The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-05

FARGO. y. d, Sept. 5.-Labor Day
in Fargo, the labor day of practically
all of North Dakota. claimed Colonel
theodore Roosevelt as the principal
feature of its celebration to- day. Not
since the days OF the old land booms
mas North Dakota gathered so great
a crowd as damned the hotels of
Fargo TO join Roosevelt in a great
Labor Day celebration.
Senators McCumber and Purcell
and Congressman Gronna and Hanna,
the states entire congressional dele
gatio, were on hand. and as many of
their constituents as Fargo could ac-
commodate came to town.
Fifteen thousand people crowded
the streets about the Great Northern
station, when the colonel arrived last
evening and that same fifteen thou
sand followed him about all day to-
day, from the hills of Fargo College
to Island Park
Lays Corner Stone.
The colonel tlaid a cornerstone
Of new library for the college and
at Island Park made Labor pay
speech. He headed a big Labor DAY
parade in a big automobile, through
the streets of Fargo on his may to
the park.
The colonel and his party took ad-
vantage of the opportunity last night
to the leave the special train which
they occupied for two weeks and they
were bundled into the crowded hotels
at Fargo.
The Waldorf. where the colonel
stayed, was filed almost all night
with an eager enthusiastic crowd.
cheering for Teddy" They brought
on q band and destroyed the coloners
dream of the big steep very effec-
lively until early to-day.
Here again to-day Roosevelt In
ls12' was the big subject OF CONVEX
sation. North Dakota lis far from the
radical insurgency of Kansas to Ne
braska to Iowa, but the organization
men her are convinced that the
colonel will be a candidate for the
presidency. They argue that the trip
he is now completing through the
West has convinced him of his popu-
larity and has forced him TO the con-
cluston that when the campaign opens
for the convention, there will be a
great popular demand" for him as
a candidate. The colonel preserved
his usual silence regarding the presi-
Dental situation.
Recalls Days of Yore.
Recollections OF his days on the
ranch We're brought back to the coll
onel to-day when he had long visit
with Sylvanus NJ and Joseph A.
Ferris, who rode the roundup with
him on the Little Missouri twenty
five years ago. When the colonel def
nitely decided to stop at Fargo on his
trip. he wrote TO the Ferris Brothers.
asking them TO meet him here.
Throughout to-day's celebration the
vi oh
the colonel and throughout Fargo's
abor day program he sandwitched In
ranching talk with his two cronies
A welcome to Fargo by 100 little
children, ali carrying big Teddy
bears, pleased the colonel immensely
The little ones were all seated on the
floor of his suite at the hotel when he
reached there and he spent fifteen
minuts greeting them.
The colonel viii leave Fargo late
this evening for the conservation con-
gress at St, Paul
The Colonefs Speech.
Colonel Roosevelt in his speech
here said in part:
The American wage Garner faces
anger social problems OF to-day in a
iual capacity; first, as citizen of the
'epublie charged with the full duty
If citizenship; and next as wage
a wage worker---who, to- !
,ether with his fellow-workers, is vi
ally concerned in the question of
wages and general conditions of en-
,loyment. which affect not only his
yell-betng and that of his wife and
but the opportunities of all
workers for higher development.
Individual Initiative.
1T is true of wage workers, as of |
Ill other citizens. that most of their |
Progress must depend upon their own |
and their own efforts. New |
rtheless, there are three different /
actors in this progress. There Is, first. |
he share which the mans own indi- !
idual qualities must determine. This I
5 the most important of all, for moth |
ng can supply the place OF individual I
Yet there are two other
factors also of prime Importance: I
Iamely, what can be done by the
rage workers in cooperation with
ne another; and what can be done I
y goyernment-that is, by the tn /
trument through which all the peo- /
lie work collectively. Wages and +
Their most important conditions at Il
must remain largely out I
tde of government control: must be /
II for adjustment by free contract
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