Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-08
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DELlv-
ERs ADDRESS AT SYRACUSE,
flS N. W. AND REVIEWS PARADE.
CHICAG O BIG DAY Y
Over 100000 Men in Parade There To.
day-cIeveIand and Cincinnati Also
Have Big ceIebrations-Labor Con-
gress Opens In England.

Syracuse, N. Y, Sept 1.-THE Pres
ident's special train arrived in this city
at $50 this morning. The President
was escorted by the Forty-first separ-
ate companyand reception committee
to Hanover square where he reviewed
Prominent Men Present.
In the square about the reviewing
stand there was fully $4,000 persons.
Every window in the buildings fac
ing the square was filled with peo-
pie. Upon the stand beside the
President and the reception commit
tee were Senator Chauncey M. Depew,
Bishop Ludden of Syracuse and other
Influential citizens.
Many in Parade.
Never before was such demonstra::
zion by organized labor in the city.
There were 5000 men and women in
line. The Labor day committee as it
reached the stand sent it's chairman
to greet the President and pin badge
upon his coat. The President ex-
pressed his pleasure in a few words
and the line began to move at 1890
o'clock. After the parade had passed
the party was driven to the train and
departed for the state fair where the
President delivered the address of the
lay. He said in part:
Roosevelt Talks.
at is natural to keep especially in
mind the two bodies who compose the
majority of our people and upon whose
welfare depends the welfare OF the en-
lire state. If circumstances are such
that thrift, energy, industry and fore
thought enable the farmer. the tiller of
the soil on one hand and the wage
worker on the other. to keep them
lelyes, their wives and their children
\ In reasonable comfort. then the state
Is we'll off and we can be assured that
the other classes in the community
will likewise prosper. On the other
hand, if there is in the long run lack
of prosperity among the two classes
named, then all other prosperity is
Sure to be more seeming than real. 1t
has been our profound good fortune
Rs nation that hitherto. disregarding
exceptional periods of depression and
the normal and inevitable fluctuations
there has been on the whole from the
beginning of our government to the
present day progressive betterment
alike in the condition of the tiller OF
the soil and in the condition of the
man who, by his manual skill and la
bor, supports himself and his family
and endeayors to bring up his children
SO that they may be at least as well
off as, and if possible better off than
he himself has been. There are, OF
course, exceptions, but as a whole the
standard of living among the farmers
of our country has risen from genera
tion to generation, and the wealth rep
resented on the farms has steadily in
creased, while the wages of labor have
likewise risen, both as regards the pur
chasing power which that money rep
resents.
Side by side with this increase il
the prosperity of the wage worker an6
the tiller of the soil there has gone
on a great increase in the prosperity
among the business 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 farm
er and Wage-Worller. In cannot be
too often repeated that in this coun
try In the long run we all of us tent
to go up or down together If the
average OF we'll being is high, it mean:
that the average wage-worker, the
average farmer and the average bust
ness man are all alike well off. /
the average shrinks, there is not one
of these classes which will not feel thu
shrinkage. OF course there are al
ways some men who are not affected
by good times, just as there are som,
men who are not affected by bat
times. But speaking broadly, it il
true that if prosperity comes all of Ii.
tend to share more or less therein
and that if adversely comes each o
us, to a greater or less extent, feel
the tension. Unfortunately, in thi
world the innocent frequently fin,
themselves obliged to pay some of th
penalty for the misdeeds of the guilty
and so if hard times come, whethe
they be due to our own fault or t,
cur misfortune, whether they be du
to some burst Of speculative frenz
that has caused portion of the busi
ness world to lose it's head-a los
which no legislation can possibly SUP
ply--or whether they be due to an
lack of wisdom in portion of tn
world of labor--in each case tn
trouble once started is felt more o
less in every walk of life"
Evening in Syracuse.
Syracuse. Sept. 7.--At 5 p. m. th
President will return to the city wher
he will review the parade of the Ma
tional Association of Letter Carriers
1,1
to the home of former United State
Senator Frank Hiscock, where he vii
have dinner. He will leave for Ne,
York at $40 p. m.
Thousands March at Chicago.
Chicago, Sept. Tit is estimate
that between 100000 and 125,0o0 trad