Arizona republican., 1903-09-08
The Theme of President Roosevelt at Syracuse
RELATIONS OF CLASSES
There Is a Line Drawn, Not Between the Rich and the Poor, Not Between Capital and Labor, But Between Good and Bad Citizens.

Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. '--PreSluent Roosevelt today was accorded a mag nificent reception by the citizens of his OWE state From the moment Of his ar rival in this city this morning at 9:3C o'clock until he stepped aboard his special train at 1O:3O tonight to begin his return trip to Oyster Bay, he was given a continual ovatiC.l.
 Syracuse never before held such q to greet the president. Fully 1Oo,CGU persons from ali sections of New York state tested the carrying capacity ol the various lines of railroad, and many additional thousands came from the country contiguous to the city. Every where in the city and at the grounds of the New York State Fair association he was received with notable enthusi- asm. As he drove through the streets the tens of thousands of persons banked along the sidewalks greeted him with cheers Business houses and residences were ablaze with bunting. and the American flag floated in the breeze rom almost every window.
 It was a busy day fer the president d cidents. In the morning soon after his arrival he reviewed from beautifully decorated stand in Hanover square a great parade of the labor organizations of the city. He then went to the state fair grounds, where he delivered before 10000 persons an address on good citi- Zenship and the relations e. labor and capital to the state.
 He was the principal guest at a luncheon at the club house on the grounds, q luncheon which was attend ed by every important state official eX- cept Governor Odell, who could not be present on account of a previous en- .sagement He reviewed q parade of the National Letter Carriers assccla- tion and the fraternal bodies Of the city and was the guest tonight of former United States Senator Frank Hiscock at dinner which was attended by about thirty persons invited to meet the president.
 After the applause which had greeted his address had subsided the crowd called for Senator Chauncey M Depew lie spoke briefly and pronounced the presidents address the best he ever had heard him deliver.
 In the course of his speech the presi- dent said:
 In spea king on Labor Day at the an- nual fair of the New York State Agri- cultural association. it 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. If circum stances are such that thrift, energy, industry, and forethought enable the ( fI,1 NiI nrl ha r.a hand, and the wage-worller. on the ether. to keep themselves, their wives, and their children in reasonable com fort. 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 a lack of prosperity among the two classes named, then all other prosperity is sure to be more seeming than real It has been our profound good fortune as a 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 a progressive betterment alike in the condition of the tiller ot the soil and in the condition of the man who, by his manual skill and labor supports himself and his family, and endeavors to bring up his children SC that they may be at least as well oil 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 ou1 country has risen from generation tc generation, 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 the prosperity of the wage-worker and the tiller of the soil has gone on a great in- crease 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 pros perity Of farmer and wage-worker. II can net be too often repeated that II this country, in the long run, we all o1 us tend to go up or go down together If the average of weil-belng IS high, Il means that the average wage worker the average farmer, and the average husiuess man are all alike well off. Ii
 
 these classes which will not feel the shrinkage. Of course there are alway: some men who are not affected by good times, just as there are some meI who are not affected by bad times. Bu sDeaking broadly, it is true that il prosperity comes all of us tend to share more or less therein, and that if adVer- sity comes each of us, to a greater ol less extent, feels the tension Unfor' tunately, in this world the innocet ire ouently find themselves obliged to pay some of the penalty for the misdeed. of the guilty; and so if hard times come. whether they be due to our oWr fault or to our misfortune, whether they be due to some burst of specula- tive frenzy that has caused q portion of the business world to lose it's heao "a loss which no legislation can possi-