Evening star., 1901-09-02
GUEST AT STATE FAIR
Vice President Roosevelt Delivers
Address at Minneapolis.
COMPLIMENTS STURDY WESTERNERS
He Talks Politics in a General
Way, Too.
EXPLAINS MONROE DOCTRINE

MINNEAPOLIS, September 2-Vice Pres
ident Theodore Roosevelt arrived here at
$50 o'clock this morning over the st. Paul
railway from Chicago to participate in the
exercises Of the opening day of the state
fair, on invitation of the Minnesota State
Agriculture Society. The Vice President
will be the guest during his stay in Mime
apolis Of Senators Nelson and Clapp and
will stay at the home of National Commit
teeman T. H. Shevelin.
A committee, consisting Of Governor Van
SAINT, United States Senator Moses E. Clapp,
w. r. Merriam, director of the census; H.
A. Boardman, president of the Commercial
Club of ST. Paul; George Thompson. editor
of the st. Paul Dispatch; A. H. Lndeke
and George r. Finch, boarded the car at
st. Paul and accompanied the Vice Presf-
dent to Minneapolis, where he was greeted
by President John Cooper of the agricul-
tural society and Loren Fletcher, while
hundreds of people thronging the station
platform and street shouted and waved
their welcome.
The handshaking and introductions over.
the party boarded the private trolley car
of President Lowry of the Twin City Street
Railway Company for a trip around the
loop and view of the city, and after an
hours ride proceeded to the fair grounds
at Hamline.
Arriving at the fair grounds, the Vice
President was escorted to the grand stand,
from which he delivered an address to the
assembled thousands. He received most
enthusiastic reception Colonel Roosevelt
said in part:
Vice Prcsident's Speech.
The Vice President in beginning his ad-
dress paid high tribute to the character
and energy Of his hearers. descended, he
said, from a race of pioneers which had
pushed westward into the wilderness and
laid the foundations for new common
wealths. The men with ak and pick and
plow, who. he said. had pushed to compile
ton the dominion Of our people over the
American wilderness, had shown by their
qualities OF daring, endurance and far
sightedness that they recognized in prac-
tical form the fundamental law of success
in American iife-the law Of worthy work;
the law of resolute high endeavor. Con-
tinuing he said: 1T 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 confront us from without and from
within.
I'VE cannot possibly do our best work as
nation unless all of us know how to act
in combination as well as to act each indi-
vidually for himself. This acting in COM
bination can take many forms; but of
course its most effective form must be
when it comes In shape Of law; that is, of
action by the community as whole
through the law-making body No hard
and fast rule can be laid down as to where
our legislation shall stop in interfering be-
tween man and man, between interest and
interests. All that can be said Is that 1t
is highly undesirable, on the one hand, to
weaken individual initiative, and. on the
other hand, that in constantly increasing
number Of cases we shall find it necessary
in the future to shackle cunning as in the
past We have shackled force. 1t Is not
highly desirable but necessary that there
should be legislation which shall carefully
shield the interests OF wage workers, and
which shall discriminate in favor of the
honest and humane employer by removing
the disadvantage under which he stands
when compared with INSCRIPTIONS compet-
itors who have no conscience and will do
right only under fear Of punishment.
New Conditions Have Arisen.
Nor can legislation stap with what are
termed labor questions. The vast individ-
ual and corporate fortunes. the vast COM
binatiOns of capital, which have marked
the development OF our industrial system
create new conditions and necessitate
change from the old attitude of the state
and nation toward prosperity"
There was. he contehded. but the scan
tiest Justification for most Of the outcry
against men of wealth. as such. and it
ought to be unnecessary. he said to state
that any appeal which finally entails the
possibility of laHlessness and violence was
an attack upon the fundamental properties
of American citizenship.
AOur interests are at bottom common" ."
he continued. I'm the long run we go up