The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-08
President Roosevelt Spends a Busy Day and Receives an
 Ovation at Syracuse
DELIVERS AN ADDRESS
 ON CAPITAL AND LABOR
Community of Interest Should Be Rec ognized-Nelther Capital Nor Labor Can Be Helped Alone-Cur-
 rency System Sound.

Syracuse, N. Y, September 7.-President Roosevelt spent busy day in Syracuse. From his arrival this afternoon until his departure tonight he received a contin- uous ovation.
 Before noon President Roosevelt had re- viewed large Labor day parade in Han over square. Then he went to the state fair and spoke before 5O,OOO persons on the relation of capital and labor to the state. He afterwards attended a luncheon at the club house on the fair grounds with many state officials
 To complete the afternoon the President reviewed a parade of the National Letter Carriers association and the fraternities of Syracuse. This evening he was the guest of former United States Senator Frank Hitchcock at dinner which was attended by eighty persons.
 The Presidents speech at the fair grounds was as enthusiastically received as was the Presidents appearance on the streets of Syracuse. In answer to the cries of the audience after the President had finished his talk, Senator Chauncey Depew spoke briefly. pronouncing the President 5 speech the best he had ever heard Roose- welt deliver. President Roosevelt's speech follows:
 Just before the parade the President was presented with a handsome vase suitably inscribed in behalf of the East Liverpool Ohio. delegation of letter car riers and later received large floral off, fering from the letter carriers at large.
 RooseveIt's Speech.
 lii sf'eaking on Iasol tAly at the annual fair of the New York State Agricultural association, 1t is natural to keep especially in mind the two bodies who compose the majority of our people and upon whose welfare depends the welfare of the entire state. If circumstances are such that thrift, energy. industry and forethought enable the farmer, the tiller of the soil, On the one hand, and the wage-worker on the other. to keep themselves, thir wives and their children in reasonable comfort, then the state Is we'll off, and we can be assured that the other classes in the community will likewise prosper. On the other hand, If there is in the long run lack of prosperity among the two classes named, then all other prosperity is sure to be more seeming than real. It has been our profound fortune as a na- tion that hitherto, disregarding exceptions al periods of depression and the normal and inevitable fluctuations, there has been on the whole from the beginning of our government to the present day a progress sive betterment alike in the condition of the tiller of the soil and in the condition of the man who, by his manual skill and labor, supports himself and his family and endeavors to bring up his children SC that they may be at least as well off as and if possible Letter off, than he himself has been. There are, of course, exceptions but as a whole the standard of living among the farmers of our country has risen from generation to generation and the wealth represented on the farms has steadily increased while the wages oi labor have likewise risen, both as re- gards the actual money paid and as re. gards the purchasing power which that money represents.
 Prosperity in General.
 Side by side with this increase in the prosperity of the wage-worker and the tiller of the soil has gone on great in crease in the prosperity among the busi ness men and among certain classes oi professional men; and the prosperity ol these men has been partly the cause and partly the consequence of the prosperit, of farmer and wage-worker. It cannot be too often repeated that in this country in the long run, we all of us tend to gt up or go down together. If the adyersit, comes each of us, to a greater or less ex tent, feels the tension. Unfortunately, 1T this world the innocent frequently fint themselves obliged to pay some of the pen. alty for the misdeeds of the guilty; anc so if hard times come, whether they be due to our own fault or to our misfortune whether they be due to some burst oi speculative frenzy that has caused DOT. ton of the business world to lose its head "a loss which no legislation can possi. bly supply-or whether they be due to any lack of wisdom in a portion of the worlc of labor-in each case the trouble once started is felt more or less in every wall of life.
 Is AII-EssentiaI.
 It is all-essential to the continuance oi our healthy national life that we should recognize this community of interes among our people. The welfare of eacf of us is dependent fundamentally upor the welfare of all of us, and therefore 1T public life that man is the best represent ative of each of us who seeks to do gooc to each by doing good to all; in othei words whose endeavor 1t is, not to repre- sent any special class ana promote mere ly that class selfish interests, but to rep resent all true and honest men of all sec tions and all classes and to work for theii interests by working for our common country.
 We can keep our government on a sant and healthy basis, we can make and keeI our social system what it should be, only on condition of judging each man. not a: a member of a class, but on his worth a: man. It is an infamous thing in oul American life. and fundamentally treach erous to our institutions. to apply to any man any test save that of his persona worth or to draw between two sets oj men any distinction that marks off thos' who do well and wisely from those wht do i'll and foolishly. There are good cit izens and bad citizens in every class as 1T every locality, and the attitude of decen people toward great public and socia questions should be determined. not b, the accidental questions of employment or locality hut bv those deep-set priuci