The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roosevelt edited by J. Martin Miller

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WESTWARD HO!
the station platform, speaking of the forestry situation in
Nebraska, urging that the work be pushed forward.
At Lincoln he was greeted by fifty thousand persons and
escorted to a stand in the Capitol grounds by Civil War
veterans, cadet battalions from the University of Nebraska,
and the First Regiment of the Nebraska National Guards.
The President spoke briefly on good citizenship, and praised
the State for its men, women and children, saying the stock
was superior and he wanted to see it increase. Brief stops
were made at Vermont, Crete, Wahoo, and Fairmont, where
the President addressed assembled crowds from the rear of
his train. Wednesday morning the President began his trip
to Iowa.
SPEAKS ON THE LABOR QUESTION
At Omaha he made a speech on the labor question in which
he urged, above all, honesty and common sense in dealings
between capital and labor. The capitalist must not look down
in arrogance upon the laborer; neither must the latter look
up with envy and hatred to the capitalist. Each needs the
other; both must stand or fall together; so they must meet on
the common plane and be honest with each other. He said:
Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hatred, hate of creeds, any
kind of hatred in a community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the
class he is representing, is, with absolute certainty, that class's own worst enemy.
In the long run, and as a whole, we are going to go up or go down together.
ACROSS THE STATE OF IOWA
On Tuesday, President Roosevelt dashed across the State
of Iowa and was everywhere met by a large and enthusiastic
crowd. His speech-making began at seven o'clock in the
morning, when he made a brief stop at Shenandoah, and his
last speech was delivered in the evening before thousands of