Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-10-01
cent people owe their false position.
| Friends When Right

Friends When Right.
"A year or two ago certain repre-
sentatives of labor called upon me
and in the course of a very pleasant
garded me as the friend of labor
1 answered that / certainly was, and
that l would do everything in my
power for the laboring man except
anything that was wrong. l have
the same answer to make to the
can do to help business conditions,
except anything that is wrong. And
II would be not merely wrong but
infamous to fail to do all that can
be done to secure the punishment of
those wrongdoers whose deeds are
peculiarly reprehensible because they
are not committed under the stress
of want. Whenever a serious effort
is made to cut out what Is evil in
our political life, whether the effort
takes the shape of warning against
the gross and sordid forms of evil
in some municipality, or whether it
takes the shape of trying to secure
the honest enforcement of the law
as against very powerful and wealthy
people, there are sure to be certain
individuals who demand that the
movement stop because 1t may hurt
business. In each case the answer
must be that we earnestly hope and
believe that there will be no perma-
mt damage to business from the
movement, but that If Righteousness
conflicts with the fancied needs of
business, then the latter must go to
the wall. We can not afford to sub
stitute any other test for that of
guilt or innocence of wrongdoing or
welldoing in judging any man,
At War With Corruption.
"If man does well. If he acts
honestly, he has nothing TO fear from
this administration. But so far as
in me lies the corrupt politician.
great or small, the private citizen
who transgresses the law-be he rich
or poor-shall be brought before the
impartial justice of a court. Per-
haps j am most anxious to get at
the politician who is corrupt, because
he betrays a great trust: but as
corruptionist who shows himself a
swindler in business life and, ac-
cording to our power, crimes of
fraud and cunning shall be prosecut-
ed as relentlessly as crimes of bru-
tality and physical violence.
Notifications of Land Laws.
'The states of the high plains and
of the mountains have peculiar
claim upon me, because for a num-
ber of years / lived and worked in
| them and i have that intimate
knowledge of their people that
comes under such conditions. In
! those states there is need of a modi-
fication of the land laws that have
worked so well in the well-watered
fertile regions 20 the eastward such
/ as those in which you here dwell
The one object in all our land laws
should always be to favor the actual
| settler the actual home maker, who
comes to dwell on the land and there
to bring up his children TO inherit it
after him.
To Home Maker Only.
THE government should part with
dts title to the land only to the ac-
| tual home -maker-not to the profit
maker. who does not care 10 make
a home. The land should be sold
| outright only in quantities sufficient
| for decent homes-not in huge areas
/ To be held for speculative purposes
or used as ranches, where those who
do the actual work are merely ten
ants or hired hands. No temporary
prosperity Of any class Of men could
/ in the slightest degree atone for fail
ure on our part to shape the laws so
| that they may work for the perma-
nent good of the home maker. This
| Is fundamental gentlemen, and Is
/ simply carrying out the idea upon
which ! dwell i'm speaking to you Of
your own farms here in Iowa.
In Dry States.
| Nov in many states where the
| rainfall is light IL is a simple absurd
| ity To expect any man TO live. still
| less 10 bring up a family. on one
| hundred and sixty acres. Where we
are able 10 introduce irrigation the
! homestead can be very much less in
! size-can, for instance, be forty
acres; and there Is nothing that con-
gress has done during the past six
years more important than the en-
actment Of the national irrigation
/ law, But where irrigation Is not ap-
| plicable and the land can only be
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