The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-08-13
PEOPLE MUST USE MINDS
AS WELL AS HANDS.

One of the principal things that
am studying on this trip is irrigation
and reclamation. Take that great val
ley just east of you for instance, great
things have been accomplished there
already. There are thirty thousand
acres of fertile land that will be rea-
dy for cultivation. We will have hun
for settlers wlo will make new homes
in this territory. 1t merely requires
painstaking work and lots of courage,
and l know you people have courage
and the ability to do the work. 1t
means that as the water is put on
that land you must not simply let it
lie there and think that things are
going to grow because the water has
been put on. 1t means that the man
who does this must use his head as
well as his hands. You have also in
your community here one of the prob
lens with which the Interior Depart
ment has to deal, namely that of the
Indians. l have taken great pleasure
today in looking over the Indian school
here, and l am pleased to find it well
managed by a man who is doing his
level best with the assistance of his
wife and employees to give to those
children the opportunities that you and
as American citizens are enjoying.
1t is a problem that is not at all free
from difficulties. There ought not to
be a white man in this community
who would in any way take advantage
of these people. They we're here before
we were, and it is our duty to help
civilize them. / hope that 1 shall nave
the hearty cooperation of the people
of New Mexico in working out this
Indian question in order to be fair
to those who are less fortunate than
we are Now, ladies and gentlemen,
1 know that / ought not to keep you
long here. 1t has been a great pleas
ure to see you, to look into your faces,
to grasp your hands and 70 learn the
conditions that obtain in fhis T. rrito-
ry. 1 shall make my report not only
of this Territory but of your adjoining
territory, Arizona, and l am very pleas
ed that can take back so fine report
of the conditions in all this great
west. (Applause.)
Fair Treatment for All.
We have been finding out what
these conditions are, and there is but
one word of warning that I want to
throw out to you as you go forward
with your progress here. Learn not
only to be fair with yourselves, but
to be fair with the industries that are
going to come into your territory. Do
not make the mista1la of believing
that the great industries of this coun-
try are all wrong because some rail-
roads have done what they ought not
to have done. that all railroads will
do that. Be ready to obey the law
and in the legislation that may come
hereafter, deal fairly with all these
great industries, see 10 it that no dis
tinction is made between the laws
that you apply to capital and the laws
that you apply to labor. There should
be no special legislation. We have
too much of 1t in other places A bit
of legislation that is good for capital
ought to be good for labor. and like
wise If it is good for labor. it ought
TO be good for capital. II It is good
only for o1e side it is not the kind
of legislation that you want It il inn
possible to make all men equal, we
know that Men are born with great
Inequalities All that the law can do
~ to give equal opportunities to men.
The mar who has . good character.