The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-05-01
BANQUET at Omaha Club.

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Banquet at Omaha Club.
The drive ended at the Omaha club,
where a banquet lasting IN hour and a
half was given the president and his
party. Covers We're laid for ninety per-
members of the Ak-Sar-Ben and dis
~tinguished citizens of the city.
General Henderson presided, n in
troduced the president.
After the banquet at the club the
president and his party were escorted
to h coliseum, which is w miles
from the business portion of the city.
Although the start was lot lnade until
8 o'clock, thousands again turned out
glimpse of his face. When he reached
the big auditorium 1t Was crowded. to
Its capacity. The building w;ls elab-
orately decorated in natiunGl and AK
Sar-Ben colors. When the president
and his party entered a band strusk
up Hail to the Chief" and he was
accorded a tremendous ovation.
The president devoted most of his
speech to the question IF good citizen
ship, and went over fully n thor
oughly the ground he has heretofore
covered on his subject, He also de-
livered a brief eulogy on the life of
General U. S. Grant, today being the
anniversary of his birth.
Omaha is threatened with an indus
trial strike on May L, and the presi-
dent vas asked to say something bear
ing on this subject. TIL. following
was delivered in response to this re-
quest:
Talk on Approaching Strike.
If I might give a word of advice to
Omaha, I should like to see your daily
press publish in full the concluding or
ton of that report of the anthracite
coal strike commission signed by all the
members thereof, by those in a special
sense the champions of the wage work
er and by those in a social sense iden-
tilted with capital. organized or unor-
ganized, because, men and women of
Omaha, those people die not speak first
as capitalist or as laborer; did not
speak first as Judge, as I'm man, as
churchman, but they spoke, all Of them,
is American citizens, anxious to see
right and justice prevail. [Cheers and
applause.1
NO one quality will get US out Of any
difficulty. We need more than one-we
need a good many. We need, as l said,
the power Of each mans honestly try
ing to look at the problem from his
fellows standpoint. Capitalist and
wage worker alike should honestly en-
deaveor to look at any matter from the
others standpoint with q freedom on
the one hand from the contemplate
arrogance which looks down upon the
ma Of less means, and on the other
from the no less contemplate envy,
jealousy and rancor which hates an
other because he is better off. lap
plause.] Each quality is the compile
ment of the other, the supplement Of
the other, and, in point of baseness,
there is not the weight of a finger to
choose between them. Look at the re-
port signed by those men; look at it
in the spirit in which they wrote it,
and If you an only make yourselves,
make the country, approach the prob
lens of today in the spirit that these
men-your fellows-showed in ap-
preaching the great problem of yes
terday, any problem or problems will be
solved.
The Agitator Condemned.
ANY man who tries to excite class
hatred, sectional hate, nate of creeds,
any kind of hatred in our community,
though he may affect to do it in the
interest of the class he is addressing,
is, in the long run with absolute GER
tainty, that class own worst enemy
IApplause.] 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, excep-
lions in place-but. as a whole, If the
commonwealth prospers some measure
of the prosperity to all Of us.
II it is not prosperity, then the adver-
sity, though it may lie unequally upon
us, will weigh more or less upon ali.
1t lies upon ourselves to determine our
own fate.
81 cannot too often say that the wis
est law, the best administration of the
law can 10 naught more than give
us a fair field in which to work ort
that fate Alright. If, as individuals or
as a community, we mar our fntnra
by our w folly, let us remember thai
it is upon ourselves that the r@esnonsiN
bility must rest.
My fellow citizens, men and women ri
Omaha. let me close in expressing the
Astounding confidence that / have thai
you, of this city; hat you, of this state.
will work out your fate Alright, for I hold
you to be in a popular sense typical of
an Thai is best in the American charac-
a.f, l believe IN you with all my heart.
ne INSCRIPTIONS man who is not guided
ny the moral law is q curse, to be hunted
doWh Tx the savage. wild beast; and his
aolllty, and his courage, whether in bust
ness, IN politics or anywhere else, only
serve to make him more dangerous and d
greater curse. We must have courage;