The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-09-11
PRESIDENTS
LABOR DAY SPEECH
Roosevelt Addresses an
Audience at Syracuse.
N. ", Today.
gEsT CITIZENSHIP
!. n.6n.d as That Which Reeoa-
=. No Class or Caste. but Re-
...ds Each Man as His Own
Worth Deserves.

-. snecial train arrived in the city
An this morning. The president
a.corted by the First regiment, a
.sr.te company, and a reception
~nuittee, to Hanover Square. where
-ovewed the labor parade.
rhe address OF the day IVES made by
R~nosevelt, who Was sreEled ~ u
III audience, and WITH mucn entnus-
~ \, president began BY suggesting that
~ can be no real prosperity OF the ma
4 UhIch Is based on the prosperity OF
i class5 or classes. Real prosperity will
Mad when all classes are getting it's
.safsl This condition, on the wnoie.
. PREVAILED from the beginning or the
...,rnn nation. He ~contlnuea. saying
part:
A Measure of Merit.
ra ,can keep our government on Il sane
A healthy basis, our SOCIAL system what
should be, oniy on conaitlon or Judging
m man on his worth as il man. IT Is
Eannous to apply any test save that OF
F1onal worth, or to draw between tWo
ID II men n save the distinction OF
ndnct that marks off those who do well
bm those who do Ill. The failure In pub
and In private life to treat each man on
own merits. the recognition OF this
yernment as beng either for h poor
for the rich, would prove fatal to u
public. A republican government must
upon individuals, not upon classes.
soon as 1t becomes government by
IS 1t departs from h American deal.
It's nnerest trutsln that tree institutions
! of avail only TO people who possess
high characteristics needed to take
vantage OF such institutions. The cen-
" that has Just closed has witnessed
my Instances in which people have
red a government free in form, or have
lit bestowed upon them, and yet have
Knitted 1t under the forms Of liberty to
come despotism or anarchy. Under sue
%cumstances the seeming liberty may lie
pplanted by tyranny or despotism. Peo-
show themselves unfit for liberty,
bether they submit to anarchy or 10
fanny.
Many qualities are needed by a people
Itch would preserve the power of self
vefnlnent IN fact as well as in name.
noRg these qualities are forethought,
~swdness, self-restraint, the courage
eich refuses to abandon ones own
hts, and the dlsinterested and kindly
pd sense which enables one to do JUS
h 10 the rights Of others.
ne line OF cleavage between good and
citizenship separates the rich man
tosdoes well from the rich man who does
the poor man Of good conduct from the
pr man OF bad conduct. This line of
kayage lies at right angles to n such
otrary line Of division as that separat-
one class from another, one locality
pm another. or men with a certain de
Re Of property from those OF u less de-
ec Of property.
The Good Citizen.
The good citizen is the mar who. what
Ter his wealth or his poverty, strives
antully to do his duty to himself. to his
flnlly, to his :leighbor. to the state; who
incapable of the baseness which mani
ls ltsell either in arrogance or in envy.
|, VINO Whlle demanding justice for him
1sFsI. It is because the average Ameri-
\ ei.lzen, rich or poor, is OF just this
Re that we have cause for our profound
tn N the future Of the republic.
~ me watchwords of all II people
.e old familiar watchwords OF honesty.
seacy, Ia~lr-dealing and common sense.
j Qualities denoted by these words are
fentlal to all Of us, as we deal with the
fhpieA INDUSTRIAL problems OF today, the
Goiens affecting not merely the accumu-
lon Dut even more the wise distribution
Seaith. We ask no mans permission
Esi we require him to obey the law;
u Sa, me permission OF the poor man
49, LllSliI.s 1zGdSI or all can
man OF great wealth afford TO break
Jaw. even FOR his own financial adj
$u.dse; Tor the law is his prop and SIM
y anu II Is both foolish and profoundly
p par,otlc FOR him TO fail in giving hearty
F,p.svrrs 10 those who show that there is
,ay TACT one law, and one law only.
a ae ior the rich and the poor. for the
(Tat and the small. 80
kt in slncerely Interested in the due pro-
sron OF property, and men sincerely
nss.eu IN seeing that the just rights OF
az guaranteed. should alike remen-
nv Nv 4 oniy that in the long run neither
n sdap..ailst nor the wage-worker can be
] o.h ~ healthy fashion save by helping
o.her, but also that to REQUIRE eitber
" 70 obey the law and do its fnI1 dntv
N as IA we community Is emphatically to
T ! sloes real interest.
Friends of the Mob.
mere Is no worse cuemy of ~. u
Ile mer man the man who condones mob
s vtI y IN any shape or who
a az Haired: and surely the slightest ac-
MIA with u Industrial history
81 M seaSn even The most short-sightei
bnle q, 'ihies or most suffering for our
ID 81 90 d whole, the times when bust
Gnk, atasilant, and capital suffers from
etm Mase and gets no return from it's In
h ana are exactly the times of hard
na alu want, and grim disaster among
|lties 70 II an the existing instrument.
n le ar 81 wealth could be abolished the
hong tho everest suffering would come
present M VI US who are least well off
Nv WA me Wage-worker is well off
an mnen the rest OF the country is we'll
Ii we,i le ian best contribute to this gen
M n,rnnoelhg by showing sanity and a
Amnnnuna pose to do justice to others
~ ~ ourselves We differ in many oval
devsI meaa and heart; we are un-
ssse9ally, But each Of us h.a Wen ,a as
onrdo mat he shall be p]rotected from
\ 6i s as lie does his work and car
NJ" - burden through life. M man
Ea,sas tipathy because he has ia work
! mn, ne mas 4 burden to carry Enr
| chanca .ne best prize that life offers is
bg; and = = work hard at work worth
gtb iT Io; there can be no work better
|ith uoins Than that done to keen IN
ni comfort and with ~son III
\ thas s s. nose Immediately denendant
husband, the father, or the son.
Nc sdlers Wanted.
Ellfee 70 - no room in u healthy Ar,eri-
womao,n me mere idler, for tho man or
Ia sh1rii, whose object it is throurhoi,t
3. liz the duties which life ought TO
ming. un,es Gun mean nothing worth
\ anty. the achievement nf re rss, n4s
N saia. 'vtng recent writer has
can ann After all. the saddest thing
lens. T To bn 70 a man is to carry no
Is bad. 10 o So Dent under too great a
thai even in that there are possihili-
at an are glorious. But to carry no
] seems there is nothing in that. No
th 70 arrive at any goal really
come tn In this world who does
6rely rroo,.t heavy laden"
Of us knnnou r w experience each
sseS.est to the smallest. happiness
ke SOU mess are largely found in the
best an aDa the JOY Of life is won in Its
; have n NJ truest only by those
! whom Wa shirked life's burdens. The
! land ar we most delight to honor in all
"a 81 to ,s ssuose who, In the iron years