The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-08-29
He Received Rousing SendoH
From People Of Connec-
ticut Capital.
ADDRESS AT PROVIDENCE
declares People Earn More and Are
Living Better Than Ever Before, h
Though Life Is Not Nearly
E.: So Simple.

allS1 opCl1Allk6 NAC
night at the home of John T. Robin
son at Hartford, resumed his
journey through New England. The
train left Hartford promptly at 5
O'Clock, but the early hour set for his
departure did not deter people from
turning out in force and giving him a"
hearty sendoff. AS he drove up to the
station in an open carriage, accom-
panied by Senator Platt, the crowd
.cheered and the president responded
by raising his hat. i"
A floral horseshoe was presented to
the president by the w~orkingmen of
Hartford yesterday and was by his re-
quest placed on the engine.
All along the line the small towns
turned GU their entire population, each
apparently anxious 20 share in the
welcome which Connecticut is EXTEND
ing.
When Willimantic was reached the
president was driven to the public
square, where he delivered a short adj
dress from his carriage.
Providence, Aug. 23.-The special
train bearing the president arrived in
this city at 11:40.
Not since the visit here of President
Hayes fifteen years ago has h egchief
executive. been accorded so brilliant
and thoroughly general reception as
that rendered today to Roosevelt on the
W AAhS SoSA l. kl1lo J.
People came from every part of the
state and gathered 5000 strong .abou
the platform, at the city hall, from
Which the president delivered an ad-
dress. An ovation which lasted five
minutes vas the presidents greeting
when he arose to speak.
The Presidents Address.
The following are the presidents re-
- marks:
I'VE are passing through a period OF
great material prosperity and such a
period is as sure as adversely itself to
3 bring mutterings Of discomfort. At a
time when most men prosper somewhat
1t always happens that a few men
prosper greatly, and it is as true now as
when the tower OF Sloan fell upon all
who were under it that good fortune
does not come only to the just, nor bad
fortune only to the unjust. When the
weather Is good for crops it is also good
> for weeds. Moreover, not only do the
wicked flourish when times are such
that most men flourish, but what is
worse, a spirit of envy, jealousy and
hatred springs up in the breasts of
those who, though they may be doing
fairly well themselves, yet see others
who are no more deserving doing far
better. " ,.. - Z
Wise laws Create Prosperity.
wise laws and a fearless, upright ad-
ministration of avs can give opportun-
ity for such prosperity as that we see
about us, but this is all that they can
do. When conditions have been Great
ed Which make prosperity possible,
then each individual man must achieve
it for himself by his own thrift, intel
ligence, energy, Industry and %resolute
purpose. If when people wax fat they
kick as they have been prone to dc
since the days of Jeshurun, they will
speedily destroy their own prosperity.
If they go into wild speculation and
lose their heads they have lost thai
which no legislation can supply, and the
business world will suffer in conse-
quence If in a spirit Of sullen envy
they insist pom pulling down those
who have protfted most by the years
of fairness, they will bury themselves in
the5crash of the common disaster. 1t is
difficult to make our material condi-
@tion better by the best laws, but it is
= easy enough by bad laws to throw the
4 Whole nation into al abyss of misery.
i Now the upshot'of all this is tina it
is peculiarly incumbent upon US in a
time of such material we'll being, both
collectively as a nation dindividual-
: ly each on his own account, to show
that we possess the qualities of pru-
dence, self-knowledge and self-re-
straint. In our government we need
above all things stability and fxity OF
economic policy, while Remembering
that this fixity must not be fossiliza-
ton, and that: there must not b. in
ability to shape their course anew to
meet the shifting needs of the people as
these needs, arise. q Il
. Are. Real and Great Evils. ~
There are real and great evils in our
social. and economic life, n these
evils stand u with ugly badness dur
ing good times, for the wicked who
prosper are never a pleasant Sight,
There is every need of striving in all
possible ways, individually and collec-
lively by combinations among our
selves in private lite and through the
recognized organs Of government for
cutting out these evils Only let us be
sure that we do not use the knife with
that ignorant zeal which would make
it more dangerous to the: patient than
to the disease.
One of the dangers of the tremen-
o industrial growth Of the last gen
GRAFTON has been the very great in
crease in large private, and especially
in large corporate, fortunes. We may
like@this or not, just as We please, but
itSis a act1neyertheless, and as far as
I'VE can see it is the inevitable result
working through various causes, prom
%&inent among which has been the i'm
Tlmense Importance steam and electric
have assumed in modern life.
THE urban$population$ has grown in
country, as IN all civilized coun-
tries, much faster than the.population
as a wholeedusing the last century, and
where men are gathered together in
great masses it Inevitably results they
must work far more largely by means
combinations among themselves
than when they live isolated from one
another. Now, 4 suppose that mostsof
ms prefer on many accounts the old
conditions of life, under which h ay-
ersge man lived more t~o&hinself, and
by himself; when the average COM
1nugity was more self dependent, and
where even though the standard COM
was lower on the u average, VET
thanezMas less ofthe caring inequality
in worldly conditions which We now
55ssea in DIR great cities. tits notStIue
theaapoer have grown poorer, but some
Of the rich have grown soa2ery much
richer that where multitudes of men
ate herded together in a limited ssaca
the aontrast8sstrilSes the oTlIooker as
n~lcreriolent han formerly.
.on the whole our people earngInore
and i've better than we before, and
tho spgress Ct WEicn we are sozApreud
eoula rot haze takensptace haaSitznot
been To- the great Ipbntlding Of in
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