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Show Roosevelt; turns ssti)A po down in common rulr If each does not honestly try to ret on with justice to the other and work out a scheme of action which shall be their ' common advantage." KANSAS CITY. May 1. President Roosevelt spent .five , hoars in Kansas City. Mo., today, and later was the guest of Kansas City,. Kan., Just across the State line, for two hours, leaving for the "West at 4 o'clock In the afternoon. after-noon. 'In the two cities the President was driven. over a route fifteen miles long," reviewed nearly 80,000 school children,-made two speeches, one at Convention Con-vention hall before the greatest crowd that noted structure has ever held, and partook of a luncheon at the Baltimore hotel as the guest of the Commercial club of Kansas City, Mo. In the party here was Ellhu Root, Secretary of War, who bad jointed the party at St Louis at the express wish of the President, The reception given President Roosevelt Roose-velt was Intensely enthusiastic, and it Is estimated that 100,000 persons, several j thousand coming to town from surrounding sur-rounding places, greeted him. The schools were closed, business generally I was suspended, the Mayor having proclaimed pro-claimed it a holiday, and many residences resi-dences and business houses were decorated. deco-rated. --.. Every available foot of space In Convention Con-vention hall, which has a seating capacity ca-pacity of 18,000. was occupied. As President Pres-ident Roosevelt emerged onto the stage, the band started "The Star-Spangle 1 Banner," and the current was turned Into two great electric flags that formed part of the celling decorations. Instantly Instant-ly the crowd broke into tremendous cheering while sixty Harvard graduates with vigor gave their college cry, ending end-ing with the word ""Roosevelt" President Roosevelt was Introduced by Mayor Reed. A great demonstration took place as he arose to' speak. The President spoke for .fifteen minutes. Ha said: -" "I do not usually say anything about our being a reunited country, because It Is not necessary. Of course, we are a reunited country, and In Northern audiences where I see a group' of men ' . ' t . ' wearing the button of the Grand Army of the Republic I am certain to find a group, of men who are ready to cheer every allusion to the gallantry of the men who wore the gray." (Applause.) - Taking the lesson taught by the soldiers sol-diers of the Civil war, the President discussed the question of good citizenship. citizen-ship. ' "In our complex relations of employed em-ployed and employer," he said, "of one class with another, of one section with another Section, , we can work out a really successful result only If those Interested In-terested will get together and make an honest effort each to understand his neighbor's viewpoint and then an honest hon-est effort each while working for his own Interests to avoid working to the detriment of his neighbor. Wrong is wrong, just as much if It la done by the little man to the big man as by the big man to the little man to the capitalist by the wage-worker or to the wage-worker wage-worker by the capitalist. In the long trun, wage-worker and capitalist will |