The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-11
PRESIDENT IS GIVEN OVATION Enthusiastic Reception at
 WilkeSbarre. DELIVERS GREAT SPEECH MT. Roosevelt Was in a Good
 Humor. Two Hundred Thousand visitors In the Pennsylvania City te Hear and
 See the Nation's Chief
 Executive.

Wilkesbarre. Pa., Aug. 10.-The Pres ident of the United States, who came here today and made an address to the l delegates attending the annual conven- | tion of the Catholic Abstinence Union | of America and the members of the | United Mine Workers of America, was 1 given a most enthusiastic reception. In fact the entire trip through New Jer- sey and Pennsylvania to this city was series of ovations. Every station along | the line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad | from Jersey City was decorated with flags and bunting and the crowds at | the stations cheered the President heartily. The entire valley from Shick- | shinny to Pittston took holiday to do honor to the President.
 l MT. Roosevelt was in a good humor and enjoyed the day as much as the most enthusiastic total abstainer or mine worker. In Wilkesbarre there was scarcely a building in the business part or a house along the route over which the President drove that did not 1 display the national coiors. The great 1 est crowd that the municipality had I within it's confines was In the city and 1t is estimated that the visitors num- bered upwards of 100000.
 | The President arrived at o'clock ! and was driven directly to the speak, CTS stand on the river common. Be- | sides the President, those who spoke | were Cardinal Gibbons, Mayor Kirken- dall of this city, John Mitchell. Pres | ident of the miners union. and the Rev J. J. Curran of this city. district pres | ident of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union. The crush about the speakers | stand was so great that the police and | the temperance cadets who acted as the Presidents escort lost control of the crowd. More than dozen persons fainted and had to be carried to the i outskirts of the multitude. No one was | seriously hurt.
 | After the exercises on the river com mon had ended, the President was driven about the city, then to the Wy oming monument and from there to Pittston. about clever miles north of here, where he boarded his special train and left for Chsutauqua at 7;2o
 President Roosevelt's speech was as follows:
 Mir. Roosevelt's Speech.
 q am particularly glad to speak to 1 this audience of miners and their wives and children. and especially to speak under the auspices of this great tenn perance society In our country the happiness of all the rest of our people depends most of all upon the welfare | of the farmer. If we can secure the welfare of these two classes we can | be reasonably certain that the com munity as a whole will prosper. And we must never forget that the chief factor in securing the welfare alike of | wage-worker and of farmer, as of ev-
 AThe only effective way to help any body is,to help him help himself. There are exceptional times when any one of sonS eeds s. 0psds sn ey ns nd snf ntnmsy 5nen It each one of us must depend upon his own exertions for his own success Something can be done by wise iegls- lation and by wise and honest admin istratson of the laws; that is, some thing can be done by our action taken in our collective capacity through the | State and the nation.
 | Something more can be done by | combination and organization among ourselves in our private capacities as and integrity. with tnsistence upon the rights of those benefited and yet win just regard for. the rights of others. 1 But in the last analysis the factor most influential in determining any that mans own qualities, of his knowl- Whatever tends to increase his self-re- spect whatever tends to help him over come the temptations with which all of us are surrounded. is of benefit not only to him but to the whole commit
 No one society can do more to help the wage.worker tna. than ss.h such temper per addressing It is of incalculable con sequence to the man himself that he should be sober and temperate. and 1t and his children; for 1t is q hard and cruel fact that in this life of ours the sins of the man are often visited most heavily upon those whose welfare l should be his one special care
 For the drunkard for tho man who loses his job because he can not con liquor and for vicious pleasure, we have | a feeling of anger and contempt mixed with our pity; but for his unfortunate and that of the deepest and tenderest
 "Everything possible should be done of seif-respect. self-restraint self-re- liance which if it only grows enough is certain to make all those in whom
 t shows itself move t,onsadd steadily upward lean citizenship; It is proud and re. sponsible privilege to be citizens of each each of us needs to keep steadily he fore his eyes the fact that he Is wholly unfit to take part in the work of gov erning others unless he can first gov fully for his own rights; he must re- apect the rights Of others; he must obey the law and he must try to live l which are above and behind all laws.
 Appeals to All
 '.TbIs applies just as much to the man of great wealth as to the man of small means; to the capitalist as to she wage-worker. And as one prac- tical point. let me urge that in the event of any difficulty. especially If it | Is what Is known IS a labor trouble, 10th sides show themselves willing to meet. willing to consult. and anxious each to treat the other reasonably and fairiv each to look at the others side of the case and to do the other jus fire If only this course could be gen. | eraIIy followed, the chance of indus trial disaster would be mlnimized
 Now my friends. I want to read you an extract from a letter have Just re- ceived from a Catholic priest whom I know well and whom I know to be as 1 stayncb a friend of the laboring man as tbare Is to be found in this country, | Nop, and then-not too often--it Is a cood thing for all of us to hear what is | not nerhaps altogether palatable. pro- vSded only that the person who tells tbs truth Is our genuine friend, knows what he is talking about (even though | he may not see all sides of the easel, and tells us what he has to say, not | with a desire to hurt our feelings, but win the transparent purpose to do us good. with this foreword. here is a