Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-09-11
THOUSANDS GREET
THE PRESIDENT
Opens the State Fair and Makes
an Address at Syracuse, N. Y.
AN ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION
Points Out the Duty of CItixenship
Ia the Rich and the Poor, Ia the
Workers and CapliniIsts-Eay
Of Interesting incidents.

Az - tNpNs u VI
Roosevelt was. Monday, accorded a
magnificent reception by the citizens
Of his state. From the moment
OF his arrival in this city in the morn
ing until he stepped aboard his special
train at 1890 last night. to begin his
return trip to Oyster Bay. he was given
q continual ovation. Syracuse never
before held such a throng as assembled
here to greet the president.
Strenuous Dny For President.
1t was a busy day for the president
as well as a day full of interesting in
cidents. In the morning soon after
his arrival he reviewed from a beau
tifully-decOrated stand in Hanover
square a great parade OF the labor or
CARNATIONS of the city. lie then went
to the State Fair grounds where he de-
livered, before $4,000 persons, an adj
dress on good citizenship and the re-
lations OF labor and capital to the
state.
In his address President Roosevelt
said:
Good and bad Citizenship.
1he line of cleavage between good
and bad citizenship lies, not between
the man of wealth who acts squarely
by his fellows and the man who seeks
each days wage by that days work,
wrOnging no one and doing his duty
by his neighbor; nor yet does this line
of cleavage divide the INSCRIPTIONS
wealthy maj who exploits Others in his
r,.yp iVtarnpt frrvn Tho unptt mr.
from the sullen and enviouS being who
wishes TO attack all men of property,
whether they do well or Ill. On the
contrary, the line of cleavage between
good citizenship and bad citizenship
separates the rich man who does well
from the rich man who does III, the
poor man of good conduct from the
poor mar of bad conduct. This line OF
cleavage lies at right angles TO any
such arbitrary line of division as that
separating one class from another, one
locality from another, cr men with a
certain degree Of property from those
OF a less degree of property.
The Good Citizen.
The good citizen is the man who
whatever his wealth or his poverty.
strives manfully to do his duty to him
self, to his family, to HI n%eighbor, to
the state; who Is incapable Of the base
ness which manifcsts itself either in
ignorance or in envy, bat who while
demanding justice for himself is no
less %scrupulous to do justice to others.
1t Is because the average American
citizen, rich or poor, is of just this type
that we haye cause for our profound
faith in the future of the republic.
Violence WaErwOrL" rs' Enemy.
There is no worse cE"my OF the
wage worker than the man who con-
dOncs mob violence in any shape or
who breaches class hatred; and surely
the slightest acquaintance with cur in
dustrial history should teach even the
most short-sighted that the times of
most suffering for our people as a
whole, the times when business Is
s%tagnant, and capital suffers from
shrinkagc and gets no return from It's
Investments, are exactly the times OF
hardships, and want, anG grim disaster
among the poor. If all the existing in
s~trumentalitics Of wealth could be
ih' hIo NV 'f' ''A
fering would come among those Of us
who are least well 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 his general
wcll-being by showing sanity and a
firm purpose to do justice to others.
CnpItniists' Duty.
In his turn the capitalist who Is
really a conservative, the man who has
fOrethOught 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 TIE employe.
There Is no room in our healthy
American life for the mere idlcr, for
the MAJ or the woman whose object It
Is throughout life to shirk the duties
which life ought to bring. Life can
mean nothing worth meaning. unless
It's prime aim is the doing of duty, the
achievement of results worth achiev-
ing. A recent writer has finely said:
"After all, the saddest thing that a
happen to a man Is to carry no bur-
dens. To be sent under 90 great a
load Is bad; TO be crushed by 1t Is la
Ipentable. but even in that there are
possibilities that are glorious. But to
carry no load at all--there Is nothing
IN that. No 81 g seems to arrive At
any goal really worth reaching In this
world who does not come to It heavy