Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-05-06

your Country. III mas been a great
pleasure to see the cities, to see the
land growing fertile as the waters are
brought over 1t, to see your flocks and
herds. the products Of your mines, but
the n thing that has pleased me most
has been to see the men and ONE
The best product Of any region is the
product of its citizenship. | believe in
you. | know you. | had some six hun.
dred samples Of you under my immedi.
ate charge, and they PANIED out we'll.
was glad at Santa Fe, and I am
glad here, to be greeted by the child.
rem. The two classes that | think | an
most pleased to be greeted with are
first of all the veterans who have
shown US by their lives and deeds In
the past how we are to handle our
selves, and then the small folks-the
people of the future. l am glad to see
your children. / like the quality, and
as far as | have seen, l like the guam.
tity, and important though it is that
we should have the fullest develop
ment of the resources of this region,
important it is to develop the mines
and drive the railways throughout this
region, and above all, by irrigation to
develop the marvellous fertility of a
soil which needs only water to make 1t
produce as but few regions of the earth
can produce, important though 1t is to
develop in every way, our material re-
sources, never forget that the one all
important crop is the crop of citizen
ship, and according as your children
are trained well or i'll, just according
will this territory, while it Is a terri
tory n after 1t has become a state,
turn out well or Ill.
have been glad to see your schools
and you cannot afford to neglect them.
No matter what else you have to neg.
lect. the schools you cannot afford to
neglect, and then you must remember
that the schools car only supplement
the homes. You cannot expect the
school teacher to undo what you do, If
you do your part i'll, remember that.
You cannot unload everything on the
school teacher. The father and the
mother have got to do their part de-
Gently and firmly and conscientiously
and also not foolishly. You have not
only got to have conscience, you also
have to have common sense, that is an
important element. strictly object to
hardness of heart, but l object quite as
much to softness of head, and IL our
people are awake to all the Importance
of the training Of the future genera.
ton, scant will be our need of feeling
nervous about this country's future.
Here, and as in any comparatively
new region, u aim must be to devel.
OPP permanent citizenship. What we are
striving for in every way through the
promotion of irrigation and every other
way, is to build up homes, to assist the
homemaker. We do not want the man
whose aim is to skin the soil, to skin
everything for two or three years and
then go away. What we want is the
man who has come to build up a per-
manent prosperity that will benefit the
children and the children's children of
all of us, and that should be our aim in
shaping every portion of our govern
ment policy. The policy of utilizing the
water, the policy of utilizing the for
ests, the policy of utilizing the pas
lures, the policy of utilizing every re-
source that the state and nation have.
1t should all be in the direction of
building up the home or helping the ac-
tual settler who has come to live on
the land, to east in his future with the
country. to have his children grow up
as a part of the people of the country.
He is the man whom we want to help
because he Is the man who builds up
the state and the nation.
/ believe in you. | believe In you be-
cause | think you have two sets of qua
%lities; the quality of decency, honesty,
of fair and square dealing, as of man
to man; that you possess what we call
virtue, morality, decency, and also be-
cause you possess the rigid virtues, the
rigid qualities which must go to the
makeup of any masterful people. The
virtue that stays at home in it's own
parlor does not count, not a bit more
tnan tne PATRIOTISM tnat Will let some
one else fight the battle of the day.
You want a man to be patriotic, but
you want him to have the fighting
edge, and so in citizenship we need alb
solutely as the base, as the foundation,
that the man shall deal squarely and
fairly with his fellow. II he does not,
he is not merely useless, he Is a curse,
and there is not a quality more to be
~reprobated than that defined by mere
"smartness," unaccompanied by moral
responsibility.
Every one OF us knows tnat smart
man whom fools praise, and | want to
say that 10 the fool object almost as
much as TO the knave, and incidental
ly, you canrot reform him-the man