Evening journal., 1903-09-08
Addresses $4,000 Persons at
New York State Fair at
Syracuse
NO CLASS GOVERNMENT, SAYS He


capacity of the various lines Of rail
roads, and many additional thousands
came from the country Immediately
contiguous to the city. Everywhere
in the city, and at the grounds Of the
New York state fair association, the
president was received with notable
enthusiasm.
For the president II was busy day
as we'll as day full Of interesting in
cidents. In the morning, soon after
his arrival, he reviewed from a beau
tifully decorated stand in Hanover
square a great parade Of the labor
organizations of the city; he then
went to the state fair grounds, where
he delivered before $4,000 persons an
address on good citizenship and the
relations of labor and capital to the
state; he was the principal guest at
a luncheon at the club house on the
grounds-a luncheon which was at
tended by every important state Off
cial except Governor Odell, who could
not be present on account Of a pre-
vious engagement; reviewed a fine
parade OF the National Letter Carriers
Association and fraternal bodies Of
the city, and was the guest of former
United States Senator Frank Hiscock
at a dinner which was attended by
about 80 persons invited to meet the
president.
In his address at the fair grounds
President Roosevelt said in part:
"The reason why our future is as
sured lies in the fact that our people
are generally skilled in and fitted for
self-government, and therefore will
spurn the leadership of those who seek
to excite this ferocious and foolish
class antagonism. The average Amer
lean knows not only that he himself
intends to do about what is right, but
that his average fellow-countryman
has the same intention and the same
power to make his intention effective
He knows, whether he be business
man, professional man, farmer, me-
chanic, employer or wage-worker, that
the welfare of each of these men is
bound up with the welfare of all the
others; that each is a neighbor to the
other. is actuated by the same hopes
and fears. has fundamentally the same
ideals, and that all alike have much
the same virtues and the same faults.
Our average fellow-citizen is a sane
and healthy man, who believes in de-
cency and has a wholesome mind. He
therefore feels an equal scorn alike
for the man of wealth guilty of the
mean and base spirit of arrogance
toward those who are less well off,
and for the man of small means who
in his turn either feels, or seeks to
excite in others the feeling Of mean
and base envy for those who are bet
ter off. The two feelings, envy and
arrogance, are but opposite sides of
the same shield. but different devel-
opments of the same spirit Funda.
mentally, the INSCRIPTIONS rich man
who seeks to exploit and oppress those
who are less well off is in spirit not
opposed to, but identical with, the
unscrupulous poor man who desires
to plunder and oppress those who are
better off. The courtier and the dema-
gogue are but developments of the
same type under different conditions,
each manifesting the same servile
spirit, the same desire to rise by pan
dering to base passions; though one
panders to power in the shape Of a
single man and the other to power in
the shape of a multitude. SO likewise
the man who wishes to rise by wrong
ing others must by right me contrast
ed with, not with the man who like
wise wishes to do wrong, though to a
different set Of people, but with the
man who wishes to do justice to all
people and to wrong none.
"The line of cleavage between good
and bad citizenship lies, not between
the man of wealth who acts suuarely
by his fellows and the man who seeks
each days wage by that days work,
wrOnging no one and doing his duty
by his neighbor; nor yet does this line
Of cleavage divide the INSCRIPTIONS
wealthy man who exploits others in
his own interest, from the demagogue.
/ or from the sullen and envious being
who wishes to attack all men of prop
erty, whether they do well or i'll. On
the contrary, the line Of cleavage be-
tween good citizenship and bad citi-
zenship separates the rich man who
does well from the rich man who does
Ill, the poor man OF good conduct from
the poor man of bad conduct.
"The good citizen is the man who.
whatever his wealth or poverty.
strives manfully to do his duty to him
self, his family, to his neighbor, to the
state; who is incapable Of the base
ness which manifests itself either in
arrogance or in envy, but who, while
demanding justice for himself, is no
less serupulous to do justice to others.
It is because the average American
citizen, rich or poor, is Of just this
type that we have cause for our pro-
found faith in the future Of the re-
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