The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-08

you come with me will guarantee that
 you shall see>the lighting and he kept his word. as he always does.
 T cannot say how much 1t meant
 to me to be able to take part in rais- ing that regiment under the shadow
 of the Alamo. My admiration for
 Texas and Texans is no new thing. Since I have been boy and first | studied the history of this country my
 veins have thrilled and tingled as
 read of the mighty deeds of Houston. l of Bowie, of Crockett, of Travis, of | the even more glorious men who fell | in the fight of the Alamo of which 1t | was said Thermopylae had its mes senger of death but the Alamo had | none I remember well seven years ago when we were raising this regi-
 ment of riding in here one day to see the Alamo and going away feeling that
 come what would, I was going to try to handle myself so that no disgrace
 should come to the memory of the Americans who, died there. (Applause) want you to remember that ours was | a volunteer regiment and a small war and that we do not claim any credit | for what we did more than falls to the | lot of any number of other people. All l we ask of you is to believe that we tried to show the spirit which would have made us do the kind of a job 1 that you of the Civil War did, if the
 need had arisen.
 His Acknowledgements.
 T wish to epxress my acknowledge ment for the greeting which I have received here in San Antonio and which I have received throughout the length | and breadth of Texas. This is the | third time I have visited this beauti- | full city and 1t is such a beautiful city. I wonder if you yourselves proud | though you are of 1t, appreciate the charm it has to an outsider coming
 here. It is fifteen years ago that 1 I first came here. simply passing 1 through. and saw it. Seven years 1 ago when I came here I was strictly 1 on business. When we got back that 1 year from Santiago I said to one of | the officers of the regiment, Now we I have got to have a reunion of the | Rough Riders in San Antonio All kinds of things happened in between. | daughter and applause.) I have led
 a middlng busy life myself 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 here in the city where
 the regiment was raised to greet one
 another and talk over the past.
 "In @ sense, we can claim that that | regiment was a typical American body. 1 The men composing 1t were raised l chiefly in the southwest, but some from the north. some from the east, so we | had the northerner and the southerner. customer and the westerner In that | regiment: we had men in 1t who wor- | shipped their Creator. some according to some creed. some according to | another, for almost every religious body of any size in the United States | was represented within our ranks. We had men who had been born abroad and men who were born here, whose an- cestors came to what Is now the United States at the time of the landing of the first colonists at the mouth of the James or at Plymouth. 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 hands; men of all
 the types that eur country produces; but each 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.) Lesson of Brotherhood.
 It has always seemed to me that one of the greatest lessons taught by the Civil War was the lesson of brother
 
 | blue, you. my friends, who wore the gray, each of you when he went for ward into battle what he was con- cerned with about the man on his right hand and the man on his left, was not
 what that mans ancestry was. not as to how he worshipped his Maker, not
 as to what his profession was, nor his | means; what you wanted to know was whether he would stay put. (Ap- p1anqn If he di6 i'm l and if he did not, you were against him.
 '~rhe 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 peo-
 pie. of the people. (Applause.) Now, besides applauding that sentiment, let | us live up to it. It has two sides to
 1t. In the first place 1t applies in dozen different directions. It applies for instance, in reference to creed. We have a right to ask that our neighbor do his duty toward God and man; but we have no business to dictate 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 a man is a decent citizen, he is
 decent citizen whether he Is rich or poor. (Applause.) To judge from
 some of the talk you occasionally hear,
 a man cannot be a square man if he is rich. Remember always that you lis
 ten at your peril to any man who would seek to inf1ame you against your fellow citizen, because he Is better off. Again, in the civil war, come back
 to considerations about your bunkie. You did not care whether he was a
 banker or a bricklayer. If he was banker he was all right, if he was a good fellow, if he did his duty in camp. if he did not straggle on the
 march, If he did not drop his share of | the joint plunder on the march and then expect you to share yours with him at the end of the day. You want
 ed him to carry his part and if he did 1t you were for him. Now apply that
 in civil life. If the rich man does not
 do his duty. cinch him and l will help you just as far as I can.
 Riches Nc Crime.
 But don't cinch him because he is a rich man. If you do you are d mighty mean creature yourself: you are not a good American yourself Give him a perfectly fair show. If he Is a poor man and does his duty, help him, stand him up. If he whines about 1t and says that he ought to be carried, you may just as we'll make up your mind to drop him then and there. Ev- cry man of us stumbles at times. Ev- cry man of us at times needs a help ing hand stretched out to him and shame to any man who will not stretch
 out that helping hand to his brother If