The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-08
ROOSEVELT SPEAKS
TO THE SONS Of TOLL
One Hundred Thousand Hear
Him at Syracuse.
"A GREAT LABOR PARADE
Never Before Was There Such Demonstration
by Ofgan'zAd Labor in Syracuse
The People the Power Be-
hind The Throne.
hind The Thronl
(By the Associated Press }

(By the Associated Press.)
Syracuse, N. Y, Sept. 7-President
Roosevelt was accorded magnificent re-
ception by the citizens of his own State
here today. From the moment of his ar
rival in this city this morning at $3.50
O'Clock, until he stepped aboard his special
train at 10:30 tonight, to begin his return
trip to Oyster Bay, he was given a con-
tinual ovation. Syracuse never before
held such throng as assembled here to-
day to greet the President. Fully one
hundred thousand persons from all sec
tions of New York State tested the car
rying capacity of the various lines of rail
road 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 receiv-
ed with notable enthusiasm.
For the President it was busy day as
well as a day full of interesting incidents.
In the morning, soon after his arrival, he
reviewed from a beautifully decorated
stand in Hanover Square great parade
| OF the ldDOT OESdllZdtlOHS Ol lHe Guy 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 attended by every
important State official except Governor
| Odell, who could not be present on ac-
count of previous engagement; reviewed
fine parade of the National Letter-Car-
riers' Association, and fraternal bodies of
the city, and was the guest tonight of
former United States Senator Frank His
cock at dinner, which wat attended by
about thirty persons, invited to meet the
President.
There was never before such a demon
stration by organized labor in this city
Fully 5000 men and women were in line.
The Labor Day Committee, as it reached
the stand, sent its chairman to greet the
President and pin badge upon his coat
The President expressed his pleasure in
few words and the line began to move
Union after union uncovered as it reached
the stand.
Now and again the President shouted
compliments to a fine looking body of
men. From start to finish his attention
was never diverted from the workingmen
In the parade were few floats with pla-
cards. One read: THE Trusts Fight Us;
Let Us Fight The Trusts by Not Using
Their Goods"
"They are the power behind the throne"
remarked Syracusan to the President,
as the men marched by.
Exactly, the power behind the throne
exactly, and it makes one proud to think
be is an American to see these men," re-
piled the President.
After the parade the President went to
the Fair Grounds, where he was intro
duced by Lieutenant Governor Higgins
President of the State Fair Commission
After cheering had subsided the President
spoke, saying among other things:
1T is all-essential TO the continuance of
cur healthy national life that we should
recognize this community of interest
among our people. The welfare of each
OF us is dependent fundamentally upon
the welfare of all of us and therefore in
public life that man is the best represen-
tative Of each of us who seeks to do good
to each by doing good to all: in other
/ NOIdS, NAOoS SnuSdN VI IL -, LOG " IepIG-
sent any special class and promote merely
that class's selfish interests, but to rep
resent all true and honest men of all
sections and all classes and to work for
their interests by working for our COM
mon country.
! There Is no worse enemy of the wage
worker than the man who condones mob
violence in any shape or who breaches
class hatred; and surely the slightest ae-
quaintance with our industrial history
| should teach even the most short-sighted
that the times of most suffering for our
people as a whole, the times when busi-
ness is stagnant, and capital suffers from
! shrlnkage and gets no return from its
investments, are exactly the times of
hardship, and want, and grim disaster
among the poor If all the existing in
| strumentalities of wealth could be abol-
| ished, the first and severest suffering
would come among those of us who are
least we'll off at present. The wage
worker is well off only when the rest
Of the country is well off; and he can
| best contribute to this general well-being
| by showing sanity and firm PURPOSE to
do justice TO others.
''In his turn the capitalist who is really
| a conservative, the man who has fore
thought as well as patriotism, should
heartily welcome every effort, legislative
| or otherwise, which has for its object to
secure fair dealing by capital corporate
or individual. toward the public and
toward the employee
11>"S-ssfter The. applause which greeted his ad-
dros. bo5 e''SSded the crowd called for
Senator cbannceaAM. .Depew. He spoke
briefly and pronounced the ~ sl'ent ao-