Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-08-23

Roosevelt left Hartford for Providence
this morning. A large throng gave hin
rowslng send off to VII" "h he respond
ed by the repeated lifting of his hat.
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
Providence, R. L., Aug. 23.-The spe
cial train bearing President Roosevelt
arrived in this city at 11:4O u. m. or
schedule time.
Not since the visit here of President
Hayes has the chief executive been ac.
corded so brilliant reception as
that rendered today to the President
The people gathered IS 900 strong about
the platform from which the president
spoke. An ovation of five minutes was
the presidents greeting.
He spoke as follows:
'We 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 a
time when most men prosper somewhat,
it always happens that a few men pros
per greatly and it is as true now as it
was when the tower of Sloan fell upon
all who were under it, that good fortune
does not come to the just and bad for
tune to the unjust onery. :.
''Wise laws and fearless and upright
administration of the laws can only give
the opportunity for such prosperity that
we see about u.s. But this is all that an
administration can do. When the con-
ditions have been created which make
prosperity possible, then each individual
man must achieve it for himself, by his
own thrift, intelligence, energy, industry
and resolute purpose.
SIN 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. There
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 private life and through the
recognized organs of government, for
the cutting out of these evils. Only let
us be sure that we do not use the knife
of the ignorant zeal which would make
it more dangerous to the patient than to
the disease.
''One of the dangers of the tremen
dous inbustrialgrowth of the last gener-
alton has been the very great increase
in large private, and especially in large |
corporate, fortunes. As far as we can |
see, it is an inevitable result of the
working of the various causes, promin-
ent among which has been the immense
Importance that steam and electricity
have assumed in modern life. It is not
true that the poor people have grown
poorer, but some of the rich have grown
so very much richer that where multitu-
des of men are herded together in a
limited space, the contrast strikes the
onlooker as more violent 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 upbuilding of indus
trial centers, such as our commercial
and manufacturing cities. But together
with the good there has come measure
of evil. Life is not so simple as it was
and surely both for the individual and
the community, the simple life is normal
ly the healthy life. There is not in the
cities the same sense Of common under
lying brotherhood which there is sti in
the country localities, and the lines of
social cleavage are far more clearly
marked.
''Much of the complaint agai nst COM
binations is entirely unwarranted I'm.
der the present day conditions, 1t is as
necessary to have corporations in the
business world as 1t is to have organiza-
tion among wage workers. But we have
a right to ask in each case that they
shall do good and not harm.
IA great fortune. If not used Alright,
makes its pOssessor, in a peculiar sense,
o menace to the community as a whole,
Just as great intellect does If not ac-
companied by developed conscience and
by character. But obviously this no
more affords grounds for condemning
wealth than 1t does for condemning in
tellect. The great captain of industry, |
the man of wealth, who alone or In a
combination with his fellows, drives .
through our great business enterprises,
is factor without which this country
could not possibly maintain Its present
industrial position in the world. Good,
not harm, normally comes from the pill
ing up of wealth through business en- {
terprises. Probably the most serious
harm resulting to US, the people OF mod !:
crate means, is when we harm ourselves
by letting the dark and evil vices or en-
w and hatred towards our fellows eat /
into our natures" Ia
'Tnere is clearly need of super
vision, o need to exercise the power of {
regulation on the part Of the represen-
tatives of the public, wherever, as in our
own country at the present time, busi-
ness corporations become so very strong
both for benefcient work and for work
that is not always benefcient.
81 believe that the nation must as
sumo this power Of control by legislation,
and If it becomes evident that the con-
stituton will not permit the needed
legislation, then by constitutional am