Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-09-12
PRAISES UNIONS.
President Roosevelt, mt Chattanooga,
Talks of Value of Orgnni-
yntiOn.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Sept. 9.-Pres-
ident Roosevelt has been elected an
honorary member of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen. The
brotherhood first held it's executive
session, which the president attend
ed. Acting Grand Master Hannahan
welcomed the president, stating that
his attendance at the convention
would do great good to organized
labor, not only in this country, but
in Canada and other countries as
well.
The president returned his thanks
| for the welcome and said he was glad
to be with the brotherhood. He said
the Firemen's brotherhood was the
result which naturally comes from
the application of the principle of
common 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.
John F. McNamee, of Columbus, o.,
one of the grand officers and dem
ocratic member of the legislature,
moved that the degree of grand hon
orary membership be conferred
upon President Roosevelt, and the
motion was unanimously adopted.
The president thanked the conven-
ton for the compliment paid him
and Grand Master Sargent then gave
him pass which admits him to all
meetings of the brotherhood.
At this point the brotherhood adj
iourned until nine o'clock Tuesday
morning and the public was admit
ted to the Auditorium to hear the
presidents address. While the au-
dience was being seated the band
rendered America" the president
and the others in the hall rising.
Mayor Chambliss delivered a short
address of greeting in which he well
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 by Gov.
Mcmillan and n address by Grand Mas
ter Sargent, President Roosevelt was
introduced by Acting Grand Master
Hannahan.
81 believe emphaticallJ," he said, "in
organized labor. The worth of an or
ganizatio he continued, depends
upon its being handled with the cour-
age, the skill, the wisdom the spirit of
fair dealing as between man and man,
and the wise self-restralnt which am
glad to be able to say your brother
hood has shown"
81 feel that organiza ations like yours
have tonic effect upon the whole body
polite. 1t is a good thing that there
should be large body of our fellow
citizens who exercise the old qualities
of courage, daring, and resolute, un-
fiinching willingness to meet danger at
need, and that there should be a pro-
fession whose members must year in
and year out display these qualities. I
S hope to see all our people develop the
D softer, gentler virtues to an ever in
!. creasing degree, but I hope never to
e see them lose the sterner virtues that
e make men,"
The president told of his trip over
g the battlefield of Chickamauga Mon.
s day, and drew lesson of the heroism
!. shown by the armies of the north and
o south. The men who composed these
. armies, he said, possessed the require
S ments of which good citizens are made
He referred to the inscription on the
monument raised by Kentucky to the
i union and confederate soldiers from
a that state who fell on the battlefield
" He read the inscription as follows:
! "As we are united in life and they
:, united in death, let one monument per
a petuate their deeds and one people
J, forgetful of all asperities, forever hole
in grateful remembrance all tn,
glories of that terrible conflict which
made all men free and retained every
star on the nations flag"
n THAT is a good sentiment; that j,
r asentiment by which we can all stand.
= "And oh, my friends, that sentimen
/. has as its underlying spirit spirit o
l. brotherhood. l firmly believe in m,
d countrymen, and therefore 1 believ,
t. that the chief things necessary in or
l. der that they should work together il
It that they should know one another
Il that the men north should know tn
y southerner; that the men of one occu
II patton should know the men of an
# other occupation; so we may all re
II alize that the things that divide us ar
superficial, are unimportant, and tina
we are and must ever be knit togethe
!, into one indissoluble mass by common
u American manhood"
- Knoxville, Tenn, Sept. 9.-Presi
= dent Roosevelt braved the element
q late Monday afternoon and in de
- tiance of hard rainstorm was drive
- through streets lined with people I
stand on Main avenue, nearly
s mile from the depot, where he spols
% to $4,000 people who stood in quie
while n drenching rain poured dow
: upon them.
Instantly Killed.
Washington, Sept. 9.-While dri,