Rock Island Argus., 1901-09-02
Vice President Delivers a
Speech at Minnesota =
Fair.
RECEPTION IN TWIN-CITIEs.
Round Up of the Rough Ri
der's Two Days in
Chicago.

d. RAUL sept. Z--NlCe ETe6l-
dent Roosevelt arrived here this
morning. He was met at the
station by a reception committee
of the Minnesota state agricultural
association who escorted the guest to
the fair grounds at Minneapolis.
Miles joined the party here. At the
fair grounds Roosevelt delivered an
address to the assembled thousands
and was given an enthusiastic recep-
tion.
Vice President Roosevelt in begin
ming his address paid a high tribute
to the character and energy Of the
men descended, he said, from a race
of pioneers which had pushed west
ward into the wilderness and laid the
foundations for new commonwealths.
The men with ak and pick and p!ow,
who, he said, had pushed to complG-
tion the dominion of our people over
the American wilderness. had shown
by their qualities of daring. endur-
ance and far-sightedness that they
recognized in practical form the fun
damental law of success in American
life-the law of worthy work; the law
of resolute, high endeavor.
Continuing he said: at seems to
me that the simple acceptance of this
fundamental fact of American life,
will help US to start Alright in facing
not few of the problems that con-
front us from without and from
within.
1--WE cannot possibly do our best
work as q nation unless all of Us
know how to act in combination as
we'll as to acs each individually for
him self. This acting in combination
can take many forms, but of course
it's most effective form must be when
it comes in shape Cf law; that is, of
action by the community as whole
through the law-makiDg bodies. No
hard and fast rule can be laid down
as to where our legislation shall stop
in interfering betwesn man and man,
between interest. All that can he
said is that it is highly undesirable
on the one hand, that in a constantly
increasing number of cases. we shall
find it necessary in the future to
shackle cunning as in the past we
have shsckled force. 1t is not highly
desirable but necessary that there
should be legislation which shall care
fully shield the interest of wage-work
ers, aud which shalt discriminate in
favor of the honest and humane en-
ployer by removing the disadvantages
under which he stands when COM
pared with unscrupulous competitors
who have no conscience and will do
right only under fear of Punishment.
Nor can legislation stop with what
is termed labor questions. The vast
individual and corporate fortunes.
the vast com binatiOns of capital.
which have marked the develo pmeut
of our industrial system, create new
conditions and necessItate a change
from the old attitude of the state aud
nation toward prosperity"
As to Men of Wealth.
There was. he commended, but the
scant.est justification for most of the
outcry against men of wealth, as
such, and it ought to be unnecessary,
he said, to state that anv appeal,
which finally entails the possibility of
lawlessness and violence, was an at
tack upon the fundamental properties
of American citizenship.
."Our interests are at bottom COM
mon," he continued. "In the long
run we go up or down together. Yet
more and more it is evident that the
state, and il necessary the nation, has
got to possess the right of supervis-
ion and control rs regards the great
corporations which are its creAtures;
particularly as regards the great
Business combinations which derive a
portion of their importance from the
existence of some monoP 'listic tend
ency."
AS to our relations with foreign
powers. Vice President Roosevelt said
that our nation. while first of all see
irg to its own domestic wellbeing,
must not shrink from playing its part
among the great nations without.
"Our duty" he said, ''may take
many forms in the future as 1t haI
taken many forms in the past. NJr
is it possible to lay down hard and
fast rule for all cases We must ev 7
ace the fact of our shifting national
deeds, of the always changing oPpor-
tunities that present themselves
But we may be certain of one thing;
whether we wish it or not. wa cannot
avoid hereafter having duties to do in
the face of other nations- All that
we can do is to settle VIII ther we
shall perform tn Sc duties well or
ills
Relations with ForssRn Powers
He counseled courte,y AID respect
in all dealings with any foreign power
with whom the govern msI.t migat
co1e in contact. ga this pint the
ad6ei: LET US make IL evident that