Rocky Ford enterprise., 1902-09-05
ROOsEvELT'S ADVICE
WHAT WE MUST DO TO PROSPER

Nemcmbefeo IN Vist0Fy "ses
Holidays and Should Work Hard
and Play Hard-vietory Won by
Men OF Good Common Sense.
Concord. y. H.. Aug. 2o-rhc Prcsi-
dents special reached Concord prompt
ly at . o'clock yesterday afternoon ana
was greeted with IA salute or twenty
one guns. Arriving at the stage from
which he was To speak. the President
received the greatest ovation of th"
day. lie said In part:
There Inns never been man In our
history who led n life OF ens. WHOSE
name is worth remembering. Now. un-
dersiand me. Take holidays. believe
In holidays. believe In play and be-
iieye In playing hard while play, but
don't make "A business OF IT, Do your
work and do II up to the handle, ana
then play when you have got time 10
play, and II you are worth anything.
enjoy that. too. The heroic times In
this nations career were when II had
work to do and Instead OF nlnchln:
from the work. did II. And " did that
heroic work partly because. In addition
TO the heroic virtues which can bc used
but once In generation. IL hhi Us.
commonplace. humdrum. every day
year out. There II need To do NIL the
ordinary. commonplace duties ns they
arise. or We viii IL In no shape I"
meet the crisis that calls for hcrolsin
when that crisis arises.
"It Is In the long run the man who
counts. Just exactly ns In war. though
You have got Ia have the best weapons.
yet they arr useless II the men behind
them don't handle them well: no In
peace the best constitution. the best
legislation. the greatest natural ndvnn-
tngcs will avail nothing if you have not
the right type OF citizenship to tnk'
advantage OF them.
About all We have q right TO expect
from government In that II VIII sc"
that the cards are not stacked. lf 10
sees To TINT. then we Will abide by
the deal. Now that II the spirit In
which to approach the problems caused
by the enormous Increase In our indus
trial prosperity. by the growing per-
picxiiy OF our Industrial system. Wo
use the word trust rather loosely to in-
dIcatc sometimes large corporation IN
which there Il nm element OF monopoly.
sometimes NIL large corporations. c-pc'
cIaliy II they do an Interstate business.
Now II N not necessary to say ,hns
the farmer IL benefited by the success
OF the manufacturing center, Just "a
the manufacturing center Musi. In tho
last resort. depend upon tn. welfare
OF tho country for Its success. We nlt
share alike In the upward movement
That Is something TINT we want to re-
member. all our wealth and fortunes
are indissoiubly connected.
"If good times come we arc all OF uS
going to feel them. some mare than
others. but. speaking generally. or
course, all OF us are going TO fcrl the,g
somewhat. II bad times come. while
some will suffer more Than others, wo
will all OF us suffer somewhat.
Now. the great problem that wS
should set before us Is 10 keep pros
pcrity. TO render Its advantages lc~s
unequal, To try to secure greater
equality OF hs benefits. but, above nll.
never under any circumstances to lend
ourselves to the leadership of any who
appeal TO the bascr passions OF man
kind. Evils have come through our
very prosperity. Now. II would be per-
fcctly possible at any time To make 1t
unpleasant for the fr,tsts-pcrfcctly
possible TO prevent big corporations
from making money; They did not
make any money In 1S03-and neither
did any one else. Let us face the fact
that there are evils. II Is foolish To
blink at those evils. Let us set our
selves. but tempcrntcly and with san
ity. to strive TO find out what the evils
are and TO remedy them.
III any man tells you that he cnit
advance specific by which all the
evils of the body polite will be made
to disappear. distftist him, for II he Is
honest he knows not what he says.
Mankind has moved slowly up through
the ages, stumbling. halting. rarely by
leaps and bounds. generally by n slow
and painful progression.
'Thc millennium IL n good ways of
yet, and we are goiii: 30 succeed by
showing exactly the qualities which
crises they succeeded. There Is no
muc possibility of rcmcdying all Ills,
social, economic and political OF the
body polite by some patent device now
than there was such possibility IN 1I16
or in 1861. Victory then came TO the
men who showed the good. ordinary,
sturdy, common sense qualities.
abraham Lincoln-thc spirit iucar-
nate of those who won victory in the
Civil War-was the true representa-
tive of this people. not only for his
own generation, but for all time, be-
cause he was n man among men. II
1llIIl WHO elnDOulcu llt uuuiltlts ol HIS
fellow men, but who embodied them to
the highest and the most unusual de-
gree of perfection; who embodied all
that was in the Nation of courage, Of
wisdom, OF gentle, patient kindness
and of common sense. And great, sad.
patient LincoiI led us to victory from
81 to 'G5 because he did not trust to
any mere trick or device, because he
drove deep down to the heart of thou
sands and based his reliance on the
fundamental virtues of mankind, tho
old. old virtues of mankind.
THAT is the spirit we have to show
In facing the problems of to-day. If
we approach them in style of envy
and malice towards our fellows, we
will not only fail, but we shall drag
them and us in common ruin. Shame to
us If we blink at the evils. Face the
problem. and then approach it in Il
spirit not merely of determination to
solve It, but of hearty desire to solve
it with justice to all, with malice to
none"