Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-10-26
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Class A~ntagonisms and Oemasosucs
Are Hsrdlcd in :, Forciblc Manner
He and His Party Start for New o..
leans Where They will Arrive This
Morning.
tBy Associated Press

NOSN, ANN, Oct. 20
President Roosevelt spent seven
crowded hours in and around Little
Rock today and his journey from Fort
Logan on the north side of the Arkan.
sas river to the city park in Little
Rock was marked by enthusiastic
demonstrations of welcome by thou
sands of persons.
While in Little Rock the President
delivered two speeches, in one of
which he denounced lynching, elecit-
ing hearty applause.
After the Presidents address before
10000 persons in the city park at Lit
tie Rock. the party was taken to the
Albert Pike Masonic consistory, where
a luncheon was served. This function
ended at $3.50 O'Clock and the visitors
then entered n special train at the
Rock Island station to return to Mem.
phis.
Met by the Governor.
Governor Jefferson Davis was the
first to greet the President when the
latter left the train this morning OF
Big Rock.
Carriages were taken to Fort Logan
and Root on the summit of Big Rock,
overlooking the city of Little Rock,
across Arkansas river.
A salute of II guns was fired at the
fort and the President. after inspect
ing the buildin g, the grounds and the
garrison. companies L and f. Thir-
teenth United States infantry, spent
half an hour in the officers quarters
as the guest of Lieutenant Colonel A..
G. Sharpe, commandment, and the other
officers of the post.
Blue and Gray Arm in Arm.
When the President left the officers
quarters, he shook hands with the
guard of honor, composed of ~ Union
army veterans, headed by Col. A. 6.
Fowler, and II former Confederate
veterans, headed by former Governor
Daniel w. Jones.
This guard had met the Presidential
party and accompanied it to the army
post. They rode in pairs, each former
Confederate by the SIDE of a Federal
army veteran. Each of the veterans
was given IL verbal greeting by the
President, who remarked on approach.
Ing the group, Gentlemen, it does
me good to see the blue and the gray
riding together"
The President spoke substantially as
follows:
No Class A~ntaeonisms.
Thank heaven. we are free now
from all the danger of territorial an.
tagonisms. Now we must see that
there shall never come any antagon.
isms of the classes or antagonists
between capital and labor. Treat each
man according to his worth as a man.
Don't hold for or against him that he is
either rich OF poor. But if he is rich
and crooked hold it against him; it
not rick. but crooked, then hold it
against him. Put If he is a square
man stand by him.
"Distrust all who would have any
one class placed before any other.
Other republics have fallen because
of the INSCRIPTIONS rich or the un.
scrupulous poor who gained ascen.
dency, who substituted loyalty to
class for loyalty to the people as u
whole.
Referring to the race problem. %
which Governor Davis had alluded. the
President said:
Lynch Law and Crime Denounced.
"The worst enemy of the negro race
Is the negro criminal and above all
the criminal of the hideous type 80
often hideously avenged. Every reput.
able colored man owes the duty to
himself and to his race to hunt down
that criminal. Now as to the white
mans side. Now to avenge one hide.
GUS crime by another Is to reduce the
ayenger to the beastial level.
Another thing which makes this
lynch law so abhorrent is that three.
fourths of the crime for which IT is
pyolfpI arn for aI1nro tl,o, ttnI .~ot..t