Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-12-13
Roosevelt EP|GRAMS.
Extracts From the Presidents Mes
sage TO Congress.
SOME GOOD SUGGESTIONS.

we are neltner Tor the rich man as
such nor for the poor man as such:
we are for the upright man, rich or
poor.
Ours Is not the creed or the weak.
ling and the coward; ours is the Cos.
pei of hope and of triumphant endeav.
or.
Stability of economic policy must al.
ways be the prime economic need of
this country. This stability should
not be fossilization.
We should always fearlessly insist
upon our rights in the fact of the
strong, and we should with ungrudg-
ing hand do our generous duty to the
weak.
The events of the past four years
have definitely decided that for woe
or for veal, our place must be great
among the nations.
In battle the only shots that count
are the shots that hit. 1t is necessary
to provide ample funds for practice
with the great guns in time of peace.
We can get good government only
upon condition hat we keep true to
the principles upon which this nation
was founded, and Judge each man not
as part of a class, but upon his individ.
ual merits.
Our people, the sons of the men of
the civil war, the Toni of the men who
had iron in their blood, rejoice in the
present and face the future high of
heart and resolute of will.
Organized capitaI and organized lab
or alike should remember that in the
long run the interest of each must be
brought into harmony with the inter-
est of the general public and the con
duct of each.
All that we have a right to ask of
any man, rich or poor, whatever his
creed, his occupation, his birthplace,
or his residence, is that he shall act
well and honorably by his neighbor
and by his country.
We may neither fail greatly or sue
coed greatly; but we can not avoid the
endeavor from which either great fail
ure or great success must come. Even
II we would, we can not play a small
part.
Great fortunes have been won by
those who have taken the lead in this
industrial development,
and most of these fortunes have been
won not by doing evil, but as an in
cident to action which has benefited
the community as a whole.
1t is of the highest Importance that
employer and employee alike should
endeavor to appreciate each the view
point of the other and the sure disaster
that will come upon both in the long
run if either grows to take as habitual
attitude of sour hostility and dis
trust toward the other.
Prosperity is not Me creature of law,
undoubtedly the laws under which |
we work have been instrumental in |
creating the conditions which made it
possible, and by unwise legislation it
would be easy enough to destroy it.
We should fail in our duty if we did
try to remedy evils, but we shall
succeed only if we proceed patiently,
with practical common sense as well
resolution, separating the good from
he bad and holding on to the former
while ~endeavoring to get rid of the
after.
No independent nation in America
have the slightest fear of agrees
sion from the United States. 1t be-
looves each one to maintain order
it's own borders and to dis
'harge its just obligations to foreign
rs. When this is done, they can rest
that, be they strong or weak,
hey have nothing to dread from out.
iide interference.
Fatuous self-complacency or vanity.
n short-sightedness in refusing to
for danger, is both foolish and
wicked in such a nation as ours; and
'ast experiences has shown that such
in refusing to recognize or pre-
are for any crisis In advance is usual
y succeeded by a mad panic of hyster-
fear once the crisis has actually
rived.
There are many problems for us to
ace at the outset of the twentieth CEN !
hry-grave problems abroad and still
raver at home; but W. know that we
an solve them and solve them well, |,
rovided only that we bring to the so
ltion the qualities of head and heart I
'hich were shown by the men who, in
he days of Washington, founded this |
overnment, and, in the days of Lin !
DIN. preserved il.