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grounds a crowd estimated at $1,000 had
arrived and crowds We're pouring through
all the gates. A citizens committee OF
100 occupied the speakers stand. The
president was introduced by Lieutenant
/ Governor Higgins, president of the State
air commission. After the cheering had
subsided the President spoke as follows:
In speaking on Labor Day al the annual fair
Oh the New York state Agricultural Associa-
lioh' IL Is natural TO keep especially in mind
the two bodies who compose the majority OF
our people and upon whose welfare depends the
welfare Of the entire State. If circumstances
are such that thrift energy, industry and fore
thought enable the farmer. the tiIler of the
soil, on the one hand. and the wage worker, on
the other. 70 keep themselves, their wives and
their children in reasonable comfort, then the
state is well off. and We be assured that
wise prosper. On the other hand If there is in
the long run laclTOf prosperity among the two
to be more seeming than real 1t has been our
profound good fortune as a nation that hither-
10, disregarding exceptional periods Of depres-
sion ana the normal and Inevitable fluctuations,
there has been on the whole from the begin
ming OF our Government to the present day a
PROGRESSIVE betterrnent alike in the condition
OF the tiller Of the soil and in the condition of
the man who. by his manual skill and labor,
supports himself and his family, and endeaVors
70 bring up his children so that they may be at
least as wei on as, and If possible better off
than, he himself has been There are, of
course, exceptions, but a whole the standard
has risen from generation to generatfon and
the wealth represented on the farms has stead
lily Increased. while the wages of labor have
likewise risen, beth as regards the actual
money pald ana as regards the purchasing
power which that money represents.
Side by side with this increase in the pros
perity OF the wage worker and the tiller of
the SOIL mas 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
r1rfe-
not be too often repeated tbat in this cdt,n+Y
go down together. If the average of Well-being
Is high, 1t means that the average wage
worker. the average farmer and the average
business man are all alike well Off If the
average shrinks, there Is not of these
course. there are always some men who are
not affected by good times, just as there are
some men who are not affected by bad times.
But, speaking broadly, 1t is true that II pros
perity comes all of us tend to share more or
less therein. and that II adversely comes eacn
tension. Unfortunately in this world the in
nocent frequently find themselves obliged to
pay some of the penalty for the misdeeds of
| the guilty; and so II hard times come whether
they be due TO our own fault or 10 our mis-
fortune, 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
a portion OF the world of labor-in each case
the trouble once started is felt more or less in
COMMUNITY OF INTEREST.
1t is all-essential 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 funda-
mentally upon the welfare OF all of u.s. and
therefore in public life that man is the best
representative of each of who seeks to do
words, whose endeavoT # is not to- repres sent
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.
We can keep our Government a sane and
healthy basis, make and keep our So
cial system what 1t should be, only on condi-
ton OF Judging each man, not a member of
a class hut on his worth as a man. II is an
anlentaliy treacherous to institutions 10
apply to any any test save that of his
personal worth. to draw between two sets
Of men any distinction save the distinction OF
who 4 well and wisely from those who do III
and fd9lishly. There are good citizens and bad
citizens in every class in every locality
and the attitude of decent people toward great
mined not by the accidental questions OF en-
ployment OF locality, but by those deep set
principles which represent the innermost souls
of
TO treat each man his own merits, the recog-
milton Of this Government as being either for
the poor as such for the rich such, would
nroye fatal to our republic, as such failure
ana such recognition have always proved fatal
a., the past to other republics. A healthy re-
viduals not upon classes or sections. AS soon
az a. becomes government by a class or by q
section IL departs from the old American ideal.
IT is. OF course, the merest truism to say that