The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-09-12
PRESIDENT ELECTED HONOR
AIRY MEMBER.
MAY ATTEND ALL MEETINGS
Roosevelt Given Enthusiastic Recep'
tion at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
in Organized Labor.

Roosevelt tOOav was elected an non
orary MEMBER Of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive tiremen. He attended the
session OF the order in the
morning, walking from the hotel to
the Auditorium, a distance OF q rev
blocks. escorted by Grand Master Sar-
gent, a committee Of the Brotherhood
and a detachment Of Troop B, state
guards. Acting Grand Master Han
nanan welcomed the president, stat
ing that his attendance at the con-
vention would do great good to or
ganized labor, not only in this coun-
try. but in Canada I'M other countries
as well.
The president returned his thanks
for the welcome anu said he was glad
to be with the brotherhood. He said
the firemen's brotherhood was the re-
suit which naturally comes from the
application of the principe OF com
mon sense to- their work. He said that
organized labor never had made an
unreasonable request of him and that
if it had he would have denied it. In
speaking of the appointment OF Grand
| Master Sargent of the brotherhood,
to be commissioner general OF 1mml-
grafton, the president said 1t was one
of the most satisfactory appointments
to him and to the public he had ever
made; that Mr.. Sargent has a hard
body and not a soft head.
John F. McNamees of Columbus, O.,
one of the grand officers and a demo-
cratic member of the legislature, NOV
ed that the degree Of grand honorary
membership be conferred upon Pres
ident Roosevelt. The motion was re-
ferred to the committee on constltu-
ton and bylaws, whose recommends
ton was unanimous that the motion
be accepted. The report Of the COM
mittee was adopted by a rising, unan-
imous vote, amid great cheers.
The president thanked the conven-
ton for the compliment paid him ana
Grand Master Sargent then gave hin
a pass which admits him to all meet
ings of the brotherhood.
At this point the brotherhood al.
formed until tomorrow morning and
the public was admitted to the AUDI.
forum to hear the presidents ad'
dress. While the audience was being E
seated, the band rendered America,
the president and others in the hal
rising.
Mayor Chambliss delivered a short
address of greeting in which he vel
coined to Chattanooga all the firemen
: whether they came from Canada. Mex
. leo or Oyster Bay. After an address
of welcome in behalf of the state 3.
EGovernor Mcmillan and an address D.
Grand Master Sargent, intersperse'
with music, President Roosevelt wa
introduced by Acting Grand Maste
Hannahan. His reception was mos
enthusiastic, the audience rising IN!
cheering. When the president sad
dressed the convention as my broth
ers." he was cheered again. He sal
he was glad to be here and jolne'
with the others in extending a cordla
a welcome to the visitors from Canad
and Mexico. He needed NJ pressing
= he said, to come to this meeting.
81 always have. gentlemen. admire
l. greatly the railroad men of the cou1
n try and l. do not see how any one WIN
believes in the fundamental prime
= pies of citizenship can fail to do s.
- he said.
He compared the railroad men I
e. soldiers who are accustomed to tai
Ing risks, acting on their own inltl'
= tive and obeying orders. IN ralslh
. his own regiment, he said, ne got
q number of railroad men. OF cours
the first requisite was that 9 ma
q should Know nom To rue anu Nv"
Of shoot. Giving them these two qua
tiles, he found there was no bette
IN group of men from which soldle'
could be drawn than railroad me
s. The president said he hoped that Il
O.. danger of war would be less In u
r. future than it had been in the pas
n The president referred to the goo
" work accomplished by the Brothe
X hood of Locomtive Firemen.
ut Believes in Organized Labor.
ar 81 believe emphatically," ne sal
Sin organized labor. The worth
he an organization depends upon its =
of ing handled with the courage. t
nd skill, the wisdom, the spirit OF fs
in dealing, as between man n ma
IS. and the wise self-restraint which ] a
of glad to be able to say your broth'
hood has shown"
M The president spoke OF. h nee
sity of work.
lit 81 pity the creature who does n
work" he said, Eat which ever end
the so-called scale he may regard III
selg Is being"
He said the law of work we'll 40
secures the successful American Il