Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-09-30

or men but preeminen'tly a helper of
men; for one of his most marked
traits was the intensely human quail
ty OF his wide and deep sympathy.
FINALLY, he not merely preached, he
was, the most valuable of all citizens
In democracy like ours who in the
highest place served as an uncon.
sclous example to his people of the
virtues that build and conserve alike
onr public life and the foundation of
all public life, the intimate life of the
home.
His Life Worthy Of Emulation.
Many lessons are taught us by his
career, but none more valuable than
the lesson Of broad human sympathy
for and among all of our citizens of
all classes and creeds. No other presi.
dent has ever more deserved to have
his life work characterized in Lin
coins words as being carried on with
malice toward none, with charity to-
ward all AS boy he worked hard
with his hands: he entered the Army
as private soldier; he knew poverty:
he earned his own livelihood; and by
his own exertions he finally rose to
the position of man OF moderate
means. Not merely was he in person.
al touch with farmer and town dwell
Ter, with capitalist and wageworker,
but he felt an intimate understanding
of each, and therefore an intimate
sympathy with EACH and his consist
ent effort was to try to Judge all by
the same standard and to treat all
with the same justice Arrogance to.
ward the weak, and envious hatred of
those well off, were equally abhor-
rent to his just and gentle soul.
Surely this attitude of his should
be the attitude of all our people to-
day. 1t would be cruel disaster to
this country to permit ourselves to
adopt an attitude Of hatred and envy
toward success worthily won, toward
wealth honestly acquired. Let us in
this respect profit by the example of
the republics of this Western Hemi-
sphere to the south of us. Some of
these republics have prospered great.
ly; but there are certain ones that
have Jagged far behind, that still con-
tinue in condition of material pow
erty, of social and political unrest and
confusion. Without exception the re-
publics of the former class are those
in which honest industry has been as
sured of reward and protection; those
where cordial welcome has been
extended to the kind Of enterprise
which benefits the whole country,
while incidentally, as is right and
proper, giving substantial rewards to
those who mnaifest it. On the other
hand, the poor and backward repub-
lies, the republics in which the lot OF
the average citizen Is least desirable,
and the lot of the laboring man worst
of all, are precisely those republics in
which industry has been killed be-
cause wealth exposed its owner to
spoliation. TO these communities for
eign capital now rarely comes, be-
cause it has been found that as soon
as capital is employed SO as to give
substantial remuneration to those
supplying it, it excites ignorant envy
and hostility, which result in such op-
pressive action. within or without the
law, as sooner or later to work Writ
ual confiscation. Every manifestation
of feeling of this kind in our civiliza-
ton should be crushed at the outset
by the weight of sensible public
opinion.
Respect for Law Absolutely Necessary
From the standpoint of our ma
terial prosperity there is only one 9TH
er thing as important as the discour-
agement Of spirit of envy and hos
tility toward honest business men, to-
ward honest men of means; this is the
of dishonest business
men. the war upon the chicanery and
wrongdoing which are peculiarly re-
pulsive. peculiarly noxious, when ex'
hibited by men who have no excuse
Of want, of poverty, of ignorance, for
their crimes Men Of means, and
above all men of great wealth, can
exist in safety under the peaceful pro-
lection of the State, only in orderly
societies, where libery manifests It.
self through and under the law. 1t Is
these men who. more than any ohters,
in the interests of the class to
which they belong, in the interests OF
their children's children, seek in ev-
cry way, but especially in the conduct
Of their lives, to insist upon and to
build up respect for the law. 1t may
not be true from the standpoint OF
some particular individual Of this
class, but in the long run 1t is preem-
inently true from the standpoint OF
the class as a whole, no less than OF
the country as whole, that it is a
veritable calamity to achieve tenn:
porary triumph by violation or evas-