The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-08
PRESIDENT IN
 SAN ANTONIO
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climate, the marvellous fertility Of your | soil. your natural advantages ensure | you a phenomenal future. agrlculturai- | ly and industrially; ensure this State | | wonderful growth in population anu l wealth. All that Is essential. iou | must have the material basis upon | which to build as a foundation, put l l need not say to you to remember that l this Is only a foundation. The mate , rial counts for nothing If you do not | build upon 1t the spiritual, if you do 1 not build upon it the things .! the | soul, of the mind. The Man Behind the Gun. Let me again take an example from | the war. We need arms and equip ment, but the best rife ever made does
 not make soldier If 1t has not got
 the right man behind it. You may take the finest model weapon, put 1t
 in the hands of a weakling or cow
 ard and a good man will beat him with a club. Applause If the other man is a good man, too. you want mighty
 good weapon and If you came in con-
 tact with one another each will want lall the good weapons he can get. But lthe weapon does not in any shape or
 way serve as a substitute for the spirit
 of the soldier. That is what counts
 in the last resort. Tactics change, Iweapons change but the soul that W
 not change as the ages go by. The men of the Civil War like the men
 who wore the Gray and the men who wore the Blue made a record which remains forever heritage of honor and glory for all this people. They did that because they had in them the
 spirit which since time immemorial has made the soldiers of whom the world lis 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 Gas assuredly l believe
 we will win). only because our men
 still have in them the spirit that made
 their forefathers do we'll in battle.
 Applause. So you must train your Ichildren up so that In addition to hay ling what counts for material prosper
 ity in a 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
 building you are proudest of? GA
 voice. the Alamo.o
 Exactly, the Alamo It is not ex- lactly up to date. Other buildings are
 larger. You are proud of 1t because
 1t commemorates 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 wei
 fare of the commonwealth, the thing that
 Is most important is to take care of the
 really most vital crop-the crop of cit izens The thing which the State most
 needs to care for is the welfare, not , merely material, but moral and intel
 lectual, as well, 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
 care which you of Texas are taking in the training of the generation that Is , now coming up.
 Sparing Children.
 "The thing that is rather distressing , to me to see Is that sometimes the
 men and women who have done well in life show curious inability to
 train their own children in the way , that has resulted successfully for them. think that all of us know peo- pie who because they have worked hard and triumphed, feel that some 1 how or other they will spare their ) children. They will foolishly spare , their children the acquisition of the ,, very qualities which have made the parents triumph. Too often you see { the man, and I am sorry to say, the ! woman who says T have had to work : hard: my sons and daughters shall have an easy time He is preparing ruin for the children about whom ne ) says 1t. Applause.)
 , "Of course you want to give your , children all the love possible. but 1t Is not right to mistake folly for affec- tion. When you spare the child that which alone will enable 1t to conquer ) in after life you are not doing it a D blessing; you are doing 1t the greatest . wrong in your power. Bring up the boy and girl alike with the understand
 ing that in life generally there will be |. plenty of rough times and that which ; they have to show is not a spirit that avoids difficulties and fiinches from them. but a spirit which over . comes them.
 ; There Is only one of my fellow cit izens to whom I will toucn my hat : quicker than the soldier, and that is the mother. because I think she has
 little harder time of it. The mother
 who has brought up as they should
 be brought up a family of young chill ? dren Is entitled to such respect as no
 other person in the community IS en- titled to. When the end of her life l comes there has been any amount of ? hardship, sitting up Jy beds Of sick I children. the taking care of them; 3 and a mother is not allowed to know ! the difference between night aud day ! as far as the ending of the days task . is concerned; but after all when IL IS } done, she can look back with proud- I else can have if she has done her duty. for ner children and her husband shal' rise up and call her blessed. Ihe [ worthy life for the nation, for the lh' [ dividual for the men and the women 5 is the life of effort for the things
 worth striving for; and our whole aim ) should not be not to teacn 10 those who are to come after us to shirk dit' faculties and to strive to have an easy t time In life but that they are to strive f to do their duty whether that duty Is. I hard or not, and to feel that no ap- B proval Is so great as the approval or doing thenr duty tApplause')
 t The Nation, Too.
 } "Of course that Is my concepuoh Tor r the life of the nation as well as TOT !, the individual. I am not going to de- : velop my theory about that; In the l first place because I want to Keep clear of anything that you might thihk
 touched in the faintest degree upon
 politics. and in the next place because
 I believe you know pretty well how l feel anyway. I feel that this nation, whether it wishes to or not, cannot !. help being a great nation. You or < Texas by what your forefathers did e and you did, have done your part in , making this nation so that it IS lm-
 possible not to be great. We cannot a decide whether we will be great or - not. The only thing we can decide IS Q whether being great we will do well o or do ill We have got our duty 10
 ourselves We must handle ourselves