Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-08-10
THE MAN OF
ABSTINENCE
Commands the Respect Of His
Associates. the Drunk.
ard Contempt
PRESIDENTS SPEECH
At WIkesbarrs Before the Catholic
Temperance ty.-.crusade a
Factor in Industrial Life.

Oyster Bay, Aug. l00.-President
Roosevelt started this morning fol
Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, where late
this afternoon he will deliver the ad
dress to the anthracite coal miners
and to the members of the Catholic
Total Abstinence Union.
The President at Wikesbarre.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Aug. Robustness
throughout the Wyoming Valley was
suspended today in honor of the visit
OF President Roosevelt. Upon his
arrival in Wilkesbarre, at 2:3S
o'clock this afternoon, in response to
an invitation to address the United
Mine Workers and the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union, the President was
given most enthusiastic ovation.
President Roosevelt was evidently
pleased with the heartiness of his re.
ception and said as much in words.
The miners, as hosts of the occasion
turned out in force, all of the collier
les in this vicinity shutting down and
all of the workers, from the breaker
boys to the superintendents, were on
hand to join in the greeting to the
distinguished visitor
AS the Presidents stay was limited
to a few hours, the proposed parade
and other formalities were dispensed
with. The Presidents train was met
at the station by representatives of
the Mine Workers Union and a dele
cation of city officials. The President
was then turned over to the Catholic
Total Abstinence Union, in annual
state convention here. Later he at
tended patriotic exercises at the mon
ument marking the site of the Wyo-
ming massacre. The President leaves
tonight for jamestown, New York,
where he is scheduled to deliver an
address tomorrow before the national
Chautauqua.
President RooseveIt's Address.
Following is the speech as deliv-
cred by President Roosevelt to the
members of the Total Abstinence
Union and the United Mine Workers
Union:
| am particularly glad to speak to
this audience of miners and their
wives and children, and especially to
speak under the auspices of this great
temperance society. In our country
the happiness of all the rest of our
people depends most of all upon the
welfare of the wage-worker and the
welfare of the farmer. If we can Sc
cure the welfare of these two classes
we can be reasonably certain that the
community as a whole will prosper
And we must never forget that the
chief factor in securing the welfare
alike of wage-worker and of farmer
as of everybody else, must be the
man himself.
There are exceptional times when
any one of us needs outside help and
then it should be given freely; but
normally each one of us must depend
upon his own exertions for his own
success. Something can be done by
wise legislation and by wise and hon
est administration of the laws; that
is, something can be done by our ac-
ton taken in our collective capacity
through the state and the nation.
Something more can be done by
combination and organization among
ourselves in our private capacities as
citizens, so long as this combination
or organization is managed with wis
dom and integrity, with insistence up
on the rights of those benefited and
yet with just regard for the rights OF
others.
But i'm the last analysis the factor
most influential in determining any
mans success must ever be the sum
of that mans own qualities, of his
Wedge, foresight, thrift, and cour-
,sr Whatever tends to increase his
respect, whatever tends to help
overcome the temptations with
III all of us are surrounded, is of
fit not opI- to him but to the
lie commGnity.
temperance Necessary to Welfare of
the People.
No one soc. ETY. can do more to help
the wage-worker than such temper
ance society, as that which l am now
addressing. 1t is of incalculable con-
sequence to the man himself that he
should be sober and temperate, and it
is of even more consequence to his
wife and his children; for it is a hard
and cruel fact that in this life of ours
the sins of the man are often visited
most heavily upon those whose well
fare should De his one special care.
For the drunkard, for the man who
loses his job because he cannot con-
troll or will not control his desire for
liquor and for vicious pleasure, we
have a feeling of anger and contempt
mixed with our pity; but for his un-
fortunate wife and little ones we feel
only pity, and that of the deepest and
tenderest kind.