform and streets, shouted and
waved their welcome.
The party then boarded the private
electric car Of President Lowry, OF the
Minneapolis Street Railway company.
for trip around the loop" view OF
the city. and TO the fair grounds at
Hamline, when the opening ceremonies
began.
Vice-President Roosevelt in beginning
his address paid a high tribute to the
character and energy Of the men des-
cended, he said, from race Of pon-
GERS which had pushed westward into
the wilderness and laid the foundations
for new commonwealth The mel
with ak and pick and pillow, who, he
said had pushed 10 completion the do
mlnion Of our people over the Amerl-
can wilderness, had shown by their
qualities Of daring, endurance and far
sightedness that they recognized Ia
practical form the fundamental law or
success In American life-the law Of
worthy work, the law Of resolute, high
endeavor.
Continuing, he said
1T seems TO me that the simple ac-
coptanoe Of this fundamental fact Of
American life will help US 70 start
Alright In facing not few problems
that confront us from without and from
within.
1--WE cannot possibly do our best
work as nation unless all OF US know
how 70 act in combination as well as to
act each individually for himself. This
acting In combination can take many
forms. but OF course its most effective
| form must be when II comes IN shape
| Of law, that Is, Of action by the COM
munity as whole through the law
| making bodies. Ii is not only highly
| desirable, but necessary that there
/ -. t.t. ,.tb baI
| fully shield the interests OF work.
| ers, and which shall discriminate In
| favor Of the honest and humane en-
| ployer by removing the disadvantage
| under which he stands when compared
with INSCRIPTIONS competitors who
| have no conscience and will do right
only under fear OF punishment. Nor
| can legislation stop with what are
| termed labor questions The vast in
| dividual and corporate fortunes, the
| vast combinations Of capital which
| have marked the development OF our
Industrial system create new conditions
and necessitate a change from the old
attitude Of the state and nation toward
prosperity"
There was. he contended, but ths
scantiest Justification for most OF the
outcry against men OF wealth. as such,
| and Il ought not 10 be necessary, he said,
| to state that any appeal which finally
entails the possibility Of lawlessness
and violence was an attack upon the
fundamental properties Of American
| citizenship.
"Our interests are at bottom COM
mon" he continued. "ln the long run
we go up or down together. Yet more
and more It Is evident that the state,
and II necessary the nation has got 10
possess the right OF supervision and
| control as regards the great corpora
| lions which are its creaturesi particu-
larry as regards the great business
| combinations which derive a portion OF
their Importance from the existence OF
some monopollstlc tendency"
As 10 our relations with foreign pow
ers, Vice President Roosevelt said that
our nation. while first OF al seeing 10
It's own domestic well being. must
not shrink from playing its part among
the great nations without,
The further program includes re-
cention In the Jobbers linton building,
n luncheon al the fair grounds by the
state Fair association. and a review OF
the Thirteenth Minnesota regiment OF
volunteers and dinner at the Mime
apols club this evening.