Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-07
The President Makes a Speech
to Labor in Home State.
CUR FUTURE ASSURED
SPLENDID RECEPTION AT DEPOT
AND HEARTY WELCOME TO CITY.
Opened New York State Fair and Re
viewed Parade of Workingmen, Led
by Letter Carriers Band.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, September Clear
skies, bands of music, local military COM
pany, an unprecedented display of flags and
patriotic decoration and the unbounded en-
thusiasm of a vast throng greeted Presi
dent Roosevelt at $3.50 am. today when
his special train rolled into the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western station. The
President came to open the state fair, to
review the labor parade and the parade of
the National Association of Letter Carriers.
With him on the train were his secretary,
William Loeb, jr.; Jacob A. Riis of New
York, newspaper representatives, secret
service men and the heads of the operative
departments of the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western. The run from New York was
made very comfortably and was without
incident.
Committee Met President
The President was met at the train by
a reception committee consisting of JUS
tice Frank H. Hiscock, James NJ. Gilbert,
State Superintendent of Insurance Francis
Hendricks, Hendrick S. Holden, Mayor ].
b. Kline and Francis E. Bacon, president
of the chamber of commerce. They visited
with the President in his car a few min
utes, while the local police and secret serv-
ice men cleared away the crowds and pre-
pared for the march to Hanover Square,
parade.
Letter Carriers Band
The 41st Separate Company presented
arms as the President appeared and then
headed by the New York Letter Carriers
Band, escorted the President and commit
tee who were in carriages, to the reviewing
stand. The President the march re-
ceived an ovation from the densely packed
thrOngS.
Immense Gathering.
In the square about the reviewing stand
there were fully 25,000 persons. Every
window in the buildings facing the square
was filled with people. Upon the stand be-
side the President and the reception COM
mittee were Senator Chauncey M. Depew,
Bishop P. A. Ludden Of Syracuse and in
fuential citizens
There was never before such 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 to pin a badge upon his
coat The President expressed his pleas
ure in few words and the line began to
move. Union after union uncovered as it
reached the stand.
Complimented Men.
Now and again the President shouted
compliments to a f1ne-looking body of men,
From start to finish his attention was new
diverted from the workingmen. In the
parade were a few floats with placards.
One read: The trust fights us; let US
fight the trust by not using its goods
They are the power behind the throne"
remarked a SYracusan to the President as
the men marched by.
Exactly. the power behind the throne.
exactly: and it makes one proud to think
he is an American to see these men" re-
piled the President.
At 1:30 o'clock the line had passed and
the party was driven to the train and de-
parted for the state fair
When the President reached the fair
grounds a crowd estimated by state fair
officers at 10000 had arrived and crowds
were pouring through all the gates
citizens committee of one hundred
cupied the speakers stand. Promptly upon
. arrival the President introduced
by Lieutenant Governor Higgins, president
of the state fair commission After cheer
ing had subsided the President spoke
follows:
President Roosevelt's Address.
In speaking on Labor day at the annual
fair of the New York State Agricultural
Association, it is natural to keep especially
In mind the two bodies who compose the
majority of people and upon whose
welfare depends the welfare of the entire
state. If circumstances are such that
thrift energy. industry and forethought en-
able the farmer, the tiler of the SOIL on
the other, to keep themselves their wives
and their children in reasonable comfort,
then the state is well off, and we can be
assured that the other classes in the COM
munity Will likewise prosper. On the other
hand, If there is in the long run a lack of
prosperity among the two classes named,
then all other prosperity is sure to be more
seeming than real. 1t has been our pro-
found good fortune as nation that hither-
to, disregarding exceptional periods of de-
preston and the normal and inevitable
fluctuations there has been on the whole
from the beginning of our government to
the present day a progressive betterment
ankle in the condition of the tiller of the
soil and In the condition Of the man who,
by his manual skill and labor, supports
himself and his family, and endeavors to
bring up his children that they may be
least as well of as and If possible bet
t.r on than. he himself has been. There
are, or course. exceptions, but as a whole
the standard Of living among the farmers
of our country has risen from generation
TO generation, and the wealth represented
on the farms has steadily increased while
the wages of labor have likewise risen both
as regards the actual money paid and as
regards the purchasing power which that
money represents.
Prosperity Of Business Men.
Side by side with this increase in the
prosperity of the wage worker and the
tiller of the soil has gone on a great in
crease in the prosperity among the busi-
ness men and among certain classes of
professional men: and the prosperity of
these men has been partly the cause and
partly the consequence OF the prosperity of
Farmer and wage worker. 1t cannot be
too often repeated that in this country In
the long run, We all of us tend to go up or
go down together. If the average of we'll
being is high, II means that the average
wage worker, the average farmer and the
average business man are all alike we'll off
II the average shrinks, there is not one of
these classes which will not feel the shrink
age OF course there are always some
men who are not affected by good times,
Just as there are some men who are not
affected by bad times But speaking broad
~ ~ is true that IL prosperity comes all of
us teno 10 share more or less therein, and
greater or less extent feels the tension
Unfortunately. in this world the Innocent
frequently fnd themselves obliged to pay
s"me OF tne psnaify tor the misdoeds Of the