The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-05

United States Cavalry was his escort.
This Is fair week mt York and there was a
great gathering around the stand from
which the President spoke. He was intro
duccd by Representative Lafean OF the
York district and spoke without notes ~
follows:
Mr.. Congressman, Mr.. Mayor and you,
nv fellow citizens, men and women Of the
great Keystone State:
e. is a peculiar pleasure for me to have
the chance Of saving "A few words TO yoH
to-day here in this old historic cltY>-a.
peculiarly American city IN a pecllleTSy
american portion Of our country II was
in this CITY that for a considerable time
duringth darkest days Of The revolutionary
War the MT ional Government had its Seaa1
Here these men assembled who won
our Independence. who then constituted us
into thai perfect union IA tahnre 10 corr
stitute which would have meant. that the
strugglc for independence itsolf was an
arnGy victory; and from here went forth
by the hundred your sons to preserve the
union which their forcfathcrS had founded
This part 81 your great state is a verl-
table garden Of the Lord. Passing through,
II to-day | am impressed by ITS wondellMi
fertility, 10y the chance u opens 70 every
man TO do well materially and therefore
If he chooses. to do well in the things that
are no. merely material. And one thing |
notice. ON each farm the barn is larger
than the house, a good proof that the right
- ki2d Of nan "a ~. 9wT ,o m i i q ~ b MsSa 4 Farm f.sam
90: .ySIt is trlS afwars and EVERYWHERE that
--Eu An ounce Ol tUN.iA aAl III NNN - N''h'
lSssaiasGreat MANY poands Of envy of some one
else and Of statements Of how well voi
co I'D DO Il conditions were a little blt diner
.,eup, emit, ~
-.,..., tent: there are rlcot" OF mon VINO VIII uy
to teach yoI that cur social and industrial
conditions arc all wrong and must 10 com
There is M cent rEs~t rerhettcrmcnt in "A
great many Of our conditions; there is urgent
need that W. slopld each ~ us ncSOlutelV
do his rart in helpiqG 4olye the great prso;
governmental act,cnT @G.t We cln neser
49, afford to forget that the most important
..-,- factor of individual citizenship.
4 do not care if Won had the most perfect
laws that coNd 4e dcYi,Scd by the wi5 of
--o... amount to anything iC the average MN
,a,-s. was not a pretty decent Fellow; and | haS"
--o.. my firm belief in the failure Of this country
wi because I believe the average AnericaIts ~
.a. a pretty decent fellow
... Mr.. Roosevelt then gave attention to the
.. value of good citizenship and individual
$4,000 effort. Returning 20 state probIcms he
said:
. Our immeFse industrial success brings
great problems. There IL every reason why
the Government should exercise n cnn-
stantly increasing supervision ovcrand con-
troll az the great fortunes used in business,
50 az 10 sec that the great corporations,
the great fortunes generally that are used
in business shall he 50 used as to he in the
49,. 2 interest Of and not against the interests OF
the ordinary people, the general public.
Never for one moment, permit that move
mCTI IOT luh super lHlbl " thlNH Ni'1
~ movement to see that wealth is used Alright.
70 degenerate into a GnbvenPnt of hatred
and malice. Hatred and malice are mighty
ugly sentiments ana are just az bad II you
hate and envy a riOo uuan a. II you hate and
look down upon q poor man. The safe
doctrine is to give each man fair play and
Just a little more than fair play If you can,
In the effort to reform existing condl-
:! lions where they are wrSnSi IN the eiGTt
togive a onstantlyincreasing governmental
pr. supervision over the use OF %esth, IN
ness. remember that our success il con-
ditioned upon our neither being led sstray
by the reactionaries on one side, nor by the
sinist ter or foolish extremists on the other.
Il want 20 see the relations OF the Govern
ment, representing the people as a whole:
90. 9Sese great corp3fsti5Tss dtterffined by
the modeTates, the plain men who merely
- want Justice, who are resolute TO see that
the rich man does his duty and does not do
= anything wrong, but who are equally reso-
Lutte to see that he does not have any in
r@FsNo man u a trd6 rerVant 6f the people
if he does not always warn the people that
those who take the sword shall perish by
the sword; that the people who do injustice
TO any class of citizens must surely in the
end suffer for doing that injustice.
This Government Will succeed because
II shall never fall into such a pit as the
republics of old fell into; this Government
shall not be a government 10y a plutocracy
% II is to bcanh it bah he a e~Overnment Of
the plain people, where each man jealousy
@aHr.r kudIhS IN W kub stAN' wv. - "
iously remembers his duty and pays due
regard to the rights OF others; a govern
ment Whose guiding principle is and shall
be that each man, rich or poor, whatever
his rank, whatever his occupation, what
.-,--. ever his creed, is to be judged solely on his
worth and merits as n man
President Roosevelt began his Harrisburg
address with a tribute TO PennsyiyapIa
patriotism and a eulogistic review o' the
- Commonwealth history.
.ar. do not, however. come here to-day to
.s p speak only Of the past, the President SAID,
and still less to appeal merely TO state PRIDE.
TIL extraordinary industrial changes of the
." last half century have produced a totally
-' new set of conditions, Under which new
..y, evils flourish, and for these new evils new
.,,. remedies must be devised. .
some Of these evils can be grappled
with hy private effort only, for we never
can afford 10 forget that in the last analysis
80. the chief factor in personal 81 -css and, in
deed, an national greatness T'ist be inc
sturdy. sClr-rciant character of the in
dividual citizen. But many Of those evils
arc Of such a nature that no private effort
f. fore must be rIappiSd wf,h ~ govern
mental action. In some cases this govern
several States individ Ually. In yet others
III il has become incrcasi nRly evident that
III no efficient State action is possible, and that
III We need, through executive action, through
TX legislation and through judicial interprets-
II ton and construction of law, TO increase the
power of the Federal Government,
TX II We fail thus TO increase IT, We show
II our impotence and leave ourselves at the
mercy of those ingenious legal advisers
Of tho holders Of vast corporate wealth
who, in the performance Of what they
regard as their duty and TO serve the ends
of their clients, invoke the law at one time
for the confoundinG of their rivals and
at another time strive for the notification
of the law, in order that they themselves
\. may be left free to work their unbridled
will on these same rivals, or on those who
labor for them, or on the general public,
In the exercise of their profession and in the
service Of their clients these astute lawyers
strive. to prevent the passage Of efficient
laws ard strive 20 secure judicial determine
I: tons os those that pass which shall emascu.
late thar, They do NOT invoke the COnSti