The Socorro chieftain. [volume] (Socorro, N.M.) 1902-1959, 1906-10-06
AN ELOQUENT ADDRESS
IN Behalf OF Rel ublican Pc!icies.
Delivered at Las Vegas Cla-
vention Last Saturday
M HONORABLE II. 0. BuRSUM
On Taking ths Floor and Calling
the Republican Territorial Con
vsntion to Order.

The speech made by chairman
II. y. Bursum OF the republican
territorial committee on calling
the republican convention at Las
Vegas TO order last Saturday has
created profound impression in
political circles in New Mexico
The Chleftain would gladly pub
lish the speech in fall but lack OF
space forbids. Il was in part as
follows:
There isn't republican plat
form and there is not a republi-
can speaker in this broad land of
ours today who does not dwell
directly or indirectly upon the
marvellous prosperity that has
reached its fullest development
during the Rooseveltian adminis-
tratiou. Historians will call this
the golden age, the climax of a
wise policy of protection TO in
dustry and of BODYBUILDING.
Figures are so vast that they no
longer bring to the understand
ing an adequate idea of the ex-
tent of this prosperity.
What does it convey to your
mind or to my mind to be told of
q trade balance of fifty or sixty
million dollars in favor of the
United States? What does it
meanito any one to read in the
press that the national treasury
is overf1owing with gold and that
it has a reserve of forty million
dollars greater than a year ago at
this time, that our exports and
our manufactures must be meas
ured by the billions of dollars
and that our farm products ex-
ceed in value those of entire
Europe7
The human mind cannot grasp
these facts; but there is some
thing we can ali understand.
When we see that every man who
desires it can have work at good
wages; when we look upon hap
pY firesides where there are
found comforts and luxuries that
our forefathers did not dream of;
when we have shorter working
days than ever before with more
in the pay envelope than ever be-
fore; when we see smiling, we'll
fed and we'll clothed children at
tending our public schools re-
ceiviug that education without
which so many of their fathers
had to make their way in the
world; when we know of the
good things of life that are go
ing to the humblest in the most
lonely places and watch the
stream of prosperity divide and
subdivide until it reaches the
homes of the farmer, the stock
man, the laborer, then truly is the
real extent of our prosperity APP
parent to us.
That New Mexico is sharing
fully in this prosperity you all
know. Sheep and cattle upon a
thousand hills bringing revenue
to their owners, their keepers
and the middlemen; banks in
creasing right along in numbers
and in wealth; new towns, alb
sence of business failures, the
building of railroads, the OPEN
ing OF coal mines. the construc-
tion of irrigation works, the null
tiplying of newspapers, the dis
tribntion of wealth among busi-
ness men and investors, all these
are the rule today in New Mexi-
co. Not only hundreds, but thou
sands of homeseekers from the
most prosperous and progressive
states are pouring into this ter
Fitory, taking up homesteads, in
vesting their means, eager to
share in the prosperity that has
come to us and of which all the
world has learned. Truly il
must be good to live in New
Mexico these days when even the
outsider from far away appre-
eiates our advantages, our good
government and accepts with a
cheer the welcome we extend to
him. We see the workman, the
farmer the sheep and the cattle
raiser, villages and towns. hav-
ing part in this prosperity. this
growth. Surely the good things
of this world are coming withir
seach of all and never before die
opportunity hold out so many gift:
as she does today. That this op-
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