The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-09

 me to you, that made me SO anxious to come down here and see you. and that made me glad to speak to you. not for what I can tell you, but for the lesson 1t seems to me can be gained by all of our people from what you have done.
 At the opening of the twentieth cen- tury. we face conditions vastly changed from what they were in this country and throughout the world a century ago. Our complex industrial civilization under which progress hasDeen so rapid and in which the changes for good have been so great, has also inevitably seen the. growth of certain tendencies that are not for good, or at least are not wholly for good; and we in consequence as people. like the rest of civilized mankind' fini set before us for solution during the coming century problems which need the best thought of all of us and the most earnest desire of all to solve them well if we expect to work out a solution sat- isfactory to our people. solution Tor the advantage of the nation. In facing these problems, 1t must be comfort to every well wisher of the nation to see what has been done by your organiza- ton.
 Believes in Organization.
 'I believe emphatically in organized labor. I believe in organizations of wage workers; organization is one of the laws of our social and economic development at this time. But feel that we must always keep before our minds the fact that there is nothing sacred in the name itself To call an organization an organ ization does not make 1t a good one The worth of an organization depends upon if being handled with the courage, the skill. the wisdom, the spirit of fair-deal- ing as between man and man, and the wise self-restraint which l am glad 10 pc able to say your Brotherhood has snoWn.
 You face death and danger in time or peace as in time of war the men wear ing Uncle Sam's uniform must face them Your work is hard. Do you suppose l mention that because I pity you? No' nov a bit. I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing-I admire nim. l pity the creature who doesn't work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. The law or worthy work well done is the law Of suc- cessful American life.
 "I believe in play, too. play ana play hard while you play; but don't make the mistake of thinking that that is the main thing The work is what counts, ana II a man does his work well and 1t IS worth doing then it matters but little m Whlch line that work Is done-the man IS good American citizen. If he does nis work in slip-shod fashion, no matter what kind of work 1t is. he Is poor American citizen.
 Individuality the Test.
 "The Brotherhood of Bremen does much for all fremen, but firmly believe that the individual fireman since the growth of the Brotherhood. has been more. not less efficient than he was twen- ty years ago. Membership in the Broth erhood, comes. as I understand 1t, a1ter a nine months probationary period; after a man has shown his worth he is then ad- mitted and stands on his footing as brother. Now any man who enters with the purpose of letting the Brotherhood carry him is not worth much. (Applause3 The man who counts in she Brotherhood is the man that pulls his own weight and a little more. Much can be done by the Brotherhood. I have just hinted in the general figures gave you at how much has been done. But it still remains true in the Brotherhood and everywhere else throughout American life that in last re- sort nothing can supply the place of the mans own individual qualities. We need those no matter how perfect the organi- zation is outside. There is just as much need of nerve, hardihood. power to face risks and accept responsibilities in the engineer and the fireman. whether on flyer or a freight train now that there ever was.
 On Chickamauga Field.
 And now let me say a word, speaking not merely especially to the Brother hood, but speaking to all our citizens. Governor McMillin. Mir. Mayor: I fall to see how any American can come to Chattanooga and go over the great bat tlefeids in the neighborhood, the battle fields here in this State and just across the border in my mothers State of Geor- gia, how any American can come here and see evidences of the mighty deeds done by the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray-I fail to see how any man can come here and look on these evidences and not go away a bet ter American, prouder of the country, prouder because of the valor displayed on both sides in the contest, the valor. the seif-devotion. the loyalty to the right as each side saw the right.
 Yesterday was presented with cane cut from the Chickamauga battlefield by some young men of Northern Georgia. On the cane were engraved the names of three Union generals and three Confed- crate generals. One of those Union gen. erals was at that time showing me over the battlefeld-General Boynton. Under one of the Confederate generals. General Wheeler I myself served. In my regi- ment there served under me in the ranks a son of General Hood who commanded at one time the Confederate army against General sherman. The only captain whom I had the opportunity of promoting to field rank and to whom this promotion vas given for gallantry on the field. was Micah Jenkins of South Carolina. the son of a Confederate general whose name you will find recorded among those who fought at Chickamauga. Two of my cap tains and by a strange fatality the best two captains, were killed at Santiago one was Allyn Capron, the fifth in line who, from father to son, had served in the regular army of the United States. who had served in every war in which our country had been engaged. The oth CT. Bucky O'Neill-his father had fought under Meagher, when on the day at Fred ericksburg his brigade left more men un- der the stone wall than any other bri- gade did.
 Rough Riders Again.
 q had in my regiment men from the North and South; men from the East and West men whose fathers had fought un- der Grant and whose fathers had fought under Lee; college graduates, capitalists sons, wage workers, the man of means and the man who, all his life, had owed each days bread to the days toll. l had Catholic, Protestant, Jew and Gentile Among my captains were men whose forefathers had been among the first white men to settle on Massachusetts Bay and on the banks of the James and oth- CTS whose parents had come from Ger many from Ireland. from England. from