Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-07
|O LABOR
President Addresses Great Con-
course of Unionists at
Syracuse Today
breaches TO ORGANIZED LABOR
Fully 25,ooo People Took Part in La
Dor Day Demonstration at Syracuse
President Took Dinner There and
Went to State Fair-stranser scares
Detectives by Seeking President.

Syracuse, N. Y, Sept T.
The presidents special train arrived
in the city at $50 this morning. The
president was escorted by the Forty
first Separate company and recep-
ltion committee to Hanover Square,
where he reviewed the labor parade.
In the square about the reviewing
stand were fully $4,000 persons. Every
window in the buildings facing the
square were filled with people. Upon
the stand besides the president and the
reception committee were Senator
Chauncy NJ. Depew, Bishop Ludden,
of Syracuse, and other influential citi-
zens. Never before was there such a
demonstration by organized labor IN
this city. Five thousand men and wom-
en- were in line. The Labor day COM
mittee as 1t reached the stand sent Its
chairman to greet the president and pin
a badge upon his coat. The president
expressed his pleasure in few words
and the line began to move. At 1880
the parade passed and the presidential
party was driven to the train and de-
parted for the state fair.
A 5 o'clock the president will return
to the city where he will review par
ade of the National Association of Let
ter Carriers. At it's conclusion he VIII!
be driven to the home of former United
state S Senator Frank Hiscock, where
,e will have dinner. He will leave for
New York at $40.
The Presidents Speech.
The president, after reviewing the
parade, said:
.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 in arrogance
or In envy. but who while demanding
Justice for himself is no less scrupu7 I
,,;.s A III. irssice 70 others. 1t is be-
cause the average American citizen,
rich or poor, is OF just this type that
we have cause for our profound faith
in the future OF the republic.
ours is a government of liberty. by.
thru. and under the law. Lawless-
ness and connivance at law breaking
whether the law breaking take the form
of crime of greed and cunning or OF
q crime of violence-are destructive not
only Of order but of the true liberties
which can only come thru order. IL
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. without regard to whether this
spirit shows itself in tle form Of bodi-
ly violence by one set of men or m
the form of vulpine cunning by anothe.
set OF men.
Let the watchwords Of all our people
be the old familiar watchwords OF hon
esty. decency, fair-dealing and COM
mon sense The qualities denoted by
these words are essential to all OF Us,
as we deal with the complex industrial
problems of today, the problems affect-
ing not merely the accumulation but
even more the wise distribution of
wealth. We ask no mans permission
when we require him to obey the law
neither the permission Of the poor man
nor yet of the rich man. Least OF al
can the man Of great wealth afford to
break the law, even for his own finan-
cial advantages; for the law is his prop
and support and 1t is both foolish AMI
profoundly unpatnotic for him to fail
in giving hearty support to those who
show that there is In very fact one
law, and one law only, alike for the
rich and the poor, for the great and
the small.
Men sincerely interested in the due
protection OF property, and men sin
cerely interested in seeing that the just
rights of labor are guaranteed, shoul
alike remember not only that in the
long run neither the capitalist nor tn.
wage worker can be helped in healthy
fashion save by helping the other: but
also that to require either side to obey
the law and do its full duty towarl
the community is emphatically to that
sides real interest.
There is no worse enemy OF the
wage-worker than the man who con-
dones mob violence in any shape o.
who breaches class hatred; and surely
the slightest acquaintance with our
industrial history should teach even
the most short-sighted that the times
OF most suffering for our people as i
whole. the times when business is stag
nant, and capital suffers from shrink
age and gets no return from its in
vestments, are exactly the times os
hardship and want, and grim disaster
among the poor. Ii all the existing
of wealth could be
abolished the first and seyerest suffer
ing would come among those OF us
who are least we'll off a present The
wage worker is we'll off only when the
rest OF the country is we'll off: 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 capitalists who is
really conservative, a man who has
forethought as we'll as patriotism,
should heartily welcome every effort.
legislative or otherwise which has for
its object to secure fair dealing by cap
ital, corporate or individual. toward
the public and toward the employe.
Such laws as the franchise tax law in
this state which the court of appeals
recently unanimously decided constitu-
a law as that passed In
congress last year for the purpose OF
establishing department Of commerce