Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-04-30
ELEVEN THOUSAND TROOPS REVIEWED
BY THE NATIONS CHIEF EXECUTIVE

tative bodies the representatives of {
state which came into the Union but
yesterday stand on a footing of exact
and entire equality with those of the
| commonwealths whose sons once sign.
ed the Declaration of Independence
But this way of looking at the matter
is purely modern, and in it's origin
purely American. When Washington
during his presidency saw new states
come into the Union on a footing OF
complete equality with the old, every
European nation which had colonies
still administered them as dependen-
cies, and every other mother-country
treated the colonist not as self-gov-
erning equal but as a subject.
The process which we began has
since been followed by all the great
peoples who We're capable both of eX-
pansion and of government, and
al process, as the rule; but century
and q quarter ago not merely excep-
tional; it was unknown.
NECESSARY NATIONAL VIRTUES.
The acquisition of the territory is
credit to the broad and far-sighted
craftsmanship of the great statesmen
to whom it was immediate due. and
above all to the aggressive and mas
terful character of the hardy pioneer
folk to whose restless energy these
statesmen gave expression and direc-
tion, whom they followed rather than
led. Courage and hardhood are indis-
pensable virtues in people: but the
people which possessed no others can
never rise high in the scale either of
power or of culture. Great peoples
must have in addition the government
tai capacity which comes only when
fully recognize their dutiea
to one another and to the whole body
polite, and are able to join together
in feats of constructive craftsmanship
and of honest and effective administra-
tion.
The old pioneer days are gone. with
their roughness and their hardship,
their incredible toll and their wild
romance. But the need for
the pioneer virtues remains the same
as ever. The peculiar frontier condi-
tions have vanished; but the manli-
ness and stalwart 1lardihood of the
can be given ever freer
scope under the conditions surrounding
the complex industrialism of the pre-
sent day The problems before us are
the same east and west
Of the Mississippi, in the new states
and in the old, and exactly the same
qualities are required for their success.
full solution.
NOT ONLY WORDS BUT ALSO
DEEDS.
1t is fitting that we should pay our
homage in words but we must in hon.
or make our words good by deeds. We
have every right to take just pride
in the great deeds of our forefathers:
but we show ourselves unworthy to be
their descendants if we make what
they did an excuse for our iyin supine
Instead of an incentive to the effort to
show ourselves by our acts worthy of
them. In the administration of city,
state, and nation, in the management
IF our home life and the conduct of
our business and social relations, we
lre bound to show certain high and
Inc qualities of character under PEN
atty of seeing the whole heart of our
eaten out while the body
still lives.
material prosperity. and
such prosperity must exist in order to
establish foundation upon which a
higher life can be built; but unless we
10 in very fact build this higher life
thereon, the material prosperity itself
will go for but very little.
CRUELTY, BRUTALITY AND COR
RUPTION DENOUNCED.
The old days were great because the
men, who lived in them had mighty
qualities; and we must make the new
lays great by showing these same
qualities. We must insist upon cour-
age and resolution, upon hardihood,
tenacity, and fertility in resource; we
must insist upon the strong virile vir-
tues; and we must insist no less upon
he virtues of self-restraint, self-mas-
terry, regard for the rights of others;
we must show our adherence of crueI-
ty, brutality, and corruption. in public
md in private life alike. If we come
short in any of these qualities we shall
neasurably fail; and If, as believe
we surely shall, we develop these quail
ties in the future to an even greater
legree than in the pasN. then in the
century now beginning we shall make
If this Republic the freest and most
orderly. the most just and most mighty,