The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-08
ROOSEVELT
 IN SYRACUSE President Speaks on Cap ital and Labor. WAS HEARD BY 50,000 He Reviewed a Labor Day
 Parade. Tells the Workingmen That the Law Must Be supreme-Labor Day Celebrated Throughout
 the Country.
WAS HEARD BY 5o,000

Syracuse, N. Y. Sept. 7.-President Roosevelt spent a busy day in Syracuse from his arrival this forenoon until ms departure tonight, receiving contin- uous ovation.
 Before noon President Roosevelt had reviewed a large labor day parade in Hanover Square. Then he went to the state fair grounds and spoke before oo' GOO persons on the relations of capital and labor to the State. He afterwards attended luncheon at the club house on the fair grounds and ate with many State officers. To complete the afternoon the President reviewed parade or the National Letter Carriers Association ana the fraternities of Syracuse.
 Tonight he was the guest of former United States Senator Frank Hlscock at a dinner which was attended by % persons.
 The Presidents speech at the fair grounds was as enthusiastically receiv- ed as was the Presidents appearance in the streets of Syracuse. In answer to the cries of the audience after the Presi- dent had finished his talk, Senator Chauncey Depew spoke briefly, pronounc- ing the Presidents speech the best he had ever heard Roosevelt deliver.
 Speech of the President.
 In part the President spoke as follows;
  and bad citizenship lies, not between the man of wealth who acts squarely by his fellows and the man who seeks each days wage by that days work, wronging no one and doing his duty by his neighbor; nor yet does this line of cleavage divide the interruptions wealthy man who exploits in his own in terest, from the demagogue, or from the suIlen and envious being who wishes to attack all men of property, whether they do well or i'll.
 ''On the contrary the line of cleavage between good citizenship and bad citi- zenship separates the rich man who does well from the rich man who does i'll. the poor man of good conduct from the poor E afis Q oissss,sss soniv sts lsnis line of cleavage lies at right angles to any such arbitrary line of divison as that separating one class from another, one locality from another, or men with a certain degree of property from those of less degree of property.
 "The good citizen is the man who, whatever his wealth or his poverty strives manfully to do his duty to him. self, to his family, to his neighbor. to the State; who is incapable of the base ness which manifests itself either in ar rogance or in envy but wno. while de- manding justice for himself, is no less scrupulous to do justice to others. It is because the average American citizen rich or poor, is of just this type that we have cause for our profound faith an the future of the republic.
 A Government of Law.
 ''ours is a government of liberty, by, through, and under the law LaWless- ness and connivance at iaw-breaking-. whether the law-breaking take the form of a crime of greed and cunning or pf crime of violence-are destructive not only of order, but of the true liberties which can only come through order. If alive to their true interests rich and poor alike will set their faces like flint against the spirit which seeks personal advantage by overriding the laws with out regard to whether this spirit shows itself in the form of bodily violence by one set of men or in the form of vulpine cunning by another set of men.
 '"There is no worse enemy of the wage worker than the man who condones mob violence in any shape or who breaches class hatred; and surely the slightest ac- nuaintance with our industrial history should teach even the most short-sight- ed that the times of most suffering for our people as a whole. the times when business Is stagnant, and capital suffers from shrinkage and gets no return from Its investments, are exactly the times of hardship, and want, and grim disaster among the poor.
 Duty of the Capitalist.
 'If all the existing instrumentaitles of wealth could be abolished. the first and severest suffering would. come among those of us who are at least well off at present. The wage worker Is well off only when the rest of the country is well of; and he can best contribute to this general well-being by showing sanity and firm purpose to do justice to others.
 ''In his turn the capitalist who is really Q conservative, the man who has fore thought as well as patriotism, should heartily welcome every effort. legislative or otherwise. which has for It's object to secure fair dealing by capital, corporate or individual, toward the public and coward the employe.
 we must act upon the motto of all for each and each for all There must be ever present in our midst the funda- mental truth that In a republic such as ours the only safety is to stand neither for nor against any man because he is Hich or because he is poor. because he is engaged in one occupation or another because he works with his brains or because he works with his hands. We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each ls given a square deal, because he Is en- Titled to no more and should receive no Jess.
 Finally we must keep ever in mind that republic such as ours can exist only in virtue of the orderly liberty which comes through the equal domination of the law over all men alike and through lts administration in such resolute and fearless fashion as shall teach all that no man is above 1t and no man below it. '
 Celebrated Elsewhere.
 Pittsburg. Sept. 7.-Labor Day was fit,