The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-04-28
ROOSEVELT In NEBRASKA.
FTFTYTHOUSAND PEOPLEGREET
HIM IN OMAHA.

Streets Gay With Decorations-Prsst-
dent, by Request, Delivers Address
Bearing on the Subject of the Indus~
trial Strike which Threatens tho city
ON May 1--Refers Che People to the
Concluding Part of Coal strike Conn
misston's Report.
Omaha, Neb., April 27.-Ten thousand
people were gathered at the Coliseum
tonight to hear President Roosevelt.
, The day has been, a trying one for
the entire party, on account of the heavy
wind blowing and at Lincoln a smart
rain storm greeted the president. The
dust and sand which blew across the
prairies added another unpleasant feat
ure to the Journey. After leaving Grand
Island, the first stop was at Hastings.
Fairmont and Crete received short stops
and the tram arrived at Lincoln at !
o'clock. After brief stops at Wahoo
and Fremont the journey was not again
interrupted until Omaha was reached at
5:15 o'clock. F =
Much preparation had been made in
this city for the presidents coming and
he was greeted by probably $4,000 people
who lined the streets on both sides for
a mile and half along the route Of the
carriage drive. Elaborate decorations Of
bunting and flags were hung from every
building and from every Flagstaff in the
city "oId Glory aoated, proudly. H..
The drive through the city lasted half
an hour. It ended at the Omaha club,
where q banquet, lasting an hour and a
half, was given the president and his
party. Covers were laid for ninety-fve
persons. among whom were prominent
members of the Ak-sar-Ben and dis
ttinguished citizens Of the city.
After the banquet at the club the
president and his party were escorted
to the Coliseum.
The president devoted most Of his
speech to- the question of good citigen-
ship and went over very fully and thor
oughly the ground he has heretofore
covered on this subject. He also deliv-
cred d brief eulogy on the life Of General
U. S. Grant, to-day being the anniver-
sary of his birth. ~ ... ...@
Omaha is threatened with an indus
trial strike On May 4, and the president
was asked to say something bearing on
this subject. The following was deliver
ed i'm response to this request: ...@,45
"If T might give a word of advice to
Omaha I should like to see: your daily
press publish in full the concluding por-
tion Of the report Of the anthracite coal
strike commission signed by all the
members thereof. by those in special
sense the champions Of the wage work.
er and by those In d special sense iden-
titled with capital, organized >or unor-
ganized because, men and women of
Omaha, those people did not speak ais
capitalist or ais laborer did not speak
first as judge, as army man, as church
man, but they spoke all of them, u1lani-
mously signed that report, all of them
as American citizens anxious to see
right and Justice prevail.
mo one quality will get us out of any
difficulty, We need more than one; we
need a good many: we need, as I said,
the power first of each man honestly
trying to look at the problem from his
fellows standpoint. Capitalist and
wage-worker alike should honestly en-
deavor each to look at any matter from
the others standpoint, with a freedom,
on the one hand from the contemplate
arrogance which looks down upon the
man Of less means, and, on the other
from the no less contemplate envy.
jealousy and rancor which hates anoth-
er because he is better off. Each quail
itS is the complement of the other, the
supplement of the other, and in point
Of baseness there is not the weight of
a finger to choose between them. Look
at the report signed by those men; look
at it in the spirit in which they wrote
it, and If you can only. make yourselves,
make the community approach the
problem Of yesterday, any problem or
problems will be solved. e..
ANY man who tried to excite class
hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds,
any kind of hatred in our community,
though he may affect to do it in the
interest of the class he is addressing, is
in the long rum with absolute certainty
that class own worst enemy.
I'm the long run and as a whole, we
are going to go, up or down together.
Of course. there will be individual ex-
ceptions, small local exceptions, excep-
tions in kind, exceptions in places but as
a whole, if the commonwealth prosper,
some measure of the prosperity comes
to all Of US. If it is not prosperity,
then the adversely, thought it may be
unequally upon us, will weigh more or
less upon all. 1t lies upon ourselves to
determine our own Gate.
II cannot say too often that the wisest
law, the best administration of the law
can do naught more than give us fair
field in which to work out that fate
Alright. If, as individuals or as COM
munity we mar our future by our own
folly, uet us remember that it is upon
ourselves that responsibility must rest