Arizona republican., 1903-05-07

partly as applied by and through the 1 government. still more as applied by in dividuals, and especially by associa l tions of individuals, profiting by the eX-
 ample of government and possibly by | help from it-I look forward to the eff 1 fleets of irrigation as being of greater ! consequence to all this region of cCun- ! try in the next fifty years than any
 other movement whatsoever. I think ! that irrigation counts for more toward | the achieving of the permanent good l results for the community.
 l 'I shall not try to greet in particular 1 the members of my regiment now. shall see them at half past five in my
 car. I have come here to see the Grand Canyon of Arizona, because in that canyon Arizona has a natural wonder.
 which, so far as I know, is in kind ab- solutely unparalleled throughout the
 rest of the world. (Applause.) I shall not attempt to describe it, because I cannot. I could not choose words that would convey or that could convey to any outsider what that canyon is. I want to ask you to do one thing in con- ', nection with it in your own interest and i-s the interest of the country-to
 keep this great wonder of nature as it
 now is. (Applause.) I was delighted to 1 learn of the wisdom of the Santa Fe railroad people in deciding not to build ] their hotel on the brink of the canyon. I hope you will not have a building or any kind, not summer cottage, a ho- tel or anything else to mar the wonder full grandeur, the sublimity. the great | loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. Man cannot improve
 on it; not bit. The ages have been at
 work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is to keep it for your children and your children's children and for all who come after you, as one of the great sights which every Ameri- can, if he can travel at all, should see. LOOKING AHEAD.
 Keep the Grand Canyon of Arizona as it is. We have gotten past the stage, my fellow citizens. when we are to be pardoned if we simply treat any part of our country as something to be skinned for two or three years for the use of the present generation. Whether it is the forest, the water, the scenery; NHdItNeT IL IS, ndIlQle IL so that your
 childrens children will get the bene-
 fit of it. Handle it that way. If irriga- tion apply it under circumstances that
 will make it of benefit not to the specu-
 lators to get profit out of it for two or
 three years, but handle it so that it will be of use to the homemaker; to
 the man who comes to live here. and to
 have his children stay after him; han
 dle it so as to be of use to him and
 those who come after him. Keep the forests in the same way. Preserve them
 for the ranchman and the stockman,
 for the people of the territory. for the
 people of the region round about. Pre-
 serve them for that use, but use them
 so that they will not be squandered;
 that they will not be wasted; so that they win be of benefit to the Arizona of 1853 as well as the Arizona of 1903
 GOOD WORDS FOR INDIANS.
 "I want to say word of welcome to
 the Indians here. In my regiment l
 had a good many Indians. They were
 good enough to fight and to die, ami
 they are good enough to have me treat
 them exactly as square as any white
 man. There are a good many prob
 lems in connection with the Indians.
 You have got to save them from cor
 ruption. save them from brutality and
 I regret to say that at times we have
 to save them from the unregulated
 Eastern philanthropist because in ev-
 erything, we have to remember that al
 though perhaps the worst quality in which to approach any question is
 hardness of Eeart. I do not know that
 it does as much damage as selfishness of head. All I ask is a square deal for every man. Give him a fair chance; do not let him wrong anyone and do not
 let him be wronged. Help as far as you can without hurting him in helping
 him, for the only way to help a man
 in the end is to help him to help him self. Never forget that you have to have two sets of qualities; the quail ties that we include under the names O. decency, honesty, morality, that make a man a decent husband, a good father
 a good neighbor. square and fair in his dealings with all men, and in his deai- ings with the state; and then further more the qualities that have to be shown by every man who is to do his work in this world. Virtue is good, but the virtue that sits at home in its own parlor and talks about how bad the world is never did anything yet and never will. I want to see the qualities that the men of '61 to '65 had, my com