The Butte inter mountain., 1903-09-07
ROOSEVELT SPEAKS
TO SONS OF TOLL
OPENS STATE FAIR AT SYRACUSE
AND ADDRESSES THE MEN IN
LABOR DAY PARADE.
He RECEIVES AN OVATION
Thrones Pack Streets Of the New York
City to Greet the Chief Execu-
tive -- His Speech.
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some of the penalty for the msdeeds of
the guilty and so IL hard times come,
whether they be due 20 our own fault or
to Our misfortune, whether they be due to
some burst of speculative frenzy that has
caused a portion of the business world to
lose its head--a loss which no legislation
can possibly supply-or whether they be
due to any lack of wisdom in a portion OF
the world of labor-in each case the trou-
bic once started is felt more or less i'll
every walk of life.
Community Of Interest.
at is all-essentia to the continuance of
our healthy national life that we should
recognize this community Of interest
among Our people The welfare of each of
US is dependent fundamentally upon the
welfare OF all of us, and therefore in pub
lie life that man is the best representative
of each of us who seeks to do good to each
by doing good to all; in other words,
whose endeavor 1t is, not to represent any
special class and promote 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 for our common country.
1--WE can keep Our government on a sane
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our social system what 1t should be, only
ON condition Of judging each man, not as
member of class, but on his worth as a
man. It is an infamous thing in our
American life. and fundamentally treach
erous 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 distinction Of con-
duct, 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 citizens in every class as
in every locality, and the attitude of
decent people toward great public and so
cial questions should be determined, not
by the accidental questions Of employment
or locality, but by those deep-set principles
which represent the innermost souls OF
men.
Would Prove Fatal.
"Thc failure in public and in private life
thus to treat each man on his own merits.
the recognition OF this government as be-
ing either for the poor as such or for the
rich as such, would prove fatal to our
Republic. as such failure and such recog-
milton have always proved fatal in the
past to other republics. A healthy re-
publican government must rest Upon in
dividuas. not upon classes or sections. AS
soon as it becomes government by class
or by section it departs from the old
American ideal.
at is, of course, the merest trusm to
say that free institutions are of avail only
to people who possess the high and pecul-
lar characteristics needed to take advan-
tage of such institutions. The century that
has just closed has witnessed many and
lamenlable instances in which people have
seized 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 dcspotism or anar-
chy, because they did not have in them the
power to make this seeming liberty one
OF deed instead Of one merely of word
Under such circumstances the seeming lib
erty may be supplanted by tyranny or
despotism in the first place, or it may