43 2 Presidential Addresses 



same from the beginning of history to the present 

 moment, and which will be the same from now until 

 the end of recorded time. 



FROM ADDRESS AT COLUMBIA GARDENS, 

 BUTTE, MONT., MAY 27, 1903 



Mr. Chairman, and you, my Fellow-Citizens: 



It would have been a great pleasure to come to 

 Butte in any event; it is a double pleasure to come 

 here at the invitation of the representatives of the 

 wage-workers of Butte. I do not say merely work- 

 ingmen, because I hold that every good American 

 who does his duty must be a workingman. There 

 are many different kinds of work to do; but so long 

 as the work is honorable, is necessary, and is well 

 done the man who does it well is entitled to the 

 respect of his fellows. 



I have come here to this meeting especially as 

 the invited guest of the wage-workers, and I am 

 happy to be able to say that the kind of speech I 

 will make to you, I would make just in exactly 

 the same language to any group of employers or 

 any set of our citizens in any corner of this Repub- 

 lic. I do not think so far as I know that I have 

 ever promised beforehand anything I did not make 

 a strong effort to make good afterward. It is some- 

 times very attractive and very pleasant to make 

 any kind of a promise without thinking whether 

 or not you can fulfil it; but in the after event it is 

 always unpleasant when the time for fulfilling 

 comes; for in the long run the most disagreeable 



