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PRESIDENT
Addressed so, 900 Persons at New
York State Fair.
ACCORDED CONTINUAL OVATION

ACCORDED CONTINUAL OVATION
President Roosevelt Spoke On Good
Citizenship and the Relations OF
Labor and Capital - Reviewed Two
Parades.
Syracuse, N. Y, Sept. s.-President
Roosevelt was accorded magnificent
reception by the citizens OF his own
state. From the moment OF his arrival
In this city until he stepped aboard
his special train TO begin his return
trip to Oyster Bay he was given q
continual ovation. Syracuse never be-
fore held such a throng as assembled
here to greet the president. Fully
100000 persons from all sections OF
New York state tested the carrying
capacity of the various lines of rail
roads, and many additional thousands
came from the country Immediately
contiguous TO the city. Everywhere
in the city, and at the grounds OF the
New York state fair association. the
president was received with notable
enthusiasm.
For the president II was busy day
as we'll as a day full of interesting in
cidents In the morning, soon after
his arrival. he reviewed from a beau
tifully decorated stand in Hanover
square great parade OF the labor
organizations OF the city; he then
went 10 the state fair grounds, where
he delivered before 10000 persons an
address on good citizenship and the
relations or labor and capital TO the
state; he was the principal guest at
a luncheon at the club house on the
grounds-a luncheon which was at
tended by every important state OH
cial except Governor Odell. who could
not be present on account OF a pre-
vious engagement; reviewed a hne
parade of the National Letter Carriers
Association and fraternal bodies OF
the city. and was the guest OF former
United States Senator Frank Hlscock
at a dinner which was attended by
about 80 persons invited TO meet the
president.
In his address at the fair grounds
President Roosevelt said in part:
THE reason why our future is as
sured lies in the fact that our people
are generally skilled in and fitted for
self government. and therefore Will
spurn the leadership of those who seek
to excite this ferocious and foolish
class antagonism. The average Amer
lean knows not only that he himself
intends to do about what is right. but
that his average fellow-countryman
has the same intention and the same
power to make his intention effective.
He knows, whether he be business
man, professional man. farmer, me
chanic. employer OF wage-worker, that
the welfare OF each OF these men is
bound up with the welfare of all the
others; that each is neighbor 10 the
other. Is actuated by the same hopes
and fears. has fundamentally the same
ideals. and that all alike have much
the same virtues and the same faults.
Our average fellow-citizen is a sane
and healthy man, who believes In de-
cency and has a wholesome mind. He
therefore feels an equal scorn alike
for the man OF wealth guilty OF the
mean and base spirit OF arrogance
toward those who are less well on,
and for the man OF small means who
in his turn either feels, or seeks TO
excite in others the feeling OF mean
and base envy for those who are bet
ter of. The two feelings. envy and
arrogance. are but opposite sides Of
the same shield. but different devel'
opments of the same spirit. Funda-
mentally. the INSCRIPTIONS rich man
who seeks to exploit and Cypress those
who are less well of is in spirit not
opposed to, but Identical with. the
INSCRIPTIONS poor man who desires
to plumber and Cypress those who are
better of. The courtier and the dema-
gogue are but developments OF the
same type under different conditions.
each manifesting the same seryile
spirit, the same desire to rise by pan
dering to base passions; though one
panders to power in the shape Of
single man and the other to power in
the shape of a multitude. So likewise
the man who wishes to rise by wrong
ing others must by right me contrast
ed with, not with the man who like
wise wishes TO do wrong, though to
different set OF people. but with the
man who wishes to do justice TO all
people and to wrong none.
1.-THE line OF cleavage between good
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 INSCRIPTIONS
wealthy man who exploits others in
his own interest, from the demagogue,
or from the sullen and envious being
who wishes TO attack all men Of prop
erty, whether they do we'll or Ill. On
the contrary, the line of cleavage be-
tween good citizenship and bad citi-
senship separates the rich man who
does we'll from the rich man who does
Ill, the poor man Of good conduct from
the poor man OF bad conduct.
This good citizen is the man who,
whatever his wealth or poverty.
strives manfully to do his duty to him
self. his family, to his neighbor, to the
state; who is incapable of the base
ness which manifests itself either in
arrogance or in envy. but who, while
demanding justice for himself, is no
less scrupulous to do justice to others.
II Is because the average American
citizen. rich or poor. is OF just this
type that we have cause for our pro-
found faith in the future Of the re-
pablic."