Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
.STATES-TO-BE AS{
WARNED BY 7. R.
Cautions People of New Mexico
and Arizona Against Iron
clad Constitution
WANTS AMENDMENT EASY
Declares for Document That Can
Be Changed Subject to
the Peoples Will
WANTS AMENDMENT EASY
ASSOCIATED Press)


against the danger of having an iron
chad constitution not easily amended,
Col. Roosevelt took occasion to speak
of the affaire of those states here to-
day, explaining that he would be un-
able on this trip to visit them.
A large crowd met the colonel at
the station and he was escorted to the
public park, where a stand had been
erected for this occasion.
In opening his address Col. Roose-
welt, turning to Gen. L. ]. Downen,
president of the Y. M. c. A, declared
that wherever he found veteran 81
the great war who was chairman OF
the Y. III. c. A, he could give his
unqualified approval.
II believe in decency," continued the
colonel
THE Y. NJ. c. A. stands for man
Illness and decency. If man does
well by his family and home he makes
good citizen. Whenever you get
at the head Of the Y. NJ. c. a. a man
who lost his arm at Chickamauga,
you may know that he is all right.
There is only one person / would put
ahead of him and that person Is his
wife, who is the mother of his SIX
children. I put the great veteran OF
the war ahead of every other citizen,
but I put the woman who has made
Col. Roosevelt said:
PRAISES FOREST SERVICE
"I want to call attention to the ad-
mirable work done by the forest ser
vice in connection with these great
forest fires. Not only has the for
estry bureau done everything human
ly possible with, the preparations CIV
en- them, but in fighting fires the men
of the service have shown just the
same abilities of endurance, courage
and entire indifference to their own
lives as shown by the best fire depart
ments in our big cities. There is no
body of public servants of which the
public has a right to feel more proud
than the men of the forest service.
II wish 1 could go down to New
Mexico and Arizona, but this is the
nearest place to them that will
reach on this trip. Many of my friends
there have written, asking me to ad-
wise about their constitutions. 1 have
not felt familiar enough with the con-
ditions to do so. But there is one
point upon which l would like TO
advise them, and that is to leave the
constitutions easy of amendment at
any time, when the people feel that
they should be amended. Experience
has shown that not only doctrinaires,
but also designing corporations attor-
news often get put into constitutions
matters which are not thoroughly un-
derstood by the people at the time
and my plea is that the people OF the
new states should be left with their
hands free so that if at any time they
find that something has been put into
their constitutions which they did not
know was there, or If they find that
something is working badly which
they believed would work well, they
shall have an opportunity to easily
many any change that is necessary
TALKS ON MANHOOD
you have here a wonderful state
with it's farms and ranches, it's mines
and industries. You have state that
is wonderful for its scenic beauty. Ii
has a wonderful future and is rapidly
coming to be the playground of the
nation. You cannot beat its scenic and
natural attractions, and that is why
! like to see the people from other parts
of the country come here. The eastern
man is not fully educated until he gets
west of the Missouri river.
but, more than all, l care for the
kind of men and women you have here
| And l pin my faith in the west because
[ believe in the type of manhood and
womanhood you are producing. The
average American is a pretty good fell
| low. but his wife is a better one. The
chief object should be to develop the
kind of man and woman you care tc
meet in private life.
"Do not base your hopes of govern
mental success on a genius but seek tc
develop a broad manhood. Don't allow
the public man to ask you to accept
! domestic virtues as an offset fol
prohigacy in public life. The public
! man is bound to be decent If he eX-
poets the confidence of his fellow men
DEMANDS OFFICIAL HONESTY
"Make your ideas felt in demanding
of your representative and executive
public officials the same decency il
public as private life. Demand not only
! law honesty, but that honesty thai
keeps a man straight at home or ir
office.
"It does not matter how honest g
man may be in great things If he is
dishonest in small things. Unless you
are exacting in this respect the mer
YOU send to represent you in your legts-
| Iatures will sell out if the price is
high enough. If a man will be crooked
for YOU he will be crooked against you
'rDemand of your public servants the
same qualities of courage, honesty ano
the saving grace of common sense thai
YOU seek to develop in your private
life"
At the conclusion of his remarks
Colonel Roosevelt laid the corner stone
of a Young Mems Christian association
building.
at the close of the exercises the
Roosevelt party entered automobiles
and was whisked away through cheer
ing crowds of humanity to the union