The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1903-09-08
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WIT.
NESSES LABOR DEMONSTRA-
TlCN AT SYRACUSE.
DELIVERS ADDRESS AT FAIR GROUNDS
DiSCOURSES ON PROSPERITY,
CURRENCY QUESTION AND
CLASS LEGISLATION.

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skies, bands of music. the local mill
tary company, an unprecedented dis
play of flags and patriotic decora-
tion and the uEbounded enthusiasm OF
a vast throng greeted President
Roosevelt at $50 a. m, when his .
cial train rolled into the Delaware
Lackawanna and Western station.
The president came to open the state
fair, to view the Labor day parade
and the parade Of the National AS
sociation Of Letter Carriers. With
him on the train were his secretary
William Loeb, Jr., Jacob A. Riis OF
New York, newspaper representatives
secret service men and the heads OF
the operative department Of the Della
ware. Lackawanna and Western. The
run from New York was very com.
Portable and was without incident
The president was met at the train
by reception committee consisting
Of Justice Frank H. Hiscock, James
M. Gilbert, State Superintendent of
Insurance Francis Henricks, Hendrick
8. Holden. Mayor j. B. Kline and
Francis e. Rason, president of the
with the president In his car a few
minutes. while the local police and
secret service men cleared away the
crowds and prepared for the march
to Hanover square. where the presl-
dent reviewed the labor parade.
Escorted by Soldiers.
The Forty-first separate company
presented arms as the president ap-
peared and then, headed by the New
York Letter Carriers band. escorted
the president and committee TO the
reviewing stand. The president re-
ceived an ovation from the densely
packed throngs
In the square about the reviewing
stand there were fully $4,000 persons.
Every window In the buildings facing
the square was filled with people Up
on tho stand beside the president and
the reception committee were Sena-
tor Chauncey M. Depew, Bishop p. A.
Ludden Of Syracuse and influential
citizens.
There was never before such a dem
onstration 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 chairman
to greet the president and to pin a
badge upon his coat The president
expressed his pleasure In a few words
and the line began to move. Union
after union uncovered as 1t reached
the stand Now and again the presi-
dent shouted compliments to a fine
booking body of men, From start to
finish his attention was never divert
ed from the workingmen.
"They 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 1t makes one
proud to think he Is an American to
see these men," replied the president.
At 1880 o'clock the line had passed
and the party was driven to the train
and departed for the state fair, where
the president made lengthy address.
Among other things he said:
Prosperity OF the People.
"If circumstances are such that
thrift, energy, industry and fore
thought enable the farmer. the tiller
Of the soil. on the one hand. and the
ge-worker. on the other, to keep
themselves. their wives and their
children in reasonable comfort, then
the state Is well off. and we can be
assured that the other classes In the
community will likewise prosper. On
the other hand. II there Is In tho long
run a lack Of prosperity among the
two classes named. then all other
prosperity Is sure to be more seeming
than real As whole the standard
OF living among the farmers Of our
country has risen from generation to
generation. and the wealth represent
ed on the farms has steadily in
creased, 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 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 con-
sequence Of the prosperity OF farmer
and wage worker 1t cannot be too
often repeated that In this country,
in the long run, we all Of us tend to
go up or go down together II the
average OF wcll-bcing Is high. II means
that the average wage-worker, the
average farmer the average business
mnn are all alike well off. X the
average shrinks. there Is not one OF
these classes which will not feel the
shrinkage"
Refers to Currency Question.
The president said II was essential
to the continuance OF our healthy ma
tional life that we should recognize
the community of interest among our
people: that the future of the United
States Is assured because the people
are fitted for self-government. and
shnn the leadership OF those who
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