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Had Asked Who Was Paying the
Expense of Former Presi-
dents Trip.
TOLD NONE OF HIS BUSINESS
Then That the Magazine Publish
ers Were Backing Him--Fin-
ally Pushed from Plat
form, T.. r. Helping.

fargo. n. u. Sept 5.-In an address
terc to-duN before great Labor day
crowd. Theodore Roosevelt commended
q, federal nudge, who was presiding and
had introduced him because the judge
had declared himself in sympathy with
The lahorine man. He referred to Judge
{. X. Amidou Of North Dakota.
Mr. Rousoyelt had Il short controversy
with a man who said Ire was % socialist
II the end Of HIS address this afternoon
ut island Park. As the crowd was
tWUWiuE around tho Erandsthnd to
shake hands with the colonel, the man
crowded through the throns and stepped
Lpon the platform. lie addressed Mr..
Roosevelt loudly.
Colonel Roosevelt, who is paying
yor expenses on this trip" he dc
handed.
81 do not consider that any Of your
tuslncss.' was the reply However.
| have no objections TO telling YOU" he
nddo4. 10 said hat the expenses were
lc'ug hornc by tho publishers of the
magazine of which he Is one of the
rlitors
ROOSEVELT SEIZED HIM.
you are u llar." the man shouted.
"Tho Amor'rau people are paying for
H." At this tine man was pushed from
the platform. dr Ruosovolt seized tho
man AMI pushed him from the grand
stand.
rargo's Labor day celebration was al
most spoiled by rain but the program was
carried out hctwcon tho showers. Mr.
Roosevelt was On tho speakers stand az
Island Park, where tho principal cXcr-
oiscs were held. when the heaviest Showol
came up. Vie put on his rain oat, pulled
lis hat over his eyes. loft the shelter af-
orded by tho canvass covering OF tho toni
and went out into the rain to make room
for the women whose mats We're being
soakod.
In Introducing Mr.. Roosevelt. Judge
Amldon said that the people assemble
there should not forget that above ell
tho occasion was one Of the laboring men
who were holding their annual colchra
ton. Suggesting that laboring men sulfe
wrongs that might be reached by leH,sla
ton, Judge Amidon called special atten
ton to the failure Of Congress to enao
q law providing for compensation for la
boring mon when injured or for theil
f0nllllcs IN tne even Oh tHeir uctlH, WlIi'
employed.
EUROPE WAY AHEAD OF US.
Every government OF Europe, with the
exception of Turkey, he said, had en-
acted such laws, eliminating from the
question Of compensation all question:
Of nceliEeHcc and fixing Il definit,
nrount to which the employee should b,
entitled.
After an invocation by Bishop Gamer
on Mann oC the Episcopal Church, Cieorg,
j.. IIowev, president of the Minnesota
state Federation of Labor made an ad
dress:
There is no man on tho face of the
earth that stands as near or as dear tC
tho laboriug people as does Theodor,
Rooserelt," he aid
Judge Amidon then presented Mr.
Roosevelt. In his speech the expression
made it clear that he did not wish tc
give blanket endorsement Of every
thing done 10y labor unions, although he
said that he believed It to he d necessit,
of modern life and thoroughly approved
of them.
lie said that he was With the union.
wncn they We're right and that If a unior
did anything which was wrong he woult
be against it on all scores
Mr.. Roosevelt left tonight for St
Bress tomorrow