Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-04-26
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT FORMALLY
OPENS JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION
Naval Pageant Feature-.-Chief Execu-
tive Delivers Principal Address-Pay
High Tribute to Anglo-Saxon Race
Scores Fake Reformers.

| can not reform with equity, will
not reform at all. ~ (There Isl a
state to preserve as we'll as state to
reform
Build Up Rather Than Tear Down.
This Is the exact spirit in which
this country should move to the re.
form Of abuses of corporate wealth.
The wrongdoer, the man who swim
dies and cheats, whether on big
scale Or a little one, shall receive a..
cur hands mercy as scant as If he
committed crimes of violence or bru-
tality. We are unalterably deter
mined to prevent wrongdoing in the
future, we have no intention Of try
ing to wreak such an indiscrlmina e
vengeance for wrongs done in the
past as would confound the innocent
with the guilty. Our purpose is to
build up rather than to tear down
We show ourselves the truest friends
OF property when we make /. evident
that We will not tolerate the abuses
of property. We are steadily bent on
preserving the institution of private
property; we combat every tendency
toward reducing the people to econom-
ic seryitude; and we care not whether
the tendency Is due to a sinister agi.
tation directed against all property or
whether it is due to the actions of
those members OF the predatory
classes whose anti-social power is
immeasureably increased because of
the very fact that they possess wealth
The Doctrine Of the Square Deal.
Above all, we insist that while fac
ing changed conditions and new prob
lens, we must face them in the spirit
which our forefathers showed when
they founded and preserved this Re-
public. The cornerstone of the Re.
public lies In our treating each man
on his worth as a man, paying NO
heed to his creed, his birthplace, or
his occupation, asking not whether he
Ia rs:h or poor, whether he labors
with head on hand; asking only wheth
er he acts iecently and honorably in
the various relations of his life
whether he behaves well to his fami.
lily, to his neighbors, to the state. We
base our regard for each man on the
essentials and not the accidents. We
Judge him not by his profession, but
by mis- deeds; by his conduct, not by
what he has acquired of this world s
goods Other republics have fallen,
because the citizens gradually grew
to consider the interests of class be.
fore the interests of the whole; for
when such was the case 1t mattered
little whether 1t was the poor who
plundered the rich or the rich who ex-
plotted the poor; in either event the
end of the Republic was at hand. We
are resolute in our purpose no. to
fall into such a pit. This great Re
public of ours shall never become the
government of plutocracy and ii
shall never become the government OF
a mob God willing. it shall remain
what our fathers who founded il
meant 1t to be--a government. in
which each man stands on his worth
as man, where each is given the
largest personal liberty consistent
with securing the well-being of the
whole, and where, SO far as in us lies
we strive continually to secure fol
each man such equality of oppor-
tunity that in the strife of life he may
have fair chance to show the stuff
that IS in him. We are proud of oul
schools and of the trained intelligence
they give our children the opportuni
! ty to acquire. But what we care fol
most is the character of the average
man; for we believe that If the aver
age of character in the individual citi
zen is sufficiently high, If he possesses
those qualities which make him wor
thy Of respect in his family life anC
in his work outside, as we'll as tht
qualities which fit him for success II
the hard struggle Of actual existence
that If such is the character Of oul
individual citizenship, there is liter
ALLY no height of triumph unattain
able in this vast experiment of gov
ernment by, of, and for a free people
Responsibility Can Not Be Shifted.
| A sovereign can not make excuse,
for his failures; sovereign must &C
cept the responsibility for the exer
else Of the power that inheres in him
and where, as is true in our Republic
the people are sovereign, then th
people must show sober unders and
| ing and a sane and steadfast purpos,
If they are to preserve that orderl.
liberty upon which as a foundation
every republic must rest
/ Tribute to the English.
! In speaking of the great deb. o
| the United States to England, he said
/ The fact that so many Of our people
Of whom as 1t happens myself an
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