The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-07-08
LOftier Than PreseHt-Day Spirit
of MOney-Getting.
PRESIDENT WAS RECEIVED BY
LARGE CROWD AND GIVEN
cHAUTAUouA SALUTE WHEN
HE APPEARED BEFORE GREAT
BODY OF NATIONS SCHOOL
TEACHERS.

Asbury Park, N. j., July 7-Presl-
dent Roosevelt arrived here about 2
o'clock to-day, and was met at the sta
ton by a large crowd.
When he arrived at the auditorium
where the convention of the National
Educational Association was being
held, the audience rose and greeted
him with the Chautauqua salute. The
president Immediately began. the de-
delivery of his address. He said:
The Presidents Address.
/ am glad to have the chance Of
greeting the National Educational AS
ISOLATION; for in all this democratic
land there is no more genuinely DEM
ocratic association than this. 1t is
truly democratic, because here each
member meets every other member
as his peer without regard to whether
he is the president of one of the great
universities or the newest recruit toI
that high and honorable profession
which has in its charge the upbringing
and training of those boys and girls
who in a few short years will them
selves be setting the destinies of this
nation. 1t is not too much to say that
the most Characteristic work of ~the
republic is that done by the educators, /
for whatever our shortcomings as a
nation may be, we have at least firm
ly grasped the fact that we can not do,
our part in the difficult and aIl-impor-
tant work of self-goveTnment, that we
can not rule and govern ourselves, I'M
less We approach the task with devel-i
oped minds and traihed characters.
You teachers make the whole world
your debtor. If you did not do your
work well this republic would not en-
dure beyond the span of the generation.
Moreover. as an incident to your avow-
ed work. you render some well-nighI
unbelievable service to the country.
For Instance, you render to the repub-
lie the prime. the vital service of ANAL
gamating into 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 a common training and
common ideals for the children of all
the mixed peoples who are here being
fused into one nationality. 1t is in no
small degree due to you and your eff
forts that we are one people instead
of a group of Earring peoples.
Money Is Necessary.
Moreover, where altogether too
much prominence is given to the mere
possession OF wealth, the country is
under heavy obligations to such al
body as this, which substitutes for the
ideal of accommodating money the inf
nitely loftier, nonmaterlalistic ideal OF
devotion to work worth doing simply
for that works sake. l do not in the
least underestimate the need of hav-
ing mat erial prosperity as the basis OF
our civilization, but ] most earnestly
insist that If our civilization does not
build a lofty super-structure on this
basis, we can never rank among the
really great peoples. A certain
amount Of money is of course a neces-
sary thing, as much for the nation as
for the individual; and there are few
movements in which | more thorough
ly believe than in the movement
to secure better remuneration for
our teachers. But, after all, the SER
vice you render is incalculable. be-
cause 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 fellowmen.
The Real Danger Of Wealth.
To furnish in your lives such a real.
lied high ideal is to do a great SER
vice to the country. The chief harm
done by the men of swollen fortune 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
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