Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-05-05
ROUSING
ROOSEVELT
RECEPTION
The People of New Mexico at Their Capital City
Received the presidentWith Great Fervor
and True Gladness
RINGING ADDRESS STIRS
THE HEARTS OF THE
PEOPLE DEEPLY

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pie came from the west chiefly, some
from the east, from the south and some
from the north, SO that every section
| was represented in it. They varied ir
wealth, place of birth and creed. Some
were born on this side of the water
some on the other side. Some had come
to New Mexico as did your ancestors
Governor, at time when not one En-
glish speaking community existed on
the Atlantic seaboard, some were the
descendants of men whose forefathers
were among the early Puritans and Pill
grims: some the descendants of those
whose forefathers had settled by the
banks of the James even before the
Pilgrims and Puritans came to this
country, but after your people came.
There were many in that regiment
who were born or whose parents were
born in England, Ireland, Germany and
France, but there was not a man in
that regiment, no matter what his
creed or nationality, who was not an
American and nothing else. We had in
that regiment representatives of the
real, original, native American. There
was in the regiment but one kind of
rivalry among those men and that was
a rivalry of each man to see if he
could not do his duty a little better
than any other man, and short would
have been the shrift of any man in
that regiment who did not do his
whole duty. We had serving in the
ranks, men of industry, wealth and
men who all their lives have earned
each days bread by that days labor,
and they stood on a footing of exact
equality. 1t would have been impossi-
BILE for feeling of jealousy or envy to
have existed.
TERRITORIAL DIFFICULTIES.
II do appreciate to the full, Governor
all the difficulties under which you la
Dor, and I think that your progress
has been astonishing. I congratulate
you on all that has been done and I am
certain that the future will far more
than make good the past. More, I be-
lieve we have come upon an era of the
fullest development for New Mexico.
That development, must, Of course,
take place through the foresight,
thrift and industry of the citizens of
New Mexico, but the government can
help somewhat and the government
will help somewhat.
FOREST RESERVES.
This is a great grazing state and is
one Of it's greatest industries in it. !
wish to bespeak your support Of the
forest reserves of the state. It's forest
reserves are created and are kept up
in the interests of the home-makers. In
many of them there is much natural
pasturage. Where that is the case the
object is to have that pasturage used
by the settler, used by the people of
the territory, not eaten out so that
nobody will have any benefit after
three years do not want the land
and kept for the benefit of the man
who wants to see it used for the bene-
fit of his children and children's chill
dren. That Is the way to use the re-
sources of the land. build no small
hope upon the aid that under the wise
law of congress, will ultimately be ex-
tended to this, as to other states and
territories, in the way of reservoir aid
to irrigation. Irrigation is to be in the
future the most potent factor in the
agricultural development Of this terri
tory and one of the factors which will
do most towards fitting it and towards
bringing it up to statehood. Nothing
will help more than development of
that kind in bringing the territory in
as a state. That is the kind of devel-
opment in which am most interested
here. It is the development that means
permanent growth and is the proper
of the land to help to
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benefit the homemakers. In such a
manner shall this territory of the pre-
sent and this state Of the future be-
come great state in the American
union.
GLAD TO BE HERE.
IT take keen pleasure in being with
you this morning, in being in this part
of the country, which laying aside for
a moment the rival claims of st. Au-
eustine, which represents the earliest
portion of what Is now the United
States and what was brought within
the circles of civilization in the modern
sense of the word. I take peculiar
plea sure in being here not only for
historic reasons, not only because OF
my belief in what your soil will in the
future produce, but primarily because
I believe in that which Is the best pro-
duct of any region. 1 believe in your
men and women. I greet you all.
am glad to be here. I am glad to be in
this territory, Governor, I am glad to
be in this city, Mr.. Mayor. In greeting
you, wish to say that my heart goes
ont to the men of my own regiment, to