The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-08
PRESIDENT ON
DUTIES ! [: OF RICH.
Delivers Address to Crowd Of
10000 People at Education
Convention.
WEALTH MEANS NOT AN END
Must Show Good Conduct in Ac-
curing It, Too, He
Declares.
.(By Associated Prcsal

ASBURY PARK. N. j., July IA crowd
of 10000 persons. which turned out TO
welcome President Roosevelt, made Fri
Educational Association Convention, the
most impressive of all the great educa-
tional meetings.
The duties Of the rich. was the subject
matter Of the speech which the Prcsi-
dent delivered to the educators. Although
this was the last day OF the convention
the President found 1900 delegates, near.
ily all school teachers, waiting to hear
his speech, which was made in the
Ocean Grove Auditorium.
Several pretty receptions marked the
trip from the depot to the auditorium.
Outside the depot the Indian band from
Carlisle school was In waiting and fell
into line Immediately before the Prcsi-
dents carriage. KS the carriage turned
Into Main Street 1t passed a wagon filled
with negroes, who began to cheer. In
response tho President waived his hnnd
at the delighted negroes.
Presidents Speech.
when the President entered the auditor
ium thousands mounted chairs and cheer
ed hi. AS soon as quiet had been restored
he began to speak He said:
z 81 am glad to have the chance OF
greeting the National Education AS
ISOLATION: for In all It's democratic
land there Is \ no more genu ,h,s demG p
truly democratic, because here each Il
member meets every other member as
his peer without regard to whether
he is the president Of one Of the
cruit to that high and honorable pro-
fession which has in its charge the up
bringing and training Of those boys
and girls who in few short years
will themselves be settling the des-
TIMES of this nation.
1T is not too much to say that the
most characteristic work Of the repub-
lie is that done by the educators, for
whatever our SHORTCOMINGS as ma
grasped the fact that we can not do
our part In the difficult and all-im-
portant work Of self-government,
that we can not rule and govern our
with developed minds and trained
characters. You teachers make the
whole world your debtor. II you did
not do your work well this republic
would not endure beyond the span Of
cident to your avowed work. you reu-
der some well-nigh unbelievable SER
vices to the country. For instance.
you render to the republic the prime,
one homogeneous body the children
alike of those who are born here and
OF those who come here from SO many
different lands abroad. You furnish
for sthe children, of pll thes nj liked, peo-
pies who are here being fused into
one nationality It Is In no small de-
gree due TO you and your efforts that
we are one people instead Of IA group
The Man Of Wealth.
Moreover. where altogether too
possession of wealth. the country is
under heavy obligations to such a
body as this. which substitutes for the
ideal OF accommodating money the in
Z of devotion to work worth doing sim
ply for that works sake. I do not
in the least underestimate the need
of having material prosperity as the
earnestlySinsist that IL our civilization
does not build lofty superstructure
on this basis. we can never rank
among the really great peoples. A
necessary thing. as much for the
nation as for the individual: and there
are few movements in which l more
thoroughly believe than in the move
ment to secure better remuneration for3
our teachers: But, afterall. the SER
vice you render is incalculable, because
OF the very fact that by your lives
you show that you believe Ideals to be
worth sacrifice, and that you are
splendidly eager to do nonremunera-
tive work If this work is OF good to
your felow-men.
ITO furnish in your lives such a
realized high. ideal is to do great
service to the country. THE chief
4 harm done by the men of swollen for
tune to the community Is not the harm
that the demagogue Is apt to depict
as springing from their actions, but
the fact that their success sets up a !
false standard. and SO serves as bad
example for the rest OF us. II we did
not ourselves attach an exaggerate ted
Importance to the rich man who is
distinguished only by his riches this
rich man would have a most insynifi-
cant influence over US. Itsis general
" our own fault II he does damage to
arousing our envy or by rendering us
sour and discontented. In,shs actual
business relations he Is much more
apt to benefit than harm the rest OF
US; and though 1t Is eminently right
to take whatever steps are necessary
IN order to prevent the exceptional
members Of this class from doing
harm. It Is wicked folly to let our
selves be drawn into any attack upon
the man OF wealth merely as such.
Moreover, such an attack Is in It
self an exceptionally crooked and ugly
tribute to wealth, and therefore the
proof OF an exceptionally ugly and !
making. thu, attack. Venomous envy
OF wealth is simply another form Of
the spirit, which In ono of it's mani
festations takes the shape OF crinpinp
servility toward wealth. and In an
other the shape of brutal arrogance