The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-05

out proper caution, to do too much, we
 shall do nothing or else We shall work
 ruin that will be felt most acutely
 among those of ouE citizens who are
 most helpless. It is no easy task to
 deal with great industrial tendencies.
 To deal with them in spirit of pre- supmtuous and rash folly, and, above
 all. to deal with them in spirit of envy
 and hatred and malice, would be to in- vite disaster-a disaster which would be so widespread that this country
 would rock to its foundations. The Mississippi sometimes causes immense
 damage by flood. If you cannot dam it 1 and stop the floods. you can regulate and control them by levees. You can ! regulate and control the current; you can eliminate it's destructive features, but you can do it only by studying what | a current is and what your own powers are. It is just exactly so in dealing with the great tendencies of our indus | trial civilization. We cannot turn back | the wheels of progress. IT we could it | would mean the absolute destruction of l just such industrial centers as this. We | will either do nothing or we will do | damage if we strive ignorantly to | achieve the impossible.
 But that fact does not excuse us for l failure to try and do what is possible. l Special legislation is needed; some of l that legislation must come through mu- nicipalities, some through states, some l through the national governments; but l above and beyond all legislation We
 need honest and fearless administration 1 of the laws as they are on the statute books. Honest and fearless administra- ton of those laws, in the interest neith- | CT of the rich man as such, nor of the DOT moan as such, but in the interest of
 exact and equal justice to all alike. and
 such administration you will surely
 have while MT. Knox remains as at-
 torney-general in the cabinet at Wash ington."
 The crowd that greeted the president
 along the line of parade in the morning ! and clamored to hear his address at
 Schenley park is conservatively esti-
 mated at a million people. Of this num- Der fully ,000 were within sound Of the presidents voice. This is believed to be the largest assemblage ever ad- dressed by president of the United
 States.
 Later in the day Attorney General
 Knox rendered a banquet to the presi-
 dent, at which were many prominent business men. At this banquet, among
 other things, President Roosevelt said:
 "I think, gentlemen, that the average
 American is pretty good fellow. All
 that is necessary to find that out is to know you, and that the differences that come up among us mainly spring from failure to know one another. Some times that causes differences among To-
 calities; sometimes it causes differences between two groups of men in the same locality, between employer and employ
 ed between the men of the town and the men of the country, between the ; men of one occupation and the men of another occupation, and I most earnest ly and fervently believe that the best solvent for all such conditions is bring ing the people together, so that one side , shall get to understand the viewpoint of the other. I don't say that that will : prevent all differences, but I am conf dent that it will minimize the causes of difference and that it will make the dif-
 ferences far less acute.
 | , body of our people really wishes i'll of
 any considerable body of our people
 and when there is an appearance of such wishing i'll I am sure that it
 springs from some fundamental misap- , prehension between the two sides and that the best way of removing the diff , ference, be 1t real or assumed, is to try , to get the two sides together and to f try to make each approach the meeting 2 with the honest purpose of looking at the matter that is the cause of the diff f ference from the view points of both. And so, gentlemen, I feel that a meet l ing such as this tonight, such a great t 1 assamhlage which had the honor of I addressing this morning, served one g purpose-a purpose, the most important 9 of all-the purpose of getting our people - together bringing them in contact. one t with the other, so that they may realize that the differences that divide one e from the other are trivial and that the e unity among us all is fundamental"