Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-28
EECH AT OMAHA
PRESIDENT ADDRESSES TEN
THOUSAND PERSONS.
Talks on Good Government and the
Qualities Which Make UP
Good Citizens.

A dispatch from Omaha, Neb., last
night says: Ten thousand people were
gathered at the Coliseum tonight to hear
| President Roosevelt
The day has been trying one for the
entire party, the wind blowing the whole
| day, and at Lincoln a smart rain storm
greeted the President on his arrival. The
| dust and sand which blew across the
| prairies added another unpleasant feature
| to the journey, which was of circuit
| Gus route. Omaha was reached at 5:15
| O'Clock.
Much preparation had been made In this
| city for the Presidents coming, and he
was greeted by probably $1,000 people, who
| lined the streets on both sides for mile
and a half along the route Of the carriage
drive.
The military escort was a large one.
| headed by platoon of police. 1t was
composed of the Thurston Rifles, Omaha
Guards, Willard Rifles, South Omaha
| troop of cavalry and six companies of
| the high school cadets. The drive through
| the city lasted half an hour, several of
| the downtown streets being traversed.
| The entire distance was lined with thou
| sands of people, who gave the President
most hearty welcome.
The Auditorium Was Crowded.
| After banquet at the Omaha Club, the
President and his party were escorted to
the Coliseum. When the President and
his party entered a band struck up Hail
to the Chief" and he was accorded a
tremendous ovation.
The President said: Coming through
the state of Nebraska today l was re-
joiced In your great prosperity; l rejoice
in your fertile SOIL I rejoice In the crops
you raise, and, after all. the best product
is the men and women. l was mighty glad
to see your children. They seemed to be
all right in quality and quantity. Naugh-
teri l think you have a mighty good
stock; l want to see it go on
The President devoted most Of his
speech to the question Of good citizen
ship. and went over very fully and
thoroughly the ground he has heretofore
covered on this subject. He also deliv-
cred a brief eulogy on the life of Gen. U.
Grant, today being the anniversary
of his birth.
strike on May l. and the President was
asked to say something bearing on this
subject. The following was delivered in
response to this request:
If l might give a word of advice to
Omaha, l should like to see your daily
press publish in full the concluding por-
ton Of the report of the anthracite coal
strike commission, signed by all the men,
bers thereof. by those in a special sense
the champion of the wage worker and by
those in a special sense Identified with
capital, organized unorganized, be-
cause, men and women of Omaha, those
people did not speak first as capitalist or
as laborer did not speak first as Judge as
army man, as churchman, but they spoke,
all of them, unanimously signed that re-
port. all of them, as American citizens,
anxious to see right and justice prevail.
Cheers and applause.)
mo one quality will get us out of any
difficulty. We need more than one; we
need good many. We need, as I said,
the power first of each man honestly
trying to look at the problem from his
fellows standpoint. Capitalist and wage
worker alike should honestly endeavor
each to look at any matter from the 9TH
ers standpoint, with a freedom, on the
one hand. from the contemplate AFRO
gance which looks down upon the man of
less means, and on the other, from the no
less contemplate envy, jealousy and ram
cor which hates another because he is
better on Each quality is the supple
ness there is not the weight of the finger
to choose between them.
LOOK at the report signed by those men:
look at it in the spirit In which they wrote
IT, ana II you can only make yourselves.
make the community approach the prob
lens OF today in the spirit that these men
your fellows, showed in approaching the
great problem of yesterday, any problem or
problems will be solved
ANY man who tries to excite class ha-
tired, sectional hate, hate of creeds any
KIND of hatred in our community, though
he may affect to do 1t in the interest of the
class he is addressing. Is, in the long run,
with absolute certainty that class own
worst enemy. Appause)
In the long run and as a whole we are
going to go up or go down together OF
course, there will be individual exceptions
small local exceptions exceptions in
kind exceptions in place, but as whole.
II the commonwealth prospers some meas
ure of the prosperity comes to all of us
II 1t Is not prosperity then the adversity
though 1t may be unequally upon u.s. will
weigh more or less upon all. 1t lies upon
ourselves to determine our own fate
Il cannot say too often that the wisest
law, the best administration of the law
can do naught more than give us a fair
field in which to work out that fate Alright.
If, as individuals or as a community. we
mar our future by our own folly let us re-
member that 1t is upon ourselves the re-
sponsbility must rest
MY fellow-ctizens, men and women of
Omaha, let close in expressing the
Astounding confidence I have that YOU of
this city that you Of this state, will in the
end work out your fate Alright because 1
hold you to be. in a peculiar sense typical
OF all that is best in the American char
acter. l believe in you with all my heart
The able. fearless, INSCRIPTIONS man. who
is not guided by the moral law is a curse
to be hunted down like the civic wild beast
and his ability and his courage, whether
in business, in politics, anywhere else,
only serve to make him more dangerous
and q greater curse. We must have COUP
age; we must have honesty; but with them
both. and guiding them both, we must have
the saving grace Of common sense" CAD
plause.)
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