Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-08-23
President Speaks.

IIONlueACS, II. l., aug. -o.- ne Spe-
cial train bearing President Roosevelt
arrived in this city at 11:40 a. m. on
schedule time.
President Roosevelt spoke here this
afternoon as follows:
I'VE are passing through a period of
great material prosperity and such a
period is as sure as adversely itself to
bring mutterings of discomfort. At
time when most men prosper some
what it always happens that a few men
prosper greatly, and it is as true now
as it was when the tower of Sloan
1ell upon all who were under it, that
good fortune does not come only 10 the
just, nor bad fortune only to the un-
Just.
Wise laws and fearless and upright
administration of the laws can give
the opportunity for such prosperity
that we see about us. But this is all
that they can do. When the conditions
have been created which make pros
perity possible, then each individual
man must achieve it for himself by his
own thrift, intelligence, energy, indus
try and resolute purpose.
I'm our government we need above
all things stability, fixity of economic
policy while remembering that this
fiXity must not be inability to shape
our course anew to meet the shifting
needs of the people as these needs
arise. They are real and great evils
in our social and economic life. There
is every need of striving in all possible
ways, Individually and collectively, by
combinations among ourselves in pri-
vate life and through the recognized
orders of government, for the cutting
out of these evils. Only let US be sure
that we do not use the knife of the
ignorant Zealot which would make it
more dangerous to the patient than to
the disease.
"One of the dangers of the tremen-
dous industrial growth of the last gem
Grafton has been the very great in
crease in large private and especially
in large corporate, fortunes. AS far as
we can see it is an inevitable result of
the working of various causes, promi-
nent among which has been the i'm
mense importance of steam and cleo
tricity have assumed in modern life
1t is not true that the poor people have
grown poorer, but some of the rich
have grown so very much richer that
where muttudes of men are herded
together III limited space the con-
trast strikes the onlooker as more vio-
lent than formerly On the whole, our
people earn more and live better than
ever before, and the progress of which
we are so proud could not have taken
place had it not been for the great up
building of industrial centers, such as
our commercial and manufacturing
cities. But together with the good
there has come a measure of evil. Life
is not so simple as it was, and surely
both for the individual and the commu.
nifty, the simple life is normally the
healthy life. There is not in the cities
the same sense of common underlying
brotherhood which there is still in
county localities, and lines of social
cleavage are far more clearly marked.
Much of the complaint against com
der the present day conditions it is as
necessary to have corporations in the
business world as it is TO have organi-
zation among wage workers. But we
have a right to ask in each case that
they shall do good and not harm.
Great fortune if not used Alright
makes its possessor in peculiar sense
a menace TO the community as a whole,
lust as a great intellect does, if it is
not accompanied by developed con
science by character. But obviously
this no more affords grounds for con
demning wealth than it does for con
demning intellect. The great captain
of industry, the man of wealth, who
alone or in combination with his fel-
lows. drives through our great bust
ness enterprises, is a factor without
which this country could not possibly
maintain its present industrial posi-
tion in the world. Good, not harm,
normally comes from the piling up of