Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-08
Notable Address by President Roosevelt on the
Opening Of New York State Fair
KEYNOTE ToCOMING CAMPAIGN SOUNDED
Line OfDemaraon Between Good and Rad Citizenship Sharp
" Drawn-No Distinctions can be Drawn Between Men
Except as to Good Conduct.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Sept s.--The
presence Of President Roosevelt, the
opening Of the New York state fair
and the celebration Of Labor Day com.
bined to draw to Syracuse one OF the
largest crowds in the history Of the
city. The railroad officials estimated
that no less than seventy-fiye thous-
and visitors had arrived In the city
before l o'clock this afternoon. the
hour at which the president delivered
the opening address at the state fair.
President Roosevelt came to SYRIA
cuse from his home at Oyster Bay in
the private car of President Truesdale
Of the Lackawanna road. At the sta.
ton he was met by the state fair com
mission and citizens reception com.
mittee. Former Senator Frank His
cock acted as host to the president
and luncheon was served at the His
cock residence. Shortly before noon
the chief executive was taken to the
state fair grounds by special train. His
address was delivered from special
ly constructed stand in the athletic
field and in the presence Of more than
one hundred thousand people.
I'm speaking OF Labor Day at the
annual fair Of the New York state ag-
ricultural association, 1t Is natural to
keep especially IN mind the two bodies
who compose the majority Of our peO-
pie and upon whose welfare depends
the welfare Of the entire state. II
circumstances are such that thrift.
energy, industry, and forethought en-
able the farmer. the tiller of the soil.
on the one hand, and the wage-worker
on the other. to keep themselves, their
wives, and their children In reasonable
comfort then the state is well of, and
we can be assured that the other class.
es 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 II has been pro-
found good fortune as nation that
hitherto, disregarding exceptional per
iods Of depression and the normal and
inevitable fluctuations, there has been
on the whole from the beginning of our
government to the present day a pro-
gressive betterment alike in the con-
dition OF the tiller of the soil and In
the condition of the man who, by his
manual skill and labor. supports him
self and his family, and endeayors to
bring UP his children SO that they may
be at least as well of as, and II possi-
Bile better on than, he himself has
been. There are, Of course, excep.
tions, but as whole the standard OF
living among the farmers of our coun-
try has risen from generation to gen.
Grafton, 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
Side by side with this increase in
prosperity of the wage-worker and
the tiler OF the soil has gone on q
great increase in the prosperity among
the business men and among certain
classes OF professional men; and the
prosperity Of these men has been part
ly the cause and partly the
consequence Of the prosperity
of farmer aud wage-worlter
II cannot be too often re.
peated 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. IL means that the aver
age wageworker. the average farmer,
ana the average business man are All
alike weli uif. RI tie average shrinks,
there il not one of these classes which
viii not feel the shrinkage. or course
there are always GONE men who arc
not affected by good times, just as