The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-08
Admlration No New Thinq,

ade and if you come with me 1 will guarantee that you shall see the fighting and he kept his word, as he always does.
 Admiration No New Thing.
 I cannot say how much il meant to me to be able to take part in raising that regiment under the shadow of the Alamo. | My admiration for Texas and Texans is no new. thing. Since l have been boy and first studied the history of this coun- try, my veins have thrilled and tingled as 1 read of the mighty deeds of Houston, of Bowie, of Crockett of Travis, of the even more glorious men who fell at the fight of the Alamo, of which it was said, | 'Thermopylae had it's messengers of death but the Alamo had none.
 T remember well seven years ago when we were raising this regiment of riding 1 ir here one day to see the Alamo, and l going away feeling that come what l would, l was going to try to handle my self so that no disgrace should come to | the memory of the Americans who died there. (Applause).
 T want you to remember that ours was l a volunteer regiment and a small war, | and that we do not claim any credit for l what we did, more than what falls to the l lot of any number of other people. We 1 ask of you to believe that we showed the true spirit, like that of the veterans of the civil war.
 T wish to express my acknowledgement for the greeting which l have received here in San Antonio, and which 1 have 1 received throughout the length and breadth of Texas. This is the third time l have visited this beautiful city, and it is such a beautiful city. l wonder if you yourselves. proud though you are of It.. | appreciate the charm it has to an out | sider coming here. It is fifteen years ago that l first came here, simply passing i through as any number of other travel CTS pass through, and saw it. Seven | years ago when 1 came here, I was | striclxly on business. When we got back that year from Santiago. l said to one of the officers of the regiment, now we have got to have reunion of the Rough Riders in San Antonio All kinds of things hap pened in between Applause and laugh ter). I have led a middling busy life my self since, and now at last the chance has come to make good the promise and to have those of the regiment who are able to, to come together in the city where the regiment was raised to greet one another, and talk over the past. In a sense, we can claim that that regiment was typical American body.
 Made Up of All Classes.
 "The men composing it were raised chiefly in the southwest but some from the north, some from the east, some had the northerner and some the southerner in them, and we had men in that regiment who worshipped their Creator; some &C., cording to one creed some according to another. for almost every religious body of any size m the United States was rep resented within our ranks. We had men who had been born abroad, and men who were born here; whose ancestors came to what is now the United States at the time of the landing of the first colonists at | bo of ha Ia tt. We had men of inherited wealth. and men who all their lives long had earned each days bread by that days toll. We had men of every grade socially; men who worked with their heads; men who work 1 ed with their hands; men of all the types that our country produces, but each 1 of them glad to get in on his worth as a man only, and content to be judged | purely by what he could show himself | to be. (Applause).
 Tt has always seemed to me that one | of the greatest lessons taught by the civil war was the lesson of brotherhood. You, my friends, who wore the blue, you | my friends who wore the gray, each of you when he went forward itno battle, what he was concerned with about the man on his right hand, and the man on his left hand, was not what that man s l ancestry was. not as to how he wor- shipped his Mister. not as to what his | profession was nor his means what you | wanted to know was whether he would stay put. (Applause) If he did, you were for him and if he did not you were against him.
 True in Time of Peace.
 ''The same thing that was true in the great war Is true in time of peace This government is emphatically a government by the people, for the people, of the people. (Applause) Now besides applaud ing that sentiment, let us live up to 1t. It has two sides to it. In the first place, it applies in dozen different directions | It applies, for instance, in reference to creed. We have a right to ask that our neighbor do this duty toward God and man; but we have no business to die tate to him how he shall worship his Maker. and no business to discriminate for or against him because of the way in which he does it. In the same way. if man is decent citizen, he is decent citizen whether he Is rich or poor
 ''To judge from some of the talk you occasionally hear, a man cannot be a square man if he is rich. Remember all ways that you listen at your peril to any man who would seek to infiame you against your fellow citizen. because he is better off Again in the civil war come back to consideration about your bunlkie.
 So He Did His Duty.
 You did not care whether he was a banker or a bricklayer If he was g banker he was all right; if he was good fellow; if he did his duty in camp, if he did not struggle on the march. If he did not drop his share of the joint plundel