The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-08
ROOSEVELT
 TO TEACHERS Addresses National Educa- tiOnal Association. IS HEARD BY 30,000 His Speech Creates Great
 Enthusiasm. The President Has Some Things to Say Regarding Duties of the Fertu-
 nate Rich Among Oar
 Population.

Asbury Park, N. J.. July 7.--A crowd
 of 30.o00 persons which turned out to
 welcome President Roosevelt made
 Friday, the closing day of the Ma
 tional Educational Association Con-
 vention, the most impressive of all the
 great educational meettnGa.4k
 The Duties of the RichF was the
 subject matter of the speech which
 the President delivered to the educa-
 tors. sY
 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. | The roll of Americas worthies num-
 bers among rich men only those who
 have used the riches alright. who have
 shown good conduct in acquiring 1t
 and not merely lavish generosity in
 disposing of it."
 1 Although this was the last day of
 the convention the President found
 12.0o0 delegates. nearly all school
 teachers, waiting to hear his first
 speech, which was made In Ocean
 Grove auditorium.
 At the close of this address. the
 President partly retraced his way
 through the crowds who had welcomed
 him outside but who had been unable
 to secure admission to the auditorium
 and at a previously chosen spot where | the overflow crowd had congregated
 he made a second speech in the open
 air to an even greater crowd than in-
 doors. His second audience was esti-
 mated at 2O,00o.
 The Presidential train arrived at the
 depot at 2 o'clock and 1t took thirty
 dvo minutes to make the trip from
 there through the welcoming people until the moment when the cheering
 subsided and the President began to
 speak from the Ocean Grove audito-
 rum platform.
 | Several pretty receptions marked 1 the trip from the depot to the first
 speech. Outside the depot the Indian band from the Carlisle School was In
 waiting and fell into line< <fmnsdiate- l ly before the Presidents carrtagen In the carriage with the President rode
 Governor Edward c. Stokes of New
 Jersey. military escort consisting
 of the End Troop of Cavalry under
 Captain Edward Field and the 3rd Reg
 iment. commanded by Colonel John A. Mather, accompanied the carriage. AS the carriage turned into Main Street 1t passed a wagon filled with negroes who began to cheer In re-
 sponse the President waved his hand | at the negroes When the President entered the au- 1 ditorium thousands mounted chairs and cheered him. As soon as quiet had been restored he began to speak Presideut's Speech.
 am glad to have the chance of
 greeting the National Educational As sociation: for in all this democratic
 land there is no more genuinely demo-
 cratic association that this. It Is truly
 democratic. because here each mem-
 Der meets every other member as his
 peer without regard to whether he is nreGfdapt nf ba IL
 versailles or the newest recruit to that high and honorable profession which has in its charge the upbringing and training of those boys and girls who in a few short years will themselves be
 settling the destinies of this nation.
 It is not too much to say that the most characteristic work of the republic is
 that done by the educators. for what ever our shortcomings as a nation may be, we have at least firmly, grasped the fact that we can not do our part in the difficult and all-important work of elf-goyernment, that we can not rule | and govern ourselves. unless we ap- proach the task with developed minds | and trained characters. You teach | CTS make the whole world your debtor | If you did not do your work well this republic would not endure beyond the | span of the generation. Moreover, as | an incident to your avowed work you render some well-nish unbelievable | services to the country For Instance | you render to the republic the prime
 the vital service of amalgamating into | one homogeneous body the children | alike of those who are born here and l of those who come here from so many | different lands abroad. You furnish a | common training and common ideals 1 for the children of all the mixed peo- | ples who are here being fused Into one | nIif tc no I to you and your efforts that we are one people instead of a group of jarring | peoples.
 Moreover, where altogether too much | prominence is gwen to the mere posses | sion of wealth, the country Is under | teavy obligations to such n body as | this. which substitutes for the Ideal of | accommodating money the infinitely | ,oftier nonmatcrialistic ideal of devo- | tion to work worth doing simply for | that works sake. I do not in the least | underestimate the need of having ma terial prosperity as the basis of our civilization but I most earnestly insist that If our civilization does not build a lofty superstructure on this basis. we
 can never rank among the really great peoples certain amount of money Is of course I necessary thing, as much for the nation as for the individual; and there are few movements in which I more thoroughly believe than in the movement to secure better remunera- tion for our teachers. But, after all the service you render is lncalculable | because of the very fact that by your lives you show that you believe ideals to bs worth sacrifice. and that you are splendidly eager to do nonremunera- tive work If this work Is of good to your fellow men
 Service to Country.
 To furnish in your lives such a real ized high ideal Is to do great service
 to the country. The chief harm done
 by the men of swollen fortune to the
 community Is not the harm that the
 demaRogue is apt to depict as spring
 ing from their actions, but the fact that
 their success sets up a false standard
 and so serves as a bad example for the
 rest of us If we did not ourselves at
 tach 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
 If is generally our own fault if he does
 damage to us. for he damages us chief
 Nv by aronsinR our envy or by render ing us sour and disccntented. Tn his actual business relations he Is much