The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-08

dent wa driven to his train and start was
made for the fair grounds, which are five
miles outside the city. He got there short "
before I o'clock crowd Of 5000 people
was waiting to see him, The arrai ge-
ments for handling the crowd at the iair
grounds were most saith factory. - hisli
wire fence had been put up an tne way
from the entrance o the speakers s'ah.
and the guards had practically nothli 20
do. Most of the men who were with the
President u ing his review Of the Labor
Day parate we're in the stand at the fair
grounds. The Presidents speech was re-
ceived with frequent applause He said
TIVE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS
In speaking on Labor Day at the annual
Association il is natural 70 keep espeeiaIE
Ia mind the two bodies who oonspese the
ma; ,rity Of our people ami upon wnoee vel
fare depends the welfare OF ,he ehure stat
II circumstances are such thAt thrilt. 'htrky
industry and forethouglt enable the farmer,
the tiller of the soil, on the one manu- anu
the waseworker on the 9'1 tnti 70 children S n' IN
reasonable comfort. then the state Is Mt.I
of and we can be assured that tF o,nsr
classes In the community will likewise pfIs
per. On the other hand. II there IL IN t,f'
lonR run lack of prosperity AMONG wv
two classes named then all other prosperity
ia sure TO be more seeming than real ,,
II has been our profound good fortune as
a nation that hitherto. disregaTinS eN :,
centional periols of oppression and the normal
and Inevitable fluctuations there mas oeeh
on the whole from the bes,nnihs Oh our Ho.c
betterment alike in the CONDITION 81 we 'niIe, ,
of the soil and in tine Condilion Oh lne t,,..n
who by mis- manual skill ana lao"r s ~ br;nS
himself and his family and endehv9rs 10 prtns
up his children 80 that they may ne y. ieast
as well of as. and if possible better on ,naa'
he himself has been There are. "r i cnr' s n;
living amone the farmers of our country tias
risen from generation to generation. ana III
wealth represented on the FARMS mas stedunN
tncrea sed while The wages OF labor nave IKE
vise risen both as regards the actual MONEY
maid and as regards the purchasing power
which that money represents.
ALL SHARE IN NATIONAL PROSPERITY
Side by side with this increase IN the pros,
perity OF the wageWorker and the tiller OF
the soil mas gone on a great increase VI lhe
prosperity among the business men anu
among certain classes of professional men mem
and the prosperity Of these men has peen
partly the cause and partly the consequence
OF the prosperity of farmer and wageworket:
II cannot be too often repeated that IN I,is
country, in the long run, We al Of us tend
70 20 ipor 20 down together. If the average
OF well-beng is high, it means that the average
wageworker. the average farmer anI ~ u.
average business man are ail allkr e, WEI, en-. on If
II the average shrinks, there Is nnt one VI
these classes which will not feel the shrinKage.
or course there are always some men VINO
are not affected by good times Just as mere
that il prosperity comes all Of us tend to
share more or less therein and that IT au.
versty comes each OF us, TO greater oT iess
extent feels the tension .
Unfortunately in this world the innocent
frequently find theniselves Obliged 70 pay
some OF the pena1y rpr tns n nns wbether
thew be due to our own fault or to our mis-
fortune, whether they be. due to some burst
Of SPECULATIVE frenzy ma f has lose sa t head
"a loss which no LEGISLATION can p"ssi, anl
supply--or whether thev be due 70 any lack
pf wisdom in portion OF the w21 rt. o. IL }et
more or less in every walk OF life.
WELFARE OF EACH DEPENDENT on "ELFARE
oFALL
II is all-essential to the continuance OF our
healthy national life that we should recog-
nize this community of interest among our
people The welfare OF each OF us is depend.
M fundamentally upon the welfare or all OF
rs and therefore IN puoc slS 'n n M ,7 Who
seeks to do good to each by. doing good to
MI in other words. whose endeavor 1t ia, not
merely that class selfish interests, but to
represent all true and honest men OF all
sections and all classes and TO work for
their interests by working Tor our common
We. can keep our Government on a sane
and healthy basis, we can MAKE ana Keep
our social system what it should be- only on
member Of a class, but on his worth as
man 1t is an infamous thing IN our American
life, and fundamentally treacherous to our
between two sets Of men any DISTINCTION save
he Of eon Sn she a as11 %ssH
from those who do i'll and foolishly. There
are good citizens and bad citizens n every,
class, as in every locality. and the attitude Of
questions should be determined not by the
accidental questions of employment or local.
lty, but by those deep-set principles which
represent the innermost souls oil men
CLASS GOVERNMENT INCOMPATIBLE WITH
LIBERTY.
The failure in public and, in private life
thus to treat each man on his own merits,
the recognition of this Government as being
either for the poor a. sc n or ,r oT ne rSh a.
such failure and such recognition have al
WAYS proved fatal in the past 10 other repub.
lies A healthy republican government must
rest upon individuals. not upon classes or
sections. As, soon as it becomes govern.
tnent by class or by a section 1T departs
from the old American ideal.
Ii is Of course, the merest truism TO say
that free institutions are OF av9n only to
people who possess the high and peculiar
rharacteristics needed TO taR ,r aaVahtase OF
just closed has witnessed MANY and iamen;,
table instances in which people have seized
govern ment free in form or nave nad 10y y
It under the forms Of libert,' to become some
species of despotsm or anarchy. because they
hid not have in them the power TO make ms
seeming liberty one OF deed instead OF one
merely of word. -
Under such circumstances, tn" seeming
liberty may be supplanted by tyranny
or despotism. in the first place, or II may
reach the road of despotsm by the path OF
license and anarchy, II matters but little
which road is taken, In either case the same
lust as unfit for liberty whether they sub
Init to anarchy or to tyranny; ana class gov
nrnmeut whether il be the government y a
pltocracy or the government of mob, is
equally Incompatible with the principles
established in the days oil Washington and
perpetuated in the days of Lincoln,
QUALITIES NEEDED TO PRESERVE sELF-Gov-
ERNMENr.
Many qualities are needed by people
which would preserve the power OF sell
government in fact as Nel a. in name. Among
these qualities are forethousht., shrewdness.
self -restraint. the courage which refuses
10 abandon ones own rights, and the disin-
terested and kindly good sense which enables
of strength and lack Of cour lge unilt men Tor
self government, on the one hand and, on the
other, brutal arrogance. envy, III short any
manifestation OF the spirit OF selfish disre-
rights of others, are equally fatal,
In the history OF mankind many republics
Ia Va risen have fiourishnd for a less or greater
time, and then have fallen because their C'ti-
and thereby OF governing their State, and n
no way has this losI OF power been so often
and so clearly shown as in the tendency 10
turn the Government into government
primarily fol the benefit OF one class instead
OF a government tor the benefit OF the people
as Il whole
Again and again in the republics Of ancient
Greece, in those Of mediayal Italy and med