The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-08
PRESIDENT SPEAKS
TO SFRACUSANS
Opening the State Fair, He
Says, We Are Dependent
Upon One Another.

Of RACUSE, N. Y, Sept. CLEAR
skies, bands of music, the local military
company, an unprecedented display of
hags and patriotic decoration and the
unDounded enthusiasm of a vast throng
greeted President Roosevelt at $50 a.
m. today when his special train arrived.
The president came to open the state
1alr, to review the labor parade and
the parade of the National Associa-
ton OF Letter Carriers. He was met
at the train by a reception committee
consisting of Justice Frank H. Hiscock
James M Gilbert, State Superintendent
of Insurance Francis Henricks, Hen
dr1ck 5. Holden, Mayor j. B. Kline and
FRANCIS Il. Bacon, president of the
chamber of Commerce. They visited
with the president in his car a few
minutes, While the local police and Sc
cret service men cleared away the
crowds and prepared for the march to
Hanover square, where the president
reviewed the labor parade.
The Forty-first separate company
presented arms as the president ap-
peared, and then, headed by the New
York letter carriers band, escorted the
president and committee, who were in
carriages, to the reviewing stand. The
president received an ovation from the
throngs.
In the square about the reviewing
stand there were fully $4,000 persons.
There was never before such a demon
Strat1on by organized labor in this CITY,
Fully 5000 men and women were in
line. The Labor Day committee, as it
reached the stand, sent it's chairman to
greet the president and to pin a badge
upon his coat. The president expressed
his pleasure in a few words and the
line began to move. Union after union
uncovered as it reached the stand. Now
ana again the president shouted COM
pliments to fine looking body of men.
From start to finish his attention was
never diverted from the workingmen.
In the parade We're a few floats with
placards. One read: 1.-The trust fights
US; let us fight the trusts by not using
their goods"
At IL: 80 o'clock the line had passed
and the party was driven to the trair
and departed for the state fair.
When the president reached the fail
grounds crowd estimated by state fail
officers at $4,000 had arrived, anC
crowds were pouring through all the
gates.
A citizens committee of 100 occupied
the speakers stand. Promptly upon ar
rtVel the president was introduced BY
Lieut.. Gov. Higgins, president of the
state fair commission. After the cheer
ing had subsidized the president gave an
address. He took the ground that
whatever helped or hurt a part of the
community helped or hurt all, and
dwelt at much length upon the neces-
sity or unity. He opposed division of
classes. Said the president:
we can keep, our government on a sane
ana healthy basis, we can make and keep
our social system what 1t should be- only
on condition of judging each man, not as
m hnI ne oil IL
man. 1t Is an infamous thing in our
American life. and fundamentally treach-
erouS to our institutions to apply to any
man any test save that of his personal
worth, or to draw between two sets of
men any distinction save the distinction
OF conduct, the distinction that marks
on those who do well and wisely from
those who do i'll and fooliShly.
The failure in public and in private
lie thus to treat each man on his own
merits. the recognition of this govern
ment as being either for the poor as such
or for the rich as such. would prove fatal
TO our republic. as such failure and such
recognition have always proved fatal In
the past to other republics. A healthy
republican government must rest upon
individuals, not upon classes or sections.
AS soon as 1t becomes government by a
class or by a section it departs from the
old American ideal.
lies In the fact that our people are gen.
timely skilled in and fitted for self govern
ment and therefore will spurn the lead
erShip of those who seek to excite this
ferocious and foolish class antagonism.
The man or woman who as bread
winner and home maker, or as wife and
mother. has done all that he or she can
do, patiently and uncomplainingly, is to
be honored; and Is to be envied by all
those who have never had the good for
tune to feel the need and duty of doing
such work. The woman who has borne,
and who has reared as they should be
reared. family of children, has in the
most emphatic manner deserved we'll OF
the republic. Her burden has been
worthily only by the possession of reso-
luton, Of good sense, of conscience, and
of unself1shness. But if she has borne
1t well. then to her shall come the SUI
oldest and greatest of books, Her children
shall rise UP and call her blessed and
among the benefactorS of the land her
place must be with those who have done
as law givers or as soldiers, whether
in public or in private life"
The president, the state officers and
the reception committee were the
guests of the state fair commission at a
luncheon in the club house. From the
balcony the party watched the races.
Just before the parade the president
was presented handsome vase, suitably
inscribed, on behalf of the East Liverpool
(Ohio) delegation of letter carriers, and
later received a large floral offering from
the letter carriers at large.
During the parade the president, with
both hands and arms extended. beat time
vigorously as passing band played
''There'H Be Hot Time in Old TowT
Tonight and bowed deferentially tC
Fred Wolfe, Troy On. W letter carrier
who has the distinction of being the old
est letter carrier in the United States In
point of service. having been connected
with the postal department forty mine
years. AS he did this the president re-
marked to a friend: "a man who gives
up forty nine years of his life to the
service of the government Is worthy OF
more credit than we can give"
The president returned home this even
ing.