Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-08-10
upon your feet. prolonged cheers
and applause.)
Getting Into Touch.


and applause.)
Getting Into Touch.
"I have been going about through
the great west for the last two
months or more for the purpose of
etting in close touch with these
lestions that are interesting par
ularly to the people of the west.
3 ' yet, as l have said in other
IS, the west is not a definite To-
!. You people here pride your
as we people in Ohio do, that
\ e a pretty large proportion of
tA his sunrface and yet youknow
thu est is a thing that has been
fleeing from year to year from one
point to another. 1t was only fifty
years ago that Ohio was west and
that you people out here had to be
hunted for with a telescope-we
couldn't find you in any other way.
Now the west is constantly moving,
and it is not the west, the section
of the country, but the spirit OF the
west, is what we deal with. 1t was
the spirit of the west that first open
ed the land beyond the Allegienys.
1t was the spirit of the west that left
Ohio and Indiana and Illinois and
crossed the Mississippi. 1t was the
spirit of the west that left this great
west here across the Rocky noun
tains and developed the coast. 1t
was the spirit of the west that car
ried our commerce across the Pacthc
and finally took possession of those
islands out in the ocean, those Is
lands in the far south, and carried
that spirit of the west over to peo-
pie who until that time had had
their eyes closed to the most funda-
mental ideas of liberty as we under
stand it. (Applause.)
Spirit of Citizenship.
at is this spirit that we want to
foster and engender, not only in our
own lives but to hand down to our
children. II is the spirit of the right
kind of freedom; it Is not the spirit
of license; it is not the spirit of law
lessness; 1t is not the spirit simply of
land grabbing, but it is the spirit of
free American citizenship, that wishes
to expand and extend, carrying out
it's own ideas in it's broddest and best
way to the population of these ter
ritories, of these lands, and fill them
not with a people who are lawless,
but with people who are home
loving, a people who believe In build
ing up the American home and MAX
ing that here, as it has been through
out other sections of the country, the
cornerstone, the keystone, the en-
tire arch of American citizenship.
(Applause) And when / see such
an audience as is here today, with 50
many of the ladies of this city pres
ent, 1 am confident that this Is the
type of citizenship that is being
taught here. We men sometimes call
ourselves the lords of the universe;
we only do that when we are in num-
bers and together, we never dare to
do it when we are alone with our
wives (applause); but know very
we'll that we are not the lords OF the
universe. We know that Ii is the wo-
men of any community that makes
that community place worth living
in.
Compliments Ladies.
"You have a community where
| there are women, right minded wo-
| men, who are believing in the de-
velopment of their own community,
women who understand what 1t
means to hand down true ideals Of
humanity and morality to the next
generation, women who foster the
highest and best thoughts in the
home life of our country-why, they
are the rulers of this country and
they are the ones who build up this
great land of ours. (Applause.)
There is not a man of us who has
ever tried to do anything, who has
ever made any success on any KIND
but that when he turns the pages CT
his own life, the history of his OWE
life, but finds that it is ihe mfluelce
of some good woman that has
brought out in him the best that Is
in him, and the influence Of some
good woman who has saved HIM from
trouble, who has lifted him up and
given him the higher Ideals Oh ll1e
(Applause.)
Departments Plans.
Now, as to the things that the
interior department is trying to DO
one OF the principal things, one Of
the principal subjects that l am
studying in this trip, is that of lrri-
cation and reclamation. l am going
tomorrow down the splendid valley
that runs up and down this territory,
for the purpose of studying more
carefully the basis Of development,
agricultural development, in that val
ley. We have already made a start
in the southeastern portion of the ter
ritory, and l am very sorry that
cannot accept the invitation of the
men down there to come and see
what has already been accomplished.
There are some $4,000 acres of splen-
didly fertile land that will be sub
jected to irrigation, and as the years
roll by, as we are able to expend
more money to develop yours, we
VIII make hundreds of thousands of
new acres of land open to settlers
who will make new Improvements in
this splendid territory. (Applause.)
Requires Work.
1T merely requires painstaking
work, and / know you people have
all courage and all ability to work,
it means that as the water is put on
that land you must not simply let
II lie there, or think that things are
going TO grow because water is put
on; it means that the farming class,
the agriculturalist, the man who Is
going TO make the most of the irri-
gated country and the irrigated dis
trict, Is going TO use his hands. Ir-
rigation is not a simple matter. 1t
means long hours of work; careful
study to know how best to irrigate
the individual section. The federal
government has started into this
splendid scheme, to spend millions
upon millions to develop these arid
and semi-arid portions of the great
west. All through these territories
we are building great works. and in
the course Of the next two or three
years We will have millions Of acres.
perhaps more, open to settlement.
All that will be done as rapidly as
we have money to spend; and year
by year, as that money is turned
back again into the treasury of the
United States il will be rolled over