Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-10-18
Theodore Ro0seveltMakes|
Stirring Appeal for Undnimity in
Work Toward Meeting the Chang
ed Conditions Incident to the
Broddened Sphere of the United
States World Influence.

Her success has been extraordinary,
and all citizens OF our common coun.
try should feel JOY and pride in it;
for any great deed done, or any fine
qualities shown, by one group of
Americans, of necessity reflects cred
it upon all Americans. Only heroic
people could have battled successfully
against the conditions with which the
people OF the South found themselves
face to face at the end of the Civil
War. There had been utter destruc.
lion and disaster, and wholly new
business and social problems had to
be faced with the scantiest means.
The economic and political fabric had
to be readjusted in the midst Of dire
want, of grinding poverty. The fu-
ture of the broken, war-swept South
seemed beyond hope, and if her sons
and daughters had been of weaker
fiber there would in very truth have
been no hope. But the men and the
sons of the men who had faced with
unfaltering front every alienation OF
good and evil fortune from Manassas
to AppomatoX, and the women, their
wives and mothers, whose courage
and endurance had reached an even
higher heroic level these men and
these women set themselves undaunt-
edly to the great task before them. For
twenty years the struggle was hard
and at times doubtful, Then the
splendid qualities of your manhood
and womanhood told, as they were
bound to tell, and the wealth OF your
extraordinary natural resources began
| to be shown. Now the teeming riches
of mine and field and factory attest
1.-The prosperity of those who are all the
stronger because of the trials and
struggles through which this prosper
ity has come. You stand Loyalty tC
your traditions and memories; you al
SO stand Loyalty for our great common
country of today and for our common
flag, which symbolizes all that Is
brightest and most hopeful for the
future of mankind; you face the new
age in the spirit of the age. Alike
in your material and in your spiritual
and intellectual development you
stand abreast of the foremost IN the
worlds progress.
Our Great Opportunities Make Ever
| Greater Responsibilities.
And now, my fellow-citizens, m,
fellow.Americans exactly as all OF us
whether we live in the East or the
West. in the North or the South, nave
line right merely as Americans to Zee
pride in every great deed done by an!
American in the past, and exactly al
we are knit together by this common
heritage of memories, so we are Knl
> together by the bond of our common
duties in the present, our common III
: forests in the future. Many AM
great problems lie before us. II W
| treat the mighty memories OF Tn
Y past merely as excuses for sitting Id.
ily down in the present, or for stane
: ling aside from the rough work OF III
I world, then these memories Will prov
Y a curse instead of a blessing. But
= we treat them as believe we sna
r treat them, not as excuses LOT lha'
e tion. but as incentives to make U
s show that we are worthy Of our fat
y ars and of our fathers fathers, the
= in truth the deeds of the past WI
Y NOT have been wasted, for they sha
e hiring forth fruit hundredfold in tn
r nresent generation. We, OF this NJ
5. tion we, the citizens of this mlgn'
Q and wonderful republic, stretchn
'r across a continent between the I"
k greatest oceans, enjoy extraordlna'
. privileges, and as our opportunity
@ great. therefore our responsibility
a great. We have duties to per1or
e. both abroad and at home, and we CT
H. not shirk either set of duties and II
k. lv retain our self respect.
le We Are a Great People and Must P''
ie a Great Part in the Worio.
III In foreign affairs we must make
IN our minds that whether we WISH
e or not, we are great people and mu
49, nlav a great part in the world. IL
m not omen to us to choose whether
ne will play that great part or not, '
have to play it; all we can declae
It's whether we shall play 1t we'll or
And have too much confidence IN !
is countrymen to doubt what tne ae
ol. s,on will be. Our mission In the wo
ng should be one Of peace, but not
en- Ipeace of cravens, the peace gran, gran,
lat contemptuously to those who purcn'
he Il hv surrendering tte right. No! {
ed. voice must be effective for peace
,de cause It is raised for righteousn
nes arst and for peace only as the ma
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