Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-08

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 Decried sordid Accumulation oi 1 Wealth and Worship of Riches In United States-"You Teachers Make | the Whole World Your Debtor.'
 Praise For EIihu Root and Late John Hay.
 1 ASRURY PARK, \. j., July s.-A crowd of 40,000 teachers and their friends turned out to welcome Presi- i dent Roosevelt on the closing day of the National Educational association convention. making it the most i'm pressive of all the great educational meetings.
 The duties of the rich was the sub- ject matter Of the speech which the president delivered to the educators.
 After a certain point has been reached" he said, money making can never again stand on the same plane with other and nobler forms of effort. It was one of the largest audiences that has ever heard the voice of a president of the United States. Like an army, with banners, cheer hg and shouting, the people swelled put of the auditorium when the presi- dent had concluded his address and rushed toward the spot, two blocks away, where he was to speak on the beach.
 President Roosevelt decried the sor- did accumulation of wealth and the worship of riches, but spoke strongly against attacking a wealthy man mere ly because he was such.
 Tt is nor too much to say that the most characteristic work of the re- public is that done by the educators, for whatever our shortcomings as a nation may be we have at least firmly grasped the fact that we cannot do our part in the difficult and all i'm portant work of self government. that we cannot rule and govern ourselves 1nless we approach the task with de- geloped minds and trained characters.
 You teachers make the whole world your debtor.
 If you did not do your work well his republic would not endure beyond he span of the generation. Moreover. ss an incident to your avowed work you render some well sigh unbelieva- ole services 10 the country. For in- gtance. you render to the republic the prime, the vital service of amalgamat- ng into one homogeneous body the chil- iren alike of those who are born here md of those who come here from so many different lands abroad You furnish a common training and com. non ideals for the children of all the mixed peoples who are here being used into the nationality
 T do not in the least underestimate
 the need Of having material prosperity as the basis of our civilization. but I most earnestly insist that if our civili- zation does not build lofty super structure on this basis we can never rank among the really great peoples.
 "A certain amount of money is. of course, a necessary thing. as much for the nation as for the individual. and there are few movements in which more thoroughly believe than in the movement to secure better remunera- ton for our teachers.
 The chief harm done by the men of swollen fortune to the community is hn ha- hn T Ee apt to depict as springing from their actions, but the fact that their success sets up a false standard and so serves IS a bad example for the rest of us.
 If We did not ourselves attach an exaggerated importance to the rich man who is distinguished only by his riches this rich man would have a most insignificant influence over us.
 Tt is generally our own fault If he foes damage 10 us. for he damages us chiefly by arousing our envy or by rem 1ering us sour and discontented.
 The eiamor of the dema gogue against wealth. the snohbery Of the so- cial columns Of the newspapers which deal with the doings of the wealthy and the misconduct of those men of wealth who act rth brutal disregard of the rights of others seem superficial ly 10 have no fundamental relation. yet in reality they spring from shortcom- tnys which are fundamentally the same. and one of these shortcomings Is the failure to have proper ideals.
 This failure must he remedied in large part by the actions of you and yonr fellow teachers. your fellow edu- cators. throughout the land Br your lives no less than by your teachings you show that 0-h.ie you regard wealth ss a good thing. you regard other things as still better.
 The roll Of American worthles nun hers men like Washington and Lin csln. Grant and Farrazat. Hawthorne and Poe. Fulton and Morse. St. Gaud- ens and MacNfornies It numbers statesmen and soiiiers. men Of let ters. artists. scuiptors and men of sci- snce. inventors. explorers. rosdmakers. bridge builders. ph-lsnthroplsrs. moral leaders in great reforms. IL numbers men who have desarrFd well in any one Of countless frl-s 0f activity. But Of rich men Il numbers only those who have used their riches arizht who have treated wealth not as an end but as a means. u-1a have shown good con