The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-08
TEXANS WILDLY CHEERED
 CHARACTERISTIC SPEECH
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 on the march, and then expect you to share yours with him at the end of the day. You wanted him to carry his part, and if he did it. you were for him. Now apply that in civil life. If the rich man does not do his duty, cinch him and 1 will help you just as far as l can. But don't cinch him because he is rich man. If you do. you are 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 it and says that he ought to be carried you may just as well make up your mind to drop him then and there Every man of us stumbles at times. Every man of us at times needs helping hand stretched out to him and shame to any man who will not stretch out that helping hand to his brother, if that brother needs 1t. But if the brother lies down you can do mighty little in carrying him. You can help him up, but he has got to walk for himself. The only way in which you can ever really help man is to help him to help himself. (Applause)
 Glad to Greet Children.
 '"That brings me to the second set of people here, whom l have been most especially glad to see and to greet-the children. In the first place, in them as you know, and judging by the showing that San Antonio has made today, San Antonio is all right as regards the auan- tity and quality. (Applause).
 "I like your stock. l am glad that 1t does not seem likely to die out. In pass ing through Texas I have been more im- pressed than by anything else by the evi- dent care you are giving to education, erfxT fn ftani1 inc children, the school facilities, both for preliminary and for higher education, and the way in which those facilities are be- ing taken advantage of. Of course 1t Is a mere truism to say that the care of the children is the most important task of any generation You have wonderful empire here in Texas. It is literally larger than most old world empires. Your diver sifieation of soil and climate, the mar vicious fertility of your soil; your natural advantages, ensure you phenomenal future agriculturally and industrally; en- sure this state a wonderful growth In population and wealth. All that is es- Bential. You must have the material basis upon which to build as a foundation. but need not say to you to remember that this is only a foundation. The ma terial counts for nothing if you do not build upon it the spiritual part, the things of the soul of the mind.
 Weapons Do Not Make Soldiers.
 Let me again take an example from the war. We need arms and equipment but the best rifle ever made does noS make a soldier if it has not got the right man behind it. You may take the finest model weapon, put in the hands of a weakling or a coward, and a good man will beat him with a club (Applause).
 If the other man is a good man, too. you want a mighty good weapon and if you came in contact with one another, each will want all the good weapons he can get. But the weapon does not in shape or way serve as a substitute for the spirit of the soldier That is what counts in the last resort Tactics change, weapons change but the sould tha drives a man forward to victory does not change as the ages go by. The men of the civil war, alike the men who wore the gray and the men who wore the blue, made a record which remains forever a heritage of honor and glory for all these peo- ples They did that because they had in them the spirit which from time i'm memorable had made the soldiers of whom the world is proud, the spirit for the lack of which no other quality in man or In nation would atone We of today, we who If a war should come will have to fight under new conditions, with new arms, will win (applause), assuredly I be-
 
 still have in them the spirit that made their forefathers do well in battle tap- plause). So you must train your children up so that in addition to having what counts for material prosperity in state, you must have the things that tell most for greatness, the things that make for the soul of the state.
 Here in San Antonio what Is the build ing your are proudest of? GA voice, the Alamo.D
 Proud of It's Immortal Fame.
 Exactly. the Alamo. It is not exactly up to date: Other buildings are larger. You are p1olsl of it because it commem- crates forever the spirit of those who made it's fame immortal. So in the state itself important though it is to provide for the industrial welfare of the common wealth. the thing that is most important is to take care of the really most vital crop-the crop of citizens. The thing which the state most needs to care for is the welfare not merely material, but moral and intellectual as well as of the children who are going to make up the state fifteen, twenty or twenty-five years hence; and that is why I am so glad to see the interest with which you of Texas are taking care of the coming generation The thing that is rather distressing me to see is that sometimes the men and wom- en who have done well in life, show a curious inability to train their own chill dren in the way that has resulted suc- cessfully for them. I think that all of us know people who because they have worked hard and triumphed, feel that somehow or other they will spare their children. They foolishly spare their chill dren the acquisition of the very qualities