The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-08
THOUSANDS SAW HIM
ROOSEVELT WAS THE GUEST OF
HONOR AT SYRACUSE.
VISITORS THRONGED THE CITY
PRESIDENTS SPEECH WAS UPON
GOOD CITIZENSHIP.

Home State-Great Parade of Or
ganized LabOr-POlitic Comments
Made by the President-SenatOr
Depew Spoke.
Syracuse, Sept. president Roose-
welt to-day was accorded a magnificent
reception by the citizens of his own
state. From the moment of his ar
rival in this city this morning at $50
o'clock until he stepped aboard his
special train at 1920 tonight, to be-
gin his return trip to oyster Bay, he
was given a continual ovation.
Syracuse never before held such a
throng as assembled to greet the Pres
ident. Fully 100000 persons from all
sections of New York tested the carry
ing capacity of the various lines of
railroad and many additional thou
sands came from the country around
the city. Everywhere in the city. and
at the grounds of the New York State
Fair Association, the President was re-
celVed with notable enthusiasm
For the President it was busy day,
as well as day full of interesting
ceremonies. In the morning, soon after
his arrival, he reviewed from a beauti-
fully decorated stand in Hanover
Square, great parade of the labor or
CARNATIONS of the city; he then went
to the State Fair Grounds, where he
delivered before $4,000 persons an ad-
dress on good citizenship and the re-
lations of labor and capital to the
state. He was the principal guest at
luncheon at the club house on the
grounds luncheon which was at
tended by every important state off,
cial except Gov. OdeIl, who could not
be present on account of a previous
engagement; reviewed fine parade of
the National Letter Carriers Associa-
ton and fraternal bodies of the CITY.
and was the guest tonight of former
United States Senator Frank Hitch
cock at a dinner, which was attended
by about thirty persons invited to meet
the President.
LabOring Mems Demonstration.
There was never before such a de-
monstration by organized labor in this
| CITY. Fully 5000 men and women were
IN line. The Labor Day Committee
as 1t reached the stand, sent its chair
man 10 greet the President, and tc
pin badge upon his coat The Presi-
dent expressed his pleasure in a few
words, and the line began to move.
Union after union uncovered as If
reached the stand.
Now and again the President shouted
compliments to a fine looking hody of
men. From start to finish his atten-
ton was never diverted from the work
ing men. In the parade were a few
floats with placards. One read: 1.-The
trust fights us; let us fight the trust
by not using their goods"
fTHey 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," replied the President.
After the parade the President went
to the fair grounds, where he was
introduced by Lieut.. Gov Higgins,
president of the. State Fair Commits
son. After chkssring had subsidized,
the PRESIDENT spoke as follows:
Speech of the President.
1--WE can keep our government on a
sane and healthy basis. we can make
and keep our social system what it
should be, only on condition of judg-
ing each man. not as a member of a
class, but on his worth as a man. 1t
is an infamous thing in our American
life, and fundamentally treacherous to
our institutions, to apply to any man
any test save that of his personal
worth, or to draw between two sets of
men any distinction save the distinc-
ton of conduct, the distinction that
marks off those who do we'll and wisely
from those who do i'll and foolishly.
There are good citizens and bad citi-
zens in every class as in every locality,
and the attitude of decent people TO-
ward great public and social questions
should be determined. not by the ac-
sidental questions of employment or
locality, but by those deep-set princi-
pies which represent the innermost
souls of men.
1.-THE failure in public and in private
life thus to treat each man on his own
merits, the recognition of this govern
ment as being either for the poor as
such or for the rich as such, would
never prove fatal to our republic, as
such failure and such recognition have
always proved fatal in the past to other
republics. A healthy republican gov
eminent must rest upon individuals,
not upon classes or sections. AS soon
as it becomes government by class
or by a section it departs from the
old American ideal.
'It is, of course, the merest truism
to say that free institutions are of
avail only to people who possess the
high and peculiar characteristics need
ed to take advantage of such institu-
tions. The century that has just closed
has witnessed many and lamentable in
stances in which people have seized a
government free in form. or have had
it bestowed upon them, and yet have
permitted it under the forms of liberty
to become some species of despotism
or anarchy, because they did not have
in them the power to make this SEEM
ing liberty one of deed instead of one
merely of word. Under such circum-
stances the seeming liberty may be
supplanted by a tyranny or despotism
in the first place. or it may reach the
road of despotism by the path of license
and anarchy. II matters but little
which road is taken. In either case
the same goal is reached People show
themselves just as unfit for liberty,
whether they submit to anarchy or to
tyranny: and class government. wheth-
er IL be the government of a plutocracy
or the government OF a mob is equally
incompatible with the principles estab-
lished in the days OF Washington and
perpetuated IN the days Of Lincoln.
Qualities of Citizenship.
MANY qualities are needed by peo-
Die which would preserve the power Of
self-government IN fact as well as in
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