Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-12-02

Washington. d. c.. Dec. 2.-President
Roosevelt's annual message was read to-
day as follows:
To the Senate mad House of Representa-
tives:
We still continue in a period of un-
bounded prosperity. This prosperity Is
not the creature of law. but undoubtedly
the laws under which we work have been
instrumental in creating the conditions
which made it possible, and by unwise
legislation 1t would be easy enough to de-
stroy It, There will undoubtedly be per-
iods of depression. The wave will recede
but the tide will advance. This nation
is seated on a continent fianked by two
great oceans. 1t is composed of men the
descendants of pioneers. or, In sense.
pioneers themselves; of men winnowed
out from among nations of the old world
by the energy, boldness and love OF ad-
venture found in their own eager hearts.
Such a nation, so placed, will surely
wrest success from fortune.
Our Place Among Nations.
AS people we have played a large part
in the world, and we are bent upon max
ing our future even larger than the past.
In particular, the events of the last four
years have definitely decided that, for
woe or for veal, our place must be great
among the nations. We may either fail
greatly or succeed greatly; but we cannot
avoid the endeavor from which either
great failure or great success must come.
Even IL we would, we can not play a
small part. If we should try, all that
would follow would be that we should
play large part ignobly and shamefully.
But our people, the sons of the men of
the civil war, the sons of the men who
had iron in their blood, rejoice in the pre-
sent and face the future high of heart
and resolute of will Ours is not the creed
of the weakling and the coward; ours is
the gospel of hope and of triumphant en-
deavor We do not shrink from the
struggle before us. There are many prob
lens for us to face at the outset of the
twentieth century - grave problems
abroad and still graver at home; but we
know that we can solve them and solve
them well, provided only that we bring
to the solution the qualities of head and
heart which were shown by the men who
In the days of Washington, founded this
government, and, In the days of Lincoln,
preserved it.
The Country Prosperous.
No country has ever occupied a higher
plane of material well-being than ours at
the present moment. This well-being is
due to no sudden or accidental causes,
but to the play of the economic forces in
this country for over a century; to our
laws our sustained and continuous poll
cies above all to the high individual
average of our citizenship. Great for
tunes have been won by those who have
taken the lead in this phenomenal indus
trial development, and most of these for
tunes have been won not by doing evil,
but as an incident to action which has
benefited the community as a whole.
Never before has material well-being
been so widely diffused among our people
Great fortunes have been accumulated
and yet in the aggregate these fortunes
are small indeed when compared to the
wealth Of the people as a whole. The
plain people are better OFF than they have
ever been before. The insurance com
panies, which are practically mutual
benefit societies-espeeially helpful to
men of moderate means-represent accu-
mutations of capital which are among the
largest in this country. There are more
deposits in the saving banks, more own
ers Of farms, more well-paid wage
workers in this country now than ever
before in our history. OF course, when
the conditions have favored the growth
of so much that was good, they have also
favored somewhat the growth of what
was evil. 1t is eminently necessary that
we should endeavor to cut out This evil,
but let US keep due sense of proportion;
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lesser evil forget the greater good. The
evils are real and some of them are
menacing but they are the outgrowth,
not of misery or decadence, but of pros
perity-of the progress OF our gigantic in
dustrial development. This Industrial de-